Making Mannequin Heads out of EVA Foam
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- čas přidán 5. 05. 2022
- Have you ever wanted to make a template but your mannequin head is too small or big? Maybe you need a good base to make a bust of your favorite character. Or maybe you just want to proudly display a helmet or mask that you worked super hard to build. In this video, I show you how to make your very own mannequin head and scale it to fit your needs. For this build, I used: 4 mm and 6 mm EVA foam, contact cement, super glue, Plasti Dip, and something to weigh down the bottom. You may also need the following tools: a heat gun, a Dremel with various bits, and an Exacto knife or box cutter. Let me know in the comments below if you would like to see more like this one, from shows, video games, or whatever. Please smack that like button, dropkick subscribe, and share with as many people as possible.
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When I’m butting EVA pieces together, I dust a tiny (seriously tiny) amount of baby powder onto my table surface, so the pieces are perfectly flush, and my hand tremors don’t defeat my attempts. Smaller mandrels on posts are helpful, too!
Great pattern! Thanks!!!
That is an interesting technique. Might have to give it a go. Glad you like the pattern. It will hopefully be a helpful template for others.
Finaly this is what i need to make my own template because i don't have mannequin head
Hope it helps
awesome what you all provide for free. programs, templates, techniques, inspiration .... love it 👊😎
I just enjoy spreading the creativity. Growing up with very little money, we had to get crafty with what we had. So I try my best to make things more accessible
@@MuchProps i'm all for that low budget and craft with whats laying around or doesnt cost that much. a kind of magic
If you did sledge mask from rainbow 6 that'd be so cool, anything from that really would be
Thanks for the suggestion
So much to say in so few characters!
- Great build, love the paper separator on that one part!
- the jawline/ear part really reminds me of the Batman Arkham Origins Cowl!
I think this is another awesome pattern to build on!
Thanks. It will definitely have some reuses in the future. I have a couple ideas brewing
Omg this was awesome... I made one of these. I added some insulation foam I had laying around. Thank you my man so happy with my maniquine 🎉😊
Glad I could help
Brilliant extra help for cosplayers Thomas. Thank you very much for this generous build.
Glad that my issues are relatable and can help others. Especially us big headed people who have a hard time finding things in our size 😀
I haven’t thought about it but that’s a good idea
Thanks. I go through a lot of foil, just bulking up my mannequin to start a build off. This should help cut that waste of time and materials
So helpful, and thank you for always sharing your skills for us folks on a budget.
For sure. Love helping and teaching others
My phobia made it into a Mannequin fact 😂
LOL. The doll thing for sure. All those killer doll movies from the 80s and 90s had me on edge when I saw one on display. Mannequins not so much.
Dude I'm super siked about this one! I have the same issue, a big head. Probably bigger actually. This one moved to the top of the list. Thanks!
I might even wrap one in worbla or thermal plastic to make it rigid also. Hope it helps with people's builds
Awesome
Thanks
Thanks so much for the templates , i was making some manequins/ base heads using the moon knight template , both moon knight and this one are great templates , thanks very much, some builds comming soon ( will share also when ready )
The build are awesome and a great way to show and use as base for sculpting
Glad my templates are being put to good use. This will hopefully help alot of people with sizing a mannequin to fit their needs
@@MuchProps yes indeed , mr knight is great for heads 😁😸👍
Great idea, I was thinking about making a build like that for me and you gave me a better way of doing it, I was also thinking about making a full body size Mannequin built too for my armor projects.
Thanks, glad I could help. For the full body, the cling wrap and duct tape method works good. I made one before I started doing CZcams that came in handy
Ed head!! Love it
😁👊
thank so much!!! you're the best
You're welcome! hope it's helpful
What a great idea!
Thanks 😁👊
Thomas you made my day thanks buddy🙏
Hooray👊 that 2 headed doll build you did recently was pretty cool too. Keep being creative man, I enjoy picking up new things from you as well.
