Post #810379 by ECTiki on Wed, Aug 16, 2023 7:39 AM

I wish I could say that everything was planned in the design, construction and decoration of the bar itself. Sadly, it wasn’t. Most of the time, I find weird shit and think “That would be fun in the bar.” Such is the case with The Guardian. A friend of mine that makes Halloween props said he had an extra talking skull. My immediate response, “yeah I want a talking skull” having no idea what the hell I’m gonna do with it….. when I picked it up it was bolted to one of those wooden salad bowls that every Italian restaurant used to serve dinner salads in. Once at his new home, in a very Shakespearian fashion we spent some time staring at each other before I decided what to do with him. (He won all of the staring contests btw) Finally, I decided to mount him on the overhang over the bar. Secure a few feet of threaded stock and the Guardian has a home. His skull rotates and tilts on a three axis gimbal and the jaw moves in cadence with speech. Pretty fun.

Pleased with the result, I decided he needed a body….or at least a portion of one. I dug through the old Halloween decorations and found a willing sacrifice. I stole his upper torso and tried to align the threaded stock with the skeleton spine. After he was mounted I used some brush on poly stain to age him up and match the colors. He then needed his own spot light to showcase him over the bar.

I never planned for the bar to have Disney effects. But here we are…

apparently, movie files can’t be uploaded….sigh… well the Guardian recites the welcome speech from the Haunted Mansion elevator and the Jack Nicholson “You can’t handle the truth” speech.

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