Make your own Mannequins

I am a member of a movie prop/costume forum and I've seen a lot of displays with mannequins. I also discovered how to make mannequins for a really cheap price if anyone is interested. All you really need is a few roles of duct tape and old clothes you don't need or some pallet wrap. I am in the process of making one but here are two videos showing 2 similar ways of doing it one with clothes and the other with wrap (neither are my video but are very helpful).


The first is from Indy Mogul a company/group that shows people how to make cheap things for movies. The video here uses the body cast as a stunt dummy.



The second is from someone using it for a movie costume display.


Both are presented a bit wackily (yes I created a word) but hopefully its helpful to anyone who wants to display their pieces but doesn't want to spend a lot doing it.

Good advice. I saw one being made for a historical display. Worked well, but the clothes the model wore were too loose so the end product was a much bigger version of the guy. Still, it looked really good.

Steve

Bringing this back from the dead. I'm going to hopefully have on done after Christmas and will post pics of it then.

Here is my mannequin. It took me about 4-5 hours to do. I stuffed it with wrapping paper and other scraps of plastic.



Wearing some Swiss dress clothes.


Now all I have to do is build a stand because this guy cannot hold his own weight and tends to sag and then fall when propped up.

Nice Cyber man .


owen

Nice torso nkomo. How about share the drawings so we can do some of those wonderful torsos too?

Best regards

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Very nice what did you stuff it with? Cotton or scrap paper and such? Or perhaps...something else?