First, after cutting the foam (with appropriate bevels), I preshaped it slightly with the heat gun, then edge glued the sub assemblies (there are 5 in the pattern for each side of the head, then glued those into the two halves, and finally glued the center seam joining the two halves.
After heat forming and sanding the edges, a slightly smoother skull for the inside of my fursuit head!
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….
For this step, I used the process for creating a fur pattern from this page on matrices.net Basically, you mummify your head base in masking tape, draw cutting lines and indicate which way the fur should “grow” in each area, then carefully slice and peel it off.You flatten the pieces onto brown paper so the…
Step one of the whole project was printing out the pattern template onto card stock and then tracing that onto the foam. We’re using SKS Props branded HD (EVA) foam purchased through Blick’s Art Supplies, in 2mm, 6mm, and 10mm thicknesses.SKS had laid out the template to print as a tiled large print; I reorganized…
After about four hours work, Rocky’s silhouette is greatly improved for his future appearances!
Identity Disk, roughed out After a fair amount of banging away at it, I have a reasonable facsimile of the “Identity Disk” for Castor. Fortunately the Tron cosplay/prop community measured and shared the dimensions of the prop, unfortunately that was for 3D printing, and modeling it in 10mm EVA foam offered a few challenges. But,…
(Transcribed from a comment I made on Bill Howard’s FB page)
