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Almost done with the head
Here is the final head "shape" and the features are placed on the head waiting to be secured after we get his wig styled. I think we're going to pin these eyebrows down so as to make them movable between shots if necessary.
Head shaping
Here are a few pictures of the foam head that was built based off of the designs Dave Hulteen did for us with the beak now attached . I was fabricating the head based on what I had going, and I was almost finished when I asked for some input from the crew and my...
Turkey beak updates
As I said earlier, I made this beak out of thin L-200 closed cell foam. We decided this was our best option. So, I took the beak and painted it MULTIPLE times with high gloss yellow paint after giving it several coats of an aerosol rubber spray to give it extra form...
Wild Turkey eyes
Based off of our sketch by Dave Hulteen, we needed some very smooth, suave looking eyes. I vacuum formed these eye pieces to look like the drawing but the pupils were going to be a challenge. Originally we had ordered some glass pupils that really caught the light...