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| Sorry I haven't posted in while! been busy, busy, busy! You'll hear more about that later. For now, you have to settle for this. This week, I started the process on building and designing this little guy! I literally just finished him twenty minutes ago! I've been trying to document my building process for a while now, so here's how it went: |
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| I patterned some foam int the shape on the design. The mouth plate is flexible. Works like a dream. |
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| After I was happy with the foam guide, I patterned, stitched, and glued on his fleece skin for his face and head. Then came his neck (below) |
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| God is good... The perfect material was left lying around for his shell, and it was leftover from a replica I built a while back! The plastic lid to a hamper was the PERFECT fit. I just glued on some foam pieces for the undulations that I wanted on his back... I stretched some tie-dye green fleece over the shelleton and glued it into the cracks between the bumps. Then I sewed the front piece to the back. Let me tell ya, folks, sewing an edge around plastic ain't easy... |
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| Here is the shell with the edges half-stitched... Ugh. |
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| The finished product! YESSS. |
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| This sleeve thing is a nifty little trick... I'm gonna have to use it more often.. |
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| Success! |
