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✅ eyes done painting
✅ most floof
- more gluing

Assembly of the #Maratus head begins.

Based on last year's experience, I'm gonna try to make the eyes sit closer to my own face as I'm wearing the head. That should make it a little easier to see out.

No, my Halloween costume is not a bat with eyebrows as big as his head.
Nor is it a moth.

Awright, it's time to get started. I took last year's Maratus volans head design to Kinko's, and just like last year, had to get staff intervention to print the thing. But it's printed now, and the poster board is flattening. Will hashtag this #Maratus, but there's a decent chance I'll end up using Salticidae colors instead.

Another shot of the friendly spider, who appears to be a Salticus senicus: https://spiderid.com/spider/salticidae/salticus/scenicus/

I have discovered a new resident Maratus spp. on my wall and I love it.

So people joke that the month after Pride is Wrath, but if we're making the Seven Deadly Sins queer, would Fuhrer King Bradley wear it like this or like this or like this?

(Image from https://www.artstation.com/artwork/0abd4)

@ontploffing The first skull: Lewis, from the Mystery Skulls Ghost fan music video: https://irradiate.space/skulls/lewis/

Astronaut pants are definitely a Look: random strips of velcro everywhere, running over and through and under pockets.

There needs to be a name for this style, and "business utilitarian" just doesn't fly. What would you call it?

leggy

Joined a conference call, wore last year's spider head, got called Beto O'Rourke

@else behold, a streamlined boy

Bringing back knickerbockers

Does a two-legged sheep walk like an inchworm, or strut like someone in heels and an oversized fur coat?

I propose side-by-side, but if you have an argument the other direction, I'll happily toot it.

Before I head out for the night, dressed in a different costume, here's a status update on the #maratus (#fursuit?) head:

- papercraft assembled
- wires inserted
- foam cured (papercraft distorted)
- eyeholes cut
- fur application areas blocked out
- lenses stuck in mail; plexiglas alternates attempted but work needed
- no accessories yet made
- no pedipalp articulation yet decided yet

These are Good Socks.
@cryptovexillologist got me onto the thigh-highs and knickers kick, and it's turned out well.

Some process screenshots from this #fursuit construction process: https://glowingskull.tumblr.com/post/179461246663/though-this-is-but-a-flattened-view-of-the

Here's what a "half skull" looks like, when that "skull" is one half of a jumping-spider head. It's thick paper and masking tape, and that's it.

The full version will have a wire armature inside, and spray foam around the armature for rigidity and damage-resistance.

#fursuit builders and #cosplay costumers, how do you interpret embiggened materials? When a small animal has a given texture and you scale the animal up to human size, do you scale the texture up or tile it?

As an example, this #maratus spider is about a millimeter long. I'm going to scale the head to 20cm wide. Replicating the texture would use fake fur. To scale the texture up to match the head size, I'd use pipe cleaners and yarn.

Which approach is better?