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
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
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…
For this step, I used the process for creating a fur pattern from this page on matrices.net Basically, you mummify your head base in masking tape, draw cutting lines and indicate which way the fur should “grow” in each area, then carefully slice and peel it off.You flatten the pieces onto brown paper so the…
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…
The next step was to take a (fraction of a) bucket of foam clay to fillet the seams and add more organic shape to the already sanded skulls. We were going back and forth a lot to SKS Props YouTube video.Andy and I continued to work on one skull each so it will acquire some…
I glued the fur to the headbase Monday Night, and trimmed the excess fur away from the eyeholes, mouth, and underside of the head.I also stitched up a new nose (more dimensional) from some lightweight leather and stitched it on.I’m experienting with the teeth atm; they’re glued to a small piece of fabric tape so…