These are some costumes that I made for the Haunted Palace Theatre which I am helping plan again this year. I didn't spend nearly as much time on these as I did the Body Bag and Jumbo the Clown, mostly due to a lack of time, but also because I am not keeping them. They will belong to the Palace Theatre. So I just made the shoulder and head pieces so someone else can drape it with fabric.

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The Faceless Man | Pumpkin Head | The Spider Woman | Kooky the Clown

The Faceless Man: I already had the hard hat from an earlier attempt with the Jumbo the Clown costume. There are three pieces of conduit going up into the mask connected to a plastic dome. I attached the mask, Kasper from Fearscape Studios, to the hard hat using zip ties. The shoulder piece is a variation on a design I've used many time before. A piece of press board across the back, approx. 8" x 14". Conduit bolted on with machine screws, bent to hang on the shoulders. The two taller pieces with the swimming noodle attached are a new idea. I am hoping that fabric can be draped over the top, with a head hole cut out, and the conduit and noodles will look like fake shoulders and upper arms. We shall see.

Pumpkin Head: Same basic shoulder frame design, but this one has the head mounted in a static position. The mask, Rotting Jack from Fearscape Studios, is bigger and much heavier than the Faceless Man, so it wouldn't work as well to be mounted on a hard hart so it could rotate. I used some aluminum flat bar to go up into the head. It is much lighter than conduit, and a lot easier to bend into such tight curves. I attached the top half of an old Apple Airport to go up inside the top of the mask. It provides a nice curved support to help the latex hold its shape better. I used electric caps to cover the sharp ends of the bolts that hold the conduit and aluminum frame together.

The Spider Woman: Same design as Pumkin Head. The mask is called Witch from Fearscape Studios. I cut the top out of a hard hat to provide the even support at the top of the mask.

Kooky the Clown: I went real basic with this one. The clown mask, Kilmo The Clown from Fearscape Studios, is attached to a hard hat using zip ties. Then I used high density foam from Joann Fabrics to form the shoulders, glued in place with contact cement.