Pintstein Productions

Punch teeth through a piece of polystyrene large enough to hold your entire skull design.  It might require a hard sharp tool to make a hole as deep as you want it to be (I used a drill bit).  Now lay down a garbage bag and put your fake teeth into the holes.  You want the garbage bag to keep the polystyrene platform from touching the great stuff however you want the fake teeth to touch the great stuff.

 

Figure out where you want the “eye” or camera to be in relation to the teeth.  Use some polystyrene blocks to set the camera at the height and location desired.  Have you wrapped your camera in plastic bags? Is it double wrapped?  Are you wearing clothes that you don’t love?

If you answered yes to all, you are ready to spray great stuff!*

 

*A note on spraying great stuff, it sticks to and bonds with everything.  Let it dry for a week before carving it into your desired skull shape. It dries much faster than that but when I cut into it, I found sections that were still liquid two days after spraying.  If it gets on your skin you can wash/scrub some of it off but some of it will be bonded to you skin until that layer of skin sluffs off.

 

Spray great stuff generously, it is going to expand but why be stingy?  Once I open a can of ‘great stuff’ I rarely manage to store it in way that allows me to use the material in the can a day later.  You will be carving the excess away so excess is not horrible.

 

When carving your great stuff skull take care to track the location of the teeth and camera.  These are your fixed points.  If you carve too much foam way but have not touched either the teeth or the camera you can always spray more foam into the missing area.  Make sure you have not damaged the plastic newspaper bags around your camera before spraying foam.  I’d hate to hear about how you ruined a camera by getting foam bonded to it.

 

So you have a block of foam in the shape of a skull with a camera form fit into an eye socket?  Great! Now the easy part is over and the tricky tailoring begins.  I am not great at sewing but I sewed a lot of teddy bears as a kid so I was able to make this pattern with a lot of trial and error.  Good luck!  The 8x11 is only included in the photo for scale.  The 1/4 shoulder peice is supposed to give you a donut shaped piece of fabric.  The back of the hood peice needs to be longer than shown (I'm too lazy to reshoot the pattern photo).

My tailoring services are available for $500 a project.  We can negotiate a mild discount if you have purchased the fabric but the bulk of that price is labor. 

 

Think you can under cut my price? Great, I won’t harbor any ill will toward you if you succeed at taking my bussiness if you provide superior services.  Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and every mad scientist wants to see their creations grow and change in ways they never imagined possible