I've been working on my Halloween costume for this year.

I don't want to give too much away but I wanted to show a couple of photos as the costume progresses. This is page three.

My next challenge was to attach the styrofoam figures to my platform. Screws wouldn't hold styrofoam, so I employed a bit of 1x4 pine board, and sandwiched the styrofoam torso in between.

My and my new pals. 

We had only been at this house for a few weeks, and I was already making friends!

This costume was big, and it is always a good idea to check to see if your giant costume is going to fit in your car, or if you will have to be able to disassemble it.

I wanted the wrists of my two costume dummies to twist, so I attached the hands to some green gardening rods and popped a hole into the pvc elbow.

The first hole wasn't big enough, but the elbow didn't have much material to work with.

When I tried to expand it, the whole arm nearly broke off. 

I solved this problem by bending a new elbow, and taping an additional tube below the original arm. All this ugly craftsmanship would be hidden within the arm.

Thumbs up!

Thumbs down!

I had enough rod poking out the back to control the wrist somehow. 

I used a human model to calculate the arm length and hand positions.

My two guys had hands. They looked terrific!

The faces needed work.

With my styrofoam heads in front of me, I got thinking about making the mouths open and shut like a ventriloquist dummy. I wasn't sure this would improve the costume enough to be worth the trouble.

With the moving mouths on hold, I began carving faces out of the two heads.

White styrofoam is a crude material for this, but I didn't need anything spectacular.

My head quickly became the most pockmarked face on earth.

Ok, that is it for now. I hope you are excited about the costume. If you guessed "Senate Subcommittee on Science and Space Leadership" you are wrong.

I think I'll have a Cockeyed Online Halloween costume contest this year, so if you are making your own costume, be sure to take pictures while you build.

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