Steampunk Tiki Part 3: Skull on a Stick Staff

As part of the evil fetish tiki, I envisioned the skull of an aviator from the airship crash stuck on a staff.  This was a very easy prop to make and utilized many cheaply bought parts.  First I bought a cheap plastic skull, realistic looking plastic eyeballs, cheap googles and a very cheap aviator's hat.  We also purchased some UV LEDs, a switch and a battery pack.

The googles were a basic silver color, so we spray painted them red to give them a bit of color.  To make it look like they had been in a crash, we hit one eye piece with a quick burst of black spray paint to simulate damage.
 

Cheap googles painted red

We drilled two holes through the skull that would fit a long wooden staff we had lying around.  The holes were drilled so the staff would go directly up through the center.

Cheap plastic skull with holes drilled for the staff

We then cut out holes in the eye sockets to allow the addition of lights later and glued some plastic eyeballs into the eye sockets.  These eyeballs are half globes, not full globes.  Since the aviator's cap needed a hole in it as well, I bought a really cheap costume one online.  It is very synthetic and would probably be terrible to wear, but for the skull it was perfect.

 

 

Skull with added eyeballs and cheap aviator's cap

To add a bit of a creepy factor to the skull, we cut a hatch in the back to allow the addition of electronics within the skull.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hatch for electronics

 

We then added UV LED lights behind the eyeballs. The lights, switch and battery pack fit neatly in the skull and the UV LEDs shine right through the eyeballs.

With lit up eyes

Skull on a stick!