hoggworks
Well-Known Member
Hey all,
I thought I'd post pictures of a build I'm doing for a puppet for a character named Catarel for a show I'm building called the Pilkington. Catarel is a robot with a giant sphere for her head, and a slender body. This is a sketch of what I want her to look like:
I debated a variety of ways to make her head, which should look like she's got a surveillance camera as her face. I started just making a half-sphere out of foam, but that's tricky to get right. I was considering doing something with a pepakura sphere pattern I found, but while the resin/bondo stuff is pretty cool, I'm less enamoured of pepakura as I was before I tried to build anything with it.
I was thinking of using some Worbla or building a new Vacuum form table, but I'd need to have a perfect circle as the base shape, and that's the tricky part. Luckily, I found a 10" styrofoam ball at Michael's (craft shop), so I'll be using that.
Given the texture of the styrfoam I'll want to smooth it out, so I'm stealing the technique of someone on these forums who is making a great Iron Man costume out of foam and am glueing the sphere to seal it before applying some resin to smooth it out. This is what it looks like presently:
The blue band is meant to be the lip, as though the front (which I'll make black) could be raised up to reveal a camera. I'll put more resin on one side of the band than the other in order to sell the illusion.
Anyway, it'll take me several days to get enough coats of glue completed, but when I do I'll post more pictures.
I thought I'd post pictures of a build I'm doing for a puppet for a character named Catarel for a show I'm building called the Pilkington. Catarel is a robot with a giant sphere for her head, and a slender body. This is a sketch of what I want her to look like:
I debated a variety of ways to make her head, which should look like she's got a surveillance camera as her face. I started just making a half-sphere out of foam, but that's tricky to get right. I was considering doing something with a pepakura sphere pattern I found, but while the resin/bondo stuff is pretty cool, I'm less enamoured of pepakura as I was before I tried to build anything with it.
I was thinking of using some Worbla or building a new Vacuum form table, but I'd need to have a perfect circle as the base shape, and that's the tricky part. Luckily, I found a 10" styrofoam ball at Michael's (craft shop), so I'll be using that.
Given the texture of the styrfoam I'll want to smooth it out, so I'm stealing the technique of someone on these forums who is making a great Iron Man costume out of foam and am glueing the sphere to seal it before applying some resin to smooth it out. This is what it looks like presently:
The blue band is meant to be the lip, as though the front (which I'll make black) could be raised up to reveal a camera. I'll put more resin on one side of the band than the other in order to sell the illusion.
Anyway, it'll take me several days to get enough coats of glue completed, but when I do I'll post more pictures.