Tiki displaying, if ya aint got a bar :( - General Tiki

K kick_the_reverb Tiki Socialite Escondido, CA Joined: Jul 17, 2002 Posts: 581	K kick_the_reverb Posted posted on Thu, Dec 5, 2002 2:57 PM Thanks Basement Kahuna & TikiGoddess! Kahuna - good one...well, I'll try to remembr that with the gas mask on :wink: Goddess - the dresser is a piece of junk my wife found, we dragged it home and she painted it...she also painted and covered a matching stool. It's funny, but most of the furniture we have is either junk my wife found or stuff that was given to us... the expensive items were that cane and bamboo wall coverings, which we bought for a roof top party, and making the big Moai (it took a LOT of plaster...) which I built for that party. The display case we got from Ikea, it wasn't cheap but it was a Chanukkah present from my wife's mother. Good luck on that paper mache! I think the best advice I can give is to make as much as you can with the frame, than you have less work trying to form stuff from the paper itself. I never did paper mache, but I think the principal is similar. I used a semi flexible wire "fence" that they sell at gardening supply stores to put around trees, than bent the features from the same "fence". My initial idea was to bend it from heavy wire, and i made that with the ears, and this is why the're not as good as the nose or the forehead. after I had the main features on I covered everything with chicken wire tied with thin wire to the main frame. Mahalo Ran

Thanks Basement Kahuna & TikiGoddess!
Kahuna - good one...well, I'll try to remembr that with the gas mask on :wink:
Goddess - the dresser is a piece of junk my wife found, we dragged it home and she painted it...she also painted and covered a matching stool. It's funny, but most of the furniture we have is either junk my wife found or stuff that was given to us... the expensive items were that cane and bamboo wall coverings, which we bought for a roof top party, and making the big Moai (it took a LOT of plaster...) which I built for that party. The display case we got from Ikea, it wasn't cheap but it was a Chanukkah present from my wife's mother.
Good luck on that paper mache! I think the best advice I can give is to make as much as you can with the frame, than you have less work trying to form stuff from the paper itself. I never did paper mache, but I think the principal is similar. I used a semi flexible wire "fence" that they sell at gardening supply stores to put around trees, than bent the features from the same "fence". My initial idea was to bend it from heavy wire, and i made that with the ears, and this is why the're not as good as the nose or the forehead. after I had the main features on I covered everything with chicken wire tied with thin wire to the main frame.

Mahalo
Ran

Post #15501 by kick_the_reverb on Thu, Dec 5, 2002 2:57 PM