/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Wet some pasta and let it dry out. If you want, get a balloon mold of sorts and wrap the pasta around it so the ribcage sits nice and evenly. You might need to make a frame for the pelvis(with pasta of course) and drape large areas with pasta sheets. If you're serving them with something wet, you can try putting foil or cling film as a layer between the food and the bones, or wrap the bones themselves.

Sounds like a fun time, OP.

>>964172
Not a bad idea. Wasn't there someone here recently who had to build a bridge out of pasta? I wonder how well that turned out.

I don't have any great suggestions for you as this is out of my limited /diy/ realm but I just came here to say your idea is awesome and so are you. I really hope you post pics of your progress and the result, I want to see this more than liam hemsworth's dick (which is a LOT btw)

i wish you all the best of luck in this man

Papier mache? Balsa wood?

Started making the face out of fauxtex. Still need to make more skin to cover the rest of the head, but so far, so good.

>>964588
Poured the fauxtex on the inside of the mask to mold it.

>>964589
And it pretty much fits on the plastic skull.

I'll make the additional skin and blend it with the face. It's actually pretty easy to bond sections of this fauxtex together with just a hot knife. Can add nostrils and face details with the same technique.

it's unique....although having nothing to do with the easter story

I would have suggested a mock autopsy of the easter bunny

>>964018
Make some wire forms, cover them with some sort of intermediate padding and wrap (and tie) with cheesecloth, then coat it in plaster of Paris

Anyway why exactly do you want to do this

>>964018
This really all depends on how realistic you want it to be and how edible as well. If you would like the entire body for the most part to be edible, minus the plastic skull and gut bag you are planning, I would go with a variation of a noodle trick like >>964172 suggested

This will take a bit of time, but easily accomplishable by Easter...

1) First you are going to need a suitable model, so if you yourself or someone you know(if they are willing) has a suitable body type to the one you'd like to make:
you are going to need to make at least a basic plaster mold of the torso, upper arms, neck, groin, and upper legs (going off of the minimum space you were saying), you can do these in sections and join them later if you like.
>(the plaster mold can leave the back exposed, just the front and sides need to be formed)

2) when the plaster is set, dust it with flour, then take some plastic wrap and gently line the inside so there are no creases, try to form it to the contours the best you can.

3) now take your freshly made fauxtex, first pour it into the heavily detailed areas to allow the plastic wrap and fauxtex to settle into those areas better, then take a brush and start to paint the whole interior.
You will need to paint it in multiple layers so you can get a thicker skin on the sides that curl up and are semi even even in thickness.

So initially pour, paint out, up, and all around... Wait for it to at least set or completely dry... Paint on another layer... Repeat until you get the skin thickness you desire.

Make an extra sheet of fauxtex that will cover and slightly overlap the back hole, set aside until Easter.

>>964652
4) now once the skin is made, keep it in the plaster, you still need bones.

Now take some dry noodles of your choice (my personal choice for this would be spaghetti, but it's your call), place them in luke warm salted water until they become pliable and bendy with just a touch of stiffness still to them.
>You want them to be soft enough to be able to contort and shape, but not floppy/worm like
Drain them, pat dry with a towel/paper towel, grab enough to be the thickness of a rib, then twist them so they have a spiral pattern like a rope.
Roll it in 2-3 layers of rice paper, then place it in your chest cavity where a rib should be, repeat until you have your rib cage, let your ribs dry out to become hard again
>note: if the body is going to be served on a tray/platter, the spine isn't really necessary
If you would like a spine, make sure you interlace the rib noodles before you twist so they will be longer to wrap all the way around, them use the same method to make the spine

Pelvis and other bones can be made similarly, but for the pelvis I'd suggest using Lasagna noodles wrapped around some bread

>>964653

5) once bones are dry and food is all made and ready shortly before dinner on Easter, place food in designated spots , use bread as a filler in all the empty void area's, then take that sheet of fauxtex you set aside earlier and close up the back, fusing it in place with a hot knife.
>like i stated before, you can do this in sections then place them all together at this point before serving the Jesus for dinner.
Once the body is filled and the back is in place, flip over onto tray/table/serving platform/etc. And remove the plaster, then remove plastic wrap, join together any separate parts if needed.

