JoshPrime Makes Stuff

Hey reader! We have had so many puppet posts lately! This is going to be another one, except we are going to be doing something I haven't ever attempted before - vacuform eyes! I feel like a ringleader at a circus. Hold your gasps and those with weak dispositions should exit the blog now (That's not even a lie because the eyes look really creepy for a while). Mouth assembly was like most of my puppets where I used the foam head to guide the size and shape of the plastic and the velvet. I sewed in a strap for my hand as you have seen me do a few times. I added a bit of foam to the back of the head so that it would look more natural - if a blue furry dragon can ever look natural. Now for the really fun part, making the eyes! I have been working up the courage to try a vacuform eye for a while now. I have seen the crew on the SyFy series Faceoff use the vacuform to make awesome hand painted eyes for their custom makeup creations. I started by making a vacuform mold ...

Hey reader! I promised you a new toy this week! Again, it isn't exactly new, considering I bought it almost a year ago, but I hadn't found a good project to use it on until now. It is my very own VacuForm machine ! I was not aware of VacuForm machines outside of the SyFy series Faceoff . They are super awesome devices that allow you to sculpt something in clay or another medium, and then duplicate it in plastic! Shout out to Adam Kreutinger again for showing me that it could have an application in the world of puppets. He uses it for noses. I will probably do that eventually, but for today it is going to be used to make some horns! The one I got is for dentists. Inside the box is the machine itself, as well as a baggy full of ball bearings. These get poured into the tray at the bottom of the device. Notice that there are small holes in the tray. Ball bearings are also small, but not as small as those holes. That is quite fortunate. The idea is that the ball bearings a...