Busy day today!

Today I did the fiberglass mother molds for the feet, a new puppet head, and tiki's mouth. I also drilled out the eyes for 9 different puppets; then I painted them; then used sealer to protect the paint! With the new eye system I'm using the eyes are against the head snug so when I went to paint the last 2 the eyes had trouble moving since there was no play room. I'm thinking smart from now on and painting the eyes before putting them in! I work the next 2 days so I won't be posting anything new until Sunday or Monday.

The eyes

This is a pile of eyes! I took all their eyes so they can't see where I'm hiding! Lol! Actually, I drilled all the holes for the brass rods to go through and also for the springs and pupils. I'm going to paint and sealer the eyes before I out them in the heads. I have 9 eyes in that pile!

More rain. :(

I'm not sure if I'm a bad planner or not but everyte I go to make the fiberglass mother mold it rains!!!  I have to make it outside because of the fumes. I made the mistake of trying it inside and during the winter once! I made that mistake and will never do it again! The fumes went up through the vents and it was an over powering smell.

The feet and a new puppet

Here is the pair of feet and a new puppet I sculpted! They are just now in the rubber latex stage and almost done! Next step is the fiberglass mother mold! In the back ground is a lot of puppet heads so I decided to take a picture for you of them too! Lol

On their way home!

The Dr's 2 puppets are on their way to him as of today!  Hope things turn out and he loves them! Now it's back to making the new puppets!!!

Ending progress for the good Dr!

I had to work a lot this week so the weekend I didn't get to work on the puppets at all! The good news though; is I got up today after 3 hours of sleep and been working all day on the puppets! They are being painted today and a few coats of sealer the mail them out to the good Dr tomorrow! Just a few small things like painting the eyeballs, gluing the iris in and the wig for Esmerelda!

Ezmerelda

This puppet has been giving me trouble with her eyes since I started them. At first they didn't was to move at all so I chiseled away and got them moving then I worked on them before work and now after and I finally came up with a new system that I think is fool proof and I'm going to use it with every puppet!!!  Even though she has the springs in the back of the eyes I added extra springs to make sure they don't stick and both eyes self center!