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Viola: you now have a 100% edible Jesus (mostly), fully enclosed and ready to cut into.

Enjoy

>if you would like a little extra show to it, place a ziploc bag of ketchup in the places where you would be cutting into before filling the body with bread.

OP here. /ck/ had a pretty good idea about forming a frame for the ribs out of rigid wire, then baking some soda bread on the frame. Will try tonight.

This is happening.

>>964652
>>964653
>>964654

Not OP, but I'm saving your posts and using them to make a rabbit of monstrous proportions and visage.

OP here.

Had some ok success with the soda bread bones. It was a pretty standard recipe that I modified slightly and will probably modify a little more.

4 cups flour
2 cups water
.75 tsp baking soda
.75 tsp baking powder
1 tbls kosher salt

Next time I'll probably brush it down with water to smooth out the outer surface a little.

>>966077
those are still fukken cool though mang

>>966077
4 little vertibrates

>>966082
A test femur

>>966084
4 ribs, held together temporarily with bamboo skewers. I'm pretty sure these are going to be rock solid in a day or two.

>>966085
i wish i was there helping you. i'm bored af this week and i hate my family

Got the brain, heart, and hand molds. Brain is for pate course, heart is for dessert, and hand is for meatloaf.

I'm going to interrupt my two person easter dinner to find a post where you've uploaded picture. Please deliver.

OP, just want to say that I envy your family, 10/10 would break bread ribs off and dip in stomach bile soup. I was going to suggest clay or papier mache but bread is so much better (except that you would have to make lots of it).

Please keep us updated and take pictures of the final product, I'm keeping an eye on this thread.

OP here. So I've got this scaffolding made out of 6AWG copper wire. Going to try to bake the ribs, all at one time, and pre-formed, tonight.

One thing I've learned so far, you would never be able to fit an actual adult human in your oven all at once.

>>967640
>Holocaust confirmed as a hoax

>>967647
Those weren't house ovens, /pol/, they were crematoriums, built specifically for getting rid of human bodies. It would do you good opening a book every now and then, instead of lending an ear to a vocal echo chamber.

About 8 cups of flour later...

>>967752
And 30 min at 350f later...

Just have to do the pelvis now.

>>964018
just sayin.. thats kinda fucking weird.
Most people would consider cutting up a corpse to be bad dinner etiquette.
If your family is the weird alternative type this might go over good.. but if not, then you might want to check your autism

>>967753
This is about as much skeleton as I can do for one night.

>>967794
it looks like a baby's skeleton. I expected a grown man's.

>>967798
people were smaller back then

>>967794
The pelvic bone needs two holes in it to be anatomically correct.
On that note, this skeleton is either of a baby's or of a very small man (not a woman), due to the pelvic size and shape.

>>967809
>jesus confirmed woman

>>967809
Nothing about this lump of dough is anatomically correct. Let it go.

>>967870
Exactly. In the original post I mentioned that I only need something that approximates a skeleton. This thing is still going to have a bowl in the pelvis and some other objects embedded in it which make it even less correct. Also, technically, it doesn't have enough ribs, the collar bone is mis-shaped, the sternum is all wrong, etc etc.

On the other hand, I don't think the picture is doing it justice either. From the top of the ribs to the bottom of the pelvis measures almost 3'. Thats about the same size as my ribs and pelvis and im 6'2". Looking at it sitting on the counter, it's actually kinda creepy. We'll see how it looks later with some skin on it.

>>967892
Really? I'm using that flour bag for comparison and it looks far too small - maybe you can give a picture from wider shot with something else for perspective?

no pun intended OP but this whole thread is giving me a boner. i'm excited about the whole thing

A couple more shots to show the scale of this thing. Here it is with my jacket over it. The silver platter is about 3.5' long. The hood covers the head, the jacket comes down to where the waist would be, and the plastic hand mold is where the hand should be.

>>967987
And then without the jacket. The skull is obviously too small. Thinking of making a bigger one using the same bread recipe, but I only have so much time left. If you look closely, the plastic heart mold is in the chest. The wig is exactly the right size.

