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So like most projects, you start with research. Which in the age of Goggle and the internet makes research very easy. There is no lack of images of the famous cartoon moose online. The original TV cartoon version is all one color brown, a very dark brown, one might even say a chocolate brown. Which…
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…
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…
Bill will be adding details of his Bullwinkle build as time and opportunity present
Here’s how Rocky’s head looks after assembling and doing a first shave on the furring.The fur is not yet glued to the head, and the nose and teeth are just pinned on. Fur also needs to be trimmed back from the eyeholes slightly.
After making the pattern pieces, I carefully cut out the fur in mirror-imaged pieces. You cut the fur by tracing the pattern pieces on the back side, then carefully cut through just the backing with a sharp X-Acto knife from the back side.This both dramatically reduces the amount of loose pile (“hair”) you end up…
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…
(Transcribed from a comment I made on Bill Howard’s FB page)
First, after cutting the foam (with appropriate bevels), I preshaped it slightly with the heat gun, then edge glued the sub assemblies (there are 5 in the pattern for each side of the head, then glued those into the two halves, and finally glued the center seam joining the two halves. After heat forming and…
