“TK421, Why aren’t you at your post?” “Because I’m in the garage building the Pumpkin King” Oh what a different film that would have been. I’m pretty sure the Empire would have been pretty impressed with the Pumpkin King that TK421 built. Check out the full tutorial over on HalloweenForum. The skeleton of this prop is composed of PVC. TK421 rolled up plastic bags and hot glued them to the PVC to create the vines. A milk jug was cut in half to act as the rib cage, and a heat gun was used over the entire frame to corpse the prop. After two coats of black paint, an incredible carved pumpkin head topped it all off. 🛒 Supplies Used in This Build These are the materials TK421 used to build the Pumpkin King. Affiliate links help support HauntersList at no extra cost to you. PVC Pipe (1″ diameter)Used for the full body skeleton and armature 🛒 Find on Amazon PVC Fittings & ConnectorsElbows and T-joints for the frame 🛒 Find on Amazon Hot Glue Gun & Glue SticksFor attaching plastic bag vines to the PVC frame 🛒 Find on Amazon Heat GunUsed to corpse the plastic bag skin over the entire frame 🛒 Find on Amazon Flat Black Spray PaintTwo coats over the entire prop before adding the pumpkin head 🛒 Find on Amazon Large Foam Pumpkin HeadThe finishing touch — carve and paint to match your vision 🛒 Find on Amazon 💀 View Full Tutorial on HalloweenForum.com → Full credit for this build goes to TK421 on HalloweenForum.com. HauntersList.com is a link aggregator — we summarize and link to the original creator’s work. Affiliate Disclosure: Some links above are Amazon affiliate links. If you purchase through them we may earn a small...

The great thing about the haunting community is that when someone is struggling with an idea for a prop build there is usually someone around that has a solution, or an alternate method to accomplish the same idea.  Such is the case with TK421’s solution to the question of how to make glass look broken posed at HalloweenForum.     And while TK421’s solution wasn’t the only idea provided (and there were several offered), it does look to be the best.  It’s very easy to do actually, utilizing frosted contact paper cut to look like cracked glass and applied to the window.  The results look great....