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I've had this at 95% finished for well over a year now, but I held off from making a video about it until I had a mask for it. Ennard also has an inexplicable button pinned to the center of the chest, but since I usually display this with the mask off, I decided to omit that detail as it would look incredibly out of place without the mask accompanying it. I had the idea to build this after watching a three-minute behind the scenes featurette on cable-puppetry from Aliens (1986). I started building it that same day, without any planning or consideration, fast forward a bit, things happened, and now I keep a one-to-one Ennard replica looming over my bed every night. The neck mechanism with the levers is the exact same principle as a bicycle handbrake: Steel cables inside a hollow plastic shell that can transmit motion over however far a distance the cables can reach. Since the internal wires have no room to bend or kink, being snugly encased in the outer shell, in/out movement at one end has n
