06-09-2007, 07:39 PM
Building your own is simple enough, you need around 4-6 rolls of duck tape an old long sleeve t-shirt and leggings/jogger bottoms (for the duck tape to stick to), sharp pair of scissors and another pair of hands.First put on the t-shirt and trousers and strike your pose!Get a friend to start wrapping you up like a mummy with the duck tape go around at least 4 times the more the better, just don't get any on your skin as it kills to tear it off and wont leave much hair behind so watch your wrists!!Basically when you all wrapped up get your friend (this must be someone you trust and not your kids as i did as they laughed for what seemed like hours and blackmailed me before they cut me out!) to cut you out, i found cutting all the way round and through the clothes in half worked best as you'll never get your feet through the ankle part and the same for your hands and wrists.When you have the two parts off you will see that it holds your shape well so tape it back together and your ready for filling.I used normal expanding foam from a local hard wear store that is used for cavity filling.I also used slightly damp news paper to fill out the large areas and then sprayed the foam in between the paper and the shell of the duck tape, the foam will set against the paper and your duck tape shell really well.Just spray a small amount in at first as this stuff keeps expanding for hours, let it set over night and see how much you need to fill the other parts, if your careful you might get away with one can.once it's all filled and dried you can cut off any protruding bits with a sharpe knife and bob's your uncle and fannies you aunt you have one mannequin!I used bubble wrap to build up definition on my myers to give him a chest waist and buttocks etc! if you don't it wont look right at all.I used an old mannequin head and cut out some expanding foam from the neck area to get it to fit tight, but you could use the same method as before but with a balaclava.Hands are a problem you'll have to look around and see what you can find, ebay is a good source for stuff like that.That's it really, i'm one of those people that when i set out to do something, there will be something that will always cock up but i'm glad to say this all went really well for me!If you have any questions i will be only to happy to help <img src=\"http://forums.NIGHTOWLpro.com/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":thumbsup:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"thumbsup.gif\" />