@@MuchProps 🙏👊
Nicely done. :D
Thanks 😁 👊
Yo también tenía uno hecho por mí pero este que has hecho me parece genial será motivo para hacerlo
Hopefully it helps
great, simple and practical thank you so much!
Thanks. Hopefully it helps
You have acoustic foam but your voice is still incredibly echo-y. Have you considered getting a mic with an allround pop filter? Or one of those clip oms for your shirt?
I love your videos wholeheartedly, you're an absolute beast when it's about propmaking and I wish you much success with it. You deserve it.
I have been doing research on some mics to remedy this issue. My voice over mic is fairly crisp, but the intro and outro parts I use a shotgun mic. Even though it's only 4 or 5 ft from the camera, there is a lot of background noise that I try to fix digitally. I have a nice one hopefully ordered and, 🤞, it will improve the sound quality
This idea of yours is perfect for topping off a duct-tape dummy mannequin!
that is true, it would be a nice topper.
Looks amazing as usual!!! man is truly foamsmith
🤗just trying to get better every day
Thank you so much...I made this today of my head size..just a small correction in pattern as the forehead/back of head pattern was not marked for R and I was figuring out how to join that 2 portion of heads together.
You’re welcome 😊 I'm sure my hand made patterns can be a problem for some. Glad it at least got you part of the way
You are the best contet creator in the terms of cosplay.
Love from Poland :D
Thanks so much, don't know that I can live up to that praise but it is appreciated. 😁👊 big howdy from Texas
Great build, thanks buddy
Thanks, hope people get some good use out of them
Love your videos. I saw your Spawn mask and will try to make my own using your method. And since you did an amazing job on the spawn mask, im sure many people would love to see you made the Guyver mask. Keep up the awesome videos and thank you from all of us.
Awesome! Thank you! and thanks for the suggestion
That was pretty neat. Way to get ahead of the game..and speaking of custom sizes, it's weird you pick Spawn as an example, because that the template I used to print 2 different sizes..we twinsises ♥️
😁👊I would love to see em.
I wonder if u could foam fill it with A B foam so u can sculpt on top of it with wed clay ?
Maybe. The EVA would still compress under the weight of clay. You could probably cover it in Worbla or a thermoplastic to make it more rigid.
Hi sir i am big fan of you ☺️
Thank you so much 😀
I made a head form from Punished Props and then got a disc shaped piece of wood from joanne fabrics and glued it to it. Works well to display my full 3D printed Samurai helmet with a Subzero menpo. Yours would be awesome to make too because it's more than the head and neck.
The more I build the more I realize that we all have different approaches that are helpful in certain circumstances. Bill has a pretty awesome one, Cosplay Apprentice has some epic display mount ideas, Evil Ted and Odin Makes as wellhave different approaches. I just love the sea of knowledge at our fingertips nowadays. A new skill is only a click away.
Hmm. I wonder if I could use this as a head on my dressmaker's dummy, if I leave off the bottom? It'd be nice to have a head for styling wigs, or seeing how the helmet will fit with the shoulder armor. Styrofoam heads tend to be smaller than my head.
I could think so. If you left the bottom and shoulder ends you should be able to just slide it over the top of it.
Well Thomas, now that you have 4 heads in the room, are you gonna start talking with yourself? 😆 😂
I mean I've been talking to a camera for the past 5, so at least these are human shaped. 😆
@@MuchProps hey Thomas, did you watch the Grimm tv series? If so, maybe you could knock out a vexenbeast mask or something like that
So I decided to give this a go. To say a got frustrated would be a severe understatement. Turns out, when your friend prints out the template in black and white, you completely forget about the 45° cuts. I cannot BEGIN to tell you how impossible my journey has been so far. However after deciding that I must be doing something wrong (which I was) because nothing is working, down to my choice of glue (guess I got bad advice), I decided to come back here for more help and to ask a couple questions if you don’t mind? How do you achieve the precise slanted cuts? And is gorilla glue original okay to use on this? It foams and it’s time consuming but it’s what I’ve got. Also, I guess while I’m here, would I be able to make a full head helmet from clay foam on EVA foam? Like, on this mannequin?
