Times getting short, or at least not as tall...

 With only two weeks until comic con and various items still needing completed I started to get nervous.

I have a family so they come first so free time was limited. I spent what time I could painting, glueing, welding etc.

It came to about 9 days to the deadline where I took the decision to not carry on with the stilts, the risk was too high. I had no experience with stilts, I hadn't completed the ones I was making so there was chance of failure, crashing and burning, damaging the Tauntaun itself if I fell so I decided to use the time to focus on other items needing completed.

I will still try to complete the stilts for after to see if it would have worked or not.

Instead of the stilts I needed to find a way to have Tauntaun feet attached to my shoes so using some items leftover from the sofa I used the foam from one of the cushions from the sofa picked up from gumtree to shape the feet around my shoe and I had some spare straps to try and secure them to my shoes.

While constructing them I was trying to think how I would put these on for the day, I think I would need to put the feet on first while stepping in to the Tauntaun body so it might be tricky to tighten the shoes but I think it will be more difficult when I come to take them off.

I haven't tried putting the feet on with the body but I need to do it soon.

At this point I only have 2days to go, yikes!!!

Tools & materials: glue gun, scissors, sharp knife, mini ratchet straps, fur, camp mat, ivory paint.






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