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 elastic inserts rather than laces. I’ve added pull straps to them…
After about four hours work, Rocky’s silhouette is greatly improved for his future appearances!
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,
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
Building the back and shaft of Rocky’s feet took a while. I did a basic pattern piece that would join up with the shape of the front of the paw. Then I shaved down a bunch of fur to 3/4″ pile and cut two of those out. I modified (and shortened) another pair of the…
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…
Today I added the tail mounting port to the “hero” fursuit body and did a quick try-on with the body, tail, head and paws.I’m super happy with how it looks! I’m putting this gallery under an additional spoiler password. If you really want to see the photos, the PW is Spoil Me Sweetie!(don’t forget the…
Reinforcing the rigging harness I needed to stiffen the tail support across the shoulder blades because even the heavy hide I used was too flexible. Fortunately I’ve acquired a healthy set of power tools in the course of working on my townhouse and building both Tiki Dalek and Thinbot, so it only took about 20…
A note on piecing the fur I’ve mentioned a couple times I’m using a special technique to to piece the fur so the seams are almost invisible. The first trick is carefully cutting the yardage from the back with a sharp blade, cutting just through the knit backing, so the pile (fur) isn’t chopped off….
Two Paws are Better Than One After the successful (but requiring lots of handwork to fix gaps in the seams) on the left paw, I set out to build the right paw a little more methodically. First I trimmed the batting layer just about 1/8″ in from the edges. Then I hand basted the batting…
