It has really been an interesting experience working on Bob…
One comes to appreciate just how complex the design of a skeleton actually is.
This evening, we attached the shoulders. An interesting bit of technical difficulty there.
The collar bone, shoulder blades, and humorous were all constructed of simple paper mache. But, to attach them, we have gone with full strength power grab. (remember, our paper mache recipe is based on power grab) I didn’t want the shoulders hinged for Bob, but that would have been a simple matter. We’ll get into that more when we do the forearms.
In case you were wondering, Bob here has, thus far, taken 1/2 a batch of the paper mache glue, and about a sunday paper’s worth of paper.
The high tack of the power grab enabling us to just slap the things in place with no reinfforcement. It will dry rock solid. And, the only thing we’ve done is prop the 2 humorous in place while it all dries.
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| From bob |
Couple forearms, couple hands, and skulpting a skull, it might just turn out alright. Then we can corpsify it.
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| From bob |
In some other news, for a planned project for next year, we found a little ‘table top fire bowl’ on sale at Wal-Mart.
It uses those 16oz propane bottles, and it’s all nice compact, and enclosed.
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| From Halloween buildup 09 |
I need another, possible 2 or 3. But, they are not exactly flying off the shelves at the sale price. And, only 1 local Wal Mart has started that sale price so far. I’m really not surprised. It’s not much of an actual firebowl…tiny little thing. So, we’re going to keep an eye on the stock levels, and watch the price points for now.