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And in my adaptation (to be clear), I use the hot glue instead of the wire. The glue helps the fingers to hold their shape and not get mushed and twisted during the bending.

I'm not sure what Buck will say, but from trying it, it gives a little more "oomph" to the position. It may be necessary depending on the gauge wire he uses , but I'm not sure. I'm curious to his reasons...now that you mention it. I'm sure the wire I use is unnecessarily thick and I could use...

Okay, my method is similar to what has been shown, but I use "electric fence" wire. (cheap but you buy it in bulk) I make the armature like Buck and glue it into place with hot glue. I then sandwich the wire and use hot glue around the inside near the edge which provides support at the...

What's the deal with the double posting...that's twice today.

You can also cut the edges of the top and bottom at an angle then glue in a hoop of aquarium tubing. That helps round things out.

I'll have some pictures on my website in March of some custom work I've been doing. I've found alot of success with vacuum formed eyes. Using .030 and .040 plastics, they are practically weightless. There's lots of tutorials on-line on building vacuum tables. I've plans to make a tutorial...

Vacuum forming.

There use to be someone on ebay selling them. Used to be made by Mercury Plastics.

There use to be someone on ebay selling them. Used to be made by Mercury Plastics.

Shoot! If I'd known that, I would have smacked him and wouldn't have deprived you of saying that you knew me for smacking some idiot that went around bragging about getting hit by a bus and suing Disney. Ahh...hindsight...

Hey, that makes you Super Man. Congrats.

I'll look at Epcot in a "whole 'nother way" now, eh. Now for something completely different... You know the double-decker buses that used to circle the World Showcase? I met the idiot that got ran over, sued Disney and effectively removed the buses from Epcot. I wanted to smack him...

Wow! Those are some really big playing cards! ;)