Hello All

[Karrion]

Thought I'd introduce myself. I'm Karrion. My major obsession is making things. I've onlt recently gotten into puppets and just finished my first puppet. Any feedback or questions would be welcome.

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[faze]

hey there karrion

welcome to MC, i'm faze a film student/filmmaker from toronto i like your fish puppet very nicely done, have you made any others?

what are u gonna do with it

[Karrion]

Thanks. This is my first puppet. Well, the first puppet I'm willing to show anyone.

My ultimate goal is to make puppets professionaly. To that end I'm making a serires of muppets to learn the craft. Other than that I don't have any real plans for them.

[faze]

are you gonna be selling that fish puppet? it looks very nice, and i'd buy it

how big is it? and what is the material?

zosoproductions@gmail.com

[biblebetty]

Great fish, really like the scales. how did you do that?

[Buck-Beaver]

Nice fish!

[Karrion]

Thanks for the comments.

The fish is about 19 inches overall. Structure is 1/2 inch urethane foam. Skin is t-shirt material. Literaly, I cut up a shirt to get the color I wanted. Underside is white fabric. The scales are just strips of cloth with one edge cut into scale shape and attached in an overlapping fashion starting at the tail. Pretty much like a fish.

[hennesprod]

Very Nice fish Indeed!

[froggiegirl18]

That fish rocks! Great job!:)

[Karrion]

Hey guys,
My fish has developed a problem. The edges of the fins are splitting. I'm going to have to sew them up. I had used spray adhesive to put them together. Should I have just sewed them in the first place? is the a solution I missed?

[Melonpool]

I've never had much luck with spray adhesive. I use contact cement for most things like that because once it's stuck, it'd pretty much stuck.

On the downside, once it's stuck, it's pretty much stuck.

Also, it's messy. That would probably be a better material to use when building it initially than in doing fixes, though

Steve

[Buck-Beaver]

At the puppet shop where I worked several years ago they never used spray adhesive for gluing foam to foam because they found it didn't hold as well as contact cement gel. They only used it for foam-to-fabric applications.

If you do use spray adhesive both objects you're gluing have to have glue applied to them and you have to wait until the glue is tacky before sticking them together. If you're not doing both then that's probably the source of your problem.

[Karrion]

I only used spray adhesive on the fabric. And I only used it there because the contact cement wet the cloth too bad. I followed proper 'spray both sides and let it tack off' procedure. The only place I'm having trouble is the fins.

[super muppet]

Thats A Nice Looking Puppet.

[Iokitek]

yeah, nice puppet :) I especially like the idea of overlapping pieces of cloth