30th March 2005, 12:40 AM
I am helping a local museum (North East Military Museum, Exhibition Park, Newcastle) with the research, design and creation of an exhibition. Unfortunately some of the dummies for the display are shop window mannequins and not very life-like. Many are female and need to be male, and many of the female dummies look a bit feminine. I am trying to alter their appearance by painting them using my limited knowledge of war-game figure painting and theatrical make-up. If anyone has any tips I would like to hear them.
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30th March 2005, 09:34 AM
You could try chopping the plastic breasts off with a soldering iron. Apart from that, Napoleonic mutton chops would hide the most feminine of facial curves.
Gumbo
P.S. Sea-surgeon if, judging from your posts so far, this really is what you spend your life doing Im impressed with the variety.
P.P.S. RE your last posts I saw that the University of East Anglia has an ?MA course in the history of medicine.
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30th March 2005, 09:43 AM
In a past life I studied sculpture. Cutting off the lumpy bits are standard. Try to hide the waist reduction by wrapping a bath towel acround the waist, just above the pelvis. The same can be done by rolling a towell and lying it across the shoulders to broaden them. Without sounding rude, stuff a small cloth down the front of trousers,just to flatten out the pelvic girdle. The only thing you good do to the faces is to mix up some auto filler to create a stronger jaw line and cheeks.
Hope that helps.
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30th March 2005, 10:09 AM
I thought I was taking the p***, didnt realise that 'breast-lopping' was 'official' procedure: how marvellous.
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30th March 2005, 10:29 AM
sorry,
only came onto this thread because I thought it was about Dr Who....
But now I know how to perfect my hilarious drag act.......
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31st March 2005, 04:33 PM
GAsp
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31st March 2005, 04:46 PM
Me too, lol.
New Dr Who is great! [8D]
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Well...it was fun but not as good as the original. I thought the new series tries too hard to be cheesy.
About the dummies...lots of facial hair should do the trick
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I thought the new series was great, although a bit fast-paced for some of us classic who fans. Looking forward to tomorrows episode, rather tragically. Thought the cheesy bits worked well and the conspiracy theory bloke was good.
Chat later on the Dr Who appreciation society website.
Gumbo
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Quote:quote:Originally posted by Oxbeast
sorry,
only came onto this thread because I thought it was about Dr Who....
But now I know how to perfect my hilarious drag act.......
Me as well. can't seem to get away from it at the moment. [8D]
