a bit of scraping on the face and hand to lighten them up...the pipboy pumpkin lasted well all weekend and went to 3 parties and was on display for the trick or treaters (along with my robot costume sitting on the porch outside)...thought for sure it would get smashed, but still "alive" this morning. i think i will do a scrapping not cutting pumpkin for a couple of more years...was fun.
sorry for the bad image...love my iPhone, but she doesn't do low lighting photos well. used a cord and 60 watt bulb to get very good shine thru on the pumpkin skin...a candle would have been much too dim
my costume...everybody loved it...I think the eyes are killer and the size is more impressive when you are at a party and suddenly see me walk in or walk by. And the kids loved it... at first they were afraid of it, but then gah, they followed me everywhere like baby ducklings...hugging me and yelling, "we love you robot"...it was borderline surreal. and a bit tiring...after about an hour of non-stop being either herded or followed by children i pleading with other adults, "please help me, why isn't anybody else interacting with the children?" they were, "oh, you are doing a great job." finally had to tell the kids that robot needed to power-down. which meant get drunk.
the ipad had clips from about 10 robot movies...an hour long loop...no movie sound, instead i insert clips of robot noises and robot phrases (i am a robot, warning warning, powering down, you are a man, i am a machine, other than that slight difference we have much in common... etc etc)
My eyes pulsed and had insane depth due to led magic...the mouth was my area for vision, but you couldn't see in, just out. and i loved my steampunk dial console...had temp, oil pressure and vacuum pressure...real gauges.
going for some cupcakes.
robot claws are awful at grabbing cupcakes...even with "Real Ratch Sound"
if I use this again i will work on getting the robot legs...tried a couple of things...didn't work out like i wanted...so went with simple silver legs...want to find some nice wide culvert piping...yes I have chicken skinny legs, but regular round duct piping is too small even for my skinny self.
body is a trash can, head is a Halloween cauldron, arms--drainage pipe, hands --robot claws with real ratchet sound...
my wife, who is constantly cleaning and we all make fun of her for it, went as a super hero called Mighty Maid. And yes I am a lucky man.
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