Grim Reaper Model

this is my first instructable so please be gentle XD... Anyway this grim reaper is made mostly of random things i found around the house, the only thing i had to buy seperately were the display lights and the cape, but there are other alternatives to them which i will explain about later into this instructable. Oh yeah another thing... it's face also lights up! (y)

The frame is made from the wonderful cronstruction kit known as k'nex... im afraid i havn't got enough detail on the framework :S im sorry... but most of the frame is generally a tower just to support the upper body and head. Also make sure that the base is wider than the body tower as this helps give it more stability.

This is possibly the most complex part of it's structure as i wanted the arms in fixed positions. My set-up is shown in the pictures but realy the arms can be adapted to your own specific ideas.

These are also fairly complex... the fingers are made from white rods with a small gap between them wraped in tape, this allows each finger to be bent. On a hand 3 of the fingers are made of 3 rods and the remaining little finger and thumb are made from 2 rods.

The face is the easyest part of the build... all it involves is printing a skull, sticking it to a bowl and sticking it to the body.

I went out and bought one cheaply from a costume shop for £2.99, but realy you could also use black bin bags aswell

Yet another easy part to make... i could have cheated and bought a plastic one... but i thought they were too tacky... so i made one out of a piece of card, an old broom handle and some runner bands

for this i used one of those push LED lights taped to a piece of card stuck behind the face, you could also have used a torch or any other light source. Then your reaper is comlete and ready to scare in the day and night =]