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Post by Admin Tue Dec 27, 2016 3:09 pm

Halloween 2015

With this costume, I focused more on the mask as I had a lot of things going on.  Because most of this involved electronics, there aren't as many step-by-step photographs as I normally would have taken.

First is the voice changer (picture 1).  Trying to find just the right changer for my needs was more difficult than I had thought, but I finally found it.
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After taking the voice changer apart, I inserted the speaker into a cardboard tube that I attached to the bottom of a Halloween mask.  The mask was originally gray, but I repainted it.  The brass buttons running along the mask are furniture pins, the tube is made of cardboard, the speaker screen is made with window screening that was glued to a PVC drain cover; at its center is a button from a pair of pants.  The tubes, originally rubber gas lines, are epoxied in place.  Wait, the two on my right are gas lines, the one on the left is a thin plastic tube from a foot pump.
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The third picture shows that blue LED lights, the type used to highlight a car's interior, were inserted within the goggles.  The goggles are made of shower curtain rings and toilet paper cardboard.  Painted, of course.  The goggle lenses were made from a thin blue water bottle.  This image shows the eyes turned on.
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This next picture shows my holding a blue box and a replica black powder pistol.  The wires for the voice changer and the lighting are running through the tube on my left; the box is holding the batteries and electrical boards; instead of on / off buttons, I used toggle switches.  The wig was ordered off of eBay, and believe me, having it was not the same as simply looking at it.
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Lastly, the finished product!  You can see the goggles better in this.  The face itself was from some upholstery leather I picked up at Goodwill.  Like this wig better.  I haven't actually finished this one yet; I still have to paint the blue box to make it look like wood, paint the tubes, attach the two on the right to air tanks or a bladder or something.  But the electronics work, the voice changer works, and that's all I care about.
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