Jack-O Lanterns

mcdouchealot · **Posted:** Mon Oct 22, 2007 5:23 pm **Post subject:** Jack-O Lanterns

Hey kids, have you stabbed the shit out of pumpkins yet this year? Let's see 'em!

I made the Michael Myers one and Joe made the Otis one.
Happy Halloween!

perkin2000 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 22, 2007 6:16 pm **Post subject:**

Blimey! That's some impressive carving.

mcdouchealot · **Posted:** Mon Oct 22, 2007 6:34 pm **Post subject:**

perkin2000 wrote:

Blimey! That's some impressive carving.

Thanks!

We used stencils, but I have done some in the past just drawing the designs on - which is much harder.

Oberon · **Posted:** Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:08 am **Post subject:**

Here are a few carvings my girlfriend and me have done over the years:

A pumpkin dedicated to my dog, Oberon.

This one is called 'Candelaboo'. :wink:

Boogeyman!

Nice work mcdouchealot. Do you use a Dremel at all? I've tried to do some more intricate work with power tools but I always seem to butcher it.

Mataesfola · **Posted:** Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:27 am **Post subject:**

Cool! We don´t celebrate halloween in Portugal, so no pumpkins for me! Nice work guys! :beerchug:

mcdouchealot · **Posted:** Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:30 pm **Post subject:**

Oberon wrote:

Nice work mcdouchealot. Do you use a Dremel at all? I've tried to do some more intricate work with power tools but I always seem to butcher it.

Nice work!

A dremel might be overkill for pumpkin carving... I just got one of those cheesy plastic and metal pumpkin carving kits; they work great. There's one tool very similar to tools that sculptors use for clay that allows you to carve the pumpkin without cutting all the way through for layered light effects... I didn't use it for these pumpkins, but I may in the future.

SacrifyX · **Posted:** Wed Oct 24, 2007 2:15 pm **Post subject:**

Awesome job on the carvings!!

mcdouchealot · **Posted:** Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:17 pm **Post subject:**

thanks everyone... I hope to do up a few more this weekend. it's too much fun

ViSCeRaL · **Posted:** Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:40 pm **Post subject:**

Here's mine from last year. First attempt at doing them from a stencil, came out quite good.

The bottom one is only carved just through the skin, but the light up effect is great in the dark.

Any good tips for websites with good templates to download?

Oberon · **Posted:** Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:53 pm **Post subject:**

ViSCeRaL wrote:

Here's mine from last year. First attempt at doing them from a stencil, came out quite good.

The bottom one is only carved just through the skin, but the light up effect is great in the dark.

Yeah, I think I am finally going to try a pattern that doesn't go all the
way through. I just haven't decided which one to do yet....

ViSCeRaL wrote:

Any good tips for websites with good templates to download?

Here's a few:

http://www.dltk-holidays.com/halloween/mpatterns.htm
http://www.carvingpumpkins.com/
http://www.fabulousfoods.com/holidays/h ... plans.html

I haven't found a nice comprehensive site yet. Many sites will have
a few patterns available for free and then the really nice ones you will
have to pay for. If you are in the mood for paying for patterns check out

http://www.pumpkinmasters.com/default.asp

They have a nice selection of patterns from the beginner level to
advanced.

Oberon · **Posted:** Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:11 pm **Post subject:**

Ah, I forgot I had this...

ed2k: Tons-O-PumpkinPatterns.rar [25.97 Mb] [Stats]

This is my first file share through emule so I hope it works. It has about
400 patterns in it. Enjoy! :beerchug:

ViSCeRaL · **Posted:** Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:12 pm **Post subject:**

Oberon wrote:

Ah, I forgot I had this...

ed2k: Tons-O-PumpkinPatterns.rar [25.97 Mb] [Stats]

This is my first file share through emule so I hope it works. It has about
400 patterns in it. Enjoy! :beerchug:

Thanks!

mcdouchealot · **Posted:** Fri Oct 26, 2007 1:25 pm **Post subject:**

Oberon wrote:

Ah, I forgot I had this...

ed2k: Tons-O-PumpkinPatterns.rar [25.97 Mb] [Stats]

This is my first file share through emule so I hope it works. It has about
400 patterns in it. Enjoy! :beerchug:

Nice! Thank you! I am upping to Demonoid to spread the pumpkin love.

Slayer · **Posted:** Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:05 pm **Post subject:**

So I see you made it into Demonoids vault?

ViSCeRaL · **Posted:** Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:36 pm **Post subject:**

Just finished.

Oberon · **Posted:** Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:48 pm **Post subject:**

mcdouchealot wrote:

Oberon wrote:

Ah, I forgot I had this...

ed2k: Tons-O-PumpkinPatterns.rar [25.97 Mb] [Stats]

This is my first file share through emule so I hope it works. It has about
400 patterns in it. Enjoy! :beerchug:

Nice! Thank you! I am upping to Demonoid to spread the pumpkin love.

No problem. Share and enjoy!

Oberon · **Posted:** Sat Oct 27, 2007 1:16 am **Post subject:**

My girlfriend and I worked on these last night:

This took about 4 hours! My aching back!

Jack Skellington!

Vae Victis · **Posted:** Sat Oct 27, 2007 1:20 pm **Post subject:**

Nice wolf!

ViSCeRaL · **Posted:** Sat Oct 27, 2007 4:32 pm **Post subject:**

Wolf is excellent. Must have sore fingers.

mcdouchealot · **Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:16 pm **Post subject:**

Slayer wrote:

So I see you made it into Demonoids vault?

I almost didn't... my regular gmail account didn't work (I never got the confirmation email). So the next day I went to their chat room and asked what I could do about it, and pretty much, I was screwed without a new invite code. Someone was kind enough to hook me up with another one, and I used a different email account. Good stuff.

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