How to Build a Jaguar (#7)

Finally the jaguar is complete. All I had to do for the final touches was to make the ears, tail, facial features, and spots.

Ears: I just cut a stack of newspaper into a shape of an ear and covered it with duct tape. Then I used duct tape to tape it to the head.

Tail: I used a length of 50-gauge wire and wrapped it in bubble wrap until it was about 2 inches in diameter at its thickest point. Then I wrapped the whole thing in duct tape and attached it to the jaguar's rump with more duct tape.

Face: I used a Sharpie marker and drew the eyes, nose, mouth and whiskers.

For the spots, the final step; I simply used black spray paint and sprayed the spots onto the cat. I actually drew them wrong. A jaguar's pattern - near the face, neck and shoulders - consists of smallish solid dots. But near the torso the larger 'dots' are actually more like tiny island atolls than solid spots.



Next time I'll be more careful.

Here are some pictures of the jaguar on display in Zach's class.