Thanks for watching! If you decide to use spray foam on your projects, make sure to wear gloves and wear a mask/respirator. We were so focused on trying to get the dirt thing to work that we forgot. Don't be like us. :) Also, if you want to support our channel and help us make more videos, you can support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/wickedmakers

@terrymyers699

4 жыл бұрын

ALSO, I noticed you were using the spray foam in an enclosed room where your hot water heater was located. A HUGE NO NO! The fumes from the foam could ignite from the hot water heater's pilot light and Ka-Bluey! ALWAYS use proper ventilation and NEVER near a flame or heat source... KA-BLUEY!

@WickedMakers

4 жыл бұрын

Definitely good advice but there’s no water heater in our garage so no open flames. 😃

@terrymyers699

4 жыл бұрын

@@WickedMakers Oh, on, good. Yes, what I mistook for the water heater was your vacuuming system for wood dust.

@aliciabennett8665

3 жыл бұрын

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@beatrizalvarado819

3 жыл бұрын

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I think for gluing the dirt on the best thing would have been to water down a bunch of white PVA glue, brush it over the spray foam and then sprinkle the dirt over it.

My suggestion for the dirt to stick. Put 2/3 water with 1/3 white glue and a tiny bit of dishwater soap in a bottle that squirts drops at a time (contact lens solution bottle for instance). The solution is quickly absorbed and all becomes hard when dry. Works great for my train modeling landscape.

@WickedMakers

3 жыл бұрын

Excellent

@RusselLiu

4 күн бұрын

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We have a monster making tutorial series called Monster Lab that you may find interesting. We teach sculpting, molding, painting and design and have been making Halloween creations for over 40 years! If you ever do a Halloween mask on your channel let us know how it goes! Best wishes for your channel.

@Skoden_lures

Жыл бұрын

I concur!! this channel is top notch!! I learned tons from y'all

@BurntMemoriesAlt

Жыл бұрын

Holy frick Distortions how u doing?

For reptile enclosures, you coat the spray foam in silicone after you’ve cut all the shiny parts off of the surface with a razor. Then you can attach the dirt to the silicone. Tedious, but it works really well.

I like to have a spray bottle of cold water, so as I heat the plastic and foam it. I spray it with the cold water to cool the plastic so it sets, speeds up wait time. Love your videos

New sub. When I heat bend, make sure to go all of the way around, not just one side. I usually use a lower heat setting, takes longer but for my tastes, prefer it to heating too quickly and getting burned or "melty"... LOL. Love you guys, love the carefree attitudes and the fact you guys can laugh at yourself, so refreshing versus the 150 edits you see in a lot of videos, keep it up

@andydufresne5499

10 күн бұрын

I finc You should make a skeleton with a crown bike in its head

Been watching your videos for about a year, I enjoy how you try and try till you get to where you want to be. Showing that it doesn’t always work the first time. And that patience always pays off. Thanks for teaching and entertaining. And my children and grandchildren enjoy watching. 👍👍

@WickedMakers

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Wally! That is exactly what we hope to hear. Much appreciated.

Love that all your props are so approachable by an amateur like me. Thanks a ton!

I really like it... my only suggestion is for it to separate for storage. I made a skeleton in a caldron but I used a rebar and zip ties. You’ve inspired me. Thanks.

Very cool. I think maybe yellowing/greening the skeleton with some dark yellow or off-white and sickly-green with a black wash would make it look a bit more authentic. Maybe some fake moss with something on it to make it look wet. Some tattered clothing aged and mouldered. Also maybe some green LED lights in the skull with a bit of silk handkerchief inside the eye holes to get it a dim green eyeglow would look really cool. Btw you folks should really use safety masks and gloves when dealing with all those chemicals and make sure you've got the garage door opened. That foam is some nasty stuff.

@WickedMakers

4 жыл бұрын

Great suggestions! You’re TOTALLY right about the foam, definitely should have been wearing masks and gloves.

@duranh

4 жыл бұрын

Nice job. You also could've used stain on the skeleton like you did the skulls with the candles on them. I'll definitely be using that little trick.

