It really is time to start Lifting lids and getting the props ready to give a good show for Halloween. The Forgery has to be given over to the preparation. Firstly there's the problem of Fred. Fred died, not for the first time, only this time he managed to get it right and there's nothing left of him but a memory, oh, and the windscreen wiper motor that formed his original heart.
Rebuild from scratch the first mechanical Halloween contraption I built... OK but times have changed technology moves on ... true but the rules still apply so it's back to the scrapheap (parts dept.)
Right that should do,The box tubing from Corrins bed mounted on the stand from the garden brolly that snapped... linkages ...pivots... voila
Now he needs his head, where's that mask I got from the car boot and those cool shades. right all I need now is that old dust sheet... OK so he wont move.Have to redesign that bit. Shift the pivot points, that'll give the little motor a better chance.I'll double up the slider and put a chest plate in to hang some springs from. A bit more beef on the mechanism and the springs from the anglepoise lamp. Fred seems quite pleased to show off his new physique:
I want his eyes to light up like Old Freds did,well not quite like that because old Fred didn't wear shades, probably why his eyes were so red. I'll worry about that later, since I dropped the only old 12v auto bulb I could find... I must have more ... somewhere ...
Does he look like Billy Connelly to you? .... Spooky ... maybe a top hat and some goggles
Going to need a bigger top hat... or maybe Fred was more the Airship type
Obviously the victim of an accident involving large voltages in a place where the hairbrush is rarely to be found.. Good Man Fred, best wishes for Halloween. Not too scarey
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