January 31, 2015
Our first build was held at Ron’s Halloween in Indianapolis. He has a store with an adjacent Haunted House call the Haunted Angelus where Jose’ is the creative director and master builder.
January is cold in Indiana and the store was closed and the heat was turned off.
Jose’ gathered the initial building materials to start the construction of the platform. Heidi and Jose’ worked out plans for some metal tubing that would provide the pivot point of the platform. Heidi was able to get some nice folks at her place of work to weld the base of the pivot to metal footings.
The platform needed to be built so that it could be taken apart and transported to Petersburg, MI for Great Lakes Fright Fest. So there was some careful planning to make sure any one single piece wasn’t too big to carry and load into a 12’ cargo trailer.
Pictures are worth a thousand words. Enjoy.
Pivot Point
Metal Pivot
Human Sacrifice
American Gladiators
Here is a video of the working (turning/spinning) platform.
See all pictures here http://jseiler.smugmug.com/Halloween/The-OctoPod/20150131GLFF-Build