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I had always loved the props in the Haunted Mansion at Disney, and when someone showed me a blueprint of the clock, I decided that was it and set out to make one.

This project took me a total of about 20 hours to complete over a couple of months. I found two vacuum cleaner boxes in the latter part of May and finished it around mid-July.

First I taped up 2 vacuum boxes that I found on the side of the road waiting for garbage pick-up. They were nice, sturdy type boxes and almost the exact same depth and width so I could tape them together to make one tall clock.

I then found another box for the top, which would be the clock face. I hot-glued the boxes together and taped together with every haunter's best friends... Duct Tape.

I wanted to use a foot stool as the base, because I'd seen some nice intriquite designs on legs. And they are already made of wood.
Well, I couldn't find any that were inexpensive and small enough, so I picked up a metal foot stool and stripped it down so I could build it up with papier mache and plaster cloth.
The top part is actually cut from a cheap ice cooler and glued and taped in place. I used extra newspaper because when I put the boxes on top there was a gap and I needed it to all be steady.

The face of the clock has an open monster's mouth showing the teeth. I made the basic template out of foam and then built it up with papier mache. I didn't think of using pink or blue insulation foam sheets, that may have been a better substitute that way it comes out nice a smooth. The papier mache makes it look pretty rough, but I like it. I had the plexiglass in there just to give the mache something to rest on. It was taken out and replaced with a clean piece afterwards.

The top part of the clock is the monster's eyes and head. The template was made from styrofoam and papier mache. I finished the eyes with celluclay to give them a smoother finish.

After several coats of paint, this is the finished product before varnishing and adding the face of the clock. The door on the bottom is hinged and the clock face will have plexiglass to protect the actual face of the clock.

The inside of the clock has the "devil's tail" as the pendulum. I don't have that working at the moment, but I guess I could affix it to a motor that swings back and forth.

The door is hinged with small black hinges to the base of the clock. The frame was made from a cheap poster frame. Walgreens sells these for about $5 and they already come with the plexiglass. I just had to cut it down to size.
   

I also used a magnetic door catcher at the top and bottom of the opening to make sure that the door would stay closed.

Here you can also see the red Christmas light that was used on the inside. I just taped it to the top of the box on the inside.

The pendulum was made from cardboard and built up with papier mache. But again, I guess the pink or blue foam sheet would suffice. If you use the foam, I would weight it down somehow, because I think just using the foam would be too light. Maybe use a cardboard backer just to give it stability. Something that long in foam has a tendancy to break easily.
   

This is a close-up of the finished clock face. The hour hand is glued in place and the minute hand can go around either clockwise or counter clockwise. I have it running on a christmas deer motor. I put a white christmas light on top of the motor to shine behind the clock face. That green really shows up well in the dark..