Yeah, that I've tried before...
But I want to go that extra mile, to make it look like Orange county shoppers designed it.
Of course this can be done with aluminum if you have some neat tools and some metal carving skills, but since I lack pretty much both of these I doubt the result will make the girls go "Sleep with me now hot robot creator, and bring that bot!"
I've been searching for some good home plastic moulding kit, anyone know one? Papier maché crossed my mind for a while, but that would probably give me an undesired "Show and tell"-look...