WRYMOUTH EXCLUSIVE: Hallowe'en Hijink 2: Giant Boxing Nun Goes to School
And based on this model:
— here's the finished Giant Boxing Nun in situ, photos courtesy Wry Mouth Jr., who was just barely wary enough to avoid suiting up himself, so he got me into the rig. The "ninja" mask, made of a regular shirt, helps obscure the controller. Wry Mouth Jr. taught me the "instant ninja mask" trick personally.
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I like the "holy warrior" pose in the photo on the left. Kinda looks like a Kalishnikov raised up in your right hand next to the boxing glove. hahahahahaha.
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"Kinda looks like a Kalishnikov" -- indeed. the arms, recycled from a "spider-like" puppet, used to be inverted, and the "Kalishnikov" bit functioned like a police-baton-style arm control. I did not have time (or the pipe-cutter) needed to cut them off. In a perfect world, I would have been able to find a few more yards of cheap black satin to cover the waist-to-legs more, and the time to re-create the arms with a simpler mechanism (rather than recycle), and spring-load them so that the "rest" position of them would be in the "up" position. Wry Mouth Jr. didn't want to wear the costume b/c one has to manually hold the arms up while walking, which is a mild strain.
Still, for a first draft, we were the hit of the playground.
Maybe next year we'll do it up right!
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I'm going to send this picture to Michelle Malkin and Zombie and Bill O'Rielly and say it's from Mardis Gras or the Folsum Street Fair...
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Hey; traffic is traffic, I always say (along with Oscar Wilde). ;o)
As long as they are fans of boxing nuns!
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Tell me your family don't produce Halloween costumes of this quality and originality every year. Tell me so, as I am feeling a mite inadequate, having only bought my five year-old daughter a witch hat from Woolworths. It had attached hair, mind...I went the extra mile and paid the extra pound for curly vermillion extensions. Still...have to say, on viewing the boxing nun, that I am not worthy. Very cool indeed guys!
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No; no... this is a new activity. Up until 2006, we just threw Power Ranger kits on the kids and away we'd go. But with Wry Jr. hitting high school age, he and I began to tinker a bit with the larger, odder get-ups. And that is just what they are.
Thx for dropping by, R. You are always welcome.
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