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Big Daddy Dolls (Bioshock)
Well after finishing Bioshock infinite I suddenly remembered that I had wanted to make a Big Daddy doll similar to the one in the preview for Bioshock 2. I realize that several people have already done this and I used some of their ideas to make the two dolls described here.
I am not sure if this belongs in the prop forum but here it is.
First, I take the position that the doll held by the little sister was constructed from everyday items found in rapture by either the little sister or by a Big Daddy. With this concept in mid I also wanted the doll to be eerie and crude.
I wanted to make 2 dolls with the assistance of my good friend DAC. So, off to the store:
2-baseballs (Sports Authority) ~3.00 each
2-medium foam egg shapes (Michaels) ~ 4.00 each
2-metal thimbles (Michaels) ~2.00 3pack
2-1” wood balls (Michaels) ~2.00 4pack
4-1 ¼” wood balls (Michaels) ~5.00 8pack
1package of decorative safety pins (Michaels) ~2.00
2-cork screws (Dollar General) ~1.50 each
1-1” x 4’ oak wood dowel (Home Depot) ~4.00
1package red rubber bands (Staples)~ 4.00
1-small white t-shirt (Wal-Mart) ~3.00
1-Tote bag (Hobby Lobby) ~9.00 (I wanted the 5/8th thick twisted cotton rope that was the straps on the bag)
Stuff I had on hand:
3 Guinness draft Bottle beers
Red spray paint (gloss)
Black spray paint (flat)
Slate semi-transparent wood stain
Contact cement
Mil spec shock cord 1/8”
Masking tape
Model enamel gloss paint (White, Red, Black)
Concrete nails (Short for nailing carpet tack boards down)
16 penny nails
Steel wire (used in HVAC installations)
Aluminum Oxide sand-blast media
Fiberglass resin
Small I-screws
Burlap
Jute Twine
Black thread
Quilting filling
Small metal eyelets
Various tools
Ok, keeping in mind my position of the doll’s origins, many of the other dolls I have seen had basal wood bodies. I started with this section. I shaped the foam eggs to the body shape I wanted, and then covered them with fiberglass resin and fiberglass cloth. They are hanging in the rear of this picture.
Next, we drank the Guinness and roughed up the bottle caps. I applied several coats of gloss red spray paint to them, and then once they were dry, DAC painted the bunnies.
Once all the paint was applied to the caps, DAC placed them in plastic tub with some bolts and screws and the sand blast media and shook them up to weather them. Caps done…
Next I started on the cork screws. I punched a hole in the thimble and removed the cork screw from its handle. I inserted the corkscrew into the thimble and used fiberglass resin to hold them in place. I then painted the thimbles and corkscrews with black paint.
Next I used the t-shirt and made the legs. Once sewn, I masked the red stripes out and painted them with the red spray paint, and then I painted the boots with black spray paint.
Next, we started working with the baseballs. Removed all ink stamps from them with goo gone.
I then placed the baseballs in a vice and pre drilled the holes for the eye ports. I then hammered in small metal eyelets around each pre-drilled hole. Next I nailed in the concrete nails into each hole. I know the artwork from Bioshock used thumb tacks but I found some pictures of a doll that someone made with the nails and eyelets and I really liked the look so that what I chose to go with.
Once the nails were in the baseballs, I hit them with the sander and dirtied them with the stain and spray paint. We painted the nail ends with gloss red enamel and I started to figure how we would attach the heads to the body. I ended up screwing a small eye bolt to the bottom of the head and used some Mil-Spec shock cord to secure the head to the body. In this picture I was toying with the idea of covering the body with the t-shirt material; however, I later decided against this.
Next we drilled and added the wires to the baseballs. The wire is steel but our attempts to get it to rust in the short time we had was not possible so we painted some rust on them.
Next I we sanded the bodies and cut out the holes for the arms and legs, attached the thimble/corkscrew to the rope with contact cement, made small burlap bags for the left hands and attached them with jute twin.
DAC carved the wooden thread spools for the backpack from the oak dowel and stained them with the semi-transparent slate wood stain. He drilled out the centers of the spools and nailed the hop up cola bottle caps to the top of the spool. We attached the spools to the bodies with the red rubber bands and added more rubber bands. We added the safety pin and then weathered the completed dolls with stain, blast media, paint, and water. Here are the finished pictures.
And here my Big Daddy doll is at home with my Bioshock photos (these three pictures were purchased at DragonCon and were taken at the GA Aquarium)
Well I look forward to your comments. Thanks for the interest.
