Head
Cut 4 wood parts(thickness is 1 cm) and bond them with wood glue.
Open a hole with a diameter of 3 mm to neck.
Cut off the edge. And shape the cores with a rasp.
Open a hole with a diameter of 3 mm to mouth and eyes.
Make a face. Cut a plastic plate into appropriately sized pieces. Heat it with the electric stove. And press the plastic plate against a head.
Cut off the edge and shape the face with a rasp.
Open holes with a diameter of 1 mm to eyes and mouth.
Shape the holes of eye with a rasp.
I use two beads with a diameter of 8 mm as eyeballs. Coat eyeballs and behind of the face with mentholatum as parting agent. And put a epoxy putty in behind of the face.
After the putty hardens, mark with a permanent marker. And take off the putty.
Take off the beads. And shape the putty with a rasp. There is the parts for holding the eyeballs.
Enlarge the hole of beads. And put wire in the eyeballs and fix with a instantaneous adhesive.
The parts for holding eyeballs glue behind the face with paper bond.
Make a groove in the head with a saw.
Put a epoxy adhesive in the groove. And paste a head and a face together.
After the epoxy adhesive hardens, take off a face. The parts for holding eyeballs is fixed to the face.
Make a hole for put in the month to the face. Put a plastic stick to the face and shape with a rasp.
Put the face to head and open a hole with a diameter of 1 mm.
Paint the eyeballs. Write a circle with a permanent marker.
Paint a clear orange.
Paint pupil diluted black.
Paint pupil white and make a spot.
Put the face on the head. Paint the bond to the only face and put a largish size knit. Take care of don’t make a wrinkles.
Take off the face from head. And open the eye with scissors.
Glue a black thread to lower the eye with clear bond.
Glue the face to head with paper bond.
Glue the knit to the head with clear bond.
Open the hole for neck with scissors. And Glue the knit in the neck hole with clear bond.
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Make a eyelash. Cut a brass wire and shape a eyelash with pliers and rash.
Paint the brass wire black. And glue black thread to eyelash.
Make eyelids. Cut a plastic plate into appropriately sized pieces. Heat it with the electric stove. And press the plastic plate against a iron ball with a diameter of 2 cm.
Shape the eyelid with a scissors and rash.
Glue a white cloth to eyelid with clear bond.
Glue black thread to eyelid.
In this time, I made 2 types eyelid, half size and full size. I glue eyelid to the face with paper bond.
Make some mouth open mouth, close mouth, laugh mouth, surprise mouth.
Cut a Piano wire with a diameter of 1 mm.
Open holes with a diameter of 1mm to brass plate 0.5 mm thick. And cut the brass plate.
Put the piano wire to the brass plate and solder them.
Shape the brass plate with a scissors and rash.
Put epoxy putty on the month and make a lip.
After the epoxy adhesive hardens, shape the epoxy putty with rash.
Put surfacer spray on the lip.
Paint month with liquitex.
Make a paper tool for making hair with a stiff moderately thick paper.
This time, I use embroidery thread.
Tie the embroidery thread around the middle paper of paper tool.
Close the paper tool and clip papers.
Stitch the embroidery thread along a slit of paper tool.
Remove the clip and open the paper tool.
Cut the embroidery thread along the end of paper with scissors.
Bind the embroidery thread and take out from paper tool.
Bind the opposite side of the embroidery thread.
The center of the embroidery thread is a part. Apply clear bond to the part.
Put the hair on the head. Take care of the position of the part.
Put a double coated tape on the side of the part. And put a hair on the double coated tape one by one.
Put a hair on the other side in a similar way.
Finally, arrange the hair.
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