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Freudian's 2004 Pumpkin

FreudianSlippersFreudianSlippers Member Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭
edited November 2004 in General Discussion
This one only took three hours, if you don't count the time it took to prepare the pattern.

Edit: The Web site where this was posted is no longer online, because I stopped renewing the domain name. (Apparently, editing your post bumps it to the top, even if it's seven years old.)
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  • interstatepawnllcinterstatepawnllc Member Posts: 9,390
    edited November -1
    Map of the eastern hemisphere?

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  • MVPMVP Member Posts: 23,453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nice[8D]
    WTH is it? the Grim Reaper?

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  • HappyNanoqHappyNanoq Member Posts: 12,023
    edited November -1
    Kind of looks like my mother-in-law..

    Stared at it for some time - is it the blue spirit from Ghost Busters II ??? Definately a ghost of some sort.. =o)


    Yes, beautiful carving =o)
    There are a lot of good ones - that's one of the top ones.


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    Don't do anything that I've allready done - That'd be just plain STOOOOOOPID.
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  • HangfireHangfire Member Posts: 3,010 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    WOW...looks like you have alot of time to spare , and no kids looking over your shoulder.!!!!I could never have done that detail with my Daughter helping me.[8D]

    Love them Pre-64's!!!!-Bob
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  • FreudianSlippersFreudianSlippers Member Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I started doing pumpkins like this when I was about 13. Once I prepare the pattern, I scan it into the computer and play with it to make sure that it will look right when the colors are inverted. Then I can print it in any size I need.

    This particular pumpkin is a banshee or ghost. Unlike the other pumpkins on my Web site, this one doesn't jump out at you. It can take a second to realize that you're not supposed to focus on the dark form in the center.
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  • FreudianSlippersFreudianSlippers Member Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Flying Clay Disk
    The South China Sea, penninsular Malaysia, with Singapore a little high, with a squiggley East Malaysia/Borneo and Indonesia, the Andamaan Sea, a very skinny India, the Persian Gulf, a kind of rabbit looking Australia. The China, Japan and Kamchatka region looks pretty accurate as if viewed from a polar orbiting bird.[:)][8D][8D]
    I've got to admit that I don't see that at all. [:D] I didn't set out to carve a map.

    In my pumpkin, the top left part is a hand stretching out. The rest is all flowing robes, with the hood covering the head in the top center. The bottom right is what can be seen of the other arm. The rabbit thing is part of the bottom of the robe. Ideally, it would be attached to the rest of the cut out shapes, but that would've made the design too fragile.
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  • CrittergitterCrittergitter Member Posts: 2,554 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    FS, I really like the skull, it's clever.[:)]
    If you want to be a creative writer, and make up stories, go work for the New York Times.
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  • Aspen79seAspen79se Member Posts: 4,707
    edited November -1
    Now I see it! [:D] Cool pumpkin. [^]
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  • FreudianSlippersFreudianSlippers Member Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Flying Clay Disk
    Sorry about map analogy, but I spent a lot of time over in that region and it really does kind of look like a map of SE Asia

    A little Vietnam PTS going on? [;)] [:D]

    Now you see it. It's flying toward the viewer.
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  • will270winwill270win Member Posts: 4,845
    edited November -1
    Cool.

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  • dheffleydheffley Member Posts: 25,000 ✭
    edited November -1
    Great job Slippers![:D] I also like the ones on your website. My favorite is the scull.

    How you doin'!
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  • NighthawkNighthawk Member Posts: 12,022 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You did a great job,my wife bought a kit last yr made for carveing pumpkins with all kinds of patterns,she did one this yr that looked like a tarantula.



    Best!!

    Rugster




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  • FreudianSlippersFreudianSlippers Member Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by rugster
    You did a great job,my wife bought a kit last yr made for carveing pumpkins with all kinds of patterns,she did one this yr that looked like a tarantula.
    I used to use stock patterns, but nowadays, they're on every other pumpkin, and I'd rather do something that you don't see everywhere. Still, the little saw blades are a lot easier to use than knives. [:D]
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It looks SPOOOOOOKY! That's really cool. I never had patience for that type of thing. I was more of a "Hack and Slash" when it came to pumpkins so my mother made me paint them instead of carving them. Then I learned (about 9 years ago) that they make AWESOME targets for the 1911.
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  • James AyersJames Ayers Member Posts: 1,598 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    [8D]I SEE A VERY UNHAPPY LIFE-THAT NEEDS GUIDANCE[:o)][:o)][:o)][:o)]

    On your mark-get set- go away!!
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  • BullzeyeBullzeye Member Posts: 3,560
    edited November -1
    Oh man! It looks like Elvis!
    "Our finest tribute to our fallen dead would be to convince their sons that we were not Rambo and neither are they. -Gus Hasford
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    FS, I marvel at your skill and patience. Even with all the directions, all I see is the intricate design, but then I'm artistically / creatively - challenged.

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  • fishermanbenfishermanben Member Posts: 15,370
    edited November -1
    You're very talented. That's pretty cool.

    Ben

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  • FishnshootFishnshoot Member Posts: 453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Way to go. That's awesome!
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  • mateomasfeomateomasfeo Member Posts: 27,143
    edited November -1
    Did u carve them with one of your swords?

    Nice work, you are very artistic.



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  • Compact_KidCompact_Kid Member Posts: 257 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ever carve a pumpkin with a 12 gauge with #3 shot? I find it to be an interesting pattern.
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  • bigtirebigtire Member Posts: 24,800
    edited November -1
    Here are a few interesting pumpkins.
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    MOLON LABE!
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  • eastwood44mageastwood44mag Member Posts: 2,655 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by MVP
    Nice[8D]
    WTH is it? the Grim Reaper?

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  • FreudianSlippersFreudianSlippers Member Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by mateomasfeo

    Did u carve them with one of your swords?
    The day I can carve that with a sword is the day I quit school and go to work as a fight double in a martial arts film. [:D]
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