Sesame Street characters

Here's a picture of the Sesame Street lineup all together.

Cookie Monster

I wasn't sure how well Cookie Monster would turn out, but overall, I'm satisfied with the result. His head took a LOT of carving to get close to the head shape of the Cookie Monster puppet! When painting, I tried to give more of a texture to his blue fur brushing a darker blue wash over the lighter blue.

Oscar the Grouch

This is not the first Oscar that I have made, but he's the first one that I've kept for myself. This time around, I tried to make his garbage can look a lot more grungy and rusted by adding a few more colors to it, as well as a few dabs of metallic looking silver to give the trash can more of a realistic look.

The lid of the trash can is a separate piece with a staple glued in place for a handle.

Ernie

Bert needs a buddy, so here he is! Don't they look happy to finally be together?

Ernie was a fun one to make and I am pleased with how he turned out. Like Bert, his hair was made out of black yarn and his ears were made from the cut off ends of craft sticks.

Kermit the Frog: Reporter

Remember Kermit as a reporter on Sesame Street? Well, here's my attempt at making a wooden version of him.

It may not look like it, but Kermit's head took quite a bit of work to get the right shape! It still may not be quite right, but it's as close as I'm going to get this time around.

The hat is actually a separate piece carved out of a piece of birch from my back yard.

Bert

The top two pictures are of my new Bert and the bottom one is of the original Bert made by Fisher-Price. Quite a difference isn't there? Bert was a lot of fun to make. I had been thinking about making him for a long time. Months ago, when I was first thinking about making him, I knew that I wanted to use yarn for his hair, but I didn't know how I could glue it on so it would look right. I also couldn't figure out how I could make his ears. After a long time thinking about it, I think I've figured out a way that worked! For his hair, I used the same method as I did for the Zoe figure in an earlier post (drilling a hole in the head, glueing the yarn into the hole with epoxy, triming to length). For the ears I cut off the rounded ends of some little craft sticks that I found at the dollar store. They are also glued on with epoxy. Now I need to make Bert's best buddy Ernie!

New Sesame Street figures

Here's Zoe, Elmo and Grover from Sesame Street! As hard as it is to part with them, I have them up for sale on Ebay. This is the first time I have ever tried making Zoe, and I really like how she turned out. Her little pigtails are actually yarn. What I did was drill a hole in each side of her head, put a little epoxy glue in the holes, as well as on the ends of two strands of yarn, and twist them into the holes. Then I just trimmed the yarn to size, put a little more epoxy around the yarn and that's it!

An Update!

How about that, a new update! These guys here are based on the old Droids cartoon series from the mid 1980's. Here we have R2-D2, Jann Tosh and C-3PO. Droids had some great characters (with colorful costumes!) and I plan on making more from that series.

Kermit and Fozzie for sale!

These guys are now for sale on Ebay! The sale ends on June 9th.

Lego Star Wars in wood

Here's an update showing all of the Lego Star Wars figures that I have made so far. The new ones in this picture are Darth Vader and an older version of Anakin Skywalker (which is based on the picture of the action figure). Darth Vader was a challenge to make. To make his mask, I had to make several cuts with the rotary tool, as well as grinding down some parts to make everything look as even as I could get it.

Anakin Skywalker

Wow, It's been a long time since I updated this! This Anakin Skywalker Lego style figure was actually finished about a month ago, so it's high time I add him to the blog. He is based on Anakin's appearance in Attack of the Clones.

Han Solo

Seeing my boys Star Wars Lego game gave me the idea to try making some figures based off of the characters in the game. A few days ago I made the Luke Skywalker figure that you can see in one of the pictures above. Realizing that I forgot to give him a neck, I decided to give it another try yesterday. The new figure I painted as Han Solo. I think that adding a neck and giving him a slimmer look makes him look a lot better than my original Luke figure. Both Luke and Han were made out of a table leg that our neighbors were throwing away. It is a very hard wood, and is by far the best wood that I have used yet. If you want to see what Han Solo looks like in the game, check out the Star Wars Lego website here: http://www.lucasarts.com/games/legostarwarsii/