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
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Fursuit body test
Next up is building Rocky’s body. He’s such a simple character design that I’m going for a very simple onesie style fursuit rather than one with sculpted padding. I’m using the Andrea Schewe Simplicity 2853 pattern for the starting point. I will, however be using a number of tricks (including Matrices’ technique for installing the…
Finishing Touches
Every equine character on My LIttle Pony has “cutie marks” on their flanks, and Pinky Pie is no exception. Her cutie mark is a trio of party balloons with contrasting strings, two blue and one yellow. When I did Rainbow Dash, I was able to purchase iron-on patches of his cloud-and-thunderbolt cutie mark, but I…
Getting some character: individual sanding/shaping, and more Nasty, Big, Pointy, Teeth
The next step was to do more shaping on the main pieces of the skull with the Dremel. We got a bunch more sanding and shaping heads, and Andy and I each took one of the masks and worked on it for ourselves. This let us each give our own mask a bit of personalized…
It’s a fit!
Saturday I finally took the time to add the internal band that lets Rocky’s head rest securely on my own.
Hey Rocky!
Here’s a great photo (thanks to Christine Doyle) taken before we went on stage at CC42 After our presentation, our friend Wolfcat joined us in the lobby to give Bullwinkle Natasha Fatale’s traditional greeting to Moose and Squirrel
Castor/Zuse at Gallifrey!
I got all the final bits finished in time, and here are some fabulous photos from Gallifrey One!(Most of these are courtesy of Linda Wenzelburger… Thanks!)