Update...4/3...Mannequin - Look what I built!

[Theyrenotdolls (Den Dragonson)]

UPDATE......

Prepare yourselves....for the dorkiest picture of the decade.






























Here's the mannequin...nearly completed...with my costume on it...i've never been able to adequately display my belt on a mannequin before...this one is actually my size.








Look what I built:
It's not quite finished yet...i need to sew a "sack" to give it some "body" but wont have the sewing machine running till april, probably.
I made a couple of errors on this one...like i accidently glued the "feet" in...so now i cant put boots on it very easily.
All in all...this was much easier than i thought it would be...only took about 2.5 hours of work total. cost about 25-30 bucks. next one will be much easier and faster.

[JediKai]

very cool!

[Jedimom/Cor-Al Gelkar]

Nice! I never thought about just using PVC pipe.

[Leda EmBorr]

Cool... I never thought of using pipe either. You should give it a head!

[Ani-Chay Pinn]

Looks great! But don't use a sack. Do you know how to make a duct tape dummy? Here are some reasonable online instructions for one, though I've never needed 4-6 rolls of duct tape for it. 1-2 big rolls is enough. There are probably other sites with similar instructions. This is an old technique for making a dummy of yourself for fitting clothes.

[Cronto Tocrone]

I was thinking of doing something like that for my costume(s) but I will probably wait till have i have my own place

[Theyrenotdolls (Den Dragonson)]

ani, question is...who do i trust enough to cut me out of the duct tape?
just kidding...good idea...i guess i could just drape the ducttape dummy over the pvc pipe.

leda, what did you say about giving my mannequin head? sorry..bad joke.

[Theyrenotdolls (Den Dragonson)]

Here are three tutorial sites that i used to help me build the dummy....i didnt follow any of them strictly...just read them...synthesized the info and hit the hardware store.

www.thiesmeyer.com/tk5108/dummy.html

www.dagobahswamp.com/projects/mannequin/index.asp

www.darthblade.com/maniquin.htm

[Ky-Wan Zann]

Yeah I always think those little stand ups for costumes looked good.

[Theyrenotdolls (Den Dragonson)]

bump...update at top

[Jedimom/Cor-Al Gelkar]

LOL.l Its not so bad and you got a good dummy (which one is the dummy BTW?) out of it

[Leda EmBorr]

I guess you have to sacrifice a shirt or something when you do the duct tape... It might be painful, otherwise.

How did you get it to

hold its form?

[Theyrenotdolls (Den Dragonson)]

yeah, leda...i sacrificed that green shirt...it was in good shape but for some reason i've always hated wearing it. The dummy is stuffed with newspaper. some people use cotton batting or pillow stuffing material, but that costs money and i finished building this on a sunday evening...so still had the BIG sunday paper to use.

[Leda EmBorr]

Cool. I definitely need to try that. I really need a mannequin of myself to make better costumes. Especially when it comes to hemming.

[Theyrenotdolls (Den Dragonson)]

i built mine mostly for display purposes, but i found myself using it for a sewing dummy when i started putting my xwing flightsuit together.