As every year I've been part of the FruitCorso builders team.
Fruitcorso is a yearly event where we go around town in a parade with floats decorated with seeds, vegetables and, obviously, fruits.
The design for this year was: Haantjes gedrag (Translated: Rooster Behavior. Open interpretation: Cock Fight)
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| Final result, 2nd place |
This year has been slightly different than other years. Some massive changes occurred in the club I was part of for my whole FruitCorso career. The club were 2 clubs combined. Back in the days my club didn't have enough members and the club from our neighbor village didn't have a space to build anymore. So we fused together. This year that contract was shredded and the club was divided.
The Designer that had designed for 3 years had been asked else where. After much debate and this strange debacle she decided to go to her home town to design and build the float. Together with her we went with a team of the old club.
That aside the basics hadn't changed. You start with an iron frame, add syrofoam, paper, paint, glue and end with products.
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| Iron frame with Styrofoam head and comb; Rooster 1. |
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| Iron frame partly covered with phone guide paper; Rooster 2 |
As for other years I was put responsible to make the heads with the Styrofoam team. They helped with the basic shapes and I could do the ending details. Also the designer assigned me with the head of Rooster nr. 1 to design, choose products and finish it.
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Plastered face, with clay on the right side
Rooster 1 |
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Plaster on Styrofoam,
covered with a layer of white paper
Rooster 2 |
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| Painted face |
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| Finished face with dentures |
The only directions I got was that he had to become angry. And that is what he became.
Because it's really difficult to do teeth, I made dentures from clay which I could decorate outside the mouth and later on glue them in.
To give him a bit more of a fighter look I gave him some scars using upstanding pumpkin seeds.
Most of my decorating time went into the face but here are some pictures of parts made by others:
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| Beginning with the vegetables; Rooster 1 |
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| More progress on Rooster 1 |
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| Detailed shot of the inside of the wing from Rooster 2 |
We build in a shed/ hangar which means we're limited to the height of the door. Due to that we had to behead our rooster and use a crane to lift it and place it on the torso.
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| Assembling the roosters head |
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| Flying head |
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| Fitting it properly |
These were pictures of the test, it went back inside to finish it and it was put back together in Tiel before the parade would start.
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| End result Rooster 1 |
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| End result Rooster 2 |
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