- First, I've got my two layers of plastic on the bottom.
This is the one mil plastic
from Home Depot or any paint store,
this is just drop cloth plastic.
So I've two layers here.
I've got it taped down on both sides.
Pulled just a little bit taut, not stretched, just taut.
And then I've got the paper.
Again, it's taped down.
And then I've just got a little piece
of tape that I'll hold it down over there.
The reason I did this,
if you remember last Friday,
there's some areas that I wasn't able
to burn all the way through
and I wanted to go back and do that.
When you're laying a little piece of paper over
and just trying to hit the same area.
That way you can actually fold this back and forth.
If I miss a little area,
I know I'm lining up pretty close,
if not right on, where it should be,
and I could fold that back down.
So you want to be able to be really set with this
and be able to go back and do some repairs if you need to.
So now you can see by using the pencil,
I can really see where my burning tool is going.
And again, I'm just letting this glide over the paper.
I don't want to go too fast
because of course, while this is hitting the paper
and burning through, it's cooling down too,
so the heat's dissipating into the paper.
I can actually see a couple little areas
I know I would have a problem with.
Actually, I'll leave those just in case
I've got to go back.
That's the whole idea, you've got the paper
to be able to fold back and forth.
I've got this kinda built-in paper or tape hinge.
Putting a firm pressure on it,
but I'm not really pressing down really hard.
And this shape that I'm doing right now
is gonna be a lot closer to
what we're gonna end up using on our creature,
which is gonna be these three long bags
that we're gonna have in on the neck of our creature.
Now I'm just gonna do some lines in the center here.
And again, this is to keep
the balloon a little bit more flat.
And I'm gonna show you how this
is gonna work on our creature.
You can see there's a lotta areas that I'm skipping here.
In the center, I'm not quite as worried about that.
I'm just trying to hold the two pieces
of plastic together with these three lines in the center.
I'm not worried about going all the way through.
I just want to kinda fuse that plastic together.
Now I can check out and see how, well done.
When you peel this back, you want to do it carefully.
You don't want to rip the plastic.
You go from different directions here.
I've cut through fairly well.
So you can see that the paper pattern you've got here
is pretty much a one time deal.
It's basically garbage after you do this once,
but if you had to do several of the same,
what you would do is make a paper pattern like this,
just of this exterior and just have that pattern
that you can lay down on multiple sheets of paper
and trace the exact same thing.
That way you can do it.
You can't keep going over this with the burning tool
because you can see we've already got holes in here
and then you'd be burning directly onto the plastic
and just melting plastic, you don't wanna do that.
So I'm gonna see how well I burnt through all of this.
Actually pretty good.
You can see I've got the tape hinge here.
If I needed to fold this back over
and try this again or hit an area again,
I could do that.
Yeah, this all separated really nicely.
And you can see on this last one,
I kept this area down in here
and this area right here that I'm cutting with the scissors,
that's sort of a narrow little spout.
And that's for the tube,
that I'm gonna kinda put a sharp angle to.
So I can slip that into the spout,
it's just like the end of a balloon,
where you'd inflate a balloon.
Gonna take a zip tie and close this off.
I don't want to do it so tight
that I'm gonna rip the plastic or crimp the Tygon tubing.
Just enough to hold it in place.
And you'll see how these center lines,
see how that's held kinda flat?
Now we can actually start to pull
a little texture into this.
All these center lines just held it really flat,
so you can see that this first one's
just a large balloon, it's a big bag.
And this one's gonna stay kinda flat.
And it all depends on the effect that you're going for.
And I'm just gently stretching and pulling.
Really trying to control the amount
of pressure I'm putting on this.
And I can stretch on these lines a little bit
to have the stretch mark go across.
I don't want to pull big holes into it.
And I wanted to show you that too,
you can repair these holes.
I've got a hole in this one right here
and pretty much the only thing
that sticks to it is this Barge cement.
There's another cement that we use,
contact adhesive that we use called Dual, that's D-U-A-L.
And that comes from the shoe repair place
that we talked about called Saderma, that's in town here.
But it's Dual, I believe 88, Dual-88.
And the nice thing about Dual is that it dries clear,
whereas the Barge actually has
this amber color all the time.
So when you're working with the clear bags,
sometimes it's nice to use the Dual,
and it's pretty much the only thing that'll stick to it.
Super Glue, obviously will get hard, get crusty,
it doesn't really stick to the plastic very well.
And so I've just taken a little bit of Barge,
dabbed it on this hole
and that should be enough to hold it.
Under a slight pressure.
If I kept on blowing on this, of course, it's gonna expand.
The glue is still a little bit green,
meaning still a little soft, a little wet.
I can keep pulling some texture into this.
Not gonna do too much here.
You guys kinda get the idea.
And you can just keep inflating this
and seeing how that texture looks
and you can certainly pull some from the top here,
just these little spouts, little pimples.
And you're just pulling straight up.
And you can kinda stretch those out kinda far.
See those little tiny pimples.
Anyway, I've got this piece of foam here for.
Cap my glue up so I'm not smelling Barge adhesive
the rest of the time.
I can use a little bit of my 74 spray
'cause that does stick to the plastic.
I'm gonna spray some down on this block of foam.
This might be a little tough to see
just 'cause it's on the white.
Hopefully it's not totally blown out on the camera.
But I can tack all this down.
We'll do a little painting tutorial with this
in a couple of days when we get closer to the painting
and show you all how the paint sticks to this
and what kinda paint to use.
Really the only thing that does work,
I think I had mentioned this before,
was the rubber cement paint.
So now once I've got this glued down to a flat surface,
instead of just getting a big bubble,
like this one would be 'cause it's a large balloon,
and I locked down some of these inside edges.
You can see a lotta these little curves
on the inside that I kinda locked the balloon down,
so you're getting some nice organic little,
little pieces in there.