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The Perfect, Inexpensive Fur-suit
14 years ago
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I don't normally wear fur suits (except at halloween), but I do have a few ideas for them.
Last halloween, I managed to make a moderately skin tight costume out of some of my clothes. combined with cutting and stiching a few together for a skin tight mask. I personally think, that making them this way, could result in a skin tight fur suit, that allows you free movement of all joints, and perfect use of hands, for not that much work, and at a low price. For the tail, I have actually also come up with a way that one could have a movable tail, while concealing how they move it. Basically, you could either use a pull sting, or high tech method, and here's how they would work:
Pull string: Basically, there's two strings, and then five strings coming off, connected to your five toes. Your left foot would control up and down, and your right foot would control left and right. When you close your left foot, you could drop the tail downward, thus making it look like it's sagging. You could close and open you right foot, to make it look like you're wagging it. There would be a pulley system, that would have one pulley on each heel, one pulley on the back of each knee cap, two right on top of your "tail bone", and then a rotated one for the right foot, and finally, there would be ten pulleys for each along the tail. To compensate for the moving of the tail in both directions, or when it would tug on the other when it moves in each direction, there would be another pulley, and some string, at the base of the tail, that would pull on the appropriate string to allow enough lag so that the pulleys wouldn't tug on each other.
Or there's the other method, the "high tech" method.
The "high tech" method, involves mini motors and pressure sensors attached under the toes. You can pretty much guess how that one would work.
Last halloween, I managed to make a moderately skin tight costume out of some of my clothes. combined with cutting and stiching a few together for a skin tight mask. I personally think, that making them this way, could result in a skin tight fur suit, that allows you free movement of all joints, and perfect use of hands, for not that much work, and at a low price. For the tail, I have actually also come up with a way that one could have a movable tail, while concealing how they move it. Basically, you could either use a pull sting, or high tech method, and here's how they would work:
Pull string: Basically, there's two strings, and then five strings coming off, connected to your five toes. Your left foot would control up and down, and your right foot would control left and right. When you close your left foot, you could drop the tail downward, thus making it look like it's sagging. You could close and open you right foot, to make it look like you're wagging it. There would be a pulley system, that would have one pulley on each heel, one pulley on the back of each knee cap, two right on top of your "tail bone", and then a rotated one for the right foot, and finally, there would be ten pulleys for each along the tail. To compensate for the moving of the tail in both directions, or when it would tug on the other when it moves in each direction, there would be another pulley, and some string, at the base of the tail, that would pull on the appropriate string to allow enough lag so that the pulleys wouldn't tug on each other.
Or there's the other method, the "high tech" method.
The "high tech" method, involves mini motors and pressure sensors attached under the toes. You can pretty much guess how that one would work.
