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Hi John, After another rinse in water to wash off the detergent {to remove the casting grease}, I painted a flesh undercoat.

Hi John and Steve, thanks for your comments. I tried a different kind of uv led resin. Took a bit of time to get the right kind of UV led torch which catalysed the resin. It sets clear and you can only do a little at a time. Anyway, back to sculpting with more varied armatures.... Rgds Victor

And prob everything else. Hahaha

I agree.

Search on the web. Heat treatment for pests is 55oC or 130oF. The eutectic temp of tin lead solder is 183oC. It should be safe. Rgds Victor.

Some WIP. I added limbs and substituted the heads. More women being recruited (hmmm...got to be mindful of my sentences :):):)

Hello John That was helpful....;););) I may revoke your free lifetime views to my threads or may postpone it for now... more :):):) No, going back to my Scots Dutch Greek [mankind] heritage, we never throw anything away.... I am rescuing some of them for bkgd figs. Cut away the overfill...

I ptd the sky in oils.

Well. All I can say is that these are pretty dire castings. Can't be helped I suppose as the left over material was from my Repin Procession piece about 5 years back? Guess I will just plough on with these as armatures anyway.

I realised that I posted the previous update image on the VS thread... That's the trouble with multitasking....;) Anyway, I started to make moulds from the masters. Can't wait to see what the castings look like....

Bldg up the archi elements. More wip on the figs. Making some effort to add details as these figs are in the foreground.

I painted the base with some highlights and also some figs.

last wip for the night. Girls are all given a rectangular plate. Piper is given hair. Yawn.

more wip. The putty takes about 1-2 hrs to harden sufficiently for the nx round of sculpting. I have to work in stages on different areas as I need to hold the fig during sculpting.

Starting to add hands to the figs. The new figs to the left are meant as models. The three to the right will be used for masters. I use a smaller gauge wire for these skinny limbs. The man is turning out to be a pan piper.

lets throw in a curve ball. Curved plastic strips to liven things up.

Adding putty and getting the different heights correct. I am trying to imbue the figs with characters.

Starting to shape the armatures. Also made three young girls.

I lengthened the right leg of the servile courtier. The leg now rests on the base. I removed the front officer for a better view. The base was painted in oils to simulate my scene.

Hi John, Thanks for that kind remark. I'm starting to knock up more figs for this. Some of them will be used as masters for some moulds... Rgds Victor