Happy Halloween Pumpkin Carving Thread

sfam · Post #1 » by **sfam** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:47 am

A couple of folks here asked me to post my pumpkin carves when Halloween comes. I've been carving all month long, so I'll put a sampling here.

First up, my Star Wars Death Star (just got done with this a few hours ago) on a 148 pound pumpkin:

EDIT - unfortunately I don't have smaller pictures right now. If you can see it all, just right-click on the image and select "View Image"

sfam · Post #2 » by **sfam** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:50 am

Jack Skellington from Nightmare Before Christmas

sfam · Post #3 » by **sfam** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:51 am

Snow White Queen giving her the apple...

sfam · Post #4 » by **sfam** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:52 am

World of Warcraft Sculpt of an Orc

sfam · Post #5 » by **sfam** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:53 am

Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer, of course)

BigA · Post #6 » by **BigA** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:53 am

Whoa, very nice! Do you enter those in contests or show them anywhere?

sfam · Post #7 » by **sfam** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:54 am

sfam · Post #8 » by **sfam** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:55 am

Sculpt of the facehugger in Alien, still in the egg:

sfam · Post #9 » by **sfam** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:57 am

BigA wrote:Whoa, very nice! Do you enter those in contests or show them anywhere?

I've entered a few in online contests occaisionally. I show them in Centreville every year at my house. The address is on the front of my website: http://www.fantasypumpkins.com. Common by if you're in the area

sfam · Post #10 » by **sfam** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:59 am

Flaming Skull...

sfam · Post #11 » by **sfam** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 3:00 am

Cat in the Hat

sfam · Post #12 » by **sfam** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 3:01 am

From the movie Coraline:

sfam · Post #13 » by **sfam** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 3:04 am

Here's a 360 degree carving of Where the Wild Things are. I'll just link to the pictures (6 to see all the way around the pumpkin) instead of showing them here. Just click the link and use the back button:

http://www.fantasypumpkins.com/2009-pumpkins/360degree-where-the-wild-things-are-1.jpg

http://www.fantasypumpkins.com/2009-pumpkins/360degree-where-the-wild-things-are-2.jpg

http://www.fantasypumpkins.com/2009-pumpkins/360degree-where-the-wild-things-are-3.jpg

http://www.fantasypumpkins.com/2009-pumpkins/360degree-where-the-wild-things-are-4.jpg

http://www.fantasypumpkins.com/2009-pumpkins/360degree-where-the-wild-things-are-5.jpg

http://www.fantasypumpkins.com/2009-pumpkins/360degree-where-the-wild-things-are-6.jpg

bulletproof_32 · Post #14 » by **bulletproof_32** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 4:09 am

Incredible!

Thanks for sharing again this year, sfam.

Edit to add: I just clicked on the links to the "Where the Wild Things Are". Man, all of your stuff is awesome. You're just ridiculously talented.

Have you ever done any NBA/basketball themed pumpkins?

Post #15 » by **miller31time** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:12 am

Absolutely ridiculous. I can only imagine how popular your house is on Halloween....

Hoopalotta · Post #16 » by **Hoopalotta** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:50 am

Yeah, that is really excellent work there, you went all in and it shows! Thanks for that!

wermolwermol777 · Post #17 » by **wermolwermol777** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:24 am

Absolutely amazing as always. Thanks for posting

Soup's Uncle · Post #18 » by **Soup's Uncle** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:38 pm

Man, I thought my Darth Vader pumpkin from last year was tite. You guys make mine look like a 9 year old did it.

daSwami · Post #19 » by **daSwami** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 4:57 pm

wicked cool. do you do the same with Thanksgiving turkeys? i can't even conceive how one could become so good at such a thing given the short time-frame for practice each year. ever consider doing a Wizards themed one?

Halcyon · Post #20 » by **Halcyon** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 4:57 pm

Wow!! Those look amazing. I've never seen anything like it before