@celiacarter4824

2 жыл бұрын

I like the way you think. 👍🏻

For mounting stuff like this, especially if I can't get a pilot hole through, I generally use plummer's strap. For making dirt stick, I mix it into a paste with elmer's glue all.

You guys understand Halloween !!!!

Custom terrariums are made of great stuff foam then you cover the cured foam with a layer of clear silicon caulking (very messsy) and then covering the un-cured silicon with Coco Coir. Definitely check it out!

For my flower pots I use coffee grounds mixed with Elmer’s glue and it looks just like dirt, I am sure dirt would stay mixed with a wet glue that will dry with some time Elmer’s works well for small faux dirt pots and used coffee grounds smell good!

Try using peat moss instead of dirt. I've used it for several props. When the holiday is over, all you have to do is rake it into the lawn. Great videos by the way. Love them.

I know you all are seasoned vets at this but I highly recommend a shinto rasp be added to yup tool kit. it is an amazing shaping tool. I use mine for everything from bow making (archery) to drywall and foam, even spray foam

If you roll out the epoxy putty into "ropes", it's easier to mix. Roll it out, bunch it up, roll it out, etc.

@WickedMakers

Жыл бұрын

Oh nice. Good idea

I did this heat gun technique when I made my dead curled up angel. works well but you have to be SUPER careful not to bend too fast and not to hold the heat gun too long.

@WickedMakers

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, definitely. Good tip! 👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼

I was thinking about making a tuff stuff ground breaker for my tomb stone's with led's, thanks for the ideas and information 🥰

This is soo awesome! I just couldn't help but think if you'd corpsed the skeleton and maybe even put led lights into the foam like he was coming from hell that it woulda taken it to the next level. Thank you guys soo much for the great idea because you can make it your own. I love your holloween decorations!

That’s a clean skeleton for coming up out of the ground

Very creative idea, you guys have so much tools it’s insane! 😂😂

Corpsing the skeleton would be a cool touch, maybe next year...

@user-ij1eo5up3y

4 жыл бұрын

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You guys are so much fun and work so great together!! Excellent job on all your projects! Love these ideas...definitely gonna try! You’re really fun inspiration...thanks so much for making these!!🎃👻🎃

Really enjoying your videos. One great way to add "dirt" to your projects is to get a plastic bowl and mix up white glue, dirt and small stones (don't make the mixture too runny), then scoop it on your surface with an old spoon and spread around using a cheap paint brush. Once it dries you can then give it a second coat on the areas that need more. One other tip would be to use pieces of styrofoam to build up the size of the "mound" you want to create first...THEN spray on your spray foam!! Hope these help for other projects. Thanks for sharing!

A suggestion from the model railroading hobby: A mound of dirt like that would be better and less expensive if you used wadded up newspaper covered with plaster cloth (the stuff broken limb casts are made from( any hobby shop will have the woodland Scenics brand) To hold the dirt spray it with water with a little detergent added. Then diluted white glue 2-3 parts water 1 part glue. The wet water allows the glue to soak in instead of beading up on surface. When it is dry the dirt will not be held in place like sand to sandpaper.

@WickedMakers

2 жыл бұрын

This is great. Thank you!

For the next time a great way to get the dirt to stay is use the spray adhesive first and just pile on your dirt once your satisfied use a mixture of PVA glue ( or modpodge) and water in a spray bottle and wet all the dirt on top. This will hold it all in place, hope this helps keep up the badass decorations.

Hi Jamie & Jay I subscribed you 2 when I watched the skull one!! You 2 are 2 CUTE!!! Love these ideas!! Love Halloween!!! Thanks for these Awesome ideas!!!

@WickedMakers

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!! So glad you’re enjoying the videos. 😄

I know I’m very late but when she was describing the legs of the skeleton popping off like a jack in the box at the beginning of the video, it gave me an idea for them to do a jointed jack in the box decoration.

Never doubt the power of watered down Tacky Glue and a $0.50 paint brush for coating things like the dirt, glitter, and fake snow!

