We are the bad guys from the Ninja Turtles
Yesterday night we ran into some girls in their early twenties dressed as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. They had no idea who we were supposed to be.
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Krang is coming together
Quite literally, I've finally put all the pieces together. pop bottle cranium & popsicle stick arm bones I used crazy glue and then a little bit of liquid latex to join the two halves of the brain together. The arms went on with some hot glue. Then he got a shiny paint job. first coat of pepto bismol pink With a thick glossy topcoat to make him look really slimy. I tried to connect the arms to the body a few different ways, but everything I did was too much for the furby motor to handle. I'm not happy with how it looks, but since I'm all out of ideas I'm just going to try to hide the gaps behind his control panel when I get around to building his android body.
Two steps forward, one step back - Krang's progress
Trying new techniques for the first time is always challenging. Using plaster of paris, I cast a mold of my plasticine Krang. I'm glad I bought the big bucket of plaster because I ended up needing way more than I was expecting. clearly I could have done a better job wrapping up the electronics Getting Krang out of the mold was rather challenging. The little plasticine appendages remained trapped in the mold , and while I tried melting them out, in the end I had to spend several frustrating hours fishing out all the little plasticine bits with Q-tips and various skewers. finally free of plasticine! I really wish I would have paid more attention to n1cod3mus's and PenfoldPlant's instructables . I didn't really know what I was doing with the liquid latex and I ruined a couple cheap paintbrushes before catching on to the dish soap trick. latex Krang When I first pulled latex Krang out of the mold, I was really excited. Even though the mold wasn't perfect, he...
All the way from Dimension X
If you were wondering why I was taking apart Furbys again , it was because I wanted some animatronic eyes for my next big project. The Furbys I found at Value Village were considerably more complicated than the Baby Furbys I used for Little Al . I love the fact that their eyes move sideways and their ears go up and down - those two features are perfect for what I have planned. So what is it I'm building? It's everyone's favourite evil warlord from Dimension X: Krang ! This is just the plasticine model, the real fun (i.e. tricky part) comes next when I need to figure out how to make it into a plaster mold.