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>>967988
10/10

>>964018
post it to /ck/ when its all said and done, and you have all the pics ready.

Im sure we will have a ton of "Post what you made for Easter" threads

Nifty. Reminds me of this thing some cu/ck/ made for Halloween.

>>967988
>>967989
Jesus Christ how horrifying

Can't wait to see the pitchers OP

>>968609
Everything is behind schedule, as usual, and it won't look as good as I was hoping for, as usual, but, regardless of OP pic, OP will deliver.

>>968638
hahaaaa this is fucking awesome

>>968638
Fantastic. I like the fake bone and fingernails.
When it's done, post to /ck/ and link the thread here, I want to see their reaction.

OP here. The best pictures I got are in video files. I'm gonna get a couple of decent still frames, and I'll try to get the best stuff I can put in to some webms. I can use vlc player to convert to wemb, right?

>>968865
not sure about VLC, but if that doesn't work you can use firefogg in firefox to do it. just google and you'll see how it work. i can't wait brah

Making some webms now. In the meantime, I wanted to reply to a couple of comments here.

>>964652
>>964653
Outstanding advice. I simply didn't have time to go this route. Casting the whole torso would have made placing the ribs easier, and would have made the whole thing more consistant. Not sure how I would have fit the bowl of soup in upside down, but if I had to do it all over again, I would definitely try to start with a cast like you suggested.

>>966992
>>968609
Sorry I couldn't get these videos posted sooner. Too much to drink on easter, and work consumes almost all of my weekday hours.

>>967326
I actually did 'break off rib and dip in stomach bile' during dinner just for you.

>>967776
Hmm. Doesn't seem weird to me. Just seemed kinda funny.

>>967999
Will post to /ck/ shortly. /diy/ gets first dibs since the thread lived here.

>>968230
This is awesome. I wish I had seen this a little bit sooner. The skull never turned out right, but this would have seriously helped.

>>968866
Thanks. I'm taking your advice to make the webms now.

>>969896
While I've got some time to kill, here's what I learned.

When you're making the skin out of fauxtex, mix together a large batch of water and food coloring first, then use this pre-colored water to make the fauxtex. Otherwise there can be slight color variations from batch to batch that are really noticeable. You can see it on my dummy where the skin over the stomach doesn't match the skin over the chest.

Factor in a good amount of time for finishing up the body before guests arrive. I ran out of time so the skin on the arm wasn't anywhere near done, and I didn't have time to blend and join the skin between the chest and stomach.

If you're making the bread on a mold, like I did for the skull, don't remove the mold until you have to. I removed the little plastic skull, and everything looked good, but by the next morning it was shrinking, deforming, and cracking because of the way it was drying.

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>>969937
Thinking about leaving the remnants just barely sticking out from behind a dumpster in the alley, just to be a dick.

Skelly guy delivers

How did you dinner party react to this grand spectacle?

>>969966
Unfortunately, even though I didn't tell them what I was doing, they all suspected simulated cannibalism. Even still, they didn't guess the length to which I would take it, so it still worked out well.

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>>969941

I literally laughed out loud. Fucking delivered, although I would love to get these with sound (don't know if /diy/ allows audio webms). Apart from said brother who were the rest of the family? My mother would have been squeamish and wouldn't eat anything. Overall, the creepy surgery/dinner webms were worth the wait.

>>969972
>Unfortunately, even though I didn't tell them what I was doing, they all suspected simulated cannibalism
You're that notorious family member, aren't you.

>>969937
>John 26_26.webm
>"A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”"
I don't get the analogy.

>>970188
Actually, it should be John 20:27. I was quoting from the whole John ch. 20, but I hit 20:27 right as he was inserting his hand in to the torso there.

>>970186
I tried for sound, but apparently "audio streams aren't allowed." If you're really interested, I'll just put the full size files in my drop box. There wasn't really anything groundbreaking in the audio though.

It was me, my brother, my girlfriend, and a mutual friend from Chicago here.

/ck/ here, wish your thread over there hadn't died, just posting to say well done me bucko

>>969896
IIRC >>968230 is a cheese ball dip thing covered in prosciutto.