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For the beetle is best suited hooks Long Shank and a wide gap.
Mounting thread lock right at the very eye, and make the winding of 1 mm.
To simulate the stubble of whiskers using a brush.
The length of the whiskers of your choice. From them at all can be waived, but I think this is an important element for increasing the realism of the beetle.
Monofil (0.25-0.3) with tweezers and then the thread doing the burning eyes.
Anchoring them too close ear crosswise.
Next thread dissipate up to bend the hook ...
... and back, that the thread was directly opposite the tip.
Take the strip of foam and cut corners at the end of the strip.
Be sure to bend the foam along to it took the form like tube.
Draw a little super-glue to the bend of the hook. Clay should not be a gel!
Neatly anchoring the foam.
Do not immediately attract much foam, thread can very easily cut it.
For the abdomen take any fiber. Anchoring and ...
... pulls on the shank of a few layers, thus creating the volume.
Fiber should be hydrophilic - absorbs water, to create the effect of "dolls".
Twisting the fiber into rope and wound to form segments.
Anchoring, cut off excess.
Legs can be made from different materials.
I used a thread for beadwork.
Beautiful legs can be obtained from the latex.
Fold in half and anchoring legs to gap, in the place where consolidated fiber.
Carefully straighten the future legs. And dissipate slightly toward the ear.
Loop once we add in half and criss-cross the anchoring to the gap.
Carefully straighten the future legs.
Cut and then carefully straighten.
Take the dubbing. The color of your choice, but it is better to use darker shades.
Cheat dubbing to the thread.
Pulls dubbing thread around the legs. Try not to press down legs.
The legs should stick to the sides.
Bends the foam, and between the front and middle legs filament draw in the foam.
Obtain the strip from which to start back.
Bend the foam and cut off the excess before the eyes.
On both sides of the cut away corners of the foam diagonally to the line where it starts back.
Anchoring the back between the first and second pair of legs on the line.
Form the head.
And a little remove thick foam. So be careful.
Form the head BEFORE eyes. That is, the part of the body, but not from the ear hook.
Anchoring finishing knot the thread. Cut off.
With Pliers presses bristle mustache, forming a notch. Whiskers are more realistic.
Heat the needle and just touching the legs of Making them "bent at the knees." It does not work in all materials!
Stifle can be done legs tied in a knot if the legs of the gum.
Once more all the fluff.
Beetle is almost ready. Getting dragged.
The final important stage - the whole foam impregnate varnish, rub it, closing the pores. Well not to get water.
Beetle is ready! Catharsis is inevitable!