I think if you used paint to weather the skeleton and tombstone it would look way better and more realistic

Suggested technique: Create foam structure, let fully cure, with a gloved hand and a fairly firm 2-3 inch paint brush cover the foam(in sections) with black silicone and sprinkle/cover wet silicone with "Eco Earth" from a bag (purchased at pet store) patting it down into silicone ... continue until fully covered, let cure over night or longer and shake off excess. This is a technique used in making backgrounds in terrariums/reptile habitats. Works great! ** oops, I didn't read enough comments, lol !! This was already mentioned 👍 **

@cogsandglimmers

4 жыл бұрын

Should have known that another reptile lover would get to this first, haha.

🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 ...five pumpkins...you guys are AWESOME...and you Crack me up 🤣

I had a idea using a halloween skeleton a motor & actuators , a motion sensor and a wood box. you dig a hole put the motor and actuator leading out of box hooked to the back of a skeleton ( with a grim reaper robe on top to his the mechanics) hide the sensor in front to pick up people walking by and thatll turn the mechanics on to raise and lower the skeleton ( and put some battery powerd Lights in the eyes to make it look like the eyes are glowing

Try the tried and true technique from model railroaders - cover the mound with dirt and the flood the dirt with white glue diluted with water and a drop of dish soap. Works magic.

@WickedMakers

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome...that sounds like a great technique.

I just decided to use that black cloth with some purpose lights underneath and it looks like fire

I love skeletons. They are so cute!!!

Ooo ill definitely consider trying this out this Halloween thanks for the amazing imput!

You guys are brilliant!!! I love watching you figure things out. I do DIY Halloween decorations and your videos are giving me so many ideas. Thank you!!! Probably no Halloween this yr. Dang Covid. But next yr! And there’s always the inside of the house. 😈

In making a terrarium we use silicone and paint it over, then coat with coco fiber, I would think it would work here too.

skip the primer and use black silicone caulking to coat foam and then add dirt to wet caulking pressing it in. its how terrarium builders do it.

@WickedMakers

3 жыл бұрын

Nice!!! Great idea.

Amazing!!! You guys are Awesome!!!! Thank you for sharing.

I know this video is older but if u ever wanna revisit this using watered down Elmer's glue works really well on dirt and sand

Next time I get a skeleton I’m definitely going to follow along this looks 😎sick😎

Oh my God!!! So tight you two... love your channel and will be making these 2day... thank you for your creativity

@WickedMakers

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!!! Hope it comes out well. :)

a suggestion to finish the skeleton other than painting/staining is a mixture of wet toilet paper and Elmers school glue to give appearance of decaying flesh,easy to shape,when dry paint with flesh/green paint then a spray of clear acrylic, works great

Aves putty would have been a better choice. As for the dirt, maybe after the spray glue and the dirt is on, you cover it with a wash of a mixture of white glue and water. It should seep in and bond the dirt to the base. That's what the railroad model people use to keep their soil on their diorama's.

@WickedMakers

3 жыл бұрын

Nice, good ideas!

A liquid adhesive (wood glue, pva, mod podge, elmers, *etcetera) and damp dirt would stay a lot better maybe and then spray adhesive on the skeleton and add dirt to it to really sell that it crawled out are some ideas to play with for those trying this idea out.

the pose looks amazing. I might suggest some aging of the skeleton with a wash of dark brown spray paint and paper towels to give him a more real, less plastic appearance.

@WickedMakers

4 жыл бұрын

Right on, thanks!

Might I suggest using news paper crumpled up instead of using so much foam. That foam is pretty pricey lol awesome job looks amazing!

Your groundbreaker looks great , very dynamic pose . The perfect addition to your chiller . Will you be doing your stain finish on this one ?

Heh heh, once you got to the dirt mound I don't think it qualifies as easy anymore. However, I do have a nice bush I could have it peaking out from under and that would basically eliminate the need to blend it with the ground if all you're really going to see is the head, arms and torso.

This is really amazing! I will always love your creativity!

Great Video but i would do everything you guys did except the dirt, i would of just wait until i set it up and then added dirty over it, but i totally get what you guys wanted to achieve and thanks for sharing, Awesome Ideal

@ZiddersRooFurry

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I think just going with blackned foam with dirt piled on top would have saved them so much time.

