This is my How To page on my undead skeleton horse halloween prop that I built.  I was planning on a headless horseman for the rider, but that ended up being a modified skeleton for the rider instead.

Page 2 "the initial look and assembly of the undead horse"

Page 3 "adding the final look and corpsing of the horse"

Page 4 "the added special effects"

Page 5 "the materials for building the horse"

Page 6 "the rider and its construction"

Page 7 "re-covering the horse with latex"

For Halloween 2004 Got the idea from an ebay auction that was selling a fiberglass horse with headless horseman rider, a really nice piece that will make a great addition for the person that buys it.  From Mark's Monster List, I did not see any project that encompassed both a full-sized horse and rider. I decided to start with an undead  rearing skeleton horse first and trying to keep the build possible for others to follow along, I decided to use PVC tubing for the body structure.  I thought about using steel tubing (most likely would have been cheaper) but that makes changing ideas harder in the build and not everyone has access to a welder/saw/grinders and I can always take back extra PVC connectors if need be. Hoping this project will inspire others as I have been inspired from their ideas and passed along build reports.  The project ended up being a skeleton rider whose skull I could remove to make him a headless horseman if I wanted.