Please forgive typos, I'm a notoriously bad typist. Hope this makes sense and helps on some future custom Taun projects..
First off ,prep the figure. You can either sand him down just a bit or go over him quickly with the sanding drum from a dremel. Just be careful with the dremel as he isn't too thick and you could make a hole in him very quickly if you are not careful. After that paint him up where you think he needs it. Points that you want to leave exposed. His horns, claws and such. Next you start hairing him up. You"ll want want some type of fabric hair. I get the stuff that comes on notebook paper sized sheets. The hair itself ranges in length from an 1.5 inches to 2 inches. You"l also need a very good sharp pair of scissors and some Elmers Tacky Glue. The first thing you do is cut the hair. You just basically cut the hair off the sheet, almost like a barber giving a haircut.You can either cut off the bits of hair as you use them or cut off a bunch and carefully put them to the side in bunches. Just be careful because the hair is light and you could easily move and blow the hair all over the place. Either way, it does get messy and you'll have hair bits all over the place. Next you start hairng. Start at the bottom and work your way up. Put a generous bit of glue around the first leg, You basically work your way up in rings. you then attach the hair. You put the hair in place on the glue( basically what was the root of the hair on the sheet is pressed into the glue. Don't worry,you will see plenty of glue through the hair. It dries clear and all will be good. Once you put the first ring on you just put another glue ring on and then hair that as well. Until you get better at it I would only do a couple glue rings at a time as the Taun is heavy and hard to handle and the more you do the more you can mess up should your hand slip.( You"ll basically push all the hair out of place, smearing it. You then have to pull it off and start over. )Once it dries though you are good to go. ......Hope that all makes sense. Your basic starting points to hairing are the feet, the tail ends and the front paws(hands). The hands
are easy as the just end at the body. The legs also end at the body near the saddle, On both ,hair as close as you can to the articulation without restricting movement. You do not want the hair is rubbing or touching ot the artic points. The tail continues on through the entire body. For it and everywhere else just follow the flow of the from to place the hair in the direction you want it to flow. At some points you may want to redirect or reposistion the hair to hide some articulation point or something. Still hair as normal just slightly redirecting the hair . You can do this by the way you place it on or by using some sort of instrument to move the hair slightly just after you put it on. I use a cheap plastic putty knife. You just keep going as described till it is all done. You do have some maneuvering and reposistion to do around the face area and it's just a do as you go type of thing. When you get to the end, say by the eyes or the horns, just hair as close to them as you can and once it dries it should look good. after it"S all dry go over it with a babies hair brush to get out any loose hairs. You can also do this step as you are hairing as each section you do after it dries 100% . Once you do all that an additional thing I do is Vaccum over the entire body using an extension to get any more loose hairs. You'll know you did a great job if you passs this stage.. After all this you have your nice long hair shaggY Taun Taun. Get out you scissors and go at it. Once the haircut is done dab him up a bit with some white acrylic gesso to make it look like a bit of packed snow.. You can also but a dab of gel on him and spread it around to just "style his overall look. You can work it around with a bit( very little bit ) of water. Just use a fine mist spray bottle and give him a shot or two and ther you go. Hope this makes sense and hope this helps. Looking forward to seeing what you all produce.
Deathstalker ( Mark)
