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Incremental Progress
Had a board meeting, so only got a tiny bit more done — upper big teeth and building out the lower jaw a little.
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…
More helmet fitting — and starting goggle design
The sides of Rocky’s aviator cap were a bit poofy when I was done, so I obsessively picked out about 5 inches of each (double stitched) seam and adjusted them. The fit is much nicer now. Goggle Design — patterning Rocky’s goggles are more of a suggestion than functional — they never move from the…
Painting Part 1: Base Coats
We’re working directly from the SKS Props tutorial here. I took the masks to work, where I have access to a genuine paint spray hood in the machine shop. First was two coats of black PlastiDip spray. I was concerned that the plastic might obscure all the texturing work we’d done on the foam, but…
Cutting the Foam with the Dremel MS20
(copied from Facebook posts)It was amazing how *spiffy* the Dremel coping saw was at cutting the HD EVA foam. The pieces for the dog skull masks have pretty intricate shapes. My mini-review of the Dremel MS20 Moto-Saw The tool I bought for this job isthe Dremel Moto-Saw MS20. It can theoretically be used freehand but…
Building the head base
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…
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