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Actually, you'd be surprised by how little talent you need.
If you can use scissors, blades, and can trace and do basic painting and photo-shopping, you are all set to make any of my homemade models. If you have good computer skills, you might have an easier time than I did making the patterns.
The figures require more skill though.
Most of my buildings are flat. To make the pattern, I saved a frame from the movie. Then I opened it using IrfanView, a free program that is easy to use. I crop out the building I want to use and resize it to whatever size I want. (It doesn't matter if the pattern is blurry. You just need the general shape. Next I print it out. (Originally, I resized using a photocopier!)
You can photocopy the pattern a few times because you might need to cut out certain details.
I trace the printed photo onto (black) foamboard with a dull pencil or thick nail. Foamboard is easy dent. Once I have the outline and details, I remove the paper and cut out the building using a hobby knife or a hot wire cutter. I retrace all lines with a thick nail to give them a deep impression. I texture the walls using the nail or my fingernails. Next I lightly paint the surface. I try not to get any paint into the groves. The black spaces in between the bricks is actually unpainted foamboard. If I want white spaces in between the bricks I use white foamboard. Foamboard comes in different thickness.
I cut out the windows and door frames on black or yellow paper. I use my printed photo over-top construction paper.
I like Tim Burton's buildings because they are all warped, so if you do a bad job cutting them out they look BETTER!
To make the curved buildings I used fun-foam or corrigated cardboard. They are harder to make, so I would make them later.
I would start with making some basic walls. You can figure out how to use foamboard and how best to texture it. If you want some bricks to stick out, just glue some small pieces of foamboard on top. I didn't use a pattern and if you look carefully, there are some hidden evil faces in the brickwork.
Start with the easy buildings first.
You can see more pictures of my models (including some in various stages of being built)
here
http://s238.photobucket.com/albums/ff3/krazykarlboehm/Models/
and here
http://s183.photobucket.com/albums/x23/kreepykarlBoehm/NBCSW%20crafts/

Sadly, my wife abandoned me to have a "Girl's Weekend out" leaving me with nothing to do but wait by the door for her return...






AND BUILD MODELS!!!!!

While I'm still not finished, it looks decent enough to present. The iron Maiden is still unfinished; The roulette wheel is unpainted (I may redo it), The saw still needs a skeleton; the yellow bats need to be hung, and the watermelon seeds need to be painted. Eventually, I'll make the 8 ball blade thingie, and possibly the playing cards.

Oogie has quite the body count. There's at least 11 more bodies to add to this scene (Can you name them all?). And the projected ghosts at the end of his song.

Enjoy,







This is why eating and crafting is a terrible great idea! My cockroaches still need antennae and to be painted.

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Nuttin new to report.







Today.


Oh, I decapitated Sally and gouged out the doctor's eyes and cut his hands off.

Thanks, I'm glad you like them. My intention is to make all the Halloween characters from the movie that I don't have the toy for. You'd be surprised by how many characters are lurking in the background.
I have the original Jun Planning figures and all the newer Gashpon/Yujin figures. I don't have the $25 000 Halloween town Jun Planning is selling though. But It is not accurate anyway. I wish Necca made their toys small enough for me to use.


Making the buildings is also fun and because they are not symmetrical so any mistakes I make look fine.



But I'm getting kinda tired of it and I need a change so I'm packing it away. You know what's really cool?

Comments?

This is what I managed to accomplish this weekend. The torches and the witch-building belong on the other side. I'll probably rearrange the buildings several times as I build more. I have 4 more detailed buildings to make, a couple of background ones, and I may make a paper silhouette skyline. Then I will either make characters, or the graveyard hill.