Make your skeletons look their best!

Got some purdy white skeletons that you want to make a little scarier. Corpse them! This will give them an aged, decaying look that will really make the prop stand out.

At a basic level corpsing uses liquid latex (or some other glue-like adhesive), something to duplicate flesh, for example cotton strips or nylon stockings, and some dark stain or paint.

Bucky skeletons (these are the ones you see in anatomy class) can be found for about $150 at places like Bucky's Boneyard (www.buckysboneyard.com) or Ebay (www.ebay.com).

A less expensive option is the blow-molded, plastic skeletons called a "blucky". I've seen people turn these cheap, ugly misfits into horror masterpieces through corpsing.

I'll admit, this Youtube video is pretty cheezy, but it does an adequate job of walking through the steps to corpse a skeleton.