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Cobalt Noir
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Archon of the Quabbin Cooperative, 4th Baron of Blueberry Hill, Mad Scientist, Cheese Specialist
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I would like to add a screen accurate black cat head poking out the top eventually, but that won't be this year, unfortunately.

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Phew, that was a busy weekend (putting on a two-day yard sale is *rough*), but I didn't forget! I got lucky with the current design; it was too big to prototype properly, so I had to figure it out in my head and it mostly worked out, and I've been tweaking it since.

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Thanks! I did, back in 2022, though I had been thinking about it long before that. I had tried just filling the sack with lightweight stuff, but it's so big, like 5 feet in diameter, that I had trouble filling it, and it sagged like a pear on a stick, so I had to give him a skeleton.

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Thank you! Enoch has continued to be a challenging build, cause he can be so top heavy even while trying to keep it light, so I keep making improvements to make him more stable. His head is a bucket, wooden dowels, and pool noodles in a basketball-like cloth sack I sewed.

An image of the interior of the head of my life size Enoch prop, which consists of twelve orange pool noodles arching between top & bottom rows of radial wooden dowels attached to plastic circles. The internal structure is supported by a central piece of PVC pipe. The bottom is attached to an upside-down bucket, which attaches to his base: a folded up clothes line.
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this spooky season, i have a non-movie suggestion 🤯 Over the Garden Wall is probably my answer for "favorite animated kid's show" which is high praise because i am pirating copies of Adventure Time in my spare time. it's the perfect Fall/Halloween/Autumnal show and seriously a trip check it out

a group of pumpkins are gathered around a large pumpkin with a face
a group of pumpkins are gathered around a large pumpkin with a face

ALT: a group of pumpkins are gathered around a large pumpkin with a face

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A thousand times this! I adore Over The Garden Wall so much, I built a life size Enoch (Over 12 feet tall) and a Potsfieldian (and I plan on building another one so the first won't look quite so lonely). I think I have better pictures of Enoch, but I can't seem to find them at the moment.

An image of a life size Potsfieldian from Over The Garden Wall. A skeleton wearing pumpkins on their torso & head, with the head carved and painted with a smile, corn husks covering the arms and legs, wearing a woven grass sun hat and sitting on a small red stool.
An image of a life size Enoch Halloween prop. Standing at over 13 feet tall, Enoch is like a May Pole, but with a giant cloth jackolantern head on the top. Large black eyes, a chevron-shaped black nose hole, and a toothy grin adorn the large, jackolantern head. His body is thin and made up of ribbon streamers, four of which stretch out like great, long arms, while the rest dangle like spindly legs.
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I think we can agree that this vampire queen was not a very effective leader. She waits like a hundred years for her replacement, then just delegates all the work to four of her lackeys who fail miserably multiple times while she just chills out with her sisters in the unfinished castle basement.

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Cobalt Noir
@cobaltnoir.bsky.social
Archon of the Quabbin Cooperative, 4th Baron of Blueberry Hill, Mad Scientist, Cheese Specialist
19 followers119 following119 posts