Good ol Herb

Well, the Christmas party came and went and Herbert the Pervert was not a success... We got the castings made and poured the dragonskin, however we made a few mistakes, long story short, it looked a little janky, but would still do the part. unfortunately the skin glue just wasn't strong enough the hold on the heavy pieces to his face (I am thinking we may have poured it too thick...) and we were trying to get it to hold all the way up to the performance. we got pissed that the glue screwed us so we trashed the pours. We'll probably end up pouring new ones though so that James can try the costume out at Halloween!

Yeah, Put It On Baby!!!

Started the night off molding some clay to remake Herbert the Perverts nose. My son wanted to play with "that playdough stuff" so he helped out.

It wasnt until James and I started molding the chin and nose that we realized they look oddly like....

well, you get the picture. We got the rubber poured in the box to make the mold, and hopefully we will be able to get the castings out ASAP so that we can get this costume on the move!

In other exciting costume news, I got to the point that I could actually try on a bit of my costume today. Since James was over, I had him take some shots of me with a few of the pieces on that I knew I could get easily on and off. I was really excited to be able to put the stuff on, now I just need to keep pressing on and get to my final result! But here are a few shots to show off how things are going.

Yeah, I am making the same face in just about every photo...

Still in the same phase on some of the other pieces as I have been, but progress is being made!

AAAHHHH

Okay, so it has obviously been forever since I have been able to post anything, and unfortunately I dont have a lot of improvements. I do have some more pieces of the suit fiberglassed and ready to be sanded, but there is still a ways to go. hopefully I can work on it some more tonight and get my left side (arms and legs finished out with the fiberglass. Once I get to that point I'll put it on and take a picture, hopefully tomorrow)

I have been stocking up on some fun toys (tools) to help aid me in all the processes of making this thins. nothing too extravagant, but some of it is pretty cool.

On a side note, my buddy James has a company Christmas party on Tuesday and he has to perform in their talent show. He does an AWESOME "Herbert the Pervert" impression (the old man on Family Guy), so I have been trying to use all my knowledge I've been reading up on and make him a dragon skin face of Herbert. I am in the middle of making it... it's kinda last minute... but we'll see how it goes and I'll try to get a video or something!

Stay tuned, the best updates are coming!