Mr. Boogedy's Statue

Pilgrim Statue.

Unfortunately I didn't document this whole process
step by step, but I trust it's not that difficult to follow.
At first, this idea came from wanting to re-create a haunted statue I had seen in Disney's 'Bride of Boogedy.' The character of Boogedy, had been residing inside a statue/grave marker, and it was a very striking image indeed. So I set out to put this sucker in my front yard.

Step 1:
Making the body.
This portion might be done other ways, some may be simpler, as it has been done elsewhere, but we took the faster route as always.
Making a complete duplicate of one's self to maintain and human form, as you can see on the right.
This is done by foiling individual parts of your body, or someone else's and then duct taping over the foil. The only real trick to this is not taping it too tightly so that the model underneath may still keep his/her blood flowing.

After the part of the body has been covered, simply be gentle and use a pair of dull end scissors(as to cut the tape but not the person under) and cut along in a straight line, until the person is able to wiggle out of the newly formed mold. Due this as slowly and patiently as possible to maintain the shape.
Repeat all over.
Then tape over the open cut, and you have a rough recreation of a body part.
Now here's where things can go different ways..



Step 2:
Filling that body.
Since we had 10 cents to our names at the time, the cheapest way, and I don't recommend it is to stuff the inside with paper and pour paper mache in and let it sit. This process doesn't fully workout.
I would recommend filling it with Great Stuff expanding foam(found at Home Depot).

Step 3:
Rise.
This part comes down to what you have and if you want it to last. I had found a fairly decent hat rack. A simple tall wood frame for this statue. When it came time to do my legs, we did it so they were together without a gap, so that we could slide the body down over the beam.
And fortunately found a pair of steps in the dumpster from a school of sorts.
We screwed the base of the hat rack onto the steps, and there we had a statue before us.

Step 4:
Details.
Again, paper mache is the cheapest cover to do anything, and you can later paint it easily instead of just attempting to paint duct tape, which doesn't really have the same effect.
For the face, since that part of the body copying will turn out the less detailed, we bought a cheap ghoulish mask and just simply placed that over the head. Most people didn't know that was a bought mask, they had thought we painted it, ha.

The hat that I had, was a lot shorter on the top and was cheap flimsy foam and I needed a tall pilgrim hat, and those are over priced at stores, so I decided to use a small portion of chicken wire to build it up, and then duct tape it all over, and then I had a decent Pilgrim hat. Which fit snug on the statue because it was the shape of my own head.

We attempted other things with this cheap creation, but I'll stop here.