Look at the finished picture closer - there's a little bend in the nose area. It's about a quarter of an inch triangle that flattens out into the rest of the mask after peaking dead center in the nose.



FIRST Practice by folding the paper mask to see where these bends fit the best. Get it to look good. The angled metal travels from the very top to the very bottom. Don't let it get too close to the eyes, either.



THEN



Here's where you need to get a bit creative. You're going to have to bend that big piece of metal. Three times. They need to be perfect bends.



Find some scrap pieces of wood lying around and sandwich the metal between them. Screw down the edges (You can see the screws in the wood, which are NOT piercing the metal). Get it down really tight. Use the rubber mallet to lightly tap on the metal to bend it. It may help to put a cloth down over the metal so you don't ding it up. Do this especially if you are using a real hammer rather than a rubber one.



Look at the second picture to see the kind of folds you need to achieve. It takes some elbow grease, but keep bashing it with the hammer, unscrew, slide the metal, screw the boards back down, and bash again. You'll get it, only took me a few minutes.

