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Luminous Spook shape templates - for  cutting by hand

Make your own LS shapes  using the document below - you get two sets of Spooks to work with which could be useful if you make a mistake or two. It's been sized for A4 paper - make sure the page scale is set to 100 (%) when printing. If printed correctly, Alf the Apparition should be 6.5 cm in height.  Cut out the shapes with scissors. Use luminous paper and you've finished; with plain paper or card, you'd just need to coat the shapes with luminous paint.

 Alternatively, lay the printed sheet on top of some suitable material, such as luminous vinyl or modelling clay rolled to 2 or 3mm thickness, then transfer the outlines using pin-pricks to the material underneath and cut out the shapes by hand. 

Please note: the outlines are very close to, but not exactly the same as the originals. I have used some artistic licence to make minor modifications , namely to the cat's eyes, to the helmet on the suit of armour and to the decoration on the clock.

Luminous Spook shape templates - for laser cutters

For a high-tech approach to making shapes based on the outlines of the Luminous Spooks, use a laser-cutter with MDF or acrylic plastic, 2 or 3mm thick. 

 Download this file, unzip it and look at the README file to get started.  To add raised detailing, such as Tilly's ruff, scratch these into moulds of the shapes, made from modelling clay. Do the same on modelling clay masters if you want details cut into the Spooks.

Perhaps you could make moulds from the laser-cut shapes and cast glow-in-the-dark Spooks using a suitable medium, say resin with glow powder, or hot glow-in-the-dark glue from a glue gun?

If it's possible to convert the files to a suitable format for 3D printers, you could print the shapes using luminous plastic. 

It may also be possible to convert the files for use by vinyl cutting machines and then to cut shapes from luminous material.

PLEASE NOTE: as far as I can tell, there is no suitable  glow-in-the-dark material for laser-cutting! Certainly, you should never cut PVC , such as is used on luminous boards for safety signs, or vinyl sheeting, with a laser, because  toxic chlorine gas will be released! 

George the Grandfather Clock - Detailed Plans

If you'd like to make your own replica of George, here are wonderfully detailed plans, kindly provided by Steve Moore:

Haunted Manor

Below is the Haunted Manor from the cereal packet, slightly cropped for straight edges left and right and with a digital repair to the lower edge, ready for printing on A4 paper at the same scale as the original, without the need to faff around with printer settings. Again, make sure the page scale is set to 100 (%) when printing!  If you want to turn it into a 3D model, see instructions here, or a modified example by 'Spooky' Steve here.

Spooks in Haunted Manor

Now you can have your very own copy of this terrific spooky scene, to the same scale as the original, ready to frame - click here! For that authentic touch, how about printing it on luminous paper, or using luminous paint on the Spooks?  Again, it's sized for A4 paper and again, make sure the page scale is set to 100 (%) when printing!

Spooky Soundtrack

This is a soundtrack I put together comprising some spooky theremin-style music (similar to the sound that would have been used by Barry Gray for the TV advert), thunder claps, cackling witch, cat sounds and a ghostly moan.  Perhaps I'll add some words to this at some point in an attempt to re-create the audio to the TV advert. The sound effects were obtained mostly from this site: http://soundfxcenter.com/ and the soundtrack was mixed using audacity software.

Get the soundtrack here.

Spooky Animation

Click here to see the lights fade in the Haunted Manor, with soundtrack by Barry Gray (from the Fireball XL5 story called 'The Ghosts of Space').