Well after finishing Bioshock infinite I suddenly remembered that I had wanted to make a Big Daddy doll similar to the one in the preview for Bioshock 2. I realize that several people have already done this and I used some of their ideas to make the two dolls described here.
I am not sure if this belongs in the prop forum but here it is.
First, I take the position that the doll held by the little sister was constructed from everyday items found in rapture by either the little sister or by a Big Daddy. With this concept in mid I also wanted the doll to be eerie and crude.
I wanted to make 2 dolls with the assistance of my good friend DAC. So, off to the store:
2-baseballs (Sports Authority) ~3.00 each
2-medium foam egg shapes (Michaels) ~ 4.00 each
2-metal thimbles (Michaels) ~2.00 3pack
2-1” wood balls (Michaels) ~2.00 4pack
4-1 ¼” wood balls (Michaels) ~5.00 8pack
1package of decorative safety pins (Michaels) ~2.00
2-cork screws (Dollar General) ~1.50 each
1-1” x 4’ oak wood dowel (Home Depot) ~4.00
1package red rubber bands (Staples)~ 4.00
1-small white t-shirt (Wal-Mart) ~3.00
1-Tote bag (Hobby Lobby) ~9.00 (I wanted the 5/8th thick twisted cotton rope that was the straps on the bag)
Stuff I had on hand:
3 Guinness draft Bottle beers
Red spray paint (gloss)
Black spray paint (flat)
Slate semi-transparent wood stain
Contact cement
Mil spec shock cord 1/8”
Masking tape
Model enamel gloss paint (White, Red, Black)
Concrete nails (Short for nailing carpet tack boards down)
16 penny nails
Steel wire (used in HVAC installations)
Aluminum Oxide sand-blast media
Fiberglass resin
Small I-screws
Burlap
Jute Twine
Black thread
Quilting filling
Small metal eyelets
Various tools
Ok, keeping in mind my position of the doll’s origins, many of the other dolls I have seen had basal wood bodies. I started with this section. I shaped the foam eggs to the body shape I wanted, and then covered them with fiberglass resin and fiberglass cloth. They are hanging in the rear of this picture.
Next, we drank the Guinness and roughed up the bottle caps. I applied several coats of gloss red spray paint to them, and then once they were dry, DAC painted the bunnies.
Once all the paint was applied to the caps, DAC placed them in plastic tub with some bolts and screws and the sand blast media and shook them up to weather them. Caps done…
Next I started on the cork screws. I punched a hole in the thimble and removed the cork screw from its handle. I inserted the corkscrew into the thimble and used fiberglass resin to hold them in place. I then painted the thimbles and corkscrews with black paint.
Next I used the t-shirt and made the legs. Once sewn, I masked the red stripes out and painted them with the red spray paint, and then I painted the boots with black spray paint.
Next, we started working with the baseballs. Removed all ink stamps from them with goo gone.
I then placed the baseballs in a vice and pre drilled the holes for the eye ports. I then hammered in small metal eyelets around each pre-drilled hole. Next I nailed in the concrete nails into each hole. I know the artwork from Bioshock used thumb tacks but I found some pictures of a doll that someone made with the nails and eyelets and I really liked the look so that what I chose to go with.
Once the nails were in the baseballs, I hit them with the sander and dirtied them with the stain and spray paint. We painted the nail ends with gloss red enamel and I started to figure how we would attach the heads to the body. I ended up screwing a small eye bolt to the bottom of the head and used some Mil-Spec shock cord to secure the head to the body. In this picture I was toying with the idea of covering the body with the t-shirt material; however, I later decided against this.
Next we drilled and added the wires to the baseballs. The wire is steel but our attempts to get it to rust in the short time we had was not possible so we painted some rust on them.
Next I we sanded the bodies and cut out the holes for the arms and legs, attached the thimble/corkscrew to the rope with contact cement, made small burlap bags for the left hands and attached them with jute twin.
DAC carved the wooden thread spools for the backpack from the oak dowel and stained them with the semi-transparent slate wood stain. He drilled out the centers of the spools and nailed the hop up cola bottle caps to the top of the spool. We attached the spools to the bodies with the red rubber bands and added more rubber bands. We added the safety pin and then weathered the completed dolls with stain, blast media, paint, and water. Here are the finished pictures.
And here my Big Daddy doll is at home with my Bioshock photos (these three pictures were purchased at DragonCon and were taken at the GA Aquarium)
Well I look forward to your comments. Thanks for the interest.
