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Marlies' Creative Universe
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After some experimentation with size I figured a way to make some 2-inch
tall sitting figures (1/24 scale)
Body Instructions
- cut a 5-inch piece off a chenille stem.
- with plyers make small loop at each end of the piece.
- fold in half so that it is now about 2-inches tall (figure 1).
- now to make the figure sit down measure from the feet up ¾-inch
and make a bend for the knee
- next measure ½-inch up (the thighs) and make a bend in the
opposite direction
- you're now left with an upper body that's about 1-inch tall (figure
2).
Arms Instructions
- cut a 3½-inch piece off a chenille stem
- with plyers make a small loop at each end.
- make a small bend in the center of the piece
- place the piece behind the body piece and wrap each arm around the
corresponding body side from the outside to the inside and behind. This
makes the arms stay put.
- next make a bend at the elbow about ½-inch from the hand (figure
3).
Head and Hair
- for the head I used a small wooden bead
- for the hair is used some lambs wool I had lying around. I threaded
it through the bead before I pushed the bead onto the body. That kept
it in place. Now the hair sticks straight up and I didn't want that,
so I glued it down.
Dressing the Figure, Pants and Top
- My next problem was dressing the figure. Then I remembered that I
had seen a pattern
on the web for pants. I saved the pattern to my harddrive and opened
the file in my graphics program.
- Now I had to shrink the pattern to fit my figure. It worked and I
printed the pattern on paper and cut it out.
- I place the pattern on the fabric, marked it and then cut it out and
sewed it together.
- The shirt is very simple to make I folded a piece of fabric in half
so that the fold was the shoulders and cut a small circle for the neck
and some arms.
For a 1/12 scale figure double all the measurements.
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basic body (figure 1)
making bends (figure 2)
attaching arms (figure 3)
shirt pattern idea |
