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All the couching is caught up! And the ID disk is cleaned up, too!
Couching the lighting strips… While the adhesive on the rectangular silicone tubing for the LED strips is really handy, experience has taught me that it will peel off of fabric at the least opportune time, so I should only trust it as basting.I’ve now hand-couched all the LED casing for the cuffs and “lapels” to…
Building Rocky’s Aviator Helmet
This took three mockups to get right. That was after I’d tried scaling up a commercial pattern (TOO BIG) and starting from a fabric beachball pattern (dimensions did not match description, and it was the wrong shape anyway).The problem basically is that Rocky’s head is basically a squashed basketball shape (not the vertical ovoid of…
Monday Madness — BOOTS!
Monday, still no power, so I took a large bag of parts to work so I could use my soldering bench there. I got leads attached to all but one of the remaining pieces of LED strip for the costume, and finished the wiring harnesses to connect to the power distribution from the upper back….
The better to hear you with, my dear
The fur hoods look great, but I kept thinking mine needed werewolf ears. So I made some! I used the ear pattern I developed for my neoprene pup mask to make these. The neoprene has two fabric on both faces, unlike the fur, so I started by cutting two of the main ear out of…
Hey Rocky!
Here’s a great photo (thanks to Christine Doyle) taken before we went on stage at CC42 After our presentation, our friend Wolfcat joined us in the lobby to give Bullwinkle Natasha Fatale’s traditional greeting to Moose and Squirrel