{"id":3242,"date":"2020-10-28T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/?p=3242"},"modified":"2020-10-30T11:51:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T18:51:48","slug":"vampire-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/2020\/10\/vampire-duck\/","title":{"rendered":"Vampire Duck!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the Nightmare Before Christmas, the Vampire Brothers create their version of a Christmas toy, which ends up being a little scarier than your average toy duck. (The duck was voiced by Greg Proops, though his name is not found in the credits<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I wanted to include this as part of the scene and decided to build it out of Styrofoam. To start out, I glued several layers of Styrofoam together and traced out the shapes of the duck body and head on the sides of each foam block.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then, using a hot knife, I cut out the rough shape of the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After refining the shape with the hot knife, I finished the body by sanding it to smooth it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For the head, I used the same process, first cutting the shape out using the hot knife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once I had the mostly-carved shape, I sanded it and attached it to the body with some PVC pipe to serve as the neck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The duck sits on a small wooden platform with wheels. For the platform, I used some wood from an old deck and for the wheels, I carved them out of foam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then it was on to the painting!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once the painting was done, it was time for assembly. I added some screws up through the bottom of the wood platform to help hold the duck in place (to add reinforcement to the glue).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once the duck was secured, I added the wheels to the platform and the duck was done and ready to delight\/frighten children!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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