Mike Teavee is a geek

I'm bored of sticking Army men together. Here I have put some other ideas for Mike Teavee.

Here I have used the pictures I found yesterday stereotypical geek (according to Google images) and came up with this costume. I've included the plastic gun because of the description in the book.

Here is a making Mike Teavee costume simple by him just a t shirt printed with plastic armymen. I got inpsiration for this by looking at past costume illustrations, The Centipede's costume (second one) is just as simple as possible and this is what I have done here.

Desensitisation Definition

de·sen·si·tise  (d-sns-tz)

tr.v. de·sen·si·tised, de·sen·si·tis·ing, de·sen·si·tis·es

1. To render insensitive or less sensitive.

2. Immunology To make (an individual) nonreactive or insensitive to an antigen.

3. To make emotionally insensitive or unresponsive, as by long exposure or repeated shocks: "This movie in effect may resensitize people who thought they were desensitized to violence" (Steven Spielberg).

4. To make (a photographic film or substance) less sensitive to light.

Experimenting with Attaching Plastic Army Men Together

I cut off the bottom stand on this one, I would do this to all of them but they aren't as recognisable and it would be very time consuming.

This is another attempt of melting army men, this took a while and the smell was awful. So I tried other ways below.

 These are stuck together with glue gun witch work quite well but there is no sign of desensitisation.

 I wanted to try and see how I could change the gun so I did this. The colour doesn't look correct so I 'm going to spray paint it grey or khaki green.

I want to try and make a feel or look a haze of desensitisation to these. I 'm still waiting for them to dry so I don't know how they will turn out. 

Experimenting Melting Plastic Army Men

Before

After

These were all melted by an iron in between paper, I tried without paper but they stuck to the iron, I thought it was better them getting stuck to newspaper. They didn't melt as I thought they would, I am going to try putting some in the oven on a low temperature.

 These are pictures of two of the same type of army man but the right one has been melted with a heat gun. This worked quite well and I want to see how I can melt them together and look at melting the other type of men. 

This is an army man that got stood on and posted this because I felt that Mike Teavee would have done this to his toys.

Plastic Army Men and Guns

I have bought these from Amazon, I am going to experiment with melting them together. In the book 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' it says "Mike Teavee himself had no less than eighteen toy pistols of various sizes hanging from belts around his body, and every now and again he would leap into the air and fire half a dozen rounds from one or another of these weapons." I want to create something different to just this and from the character analysis I have done he is a very desensitised little boy and I feel melted army men and guns would show this but I am going to look further into this before sticking to this idea.

 

 

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Mike Teavee Idea

My idea here is to have a waistcoat covered in plastic army men and toy guns. This kid is obsessed with television and violence. I'm going to look at ways of sticking the army men together and also ways of making him look desensitised.