Bonus post: The Eyes Have It!
The paint dried on Rocky’s pupils so I cut them out and did a quick test with masking tape holding them inside.
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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
All the couching is caught up! And the ID disk is cleaned up, too!
Couching the lighting strips… While the adhesive on the rectangular silicone tubing for the LED strips is really handy, experience has taught me that it will peel off of fabric at the least opportune time, so I should only trust it as basting.I’ve now hand-couched all the LED casing for the cuffs and “lapels” to…
Rainbow Dash
A quick and mostly-easy hall costume inspired by Rainbow Dash from My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic, and the number of times my rainbow mohawk inspired frazzled moms to distract their fussy kids by pointing at it and saying, “look, he has hair just like Rainbow Dash!”
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.
Bullwinkle at CC42!
Bill will be adding details of his Bullwinkle build as time and opportunity present
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…