How To Repair A Mannequin

I have been working on a very special project I am excited to share with you. I am a floral designer and nosotros are working on our prom display. Yeah, it's that fourth dimension once more.
Ane of my co-workers has an eye for vintage items so idea this might work in our display:

Unfortunately she needed some repairs

From her forehead, chin and even down to her toes she looked similar she had been in a warehouse for a while.

Her cervix as well had to be repaired. As presently as I saw her I could picture her restored but where do I start? Well, kickoff I cleaned her up to remove any grease or dirt. So I figured I couldn't just gesso the worn spots or she might look like she had craven pox and then I decided I needed to practice some patch work.
After some low-cal sanding and removal of chipped paint, I tried some spackling filler, wrong! Information technology merely wouldn't stick. Next I idea about wood filler. Wrong again. While I played with the fillers, I decided to match a paint sample. I just couldn't get the right shade.
Then I had the well-nigh brilliant idea. Since you can unlock all the pieces (hands, arms, legs etc) I put ane of the hands in a bag and headed off to Home Depot. You know the commercial where they tell you they do color matching? Well information technology works! Afterward the lady in the paint Department got over the shock of a actually life like looking paw we were able to match the color perfectly and even went with a satin finish to match what was already on the Mannequin.
The next footstep was to figure out what on earth to use to fill the pox marks with? The base of operations is actually covered with a fiberglass however the bonding agent had to be mixed and used within 5 minutes. This was non a time frame I was at all comfortable with. Then the sales lady and I headed over to the patch section in the pigment department and agreed Dap'due south Crack Shot High Performance spackling paste seemed the best choice.

After a careful patch job, overnight dry time and more than light sanding I was finally ready to paint. Are you ready for the big reveal?

She is such a sultry lady, lol.

Yous can't fifty-fifty see where the flaws were. I love all the detail she has. The beautiful brown optics are drinking glass with life like eyelashes. I did take to redo the eyebrows using an archival fine point marker. I could not find a shade to redo the the lips and I felt it was best to leave them alone.

Hither she is later dressing and before we find a safety spot to brandish her.

Just a note about this mannequin, when I go shopping I find it foreign to see wear displayed on faceless, shapeless figures.This one was produced in 1987 and the detail, not only on the facial features, merely on the skeletal frame likewise is incredible. She has a very graceful spine but what impressed me was the biceps and the other muscles that were evident. People coming into the shop are doing a double take because she truly is life similar. This is a challenge I just had to undertake. After all I would do it if only: For The Love Of Fine art!!!!!!