Notes on working with EVA foam
(Transcribed from a comment I made on Bill Howard’s FB page)
Building the head base
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…
Finding Fur
I was super pleased to discover that Mendel’s Art Supplies was still open in the Haight, so made a beeline there while we were up in San Francisco for Xmas. The base fur is “Punky Muppet” Granite color. This is a premier faux fur, 1.5″ pile, that is dense enough to shave down to shorter…
Getting Started — head base layout
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…