Howdee fans,
Halloween has come and as always I have prepared some goodies for my colleagues.
The plan for this year was to make some coffins for them but due to the ongoing pandemic I found it a bit too "daring" to give out caskets to anyone. So something else had to be made.
I found something very creepy and ugly in my archive Sanglota's Globes Oculaires. This mysterious name hides nothing else but - eye balls! The kit comes with two versions, one "normal" and one "zombified" one and featured an opening to fill the ball with sweets - exactly what I needed!
First I build a very fast version of the original design to see how it goes together and how big it was. I roughly assembled it using tape and regular 80 gsm paper recycled from advertising mails.
I noticed that the outer edge (the center edge combining the two halves of the ball) did not appear very round. So I subdivided the edge in a similar way I re-shaped the edges of BB-8.
This looked better but the corners were too far outward which made it still look like a hexagon. So I smoothed the corners out and got this:
That would do nicely.
Next was to determine the size.
The original was too small (middle). The next was resized to 150 % which was too big (right). Somewhere inbetween would be best, so I built another one at 130 % (left). That one looked good enough.
Halloween has come and as always I have prepared some goodies for my colleagues.
The plan for this year was to make some coffins for them but due to the ongoing pandemic I found it a bit too "daring" to give out caskets to anyone. So something else had to be made.
I found something very creepy and ugly in my archive Sanglota's Globes Oculaires. This mysterious name hides nothing else but - eye balls! The kit comes with two versions, one "normal" and one "zombified" one and featured an opening to fill the ball with sweets - exactly what I needed!
First I build a very fast version of the original design to see how it goes together and how big it was. I roughly assembled it using tape and regular 80 gsm paper recycled from advertising mails.
I noticed that the outer edge (the center edge combining the two halves of the ball) did not appear very round. So I subdivided the edge in a similar way I re-shaped the edges of BB-8.
This looked better but the corners were too far outward which made it still look like a hexagon. So I smoothed the corners out and got this:
That would do nicely.
Next was to determine the size.
The original was too small (middle). The next was resized to 150 % which was too big (right). Somewhere inbetween would be best, so I built another one at 130 % (left). That one looked good enough.
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