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So, now we've built our wire armature and we're ready to start the paper mache process.
That begins with the cheese cloth. Again, this is what we find in the painting section
of a hardware store. It's got several layers to it so, we're just going to cut off a piece,
unroll it and cut. It opens up. We want to keep it at a double layer. By keeping it at
a double layer it allows the paper mache to hold on a little bit better. This is a critical
point to paper mache that we sometimes miss and it makes everything a lot easier. What
we're going to do is we're going to wrap the lizard in the cheese cloth. You're going to
do that just like you would with a present and as tight as possible. So, you're just
going to take it around and use the inside of the body and the inside of the head for
gathering that material and if it doesn't stay, if there's some excess, it can either
be cut off or it can be stapled on, because again this is going to be wrapped in paper
mache. So, it's not that important how great it looks. We just want to make sure that the
entire armature is covered. Like right there; that is a place I would use the stapler; just
like that. Then I just want to make sure that we can still see the shape of the lizard.
If it's not perfect and it's not sticking together that's OK to because it's all going
to be paper mached in a couple of minutes.