It also comes with a costume (very Mego, and not very film accurate but that's an easy fix for me)...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
New Gorilla Mask
Just purchased this very cool gorilla mask. I will repaint the face so it's not grey. I was just so impressed with the fake fur hair. I have seen a lot of very ugly gorilla masks in my day.
It also comes with a costume (very Mego, and not very film accurate but that's an easy fix for me)...
It also comes with a costume (very Mego, and not very film accurate but that's an easy fix for me)...
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Thursday, July 10, 2008
I'm going to make a monkey of myself!
After 35 years of dreaming about it, I have finally secured almost all the funds from commissioned sewing work for me to be able to splurge and purchase makeup from Apemania. Several months ago, I was able to snag the most scrumptiously perfect chimp green for a future outfit for Zira. The past two days I have been working on my outfit! (Yay me--why did I wait so long?)
I would have killed for a sewing form when I first started the project. It was obvious that I needed one when it came time to create the fake leather of the outfit. I was able to rig one up using a close-fitting turtle-necked sweater. Propped the sweater on two home-made stepping stools and stuffed it with fabric to create a form which was so helpful in pinning. This is how the outfit looked before I started the hieroglyph:
This is a closeup of the glyphs. I will need to add more puff to make it pop, but it is definitely going the way I want it to. It's the fake leather material sewn over a fluffy piece of nonpilling fleece (the same fleece that I used to make my own chimp sweater many moons ago).
This is the jacket as it looks on a hanger. Looses its "oomph" as it no longer is 3D...but still a great and beautiful thing considering I am putting this together without a real pattern...just making stuff up as I go along.
I have already sent in my 50% deposit to secure the mask. Sometime down the road, when she is ready, I will receive Zira's appliances. This is one of the 8 masks that toured the world in celebration of Planet of the Ape's 30th anniversary. I will probably faint when I finally open the box. I hope that I look ok under the mask...kind of worried about the dang epicanthic folds I was blessed with, but at least my body frame is perfect for a chimpanzee from Planet of the Apes: Five feet tall, 105 pounds.
I would have killed for a sewing form when I first started the project. It was obvious that I needed one when it came time to create the fake leather of the outfit. I was able to rig one up using a close-fitting turtle-necked sweater. Propped the sweater on two home-made stepping stools and stuffed it with fabric to create a form which was so helpful in pinning. This is how the outfit looked before I started the hieroglyph:
This is a closeup of the glyphs. I will need to add more puff to make it pop, but it is definitely going the way I want it to. It's the fake leather material sewn over a fluffy piece of nonpilling fleece (the same fleece that I used to make my own chimp sweater many moons ago).
This is the jacket as it looks on a hanger. Looses its "oomph" as it no longer is 3D...but still a great and beautiful thing considering I am putting this together without a real pattern...just making stuff up as I go along.
I have already sent in my 50% deposit to secure the mask. Sometime down the road, when she is ready, I will receive Zira's appliances. This is one of the 8 masks that toured the world in celebration of Planet of the Ape's 30th anniversary. I will probably faint when I finally open the box. I hope that I look ok under the mask...kind of worried about the dang epicanthic folds I was blessed with, but at least my body frame is perfect for a chimpanzee from Planet of the Apes: Five feet tall, 105 pounds.