@WickedMakers

4 жыл бұрын

Right on! Yeah we really wanted to be able to move it around so it doesn’t kill the grass all month. Added all sorts of nonsense but it was fun. 😄

I’m sooo excited I found this channel can’t wait to do some of these this year to add to my other Halloween decorations

@WickedMakers

4 жыл бұрын

Nice!!! Glad you found us. 😄

As we say here in Liverpool, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Soil in the garden...

I like the dirt pile so much, I'm kind of considering making that on its own with a little tombstone. An empty grave is pretty unnerving already, hahaha

@WickedMakers

3 жыл бұрын

Yes!!!!! 😄😄😄

Now you know how Roy Neary felt trying to build the Devil's Tower in his living room

@WickedMakers

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣

I think the wire arm mounts with the epoxy putty could've worked better if you had put a kink in the wire, that would add a little hook so there's more surface for the putty to grip.

How awesome is that?! 🤗

@WickedMakers

4 жыл бұрын

WICKED awesome? :D

@FlorianBinder

4 жыл бұрын

Wicked Makers indeed! 😀👍

Very cool! Finally a way I can use one of my old broken skellys

@WickedMakers

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, definitely! Thanks!

Undead zombies go for brains. undead skeletons go for souls.

You got inspired to try this, expect i plan to add more of a weathering effect to the bones and add a jacket I could probably get at the goodwill and make it look like Nathan Grantham a.k.a the father's day zombie from the 1982 horror anthology Creepshow.

very nice effect, my only picky bit is skeleton looks too new, a bit dirtier would have completed it. Got a couple of broken ones in the loft which you have giving me some ideas for next year

I am just going through your videos one by one and i think your channel is brilliant, i have seen a good few videos now but after seeing this one i had to subscribe (look at my name), keep up with your great work making videos like this. Stay Safe, Barry (ENG)

Adding a dirt while the foam is drying really helps it stick

@WickedMakers

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely!! Great tip.

Awesome build!

🎶the pelvic connected to the hip bone...🎶😜 You guys are soooo cute. When she said "maximum hotness" should have made those thought 💭 Cloud near her head with his face in it.😍 I'm gonna do something similar but using manure and headstones I got from Wally World minus the skeleton. But do you think it will be too soon if one of my neighbors' wife passed away in May before I do it? Your thinking manure💩? Stinky... well no one will be allowed in the yard and will be far away. Then I'll spread it in the yard.🌾🌻

Cool piece. I've worked with that same kind of epoxy putty before and if you get a sponge and wet your fingers just a little the putty won't stick when you mix it. Don't try to get the putty wet or mix water with it just have your fingers slightly wet.

@WickedMakers

3 жыл бұрын

Ahhh nice. Great tip! 👊🏼👊🏼

Love this. A great addition to any Halloween cemetery.

@WickedMakers

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! It’s a lot of fun to make. 👊🏼😄

I know this is an old video buuttt... if you haven't master doing dirt yet I wanted to suggest something I've learned from making custom backgrounds in terrariums. shave off the outer layer of the great stuff then paint it with ge #2 clear silicone and before that dries mash in cocoa fiber (dry it must be dry fiber) this makes it look like dirt. check out some of serpa designs videos or just search for custom frog enclosures. this technique works GREAT.

@WickedMakers

2 жыл бұрын

Amazing idea! Thanks

Great vid love al the trial and errors thanks for sharing !! HFL!!

Love this so much! I wonder if you put red lights in as you spray foam if they would show up?

Great project! I wonder if applying PVA (plain ol' Elmer's white glue) to the foam then pouring the dirt on would stick better?

So hooked on ya’ll

Great work, thanks for share.

Really like this, to bad I only have a balcony. Maybe one in front of my door.

If you want to do dirt well, check out a few videos on making reptile enclosure backgrounds! 😉

Again, a great idea! A fun addition to your halloween graveyard!

@WickedMakers

4 жыл бұрын

😄😄😄

Love this, wanta try

A suggestion for anyone watching. If you create a mixture of PVA Glue (Elmer's Glue) and Water, then you could spray that onto the mound and immediately fill in with dirt (and then more than you think you'll need). PVA dries clear and is used all the time in tabletop terrain and miniature bases to achieve an adhesive that stays clear and doesn't change the color of the object it is on top of.

