Since I was essentially making a sculptural version of my illustrations I wanted to simulate a spiritual translucent face over a skeletal face so I got the idea to cast clear silicone and place it over top of a skull resin cast face. Both are hollowed out to set in wires for the jaw movement and head movement wires.
This is the back of the head after I hinged together the skull and the jaw. I originally wanted to purchase the hinges to save myself some time but the shipping would have taken longer than just creating the hinges myself.
Servo attached to Traxxas Turnbuckle Link 49mm
For the Jaw movement I set my servo on the ledge of the top jaw of the top part of the skull, to it I attached a Traxxas Turnbuckle Link 49mm to help push and pull the bottom jaw which is attached by a hinge.
I ran into several problems with this due to the apparent fact that the servo has less ability to move something the further away the object is. To fix this issue I had to angle the head in a way that the servo didn't have to pull up and push down on the jaw but instead pull it in and push it out. There was not a lot of movement from doing this but it was better than nothing.
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