Finishing the Box!!

After looking at all the test pieces I chose to use the cotton wool texture for the face and neck wounds as i felt these looked more infections as the texture is kind of bubbles rather than ruff like with the sand and saw dust. I also thought about the face piece that i had made and applied and how bulky it was so i also reduced the size and overall thickness particularly around the edges. I also managed to make some gunshot holes using the Derma wax  and latex on grease proof paper so i could pull it off as so far i had only applied them directly to the body. Normaly using derma wax you would roll out a sliver then make it into a ring, blend it into the skin and then use tweezers to pull on the wax to create that torn skin effect. However i managed to do the same but on wax paper them peeled it off and sealed the whole thing with latex making it less delicate. I was quite happy with my gunshot holes. 

I managed to punch out the labels for each element to the kit and luckily they all fit in the gaps. One of them is abit of a tight squeeze, i did think about the labels until after i had made the box so next time i would make the labels first to make sure they all fitted properly. 

I really like how my box is coming together so far. I used a wood varnish/polish stuff inside the box to make it look completely different. I wanted to do this as looking back over the project to write my presentation i though about the theatrical element to the kit. I had written a story in the instructions to make it more of a performance for the user, this then led me to think more about how the box would look. As i really like the copper labels i thought staining the wood on the inside would give the look of a display case or something. Kind of like the display cases is museums that are made of dark wood with labels to say what the curiosity's are inside it. I think it also added more theatre to it in the sense that you wouldn't know what was inside it until its open. I am not decorating the outside in anyway so it just looks like a plane box.

I used the wood varnish as i have experimented before with using tea, coffee, food colouring, material and drawing directly onto MDF. Coffee can give a shiny would like effect but it stinks of coffee and it stays quite sticky which wouldn't be good for the latex.

While i was finishing the box i realised i had made another zombie box with-out knowing. Whilst i have been practising making all the prosthetics i've been keeping everything in a shoe box with compartments i've made out of paper boxes.