Pieces of Groom

Yes I know this blog is late!!

So as one of the self-proclaimed talentless geek girls I was alarmed to find myself somehow responsible for organizing props for our zombie bridal party for Awesomecon (check out Kristin's blog post on our successful day!).  Our zombie groom fell through and Kristin – reminding us that we are the Geek GIRLS Guild – suggested that rather than have a walking groom, we just needed pieces of one.  We needed body parts!!  We decided on hands and feet!   

SUPPLIES

1 black men’s suit from Goodwill (to simulate tuxedo sleeves and pant legs)

1 men’s white button down shirt (left behind by an old boyfriend)
2 prop hands

1 zombie prop foot

1 men’s black dress shoe (thank you to the husband)
1 argyle sock (thank you Kristin)
Thermal plastic beads (get your mind out of the gutter!)
Several feet of cotton yarn (it’s sturdier to make ligament looking gore)
Metallic gold paint (for the ring)
Wash cloth (muscle gore)
Acrylic paint (blood and gore)

Fake blood (the sticky kind)

HANDS

In retrospect it may have been better to buy prop hands that were already gored up like we did with the foot.  These hands were very pink and alive looking so we had to paint them up to get them dirty and bloody.  Thank you Kristin and Megan for painting!
 

RIGHT HAND

 

LEFT HAND

1. Cut the sleeves off the white shirt and suit jacket.  For the right hand we cut the sleeves off short – like the hand had been torn off just above the wrist.  For the left we cut them off at just above the elbow.  Shredded the ends to look like they’ve been torn – not cut by scissors.
2. Soaked the white shirt sleeve in acrylic paint (a red, brown, and little bit of black mix; watch out for too much black as the mix can turn too purple like it did for us). 
3. Attached the white shirt to the inside of the suit coat sleeve.  We sewed the cuff of the button down shirt to the lining in the suit coat sleeve.
4. Hot glued the cuff of the white shirt to the wrist of the prop hand.
5. Applied sticky blood to the prop hand and shirt cuff for extra gore.
6. Stuffed the longer, left sleeve (right hand) with the remains of the white shirt and sew the lining in the suit coat sleeve to the stuffing.
7. Figured out a way to put a ring on the left finger of a hand that has all the fingers fused together (lack of foresight when ordering!!!).  So we used thermal plastic beads – put them in hot water until they soften, mold them into a partial ring, applied around ring finger with hot glue, and painted gold with metallic paint!

FEET 

We were really ambitious with one but not the other!!

ONE FOOT

Slipped argyle sock over purchased zombie foot; cut holes in sock to align with already-made gashes, and applied blood to said gashes to gore it up.  I can't tell you how much it annoyed me that this was a rotting foot.  This was supposed to be a freshly torn apart groom!!  Continuity error!!!!!  Thank god we covered it with a sock.

 

OTHER FOOT/LEG

This picture doesn't do it justice!!  Rather than explain it, I drew a diagram!  Kelly did most of the hard work applying the gore!!

 

 

Check out Kristin's flickr for action shots with the props!!  Those pictures are waaaayyyyy better than my crappy cell phone pictures.  Can't wait for our next project!!

 

 

P.S.

Achievement Unlocked!  First blog post for the guild!!!