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!
Saturday I finally took the time to add the internal band that lets Rocky’s head rest securely on my own.
Bill will be adding details of his Bullwinkle build as time and opportunity present
Had a board meeting, so only got a tiny bit more done — upper big teeth and building out the lower jaw a little.
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…
just some pix from the convention
