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"Building a Dummy"

Well I do media at college and I am re-enacting when I fell off the fence in a parody of that old show "999", so I need to make a lifesize dummy. I am going to stuff some old clothes with rags or newspaper but I dont know what to do for the head and hands to make them look like, well, real-ish.

Any ideas or tips please?

god, i don't know WHY i picked media for one of my GCSE's. it sucks compared to ART and IT.

i'll try and get myself an ECDL, CISCO, or even both qualifications during the courses.

Started making it today. Stuffed some old jeans and a shirt with newspaper and stitched the ends shut so the stuffinf didnt fall out. I stapled the shirt to the jeans (I cant stitch through denim, its impossible - well, it hurt my thumb) I made hands out of surgical gloves and began making a head.

With paper maché do you di various layers of it and leave it to dry inbetween? I covered a balloon in strips of newspaper covered in paste and left it to dry. How many layers should I do on it?

I am going to take a few high res pics of my face from different angles and print them out and stick them onto it so it will look relatively realistic.

A good ol' bit o' Blue Peter Papiér Maché never 'urt anyone, ah say.

Ask er-no.

HE made many things as he stayed awake for 80+ hours.

Lil Ginge wrote:
> Take a pair of tights
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> Cut them and place them over your head.
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> Unpick the lock to your local swimming pool - and 'borrow' the
> dummy's they use for the life saving courses.
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> There...ginger has a solution for everything

Lol now that sounds like a plan to me. Carefull Young 'un. Thinkin's dangerous. So's talkin'. You sound dangerous to me. *Casually explodes*

Cheers memo and gamezfreak.

I might print out a pic of my face and stick it to it, would be funny.

http://www.katehodgson.net/pmcindex.html

It might help.
*shrug*

Pretty much.

Just leave about 24 hours for it to properly harden up nd dry.

gamezfreak wrote:
> Paper Machette (or whatever its called).
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> Get a balloon and slap some newspaper on it with PVC.
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> Leave to dry
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> Pop the baloon. Voila you have a head.

Cheers. But how do I make paper maché (whatever)

Is it just strips of newspaper soaked in glue?

Take a pair of tights


Cut them and place them over your head.


Unpick the lock to your local swimming pool - and 'borrow' the dummy's they use for the life saving courses.

There...ginger has a solution for everything