To Make a Dress Dummy, or to Save and Buy?

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Has anyone out there done this? I want to make a dress form and would like to give this a try. Have people tried it? Good results? Scary results? 

http://www.burdastyle.com/howtos/show/33

http://www.alleycatscratch.com/lotr/makingem/DuctDummy.htm

http://sewing.patternreview.com/cgi-bin/showdigest.pl?id=1017

Let me know! And I'll keep you posted. Where did I put that duct tape?