Bro I have that king of random vibe.

@WickedMakers

3 жыл бұрын

Nice. 👊🏼👊🏼

I think I'd just bury it in soil after placing it personally, rather than your foam process.. 😂 Great end result though 👏 👍

Great Stuff expanding foam is now available in black and gray.

@WickedMakers

3 жыл бұрын

That is amazing.

Hey there! I'm new to the channel and noticed there is a clip in there of a smart mirror! I looked through the playlist but didn't see anything. I love all the projects you guys have done so far and I would love to see a video about the mirror too. Keep up the great work!

@WickedMakers

4 жыл бұрын

We have a new one in the works for the channel, since we made that one before we started doing videos. Should be a really fun project! Probably sometime in November for that one? Not 100% sure. 😄

Super cool!

that is amazing! Love it! =)

7:15 let the great stuff set up, sculpt it, then smear black silicone all over it then drop on your dirt. This is a frog enclosure technique.

He did look a little clean for coming out of the ground. Usually when they are planted they do have clothes on, or at least he or she would be a little dirty

@WickedMakers

Жыл бұрын

Yep for sure

You need to heat both sides of the spine so the plastic will bend/stretch at the same time and you can "freeze" the curve by pouring/spraying cold water over it. When you remove the heat from the plastic it's no longer pliable and will become rigid(Freeze) in place so you won't have to wait for it to cool on its own. You can use expanding foam to fill the hollow casting of some of the bones and the wire from a coat hanger or other such rod in as you shoot it in. The advantage is you can bend the wire into the position you want and the foam will hold it in place especially if you put some bends/double it over so it can't rotate/sping when it's just straight. You could even use treadle Eye Bolts so a screw/nut can be used to hold the joint in almost any position or if it's just wire you make a loop on each end so it can use nut/screw the same way.

@WickedMakers

3 жыл бұрын

These are all great ideas, thanks!!! 👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼

Try putting red led lights in his eyes.. It will look my professional .. It can run by batteries just fine .. Keep many batteries onhand while running haunted house..

@WickedMakers

3 жыл бұрын

Nice!! Cool idea.

Just came across your channel. VERY fun, and I love your attitudes. Definitely going to subscribe!

@WickedMakers

Жыл бұрын

Right on, thanks! Glad you’re enjoying it. 🤘🏼😄

Great videos, thank you

For Halloween I’m going to be a headless prom queen 😈

Great project. The dirt mound looks very real. I made a "fresh grave" a zillion Halloween's ago by dyeing an old beach towel dark brown and using spray adhesive and mulch. Lay it out in front of a tombstone with some wadded newspaper beneath to give it some volume. Dust the edges with a little extra mulch, and it's pretty convincing. The mulch bits are larger and lighter than actual dirt, so it sticks a little better. Even so, it takes repeated applications. I'm surprised you couldn't get the dirt to stick the foam. This may depend on the brand. One of the popular ones quickly develops a "skin" while setting, and that may be less amenable to bonding with the dirt. The other popular brand is crazy sticky and might have worked better. With spray adhesive, you'd typically want to apply it to both surfaces and then let it dry several minutes before bringing them together. The adhesive actually gets stickier as it dries. Obviously, it would be a logistical challenge to apply it directly to the dirt, but letting it dry a bit first might have been helpful. I also suggest adding a little dirt to the topsides of the skeleton. If it just clawed its way out of the grave, then it probably hasn't had time to shake the dirt off. Ooh, and worms.

Aquarium rocks painted brown was my thought for dirt. Then you can add actual dirt on top

Great job on this build. We'll be attempting something similar this weekend. Could you post where you got those headstones/tombstones/grave markers? My kids love them and we'd like to make or buy something similar. Thanks so much for your work!

@WickedMakers

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!! We made them ourselves. We’re doing a video on how to make them very soon. 👊🏼💀

Such an awesome job! I'm always looking at new homemade Halloween ideas. That's so cool to see 2 people have such a passion for Halloween. I love it but my Lady can't stand Halloween and I'm always told I spend to much money and time on Halloween lol

@WickedMakers

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!! 👊🏼😄 You can show her the path. 😄

I literally had this idea this morning