Day 24, October 16, 2023
The 3D printed base and main control handle. The Delrin thumb block has been added.
Today was the big day to finish our mechanical skeleton puppets.
We started off by visiting a local hobby shop to purchase supplies. It was Katherine’s first time in an American hobby store, and the diversity of supplies was amazing! Katherine bought the bolts and washers she needed to connect the arm wires to the hands of the puppet.
To make the arm wires, Katherine cut the length she needed from the coil of wire, but she needed straight wires, so Katherine researched how to straighten wire and found this video which worked for her.
After finishing the assembly of the two skeletons, Katherine and Pam filmed them for Pam’s YouTube channel. Pam created the funny puns on the still pictures from the filming session.
After a long fun day of puppet building, Pam brought out some gingerbread house kits that you can assemble and decorate. Katherine chose the Halloween kit, and Pam chose the christmas kit. Construction only got as far as attaching the roof because gingerbread houses are held together with just icing. The icing has to set before the decorations are added. Katherine decided to use string to hold the walls in place while the icing set.
Day 25 & 26, October 17 & 18, 2023
Both day’s started with Katherine helping Pam in her workshop develop some new puppets for a future project. Katherine had built similar puppets and had photographs in her archive that were a helpful guide for Pam. In the evenings, Pam and Katherine finished their gingerbread houses by using icing as glue and candy as decorations. Katherine tried a fancy basketweave piping tip to create a spooky tree on her gingerbread house. The gingerbread houses will be left on display at Pam’s house until after Halloween and Christmas.
Georgina Monster