-The body is a plastic cupie doll about 6" tall maybe, I had to cut down the top since it had a neck. I'd probably recommend looking for a hard plastic body or a porcelain one because the soft plastic makes it really hard to glue the head on. The "drill" is an antique cork screw. I cut off the handle and trimmed the screw part down to where the threads begin (make sure it has at least 2.5" of screw to keep it in proportion). There are a bunch of them that work but I will say it was the most expensive part of the whole project since I was trying to get it match the concept art. I ended up making the arm (the rope part) out of a dog toy and the "hand" is just a piece of natural canvas cloth I sewed into shape, stuffed and sewed onto the rope. I added the black thread "stitching" to make it look torn up. The stuff that is pushed into the thimble is called Sculpy and it comes in a fleshy color, I used a hairdryer to set it so it would harden a little and then antiqued it a little with acrylic paints. OH! I forgot... the rubber bands if anyone is looking for the red ones (they took me a while to find) are available at Office Max.
- I painted the bottle cap to match the concept art and spray sealed it with a gloss acrylic spray. The only nail is the one in the rear canister with the bottle cap and that is just held in place with JB Weld, the ones in the baseball are long metal pushpins that I painted with red nail polish and sanded to look worn.
-The hard part was finding one where the spiral part was at least 2.5 inches. I ended up at our local antique stores to find mine. I know you can find regular ones just about anywhere but I was really going for something that looked like the concept art (more like a screw than a spiral) and vintage ones are the only ones I could find. Ebay has quite a few if you look (vintage corkscrew) and ask questions but be prepared because it was the most expensive part of my project (only around $20, but more than I was expecting to pay for an old corkscrew). Proportionally just measure the spiral and make sure it's at least 2.5 inches long (3 inches is better) or it will look too small. I had to chop mine right at the spiral so I used JB Weld to glue it to the thimble.
-You want the body to be approximately the same size as the baseball, I think the overall size of my doll was about 6" but every doll seems to be a little different so that's probably not a rule. I'd look at the body size to be around 3.5 - 4 inches (I had to trim the neck off of mine since it had a "collar" that went into the doll's head). Good Luck
-I found an old Kewpie doll that I used and just trimmed around the neck where the body held the head. You want to make sure it has jointed arms and legs though (a lot are all one molded piece). I found mine in an antique store but I'm sure you could check Goodwill or somewhere similar... it looked similar to these before I dismembered it...
 Zeda Ennd · Fri Mar 19, 2010 @ 03:08am · 0 Comments |
