Becoming a Death Eater - Part 2

Way too excited

After thoroughly scrubbing all of the plaster from my face and hair, a good nights sleep and a day of work we were ready to have another go at creating a Death Eater mask.  This time around my wife was all set to be the test subject.  I am not sure she plans on actually wearing the mask in the parade but I figured I could use a little practice on applying the plaster before I attempted to make a mold of my sons face for his mask.

Much more still then I was

We did learn a few things from our first go around.  My wife was all ready with her shower cap, tucking as much of her hair underneath as she could manage.  the rest we applied Vaseline over.  Another step we took to make the process go a bit smoother was to cut a larger variety of sizes from the pieces of old t-shirt.  This would save us time during the application and hopefully not cause the plaster waiting to be applied to dry as much.

The nose, mouth and eyes turned out to be a little tricky.  I wanted to get as close and as much covered as possible but without suffocating my wife! It might not be easy to tell from the photos but it turns out i made to much of an effort in strengthening the edges.  Once the mask dried and came off these turned out to be almost a half inch thick.  I will just have to incorporate that into my design.

The next phase I am really excited about, sculpting the look of the mask.  More on that in Becoming a Death Eater - Part 3.

Scary

Think she was happy it came off