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Don't Pay the Ferryman - more Harryhausen!


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The love for Ray Harryhausen continues. After building one of the skeletons from Jason and the Argonauts I couldn't get skeletons off my mind. So we went to the well again with Charon, the Ferryman. He's here to take you on a lovely cruise of the River Styx. Remember to tip him well.

 

As with the skeleton, Charon here is made mostly from wire and Sculpey, with a tree branch "liberated" from my neighbour's tree as his oar. His boat is popsicle sticks painted in acrylic paints, and the base is Celluclay on a bed of styrofoam, with craft rocks and sand for the shoreline (framed in more popsicle sticks). The mist (which I'm not 100% sure of keeping) is torn-up cotton and is an attempt at adding a little more creepiness to the whole scene. 

 

 

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misspelled "Harryhausen"
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That's amazing!  I'm a huge Harryhausen fan also. The classic movie channels have already started showing his films as part of the run up to Halloween. I've got a few stockpiled on the DVR. 

 

The Fog looks great.(that's the movie I watched last night, the Fog, lol) I don't understand why you would take it off. Unless it looks better in pictures than it does in person.

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On ‎10‎/‎11‎/‎2016 at 9:57 AM, Thud4444 said:

That's amazing!  I'm a huge Harryhausen fan also. The classic movie channels have already started showing his films as part of the run up to Halloween. I've got a few stockpiled on the DVR. 

 

The Fog looks great.(that's the movie I watched last night, the Fog, lol) I don't understand why you would take it off. Unless it looks better in pictures than it does in person.


I was iffy about the mist mainly because I wasn't sure if it would look realistic or just messy (also it obscures the water). But after a few days I decided to keep it. It works.

 

...and The Fog is a great movie. At least the 1980 version is.
 

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