{"id":3582,"date":"2022-10-27T21:17:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T04:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/?p=3582"},"modified":"2022-10-31T14:07:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T21:07:18","slug":"making-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/2022\/10\/making-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the Wall-E portion of the display, I wanted to have not only a Wall-E, but also Eve. This was a big challenge, as Eve’s design is very rounded and smooth – very tricky to replicate with Styrofoam and cardboard. I looked at several tutorials online, but they all seemed too complicated or required equipment I didn’t have. So, I build Eve from a trashcan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had purchased a plastic kitchen trashcan several years ago, when I was going to make Samurai armor out of it. \ud83d\ude42 The profile at the top of the can was very similar to that of Eve’s neck, so the can was re-allocated to become the body of Eve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I cut the sides of the can for Eve’s arms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I then, cut the can more and glued\/attached a 12″ Styrofoam hemisphere at the bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For the head, I decided to use what I learned last year about making curved shapes out of flexible floor mat foam. I used a large metal bowl as my pattern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I covered half of the bowl with foil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then, I covered that with duct tape and drew out the pattern lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Using that pattern, I cut our pieces from the floor mat foam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I glued foam to the insides of the arms and had all the pieces I needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I then used a sturdy cardboard tube as the neck\/spinal cord of Eve to connect the head to the body (sorry, folks, I wasn’t able to make the head just float like Eve’s does in the movie.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After that, we gave Eve a paint job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I suspended her using ropes so that she was in her flying position…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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…and she was ready to go to defend her friend, Wall-E!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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