Advanced techniques
If you have bothered to read this far, you deserve to learn a few secrets. If you have been interested enough to read this far, you no doubt will be able, and eager, to put these secrets to good use.
There are three secrets to Marty and to decorating him that I am willing to share with you at this time.
The first is not really a secret, but more of an observation. The dog is COLD. If you touch him for any amount of time, you will feel how COLD he is. He is of course no colder than the surrounding air, but because he is far more dense than the air he transfers heat much faster, and so feels much colder. Just something to keep in mind.
Second, has to do with design. When figuring out how big an item for Marty should be, say a pair of bunny ears for instance, make the item twice the normal human size, and the proportions will be just right. Getting this proportion just right is harder, and more important than you think - I realize it doesn’t sound like a big secret I am letting you in on - but it is… trust me. In the case of the bunny ears, what you would want to do is go to the store and find a pair of bunny ears for an adult, that you like, and measure them… if they are a foot high and 4 inches wide, you would want to make Marty’s ears two feet high and 8 inches wide.
Third, has to do with mounting. This is the biggest secret I know as of yet… Marty has a hole in his head. That is right, Marty has a hole in his head, right in the center of the top of his dome. Not only is it great for sticking things into, but it gets better! This hole is threaded. That is right, threaded. So if anyone ever figures out exactly what size and pitch the threads are, and lets me publish this information, the hole can be used as a very sturdy place to mount things to. I have a picture of the threads, but I have not yet tried any bolt in them to see what works.
It is possible that this hole is a standard size, it was supposedly left there to facilitate Marty’s installation. A hook could have been secured to the hole, and a crane could have lifted the statue in place where it was further secured to either its base, or the ground. The hole is about a half inch… if any one ever finds out what size the threads are - please let me know… we all stand on the shoulders of giants, or in this case the shoulders of a Martin Luther statue.