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My next challenge was to attach the styrofoam figures to my platform. Screws wouldn't hold styrofoam, so I employed a bit of 1x4 pine board, and sandwiched the styrofoam torso in between. |
![]() My and my new pals. We had only been at this house for a few weeks, and I was already making friends! |
![]() This costume was big, and it is always a good idea to check to see if your giant costume is going to fit in your car, or if you will have to be able to disassemble it. |
![]() I wanted the wrists of my two costume dummies to twist, so I attached the hands to some green gardening rods and popped a hole into the pvc elbow. |
![]() The first hole wasn't big enough, but the elbow didn't have much material to work with. When I tried to expand the hole, the whole arm nearly broke off. I solved this problem by bending a new elbow, and taping an additional tube below the original arm. All this ugly craftsmanship would be hidden within the arm. |
![]() Thumbs up! |
![]() Thumbs down! I had enough rod poking out the back to control the wrist, but I hadn't quite worked out how I was going to engineer that. |
![]() I used a human model to calculate the arm length and hand positions. |
![]() My two guys had hands. They looked terrific! |
![]() The faces needed work. |
![]() With my styrofoam heads in front of me, I got thinking about making the mouths open and shut like a ventriloquist's dummy. I wasn't sure this would improve the costume enough to be worth the trouble. |
![]() With the moving mouths on hold, I began carving faces out of the two heads. |
![]() White styrofoam is a crude material for this, but I didn't need anything spectacular.
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October 27th, 2006.