Ongoing lizard tail adventures...
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labricoleuseThe next (but not final!) installment in the lizard tail adventure: a photoessay of sorts! When last we left the process, there had been a skeleton constructed and a vinyl "skin" pattern cut out.
Crafts assistant Colleen Dobson pins vinyl mockup pattern pieces to the aluminum frame to test the skin pattern in 3D.
Vinyl mockup after a movement test. Lumpier than we'd like, but the leather hide is stiffer than the vinyl. Next we cut the pieces out in our alligator leather.
Leather segment prepped for attachment to its frame. The nylon webbing "belt loops" wrap around each hose clamp hoop and are secured by way of an industrial patcher machine.
Crafts artisan Adrienne Corral preps one of the leather segments for attachment to its support frame.
Top: a segment ready to be stitched.
Bottom: a segment ready to be prepped for stitching.
The yellow tags denote segment numbers for assembly tracking, so we could easily match up the right leather pieces with the right frames.
Crafts assistant Colleen Dobson uses the patcher to stitch the final seam in a segment's leather "skin."
The tail hangs backstage ready for rehearsal...
But we're not done yet! We're just done for this post.
Sorry to be so cliffhangery about this, i'm designing the show currently in production and haven't much time for writing blog posts...except i know i have left this thing hanging and want to keep documenting forward progress on it, even if only a bit at a time.
Next and final installment: restructure and adding spine-spikes!
Crafts assistant Colleen Dobson pins vinyl mockup pattern pieces to the aluminum frame to test the skin pattern in 3D.
Vinyl mockup after a movement test. Lumpier than we'd like, but the leather hide is stiffer than the vinyl. Next we cut the pieces out in our alligator leather.
Leather segment prepped for attachment to its frame. The nylon webbing "belt loops" wrap around each hose clamp hoop and are secured by way of an industrial patcher machine.
Crafts artisan Adrienne Corral preps one of the leather segments for attachment to its support frame.
Top: a segment ready to be stitched.
Bottom: a segment ready to be prepped for stitching.
The yellow tags denote segment numbers for assembly tracking, so we could easily match up the right leather pieces with the right frames.
Crafts assistant Colleen Dobson uses the patcher to stitch the final seam in a segment's leather "skin."
The tail hangs backstage ready for rehearsal...
But we're not done yet! We're just done for this post.
Sorry to be so cliffhangery about this, i'm designing the show currently in production and haven't much time for writing blog posts...except i know i have left this thing hanging and want to keep documenting forward progress on it, even if only a bit at a time.
Next and final installment: restructure and adding spine-spikes!
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Date: 2012-11-10 12:49 am (UTC)I make dragons out of cloth and have been trying to make something similar to this!
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Date: 2012-11-10 01:04 pm (UTC)no subject
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