Rocky’s Documentation!

This is what I put together to explain my reasoning for entering Rocky in Historical with some notes about his design and construction.
Click on the image or this link to open the PDF,
This is what I put together to explain my reasoning for entering Rocky in Historical with some notes about his design and construction.
Click on the image or this link to open the PDF,
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…
Edit: I’ve updated the gallery with the images it was lacking. Rocky’s hind feet are always drawn as long and plain grey, with only two toes suggested by a midline, and no paw pads on the underside) My costume version of Rocky’s feet are being built on a pair of simple grey deck shoes with…
This weekend has been some finishing work on the tail and hat, which has entailed an enormous quantity of handwork. Finishing the tail While the main assembly of the tail was complete, neither end had been stitched up yet. The tip of the tail had been left open to make it possible to insert the…
just some pix from the convention
The very first step (after buying more 10mm EVA foam) is laying out the pieces for the fursuit head base. This is the downloadable Mantacraft “kiko” head base pattern which I purchased as a starting point. (the license for building with the pattern is acknowledging its use; I have no issue doing that as it…
Rocky now has goggles! This was a bit of a trial. After making the basic pattern, I started cutting frames to support the lenses out of some 3mm thick heavy cowhide in my stash. It took 3 iterations to get the pattern the right size, as I wanted to wrap it in the light blue…