Green Man Pumpkin - Part 8 - Something I Forgot in Last Post

 I had planned to start blogging on my other project today, but I realized that I had missed something on the last post.  So, a brief post on that today.  

When I made the mask, I covered the chin area only a short way below the face.  If I had made the mask go all the way to the chin, it would have been more difficult to remove the mask from the face mold.  Undercuts on molds are generally very difficult and may have cause the mask to break.  It could have been repaired easily enough, but why make extra work?  

So, when I attached the face to the pumpkin, there was a gap between the chin and the pumpkin.  I fixed this by using some flexible cardboard cut from a file folder to fill the gap.  (Photos below). The carboard was covered with tape and is now ready for layers of paper mâché with the rest of the pumpkin.  

This photo shows the mask from the underside where there is a significant gap between the pumpkin and the face.

Note that the inside of the face has already been primed and painted prior to attaching to the pumpkin.