Sorry it's not been an easy experience. Maybe I can help you figure out your issues. I will do my best to answer your questions.
1. Yes, you may ask me a couple of questions 😃, off to a good start.
2. I achieve relatively consistent slanted cuts from years of practice working with foam. The basics are to put the tip of the blade on your cutting surface, tilt your blade handle to the angle you need, try your best to hold that angle ( lock your wrist), use a sharp hobby knifebor cutting utensil, and pull through you material I'm as clean a pull as possible. If you still struggle after practicing, they make blade holding tools that cut at angles, Cos-Tools is one inhave used in the past.
3. I would assume using Gorilla glue original is okay. Super glue can make the foam a little brittle if used over large areas. I prefer to use contact cement as it is a little flexible when joined. You could also use hot glue if you are patient enough.
4. Pushing clay foam onto the surface of a foam mannequin will probably stick to the surface unless you put a barrier on it like saran wrap, foil, or duct tape I would also avoid using heat over the mannequin as it will separate the seams or deform your foam.
Hopefully, this helps. My answers are by no means the only answers possible. Another great source for techniques are channels like Cosplay Apprentice, SKS Props, Evil Ted, Xieng Prod, Punished Props, and Odin Makes.
@@MuchPropsafter posting my last comment I decided to have a go at some of the pieces I already had cut out and not glued together in an ungodly manner, and took a pair of scissors to give them that angle (the knife didn’t want to cut an already cut edge I guess it’s too fancy). While it does look like a hack job, it looks like a consistent hack job, and I’m thinking that with the glue expanding, it will level out any of the oddness (the seems and connecting the sections make SO MUCH sense now 😅). I decided to just start over with the chest pieces to be quite honest. Practice makes perfect (but heavens does it also cost money). Also in regards to the helmet, my plan is to technically create a mashup of two helmets for display purposes only (it’s actually a little gift 😊), and so I figured I could use this mannequin as the base for it. I’ve looked to see if anyone has done this but all I see are at most, vids of how to use clay foam to add pieces to the EVA foam designed mask/helmet. I essentially want to “take a drumstick and add hot glue to make a wand” type deal. I’ve seen things suggesting I’d need some sort of adhesive or essentially to score the areas (for me, the whole mannequin) to allow this to stay. I’m just curious if that’s the only way?
Do you think I could fill this with foam to use as a Silicone Mask head form?
Never tried silicone mask making so I am not sure. As long as you made good connections with the foam and left a hole in the bottom or back for foam expansion to escape I would think it would work
Which out of your masks do you think are the easiet to make for the begginer?
If you look through my helmet/mask playlist, the Mortal Kombat ones, the rabbit splicer mask from Bioshock, the eva masks I did for PlaidFX Con, and the Gundam mask are all fairly simple builds.
Can you show us how to make bodybuilder skin suit please only you can do that
I have seen several good ones here on CZcams where they used upholstery foam to bulk out the muscles and then covered it with a stretch material shirt. Just search diy foam muscle suit
I wanna print out the template, soooo. What the size, Sir??
The default size that I made for my size has a head circumference of 24 inches I think.
Is nobody going to talk about how he just put duct tape the plastic mannequin's head before jumping into the mannequin template making?
Great video anyways!
🤣 a duct taped dummy tells no secrets.
Maybe you can craft a dragon skull someday just like I said before
Maybe someday 😁
how could I have this mold without having Adobe? I'm a poor boy from the countryside of Brazil, I learned English by myself and also to cosplay.. I have some barriers and difficulties because it seems I'm the only one in my state
You don't have to have an Adobe membership to open it. Click on the link and download it
@@MuchProps i'm really trying and is not working for me, maybe cause i'm from Brazil, i'm text u in direct
@@MuchProps thank u anyway