No, it won'tPaper mache is heavy, with its layers and its glues or other adhesives, flour pastes and suchPlus paintSuggest you make a pyramid out of good poster-board first, at leastI've used paper mache a lot, though some time ago, for props for the Vonnegut play Happy Birthday, Wanda June -had to make hunting trophiesWent to a taxidermist for very inexpensive forms of animal heads (they were light-weight but strong) and used the paper mache, halves of ping-pong balls for eyes, antlers I already had for one head and made the others, again, from what amounted (hey, a pun) to light cardboard and that paper mache, paint, etcGot a lot of good notices on props in review, when that troupe took the play 'on the road.' The heads looked quite real enoughBut they did/do tell me that tin foil will not work for your projectEven if you're set on using it, you'd still need to build some kind of frame beneath it to carry the weight of good paper mache workLots of toy stores (some, anyway) carry Make Your Own Volcano kits that'd helpADD: I like Yoplait tooGood pun as well[?]
Not at all, but they tended to stand near the unit flags and some soldiers weren't the best marksmenShooting a drummer-boy on purpose would not have been honorablePeople had a different perception of war than we do todayDrummer-boys were often orphansMaybe, if we still sent drummer-boys, politicians might take war more seriously.
