Bullwinkle at CC42!
Bill will be adding details of his Bullwinkle build as time and opportunity present
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New Improved Shorts for Pinky Pie
The one thing I was REALLY unhappy with in my Pinky Pie outfit for the performance was the pink booty shorts. They managed to be a little too baggy in the legs, too tight in the waist, plus the whole malformed zipper fly. This is no doubt why they ended up in the “meh” bin…
Adding texture and “sutures” to the foam to simulate bone
This next step was in two stages: Adding Texture to the foam “bone” This step was actually fairly fast and easy. You take a wire brush, and tap/slap it firmly against the foam surfaces, so the bristles pockmark it and create “pores”.Again, Andy and I each worked on one skull; we used 3 different brushes….
Getting Further Along!***
Now that the skull masks are painted, we needed the rest of the heads. After adding elastic loops to close the jaws, and another, adjustable bad of 1” elastic that goes behind our head to secure it*, we considered our options. PAWCon is only 3 days away! We decided to go for simple fur hoods,…
Finishing Touches
Every equine character on My LIttle Pony has “cutie marks” on their flanks, and Pinky Pie is no exception. Her cutie mark is a trio of party balloons with contrasting strings, two blue and one yellow. When I did Rainbow Dash, I was able to purchase iron-on patches of his cloud-and-thunderbolt cutie mark, but I…
Main assembly, shaping/sanding, and dentition done.
Over the weekend I got almost all the main assembly done for both skulls (there’s one final piece that extends off the back of the mask) and did an initial pass at shaping all those square foam edges with a tapered grinding stone on my Dremel mototool. (the regular kind of Dremel, not the coping…
Thanks for sharing your costume build for those of us who will not be attending the convention.
Thanks! Bill and I should be posting regular updates to our respective build diaries here.