3D printing. Easy to do, but the machine costs a lot of money. I doubt any were ever made, even for Halloween in 1977. If they were, then that would be something only a very small group of collectors would fancy, now wouldn't It? This is a sign for the others to keep their mouths shut.
Everything is laser scanned now. Better cabinet and countertop fabricators just come in with a digital camera and take pictures from all angles. They then feed those pics into a computer program that takes it to the laser guided wetsaw or hydro- jet. Similar with molds.They can take a milled or hand made object, laser scan it, and create the mold shape with the program. What used to take months of hard work is done in minutes or hours. Not everyone has access to these devices though, and that limits where he could have got the mask. It could be a really old Halloween mask for kids, but who would save that? Plastic items don't hold up so well after that many years.
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BigMatteson ago
It's Bernard, from the Disney movie The Rescuers, about a girl who get kidnapped. What kind of weird shit is that?
Mrs_Ogynist01 ago
Who just has one of these masks laying around their house? Where can you even buy one?
YogSoggoth ago
3D printing. Easy to do, but the machine costs a lot of money. I doubt any were ever made, even for Halloween in 1977. If they were, then that would be something only a very small group of collectors would fancy, now wouldn't It? This is a sign for the others to keep their mouths shut.
Fateswebb ago
I doubt the blueprints for this would just be readily available. Maybe I'm wrong idk.
YogSoggoth ago
Everything is laser scanned now. Better cabinet and countertop fabricators just come in with a digital camera and take pictures from all angles. They then feed those pics into a computer program that takes it to the laser guided wetsaw or hydro- jet. Similar with molds.They can take a milled or hand made object, laser scan it, and create the mold shape with the program. What used to take months of hard work is done in minutes or hours. Not everyone has access to these devices though, and that limits where he could have got the mask. It could be a really old Halloween mask for kids, but who would save that? Plastic items don't hold up so well after that many years.