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CONSTRUCTION
LOG
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I did some very basic cutting yesterday and a prelim assembly. Basically, this thing is creepy as all hell!
The tail is straight as compared to the box pic, so I may do some heating once the tail is fully assembled. The body will be a difficult glue (both pieces of it), but Ihaven't done anything w/ the legs yet.
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Assembled. Will detail later.
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Spent the last month with the heatgun and its' tail. Puttied yesterday and fully primed today.
I may have to do some surgery and brace the tail's new shape with metal. Looks great. I think I will use it as my Halloween costume and send it to a friend for her Halloween collection. She does the entire house and yard for any who drive by. Then again, I may keep it at my cubicle on the wall..
Anyhow.
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Over time, the tail keeps changing curl, so I'm not going to keep at it.
The other week I primed it up.
Last week I airbrushed the basic tones and used near an entire jar of peach before running out. Gotta get more.
I'm going with darker base tones. I will then go with a number of gloss coats. I think there will then be several super thin white coats to give the whole piece a sense of translucence. We'll see how that goes.
081023.22
Geez! I hemmed and hawed over this for the last two months???
Well, two months ago I couldn't have done it the way I just did. And apart from a couple black and blue bruises, it looks great. I got a lot of subtly in the flesh. Many many more hours and it could be great. However, it is done. If I use it for the Halloween party saturday, then it needs to air out fast. I also need to bend the tail again. It's gotten weak lately. I should have filled it with light paper throughout. At the time, I did not know about stuffing vinyl models. It was a few weeks later.
New pix to come.
