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11 years ago
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So yeah... I made a duct tape dummy today... by myself... and it was a pain in the @$$!
All of the tutorials out there say to have someone do it for you, and of course I was like "pfft... YOLO!"
I started with the crotchular region, moving on to the suspenders, easy enough.
Then I moved down the legs... still pretty easy except for picking up the tape when I dropped it.
After that I moved up the body, this is where it got progressively harder.
Half way up the body I cut my legs out so I could relax a little, but then came the shoulders which were the hardest.
I ended by doing one arm at a time, and cutting out that side before moving to the next.
FINALLY I WAS DONE!... but not so much -_-
I still had to patch it back together, and at this point, I gave up on my original idea of making "Canvas", my all white character; going with "Storm" instead, my fursona.
So I had to draw out all of the patterns, make a dozen corrections, and cut it apart.
6 hours later, I'm finally done and ordered more fur to complete the color palette.
Once all of that gets here I'll begin the week long project of cutting and sewing everything together.
Then moving on to the tail, paws, and finishing with the head after I've "warmed up"
And I've still got another project going on the side!
Mounting 30mm ammo cans on my bike, installing dual LED brake lights on the back of them, re-wiring them to work with the turn signals, paint them with truck bed liner (once it's warm enough to paint), fabricate a new rear fender, and get new tires.
Then I've got to finish diagnosing a light #7 misfire on the Bronco
(because "mechanics" around here are useless) and wrap the headers.
Probably run a compression test and bore scope, maybe even swap a fuel injector around.
I'm just praying something else doesn't come up or break in the meantime.
All of the tutorials out there say to have someone do it for you, and of course I was like "pfft... YOLO!"
I started with the crotchular region, moving on to the suspenders, easy enough.
Then I moved down the legs... still pretty easy except for picking up the tape when I dropped it.
After that I moved up the body, this is where it got progressively harder.
Half way up the body I cut my legs out so I could relax a little, but then came the shoulders which were the hardest.
I ended by doing one arm at a time, and cutting out that side before moving to the next.
FINALLY I WAS DONE!... but not so much -_-
I still had to patch it back together, and at this point, I gave up on my original idea of making "Canvas", my all white character; going with "Storm" instead, my fursona.
So I had to draw out all of the patterns, make a dozen corrections, and cut it apart.
6 hours later, I'm finally done and ordered more fur to complete the color palette.
Once all of that gets here I'll begin the week long project of cutting and sewing everything together.
Then moving on to the tail, paws, and finishing with the head after I've "warmed up"
And I've still got another project going on the side!
Mounting 30mm ammo cans on my bike, installing dual LED brake lights on the back of them, re-wiring them to work with the turn signals, paint them with truck bed liner (once it's warm enough to paint), fabricate a new rear fender, and get new tires.
Then I've got to finish diagnosing a light #7 misfire on the Bronco
(because "mechanics" around here are useless) and wrap the headers.
Probably run a compression test and bore scope, maybe even swap a fuel injector around.
I'm just praying something else doesn't come up or break in the meantime.
