[Click Here For A larger Image]    When making details such as the mask you will find it very helpful to have some good reference materials to draw upon such as this issue of Fangoria Magazine published by Starlog Press. This issue features a very nice close-up of Jason Voorhees on the cover.

[Click Here For A larger Image]    This will be very helpful should you decide to make a mask that fits under the Hockey Mask. Jason is pretty messy under his mask, he's been buried for more than ten years, set on fire, electrocuted, axed, stabbed with nails, knives etc.. and submerged underwater for ten years. So you can have a lot of fun with him creativity wise.

   To make the mask you will need to use some of the material left over from your Spandex Catsuit in order to make a hood that covers the head, neck and partial shoulders snugly (not to tightly). If you can stretch this over a Mannequin bust roughly the same size and shape of your head. You can get cheap Styrofoam ones from some clothing stores. You will need to build it up a little with either paper mache or lots of masking tape and newspaper, play with it a little to see what you can do. Of coarse all of this trouble can be saved if you just happen to have something like what I described already. Build up the latex and foam rubber layers of the mask the same way you did for the costume body (skeletal suit).

[Click Here For A larger Image]    Once you have made your mask of Jason's face and it's suitably disgusting looking all nice and dead and gooey looking you can place your hockey mask on over top of this. If in the event you do not have an "authentic looking official Jason Voorhees Hockey Mask" you can make one like I did using some plexi-glass.

   First you will need to make a mold out of your modeling clay that resembles Jason's mask, let it dry thoroughly. Take your plexi-glass and cut it into an "Oval Shape" about and inch overall larger than your mask mold. place this on a large cookie sheet or pizza pan and slide it into the oven on 200 degrees. Warning! Do not leave oven unattended! The idea here is to soften the plastic enough to bend it over your mold. Plexi-glass tends to get a little rubbery when it's heated so it might take a few tries to get it right.

   When you have completed the plexi-glass mask you can drill out the holes, careful though as plexi-glass has a tendency to crack and then you can paint it appropriately. For mine I gave the whole thing a good couple of coats of a white semi gloss enamel both inside and out and then used my black wash to weather it. You will want to muck up areas with the fake blood. Especially in areas like where he took an axe to the face and where the boat propeller broke off a chunk near the lower left side (cheek or jaw area).

   Remember no mater what you do so long as you are creative your Jason Costume will look far better than anything store bought and you will have the satisfaction of doing it yourself.... Good luck!

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