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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…
Face Details: Teeth, Lips, Eyes (long post)
The last couple days I’ve been working on finishing finer details on Rocky’s face. The quick mockup I published earlier wasn’t bad, but I noticed a couple of things.First and foremost, Rocket J Squirrel does not have a significant cleft in his upper lip; in all the original cartoons its almost always a smooth line…
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…
Couching in the Dark (backdated)
Saturday and Sunday I set out to try and get most of the wiring harness sorted and the next phases of the lighting done. Things were dramatically hampered when we lost power in the storm in the late afternoon Sunday, which stopped me from doing any soldering or machine sewing. As a result, this post…
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….
Chunking the foam for cutting
Before the foam can be cut with my Dremel coping saw, I have to make sure the pieces will *fit* in the arm of the saw, so I chunked it up
It’s working!
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