Very awesome. I am working on a plant like creature for my front yard for Halloween. I am moving into the house right now, but I hope I can get it done.
Great video, making an arch myself. I find the mold really sticky and when I put two branches (vines) together for an extending time they stick and peel off. Any sealant or anything that you put on after to help keep everything together? Great vid!
Looks great! I'm adding a bunch of roots to connect my pumpkin patch and vine arch this year. How did the latex hold up? When I originally did my arch I considered it, but the arch was so big and I had already spent months making it so I decided not to. Had a lot of peeling issues over the last 4 years and finally coated it with spray adhesive to give the paint a better grip to the plastic.
Never did armature in any of mine at all. The arch was built over a pvc frame, but all of the noodles were just attached to the frame. My issues with peeling seemed to be in areas that had constant sun exposure. I'm guess the expansion and contraction of the plastic caused by temperature changes just caused the paint to pop off in those areas. I should have considered that before painting and saved myself some headaches. The spray adhesive I base coated the areas with last time seems to have done the trick though. Working on some ground level vines now that have 12v wiring built into them so I can plug some pumpkins into the vines to keep the wires 100% hidden.
enjoyed the vine making. I'm making vines for a production of Little shop of Horrors, therefore the vines have to be quite long. How might you join the vines/noodles and the ends? Thanks
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I wouldn’t recommend using plaster. The flexing foam underneath will cause it to crack. You can always just skip the latex and paint the vines with spraypaint or use silicone in place of latex! Hope this works for you!
I did. I used a medium diameter noodle and a small diameter noodle, Gorilla glued a 4 inch piece of pvc pipe into the holes to join them end to end, then used a knife to carve and taper the larger noodle down a little to match the diameter of the smaller one. After that I just did everything else like normal.
How much of the latex do you generally use for one vine? At $40.00 for 32 ounces that seems like an item that could be replaced with something less expensive. I used almost 16 ounces on my first vine. Your vines seem to be a bit more rigid than mine when done. Is that true?
