Where are the foam tubes?
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If you are talking about the pvc that ran behind the head, out of the drain tube, I didnāt build my puppet controls in that way
I opted to route from the back of the head, down through the pvc skeleton . Doing this , I was able to mount the skeleton/drain tube flush with the bottom of the head and create a simple hinge to operate the mouth . Using the footage and pictures available , it was just easier to do it that way, atleast for me . So , the controller is a tad different , but it does operate in the same way
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I think @TheBindingPolymer is referring to the gag in KTMA01 where she gets sick and starts foaming from her nostrils.
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Ahhhh! I see now! No alien sickness on this one. If I do a ktma crow build , I would FOR SURE include the tubing , lol
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whats the front part of the eye made of?
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Now THATāS impressive.
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Itās a decorative cup cake holder my wife found on Amazon. I doubled 2 of them up as they are alittle thin, so it was nice an sturdy . I used a standard sized ping pong ball for the āpupilā or whatever youād call it , lol
I have no idea what the original was. I thought initially it was a vending machine toy capsule, but they are alittle undersized .
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thank you cant find and information on her parts
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The parts I can identify are
2 infaseat or questor infant carriers ( these come in multiple names and colors . Prop a seat is the āmodelā) some do not have the little raised bar on them
1 portable male urinal ( these are pretty cheap and I found mine at Walmart. The equate version has the detached handle like the original )
Drainage hose - standard stuff used on crow and Gypsy
Skeleton is 1 1/2 inch pvc, 2 closet flanges, and 2 45 degree pvc couplers.
I have no idea what the original puppet controller was , and it seemed to run up the back of the neck. It also looks like the hinge itself was hidden on the backside . I just cut a small part of the bottom carrier , so the top would fit over it to create a hinge . Then the skeleton attaches to the closet flange that I mounted on the bottom carrier
Super fun build !
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One of the bots in the Maintenance Science Theater 3000 fanvid is made of such a thing; military issueānāerthang:
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Here is my ALMOST finished GPC 2 ! Still working on some different options for Her lens, and some paint touch ups here and there . I may end up replacing the jaw as well, as the cut is a tad different on the new season.
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Nice! I need to redo the jaw of my gpc2 as well, I could never figure out a good control mechanism for it, not even the oven mitt method worked for me.
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I think they used a pistol grip setup.
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Yea, I tried a few different things too! This really turned out to be sort of a pain after a while, and I had to enlist the help of my beautiful and talented wife to help sew the āmermaid coverā for me! 
I wanted something I could display , but something that had the puppet controls also. Iāll post a better pic once I finish up the lens and paint , but I went with the elastic string and pulley for the controls. Simple enough and I was able to display her in a cool way
At some point Iāll redo the jawā¦.the newer pales are alittle different tho! I couldnāt find any for several weeks, and as soon as I found some it looks like there has been some slight changes to them. They have alittle grove on the side, and the rear has a smaller ālipā
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Yes, the āpistolā hand controller was so cool! I tried to make one and I couldnāt get it quite right. 
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A better view of the mouth . A loop of elastic string runs from the top to the the bottom jaw. Similar to Crows mouth assembly . A pulley string runs from the bottom of the jaw, and is used to open and shut the mouth . 
As of now , itās not attached , as it just sort of hangs ,
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Put in a spring thatās just strong enough to close the mouth and you can make it talk with inertia.
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Tom Servoās been sitting disassembled in my garage for 4 months but I finally started assembling him this weekend, so I could use him for our upcoming fanficisode production. Iāve been putting off working on him because itās been a disaster of a project, where every little thing that could possibly go wrong has gone wrong, and every time Iāve tried to fix something Iāve only made it worse.
The hoverskirt went together fine, but after fully assembling it, I left it sitting in a box on the other side of the garage with the other white parts. But I guess being in the same room with a dryer created enough of a static charge on the plastic that it managed to suck up every damn microparticle of black primer spraypaint hanging in the air, all the way from the other side of the garage, so as soon as Iād finished primering all the darker pieces, I discovered the entire thing was covered in ugly black smears. (I managed to wipe it down and clean it up using paint thinner, but it still has a few smudges especially around the edges of the train pieces that I couldnāt get rid of completely.
I already owned an original screen-accurate 1990ās snack dispenser head (which are now difficult to find) that I bought decades ago to build a paper machĆ© Tom Servo to take to the MST3K Movie premiere when I was 18, but 18 year-old me used crazy glue to glue the dome together, which of course left it absolutely covered with ugly fingerprints.
I tried to spray a bunch of acrylic lacquer on both the inside and outside of the dome in the hopes of either obscuring the fingerprints or frosting the plastic like the modern Tom puppets, but it only halfway worked, and unfortunately, in the process of doing this Tom took a piece of paper towel to the face which fused itself to his dome, and trying to scrape it off with an xacto blade only served to scratch the hell out of the surface. So now heās got a massive blemish right in the very front of his face that I canāt remove, and Iām afraid anything else I do to it at this point will just make it worse.
I also ended up with a little bit of silver spill-over around the mouth area, which I figured wasnāt a big deal, as I could just paint over it. But as soon as I started air-brushing on the metallic red, I saw that it showed up quite distinctly as a completely different color. I then put down coat after coat in this area, thinking that it would eventually match up with the rest of the paint job, but after blowing through an entire bottle of Testors, itās now lumpy and paint-streaked and looks like crap, again, right smack dab in the most visible part of the bot.
Those were my painting problems, but Iāve also run into all sorts of issues with the mouth articulation. Iām not sure if I accidentally broke something 26 years ago when I was originally putting him together, but the lower jaw dislocates and will stick 3/4 of the way closed unless I manually reach up and reseat it, which is not at all helpful if youāre trying to use him as an actual puppet, as I intend to. Thereās very little room on the underside of the snack dispenser, but I rigged up an internal spring mechanism that helps pull it back into default position, but this now means that the mouth is extremely noisy to operate, and it still dislocates and jams every so often.
And when my 90Ā° angle bit broke attaching his engine block round about midnight tonight (my fault for using it on a higher powered drill, but it was getting late and my low torque cordless was dead) I decided enough was enough, so heās now sitting in time-out until I can order a replacement from Amazon and no longer want to smash his stupid gumball face in with a pipe wrench.
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the testers red is almost translucent black primer is to dark you need a red primer and too many coats gets you a marron red . his paint is very hard to work with , the easiest way i have found is to use testers red lacquer as a base coat then a light ruby red .
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Testors can be tough to work with ! I usually use a primer , followed by a āsimilarā color in a regular spray paint , then use the testors after. Itās still runny , so I always feel like Iām barely spraying anything on Iām really light coats . Itās super frustrating!
I want to say I used Colonial Red on my Tom , then a coat of the ruby red .
His Dome looks actually pretty close to the new screen used some, IMO. Krylon makes a āfrosted glassā spray for windows , I thought about using to disguise the crack I have on mine.
Youāll get him back up and on hisā¦ā¦.bowl 
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