6/26/2023 0 Comments Contraption maker halliweenOnce we had the upper body done then I wanted to make sure we could get it off the mannequin so it was time for its first test fit. The hands allow about half of each of my fingers to insert into the fingers so I can move each individual finger (really cool looking! you will see in the video below). The final hands have braces inside the palms separating the fingers and all three knuckles of each finger are slightly bent to look more natural. The hands in the left picture are 1/2" fingers and I believe the right picture is 1" fingers. Initially she used 1" foam for both the palm and the fingers but it looked like Mickey Mouse's hand so she redid the fingers. While I sculpted the body then my wife built the hands, she traced my hand profile and used 1" foam for the palms and 1/2" foam for the fingers. I wanted the elbow to be able to bend but there would have to be a large section that would separate in order to do so, I was worried it would look dumb when the arm was bent but it doesn't it looks very natural. At first the forearms looked like giant drumsticks and but I carved some muscle definition and did some reshaping and they turned out great. The forearms were worry-some because I had to glue approx 8" of foam to the rear and tie the front into the tricepts and bicepts. Here you can see the upper body is nearly finished, I did eventually redo both front deltoids, the traps, and one of the bicepts to improve the proportions. Here are pic's of the wax paper drawings: Then I drew the muscles inside the outline freehand. Once the projected image on the wall matched my body proportions then my wife and I traced the outline of the hulk on wax paper and hung it on the wall for a side, front, and rear picture. Then I took the diagrams and projected them onto the wall, we had to do some slight tweeks as we found that the proportions of the persons image we used was not the same as mine, I'm 6'2" 195 lbs, modifying it for my size made the Hulk slightly wider, we lined up the arm profiles, the bottom of the feet, and the top of the head and the crotch with my profile. The mannequin was the easy part, except we quickly discovered to put short strips on rather than having my wife wrap it around my arms which began turning my hands purple. I bought two rolls of duct tape and plastic wrap to make a mannequin of my body size. I already had an electric carving knife from cutting custom slots in my rifle cases (we ended up burning up six electric carving knives during the build). We bought a bunch of couch foam from the craft store, a lycra suit, and two cans of spray glue, (we ended up going through 8 cans of spray glue).
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