I created to side strips of gray hair (you can see them in one of the photos) to cover the areas around the side of my eyes. I followed the existing lines of the mask to determine where to put the hair and when to change over to the gray crepe. I ran out of white and so I mixed in the natural (off white) color. I started at the bottom of the face and worked my way up "glueing" tuffs of crepe hair onto the mask with the liquid latex. I used a bottle of liquid latex that can be found in any costume shop or online. You have to be careful how you attach stuff to latex and it is somewhat fragile when it comes into contact with other chemicals. I then cut it into varoius length all around 1.5 - 2 inches long and fluffed it out. I put it under an iron with the steam setting on to flatten out the hair. I started with the white crepe and after unraveling it it's quite wavy. On eBay, I bought some light gray, white, and natural crepe wool hair commonly used to make doll hair or in stage plays as fake beards and what not. I agreed and decided to fur the mask as well. At first I was going to leave it as is and just paint it gray to match the fur, but my wife thought it looked too scary to be the big bad wolf and wouldn't look right with the rest of the costume. I've done it before and it's not too uncomfortable. I thought I would save some time creating the face by using this and just glueing it to my face. I'll post a picture of the finished product once I get it.Īfter looking around I found this werewolf latex appliance. I later plan to sew a little fur pocket for my thumb and the fifth claw so it looks more like a dog paw. I cut a little piece out of the side for my thumb. Next I put the fur sleeve on my arm and then put the paw glove on and glued the white fur strip and gray fur strip to the paw. Then I flipped the arm inside out so that the fur correctly was on the outside of the arm and used the cat brush to pull out any fur caught in the seam and also to hide the seam. ![]() ![]() I then lined up the other long edge of each piece of fur and sewed that side. I used some clear nylon thread so it wouldn't show. I then ran it through the sewing machine. I took one strip of each color and lined up the long edges together with the fabric backing facing out and the fur of each strip facing inwards. ![]() I sewed them together using my wife's sewing machine. The grey strip was about 7-8 inches wide and the white strip was 5 inches wide. I cut two strips each of longer pile grey fur and longer pile white fur a little over the length of my arm. I ordered some rubber paw pads from here. I was fine with this as I really only need enough flexibility to hold a beer with the paw and my thumb. You might notice from the picrures that these paws fit more like mittens and there is not much manueverability of my individual fingers. I used a cat brush to comb the fur (my wife has a long haired Himalayan cat, so I used her brush). After the glueing on the fur I combed it a bit to further hide the seems. I over lapped the fur trying to hide the seams as best I could. ![]() I spayed the foam with adhesive and stretched the fur over it. Next, I traced and cut out pieces of short pile white fur that matched the general shape of the paws and cut out slits for the claws. I used 3M Super 77 adhesive through out the creation of this costume as it is designed for glueing foam. I glued the claws in the previuosly made slits and glued the foam to some light weight cotton gloves I had lying around. I didn't show it in a picture of the paws without fur, but I noticed that the paws seemed too flat so I glued some extra bits of foam to the top of the paw to give is a more realistic musculoskeletal look. I then fliped the paws over and carved out grooves for my fingers. I also clut some slits into the digits so I could slide some medium sized Grizzly Bear (Resin Replicas) claws I got from eBay. I did this over several intervals until I got the shape I wanted. After carving out the basic shape I went back and shaved off the corners until the foam became more rounded. You might want to get a few of these knives or at least some extra blades as the foam tends to dull them quickly and it's much easier to carve the foam with a sharp knife. I took a sharpie and drew the basic shape of the paw on the foam and then took a very sharp retractable knife (the type that you snap the tips of the blade off as they get dull) to carve out the shape. I took a few blocks of black foam I got from some packing boxes at work. I opted to extend my hand and use my thumb as a true dog fifth digit which is slightly back and usually just looks like a nail protruding from the leg. Rather than cramming my extra finger into a paw digit. I wanted my paws to really look more like dog paws with 4 digits. Most people who make paws usually opt for basically covering gloves with fur or sewing the fur into a glove shape.
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