I came back to the workshop with various sets of tubes in different sizes and materials, a bicycle pump and some break cables, a pirates toy telescope and a light sabre. With that basic idea in mind I set out to spend some quality time in my favourite DIY supplies shop, as well as in various toy and bicycles shops. All this leaded to the basic idea to build a kind of telescope and a mechanism to push it out and pull it back in. To get to the key elements of the nose took me a lot of googling around, lots of emails and phonecalls with other prop and makeup departments. To give you an idea of the tools I worked with I made a panoramic shot of my workbench in about mid-project (it tended to look worse to the end of the project). The most important were a dremel and 2-component glue. You have to either ask the theatre (but to my knowledge the will not rent/or sell abroad) or to build one by yourself. I would gladly see what you made!Īnd as stated in my profile: I don't own this mask/nose, it belongs to the theatre, I built it for and I don't work in that theater anymore. Please leave me a picture of your successful build in the comments. It seems, that a lot of people try on building such a nose with the help of this instructable, which is a great honour for me. Above you see the very first of these prototypes, the rehearsal mask and the (almost) final mask. Over the time of about two months, I built various prototypes and two final noses, because when doing double shows, it's nice to have second (dry) mask to put on for the second show of the day. I agreed to do the technical part and makeup did the design part. It was very clear, that neither the makeup department, nor the props department could do this all alone, so we joined forces. Our director wanted to have the nose growing and shrinking visibly on stage without anyone touching it. A lot of theatres do this part of the play in a way that the actor has an extra nose he puts on in this moment, or he pulls the point of his nose to make it longer or they just do nothing at all. As probably most of you now, it's the story of a little wooden puppet becoming a real boy, and while still in his wooden stage, his nose is growing longer and longer, when he's telling a lie. In autumn 2015 it was the nose for Pinocchio. And Robert is your father's brother.In my line of work as a propsmaster, from time to time I meet a very special challenge. Then just have a flexible pipe down to the second syringe in the actors pocket. I'd be thinking one syringe in the base of the nose pushing it in and out, with a clever wire system so that as you push the first section out, it in turn pulls the second section, and so on. Move one syringe in and out, and its' friend will do the opposite. You can build a pretty simple hydraulics or pneumatics system simply by connecting two syringes together with a length of pipe. One method of moving simple things in a line that I've used a few times is the humble syringe. Have you seen the innards of a car aerial? They're huge! They're also going to need a decent size battery pack, and a resistor dimmer isn't going to give you the position control you're after, it'll give you speed control of it extending/contracting.īy all means take some ideas from one, but I don't think it's the solution you're after. I'd go for a remotely pulled wire somewhere else on the costume. This is one of those jobs I've fancied having a crack at for years now! In truth though, it's far more complicated than you'd think! Personally I don't think you'll fit much of the mechanism in the nose itself.
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