Here are my current requirements:

Duct Tape Dummy Requirements:
*DTD's must be at LEAST three layers thick. If they are too thin they tend to fall apart and stretch making them useless. Note: if you hold them up to the light and can see any light coming through them they are too thin! You should not be able to see any of the material from the painters suit coming through the tape.

*They must be made over a painters suit, not pajamas or other clothing. Some clothing can be elastic and will warp the duct tape. If the painters suit is not long enough for your arms and legs you can use things like paper towel or plastic bags to extend it.

*The DTD must go down over your heels at the least. The entire foot is preferred.

*When cutting the DTD off, please only cut as much as you need to get out. It should not be a puzzle to put back together.

***ATTENTION!!** DTD's must meet standards to be used. If it does not, it will be thrown out and you will be asked to make a new one. If I have to repair it there will be a $50 service fee. I have received too many that have been unusable or would not provide accurate dimensions for the commissioners body. I am not willing to put my time and your money into something that very well may not fit due to the inadequacies of poorly made DTD.

WHAT IS BEING ADDED!!-

New rules:
*DTD's MUST be taped back together, NEATLY, before being shipped to me! If a DTD arrives that has not been taped together or has been taped back together weakly (as in it will break apart if I stuff it) You will be charged a $50 service fee for me having to take my time and materials to assemble it.

Amended rules:
*DTD's must be at LEAST three layers thick. If they are too thin they tend to fall apart and stretch making them useless. Note: if you hold them up to the light and can see any light coming through them they are too thin! You should not be able to see any of the material from the painters suit coming through the tape. Another way to know if it is too thin is if it doesn't weigh anything. DTD's should take up at LEAST four standard rolls of duct tape.

*The DTD is REQUIRED to go down over your heels at the least. The entire foot is preferred.

WHY:
Taped together-
~This saves me a considerable amount of time when working on suits. As some may know I have had surgery on my right wrist (I'm right handed) where they removed one of the bones. This will never get better and because of the pain it causes me doing mass duct taping gets really painful really fast. When I have to tape a DTD back together that's pretty much all I do that day as afterwards I hurt too much to do anything else.

~%50 percent of my commissioners have failed to cut their DTD in the correct places. I have revived three different DTD's that were cut so horridly I could not figure out how to put them back together. DTD's should be cut down each leg and down either the back or chest ONCE! However, now that the DTD maker will be the one taping it back together you can cut it off however the heck you want...have fun. I am not putting together any more puzzles.

Thickness-
~If I can put it on a scale and tell it weighs as much as one and a half rolls...don't tell me you used six. If it fits in something the size of a shoe box IT'S TOO THIN. I can not stuff something this thin and have it not fall apart or stretch.

Over the heels-
~This is especially important if you are getting digigrade (which is %95 of my commissioners!) The feet for digigrade suits have a significant portion of the digigrade padding directly on them. So in order to make the body pattern I need to be able to put the feet ON THE DTD. If your DTD stops at the ankles there is NOTHING for me to put your feet on an I can not properly pattern your body.