fill with silicone, take off wrap once dry and you have a solid dummy

No way! This is awesome! I can clone some people for my friend's haunted forest, and because they are clear we can fill them with fogs/lights/sound emitters :D

is there any way to make it really stiff?

They made these at my school for a sculpture class. I thought that it was really cool - they stapled them up everywhere and everyone was like "...wtf?" XD

If i do this well enough, can i fill it with ballistics gel?

Interesting... I like this! Maybe I'll make a scarecrow for this October.

good for freaking poeple out, eh? werl, there's no denying that
Actually, i've always though that the best way of waging psychological warfare on someone is to leave a scarecrow outside their house, tho i've never had cause to do it...._{only because i'm not sure where MOST of the people i'd like to scarecrow live....most of them...}

Perhaps you could do the head by making a ball of whatever and then using stuff like tape to form the features?

an easier was to get clones it to quickly run into a clothing store and take the maniquins and run like hell hahha jk dont try that ull get arrested

someone mentions you can do a full-body cast if you have a friend do it. Please be aware, this is *dangerous*. If the room temperature is slightly too hot, and your body starts to sweat, the sweat will not evaporate, hence it will not cool your body. Your body will just sweat more and more, and you will end up hyperthermic, extremely dehydrated, and possibly hyperkalemic. You can search the news literature for people who have died in this way. Just please be careful.

how sturdy is this stuff would it be possible to make a guitar case just to stop scrathing or would it break very easily?

a similar method is used to produce diy draping dummies by putting the model in cheap clothing that covers the area to be modeled and binging them in pose with duct tape or gaffers tape, then stuffing with rags, or expansion foam. for multiple pieces matched together a few marker line on athletic tape or skin (2 circles around the joint ~2" apart and a transverse line for orientation reference) works well. make both pieces extend to the far mark, and then join with the known overlap. n.b. more... gravity prone and soft segments of anatomy can be shaped to more optimal positions while taping. this is especially useful in cosetry.

Check this out to see a great tape sculpture and street instillation artist Mark Jenkins

this is a good home made target you made here it much cheaper than that shit they use a that show

FOR THE HEAD INSTEAD OF DOING PIECES, COULDNT YOU PUT STRAWS IN YOUR NOSE THEN TAPE UP THAT AREA LATER?

You may be hot but you are *so* transparent!

I won't be sucked in to your web of vicious lies.
Oh wait, maybe I was channeling from a previous relationship.

I wonder if this would be easier to do (although, messier!) with papier maché. Basically, you could make a whole cast of your body bit by bit with papier maché, plaster of paris and gauzey strip things (the medical gauze, very loose, that comes in rolls.) I had my foot papier-machéd like this to make a mold for my orthotics that i wear to run... also, it wasn't cut off, just tugged off. i imagine that, if the mold is firm enough, you could possibly make joints for it (internal metal skeleton??) and then of course, make tape/plastic cones off of that base! this is definitely on my "to do" list.

fill it with fruits and stuff, wait for it to firment, then you have a novelty cup o.o

Frign' Sweet

Fill it with Great Stuff...once it dries, you'll have a lightweight, waterproof, fire-resistant clone! Also try a mold made out of a flexible material and turn out hundreds of plaster people...a modern day terracotta army!

you could use colored plastic wrap.

thats called dehydrated silica :D (but with some sort of food stuffs in it)

A sweet idea would be to fill this with expanding foam.

What about making one that is leak-proof? Put some LEDs in it, fill it with helium and take your clone for a float at night ...

Load that thing full of Xmas lights and you have one fabulous lamp!

We did this as a group project. Some people made torso casts and I did a whole body. Best technique is to have a helper cut strips and then apply them. Here neat ness is bad. The more wrinkles the stronger the layer. I did the breathe throught the straw thing. It worked but I strongly suggest using both nostrils and mouth straws. The finished project was a total trip.

Haha, cool. I did this with my foot. Now I can send my servants to do my shoe shopping for me. Unless, of course, my feet grow. I filled it with water, it started to leak. I guess I did a half-assed job (well, I did do a half-assed job). It's drying on the vent right now; I'm going to use it as a pen holder.

You can refill with yeso.

Someone needs to mention that it is very dangerous to wrap plastic wrap or tape around your own neck. If the pressure is too great, you could pass out in seconds (even with a full breath of air, it's the circulation that gets you), left to die if no one else is with you. And wow, what a stupid way to die.

Check out Mark Jenkins' work and his how-to on wooster collective for more tape people.

Laugh now but one day they'll be in charge.

Nice! you might think of breathing through a straw while plastifying your head... never tried nevertheless.