Almost-final costume

Dancing faun

This is what I'm working towards. It's not quite compete, and I keep discovering where I need more fastenings, but check out the shape of the right leg. I think I may have the basic leg shape about right.

Details of how I made the costume legs, hooves, and ears will follow. But for now, here's a workable piece of cosplay kit.

Musical faun

Furvus' front view. The music is for real, and I'm rather better on a recorder than on the traditional panpipes.

The loincloth is to make Furvus more PG than R. Do we really consider it necessary?

Rear view

Here's a pic of Furvus from behind. Consider the tail, which is quite goat-like in that it's flattish in section and curled up and outwards. But what of its location?

I've been agonising about where a faun's tail would grow from, bearing in mind it replaces the coccyx in humans but curls outwards rather than inwards. There's a lot of 'sticking the tail horizontally outwards from the waist' that I've seen on the internet, which I really wanted to avoid. As fauns are biped, I located the tail in its anatomically-correct location, just above the Fundamental Orifice.




An undesirable side-effect is that the tail gets in the way whenever I try to sit down. Not to worry, I guess I'll have to be careful, or prefer soft sofas or bar stools.

Surprise visitor

And here is Furvus greeting his first visitor. Next-door's housemaid came to find out where the music in the garden was coming from. I hope she'd not come to complain about the noise. She came round the corner and was startled. My guess is that she's never met a faun before.