Closing in

Small update. Did a little more tonight, using thicker/wider strands of hair as it makes no difference but speeds up the process!

Getting there, hair!

This is going on pretty fast, but I'm not rushing it :-) trying to be neat and precise..

Trying to figure out how the overlaps are going to look wheni get to the ends nearest the nose/mouth.... Hmmmm

Rawrrrrr!!!!!

Adding grey to forehead

Wasn't sure I had enough grey hair on the forehead so added some more in.

As in reference pics his grey hair is behind the brown from the lower forehead...

When it's all dried and finished I can start brushing it to blend it together. It will look less 'strandy' then..

Face glueing of hair part 2..

So I've cut my hair in half, making it 26-30 inches roughly. I then cut this in half so glueing to the face gives me anything between 13 and 15 inches ish.

Ready to rock!

First things first, a nice beading of the sealant around the edge that I'm going to work on. You'll notice I drew lines on the face to copy the original contours/directions of hair seen on screen.

Then start grabbing strands. Approximately 2-3 times more hair than what I was latching with.

I had to add some to the ends of the mesh on the head as I left this bare for glueing.

So I basically went all the way round the beast with about 10mm of adhered hair..once you push the hair strand it flattens out. Whilst holding the whole strand with one hand to stop it moving, you can smooth the adhesive over the end and get a good glued finish!

Face glueing of hair!!

Yeah baby! Finally it has begun!!

My "sticks like shit" glue didn't work at all!! Apparently it's "shit" at sticking to silicone!!

Did an overnight trial of this stuff and looks like it sticks really well :-)

So first off I had to stick down the sides of the mesh around the mask

Magnets are holding it in place whilst it cures :-)

I'm using sticks like shit💩 glue here as it DOES stick to the felt covering the mask at least 👦

It's starting to stick!

So I've given my silicone adhesive/sealant a go. It's both things... Couldn't decide between the two! 

First of all I needed a padded spacer to smooth the gap between silicone face and helmet

Made this from foam

Then glued it down

Then once that had started to set.. Glued the mesh down to it. I had left 10-20mm gap around the edges knowing this would end up wing glued. If there's any spare holes I will latch them after..

Also tried a little patch of it on the mask to see if it adheres to it.. Will see tomorrow!!

I bough a fancy sealant - It comes with a shut off valve and different sized nozzles. Gonna e great using the micro one for doing the face fur 

Going grey

Latch hooking is making me go grey!! Look at meeeeee!!!!

I think I look rather dashing!!

Hahaha so close to finishing this grey fur now. 

Altered the angle towards the edges so that I met the ends parallel to them in the direction of latching. Otherwise my red wool was a guide line of where to change  latch direction