Building

Wybie
My son Tim and I decided on Saturday night February 7th we were going to go to the special
Coraline event at the Emagine theater.  We had nothing ready, it was 7pm and the event was at
11am the next day.  We went to home depot to see if we could get our hands on a welder mask and
other things with which to fabricate our Wybie.   After home Depot we went next door  and found
the jacket we would use after some minor changes.

Getting home we were set up and ready to build at about 8:30pm.
Here are the materials we
were able to scrounge up on a
saturday night at 8 pm.

Start time: 8:39 pm
After several primer coats to be
sure the paint would stick I began
painting the skull.  The shape of the
Welder mask was not quite the same
so I had to wing it with the lay out a
bit.
Here is the lens turret once I used
epoxy to attach them to the base
plate.  The lenses were pvc fittings
and the base was a clean out cover.  
When Home Depot is the only place to
try to find stuff for a project you
would be amazed what you find.
Lens turret attached.
We didn't have time to install lights
but by Halloween 2009 I will install
green LED lights in the lenses.
A test fit.
The jacket was just a black jacket
we found in the store next door and
used white duct tape to add the
stripes.
Three hours and four minutes later
we have something that sort of
resembles our goal.
All things considered I guess for a
quickie we did ok.  I still want to
tweak the mask a bit before
Halloween by adding the lights and
the hand crank to the side.
10:22 pm
9:10 pm
11:32 pm
8:39 pm
11:43 pm
Emagine Theater on Sunday February 8th
Buster
puppet
scoping out
the Coraline
give aways
holding his
key.
Buster puppet meets
Victoria Rose Zelewski.  
Victoria worked on Coraline
as puppet repair and
fabrication.  She was having
a private screening for
family and friends the same
day so it was a great treat
to meet and chat with her.
Victoria
with the
managers
of the
theater.
Tim..err..I mean Wybie meets
Victoria.
And thats our Wybie
tale.

It was fun to attempt
to do something on
such short notice.  We
had fun and thats
what it's about.

now...go out and see
Coraline =)