The Greatest Piñata Ever Made, Part 11

Pythagoras came to my rescue again today. With his help, I measured, calculated, Photoshopped, printed, traced, cut and installed the sublingual area (below the tongue), all in just a few hours' time. As with the others, the image to the right is to scale at 4.926 px/inch.

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I'm trying to multitask (since time is short) . . . so while the glue on the sublingual plate was still drying, I also cranked out 2/3 of a freehand tongue.

No measurements, not even a plan really . . . I just grabbed some posterboard that was laying around and started folding and taping. The end result looks pretty good, I think (though the back 1/3 of the tongue still needs to be added). It's not fixed in place, and I've only just begun to papier-mâché the thing . . . but it will work. This is the first "volumous" portion of the piñata not made with corrugated cardboard.

Tonight I'm planning to coat (or begin to coat) the entire piñata with a cosmetic layer of pure white papier-mâché. Any coloration added to the finished piñata will go over the uniform white layer.


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