I was surprised at how easily I managed to transform the in-profile existing puppet and images into a face-on image for the “hero-face” puppet. The bit that took the longest was getting the proportions and angle of the top hat right. I was using black card (new recycled, rather than re-used) with the image I drew glued on top this time. Cutting out all of the pinstripe patterns with a scalpel blade on the previous puppet was a big pain in the bum and made me wonder if I would get on faster if I could punch out the patterns using traditional Indonesian shadow puppet making punches. I have started looking into this but as they are not designed for use with card they would blunt very quickly and sharpening them might end up just as time consuming as doing it this way.