By the way, I recommend NOT doing it during the hot Aussie summer like I did ;)
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Head:
• 2 beach balls (somewhere between 40-70cm diameter, depending on head size)
• Glad wrap (cling wrap, saran wrap, whatever you call it in your country)
• Newspaper
• Flour
• Water
• PVA glue
• Cardboard
• Green paint, white paint and red paint or red tape
• Black permanent marker
• Strong tape
• Clothes pegs/clamps
• Scissors/knives
Tail:
• Cardboard
• Masking tape
• More paint
• Elastic
• Stapler
• Glad wrap
Body:
• Green shirt (preferably long sleeved)
• Green gloves
• Long green pants
• White material/shirts
• Large brown shoes, I used a pair of ugg boots
• Backpack and a brown covering for the shell
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Thanks also for the suggestion, I'll try and tweak it a bit when I get a chance :)
The closest substitute would be something like an exercise ball.
An alternative which would be harder and messier is if you could get some fairly strong wire you could make a wireframe ball and then paper mâché over it.
I can't really think of much else at the moment, sorry!
Otherwise awesome job, did the head very well.
Typo fixed ;)
Thanks for the compliment!
Because of the weight distribution you can see that the front dips down (which was also how I saw), but I wouldn't say it's "too heavy". It was lighter than I was expecting.
I did a prototype using a smaller ball, and it worked ok, but would've fitted a 2 year old or something.