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How can I make a pair of pants more buoyant to make a mannequin float head above water?
I'm working on an extra credit assignment for a school course I'm taking. I'm looking for a way to make a 120lb-mannequin float head above water by altering the inside of the pants, as the assignment requires that nothing should show on the outside nor should there be any awkward out-of-place bulges.
Been trying to find materials I could maybe line the inside of the pants with but I haven't had any luck finding something that works decently. Any ideas to point me in the right direction?
There are two problems with your general plan, not just one--as well as finding a way to add buoyancy to the design, putting extra buoyancy on the lower half of the mannequin will tend to tip it into a feet-up, head-down position. On a real-life human, the wearer would tend to float horizontal (because the air in the lungs adds buoyancy at chest level).
To swing the mannequin into a vertical, head-up position, the extra buoyancy should ideally be placed around the chest and shoulders, with the lower torso and legs acting as a dead weight pendulum. So if you're only allowed to modify the pants, then you'd also have to install some sort of quick-release/zipper arrangement so that the pant legs could be turned inside out, letting the extra buoyancy float up to chest level.
As far as adding the buoyancy, you could try lining the 'flip-up' sections of the pant legs with thick (5-7 mm, 1/5-1/4") neoprene. It would make the pants over-warm for everyday wear, but I guess that's not your prime concern here. The cut would have to be loose enough to allow this extra material to fit inside without causing bulges, since you'd probably need a lot of it to give the required level of flotation (a human head weighs a couple of kilograms, so that's how much buoyancy you'd need to add to keep the head supported out of the water).
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Making a mannequin/body?
I'm doing a big project over the course of 3 months and it involves making a mannequin or a 'model' of a girl. I'm doing 'girl-world' like mean girls, and there are 7 types of girl or something like that so I wanted to make like a life-sized model and incorporate that somehow. I was going to buy a mannequin or something but they're expensive and hard to find.. does anyone have any suggestions on how I could go about making this model? materials.. anything! thanks
it's going to be 3d like not flat.. but there's really no detail pretty much just the shape of the body would work
also some suggestions on how to incorporate the 7 types would be helpful
thanks all
Making a mannequin,
http://www.lgsculpture.com/makingoflauren/index.htm
previously answered by another with links,
http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index.php?qid=20070426193124AAxPvD0
also check second-hand shops, or stores that are closing,
http://ezinearticles.com/?Where-to-Find-Mannequins-for-Sale&id=66810
http://www.probeautycorp.com/erasablemakeup.cfm
http://www.mannequinland.com/
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