hi all

 I have a client who wants a 1930s tin toy boy puppet look and I need a hand so to speak. i was born in the 80s and dont know where to start i have foam and i have latex but am stuck on a shape???

john

John

I wasn't born until the 50's but I do remember playing with some old tin toys. Here is a website I found that gives some ideas http://www.tinmantintoys.com/candn/index.html

You may want to look at dolls from the 1930's as well. That would at least help you get a good drawing.
Can't wait to see what you come up with.

Billy D.

Foam and latex might not be the best materials to get an old fashioned tin toy look, but you could probably approximate it superficially. We had a discussion about a similar subject last year:

http://puppetsandstuff.com/community/index.php/topic,2104.0.html

Google's your friend, learn to dig deep.

Good luck John!

 

Ron G.

i think I'm a bit in the deep end of the pool and finding it hard to swim at the moment i had a meeting with the guy yesterday had he said a robot looking human like 1930s tin toy anyway then he said look at A.I the film so confused anyway I'm of to hobby shop 

I'm not quite sure what " AI the movie " is but if you know the complete title you can look it up here.
http://www.imdb.com/
Perhaps that will enlighten you a bit.
Billy D.

AI is the title of a movie

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212720/

I haven't seen it, but wouldn't expect it to be associated with a tin toy...

(Unless of course, this is the right movie    )

Thanks Na........... good detective work

The movie seems to be reasonably priced, it may be worth buying for reference to your project. Steven Spielberg got to be a good movie.

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?sofocus=unknown&sbrftog=1&dfsp=2&catref=C6&from=R2&satitle=Artificial+Intelligence+DVD&sacat=3499%26catref%3DC6&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D2&sadis=200&fpos=29646&sabfmts=1&saobfmts=insif&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=&fsop=2&fsoo=2

Billy D.

You're welcome!