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04-19-2019, 06:58 AM | #11 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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I took the figure and posed him in the bent over position I liked so I could gauge the height of the walker.
I had a thick coat hanger in that aluminum type color. I cut the hook part off the hanger because it will take about half the hanger to make this. I used a pair of needle nose pliers with diagonal cutters in them to cut the hanger. if you don't have the hand strength i'd suggest using a hack saw. I held the hanger up to his hand to gauge the height I needed then added idk about an 1/8th of an inch. the added length is because its not going to bend exactly where/as you want it. it will a elongated bend and not a hard 90. plus you want the leg a little long so you have room on the end to trim and even them up after bending both sides. after the first bend I measured for how long I wanted the top part, made a mark with a sharpie. that's where my next bend started to the other leg. bent that leg. measured the length of the first leg and cut the 2nd leg based off that measurement. cut a bar to go across the leg. mine was a hair longer then needed because I used the pliers to cut it so it doesn't leave a flat edge like a saw would so I sanded it flat with a Dremel then super glued it in place. I was going to soldier it in place but didn't want to paint the walker (I was being lazy lol, havnt had a day off in a month), the super glue dries clear enough to not really see it if you don't glob it on. repeat the process for the other side. I put the sides in his hands and measured the distance between them and cut two bars and glued them in place. painted the front feet and hand rails in the same flat black I used on the figure to dull down areas of his black leather. I was going to sculpt some padding on the hand rails and for the balls on the back feet but again I was tired and didn't feel like it so the back feet balls are some small foam balls I had laying around I used for snow balls on a dio. glued them in place. had thought about painting them green but wasn't sure if the paint would melt the foam and kinda liked them white so it didn't stand out as much but they really should be either black or green. had I been awake enough I would have covered them in either foam protectant or elmers glue then painted them so it wouldn't melt (if it melted, didn't test it). but I have a gazillion of those foam balls so I might redo them at some point. I think that's about it. I pulled up pictures of "elderly walker"s online and picked one I thought looked like a classic walker and just winged it as I went. I have most of the parts to make a futuristic type wheel chair using joe parts that I was going to use for c.c. but I think the walker is funnier. the wheel chair parts may be set aside for my pile of parts I've been stock piling for another build. Last edited by Voice of Reason; 04-19-2019 at 07:03 AM.. |
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