electric_squid

Well I finely got to work on rebuilding my ventriloquist dummy, henceforth referred to as Skip, mainly because that is his name. Go figure. I forgot to get any shots of Skip's head before I got it primed and to be honest, you aren't missing much. It was a blotchy combination of the grey old primer and the white of the plastic showing through. Not that bid of a deal. But now...




...he's all primed and ready for paint. Isn't that just wonderful? I've also gotten Skip's eye assembly finished.



They eyes pivot on two screws that are bolted to the eye plate. Two springs stick out of the back of the eyes and are attached to the sychro bar and the eye movement linkage rod is attatched and the control rod will be threaded though it. When the control rod is released the springs will automatically pull the eyes back into the forward position.

Tomorrow I'll be working on the jaw control mechanism, mainly installing the control axel in the head and installing the jaw control lever. For that I get to cut brass plates, joy oh joy! Yeah, ok, that was sarcasm. Cutting brass is kind of a pain in the ass. I also need to plan out where I want the controls place on the control stick. Before I go to bed I'll probably paint Skip's jaw. The jaw is the first thing you paint simply because it is very difficult to paint once it's installed. On second thought I'll do it tomorrow, I'd rather go to bed.