2 4’x8’ sheets of 2 inch Blue board insulation 2-3 rolls of white Duct Tape 2 -3 tubes of Liquid nail and caulking gun 1-2 cans of Tan textured paint 1 -2 cans of Brown textured paint Rasp Saw
Choose a picture of your choice. Draw it or find someone to do it for you on a large piece of cardboard, or several taped together. Cut it out.
Cut one piece of Blue Board in half.
Place your cutout on the full piece of blueboard similar to “board B”. Trace them and cut them both out (bodies without legs). Rough cut is fine don’t waste your time on making it perfect. Save the leftover pieces.
Glue the two bodies without legs together. Dry overnight. These will be the center. The head and neck will only be 2 layers thick.
Glue the bodies to a half sheet like in “board A” with the back near the top and plenty of room to glue in scrap pieces where the legs will go. Dry overnight.
Use the scrap pieces (red) and glue them two layers thick where the legs go so the whole thing is now 3 layers thick. Dry overnight.
Glue the final half sheet of BlueBoard to the top. This allows that the outside from both directions have the strength required . (Only the middle shims are not connected to the body. If you want to buy several sheets of blueboard you could make it stronger and eliminate the shims but I’m a cheap a$$! Dry overnight.
Roughly cut out the shape you want with a handsaw of your choice ( a thin saws all blade works fine). I didn’t separate the legs, just painted them and left them about 12” wide.
Use an old blacksmith/farriers rasp (dull is fine it cuts like butter but it makes a mess… so do it in your neighbors yard). Shape it with as much 3-D as you want.
Cover it in white duct tape for strength and water resistance.
Paint it and dry overnight.
It is tough to remove high speed field points from the blue foam. The foam melts to carbons. A little acetone can take it off if you like. After a while my target wore out in the kill zone. I cut the center out with a handsaw and glued a 18” by 18” piece over one side, stuffed some softer foam in the whole and glued another 18” by 18” piece over the other side, then rounded the edges with the rasp, re-taped it and re painted it. I’m on my third repair and the original target is still in use. It works MUCH better with the soft foam in the core.
Good luck!
