The Flying Crank Ghost This isn't really directions to the FCG, but it's more of a guide. Here's my beautiful ghost which I'm rather proud of, it was my first and one of my coolest props I've built. Thanks Doug Ferguson

Here's more of my pictures I took, both are the same photo, but since I couldn't get any pictures to turn out under the blacklight, I enhanced the second to sort-of look like it would if you were there to actually see it. It's close, but just not right.

Notes:
The crank, if you don't know where it is supposed to go, it should spin in circles, parallel to the floor, below the frame

If you use a B-B-Que motor like I did, don't run it too much before Halloween, because my motor gears got stripped out about half an hour into Halloween. When the motor dies it makes incredible noise and doesn't work (bummer). Believe me, I know. If I use this prop next year I'll get a new motor. BUT the B-B-Que motors will work and you can get them at 2nd hand stores for a couple of bucks.

Painting: DO USE BLUE FLUORESCENT PAINT. It looks very beautiful and nice and eerie looking. I think the white would look good too, and use red LED's for eyes.

Crank Ghost are great, and easy to build if you use a little know-how and have the needed tools! Altogether mine cost around $80, but that was over a period of a month.

Can't find a wig form? Just go out and try to find a bag of skeleton body parts, I got a bag of a couple heads and arms for about $8. Just use a skeleton head, they work great!