Thread: need help with skeleton feet

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I am making a giant skeleton and need help making the feet. Can someone give me some help on how to go about making giant skeleton feet? I was thinking great stuff? Any tips on how I can do this? Or any other suggestions? Please help.

With a wire armature, Great Stuff certainly can be used. Although, it's a little harder to sand/carve it to the right shape. I'd be more inclined to use XPS foam sheathing like: Owens Corning Foamular, or Dow Styrofoam (Pink or Blue boards, respectively). Both are much easier to shape than Great Stuff. For a large scale piece, I'd use ceiling grid hanger wire. Which is fairly rigid, and best of all inexpensive, especially in bulk. In fact, you can never have to much hanger wire laying around ime.

My suggestion would be bamboo. Find some stalks 1 to 2 inches around and glue them together for the toes and maybe use sculpty or great stuff for the heel and ankle bones.