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Rubber Dipped Noses

First...
You are going to make the nose out of foam (like the white upholstery type that the toaster head style above). Set your self on a redesign, and cut out a chunk of foam roughly the base shape of the nose. Using electric knives, box cutters, and scissors carve the foam to the desired shape and size. Compare it to the muzzle it will rest on afterwards. Make sure you have the nose carved to the shape you want, and get the surface as smooth and even as you can; the smoother the surface the better.
Buy a can of Plasti-dip black, and one can of the spray version (also black). Get your self a bowl you can either seal or toss when through. Stick two coat hanker wires (about 4-6 inches long) rods slightly bent to form angled hooks (It helps if you sharpen both ends of both wires). Now drive the hooks deep into the foam (NOT through the foam. You will also need to set a wide flat block of scrap foam (this will be used for drying the plasti-dip).
Put on rubber gloves, and then pour the plisti-dip into the bowl. Take your foam nose on the two wires and dip it into the dip; cover as much as you can (avoiding the wires), then quickly turn the nose to the sky, stick the wires into the wide flat block of foam in a place where it won't be touched and let that dry. It will drip off the bottom, and form rubber sickles, don't worry about this they will be removed during the clean-up phase.
I warn you it will look bad the first coat or two, but we are not done. Dip it again, repeat the same as above 3 to 5 times. If you do this right then you'll have a fairly smooth nose, but we are still not done. Once those layers are dry, with razors, and scissors, trim off all the rubber sickles, and rough edges, but only those on the underside, where the wire extrude.

Last step, take the spray Plasti-dip, and give it a new coating (not to much mind you). Once dry repeat 2-3 more times. The nose will finish with a strange texture hard to describe texture, but very much like flesh.
The above method is how I did these noses:

I hope this is helpful.
Enjoy

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