It seems that every year around this time I get sick. Allergies play a big part of it, they sneak on me and I'm down and out for at least two weeks(This time it was 3 wks). So the prop building came to a halt, But in the past week I did manage to put a little bit of time into that. I started the witch and cauldron project inspired by scareF/X and BlackWidow. I've got the cauldron to it's pre painted stage so far with some minor design changes including scareF/X's recommendation of just putting a big screw through the arm into the stirring stick. Here are some progress photos... 

The motor is mounted using a 12" construction strap and a 5/4" piece wood. I chose to 5/4" wood instead of 3/4 because there is a good sized ridge running across the center of the bottom of 55 gallon drum. I wanted to be able to cut a groove in the wood to straddle that ridge. Also, I chose to use Styrofoam balls cut in half for the rivets to give them more dimension. I'll probably paint the straps a different color than the cauldron, maybe a brass or copper color, I don't know yet.