Spring is Here (2 Viewers)

[blaster]

OK. So far I've made a few tentative steps .....That was a pun.....

 

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Almost done with the steps. I knocked up a side wall and testfitted the setup within my microscope box.

 

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I prised out all the wooden bits inside the box. Then I fabricated a sky bkgd for the scene.

 

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Painted the sky. Then I testfitted the 7 figs made so far within the scene.

 

[Obee]

looking good

John

 

[blaster]

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

 

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

 

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

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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

 

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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....

 

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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.

 

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I ptd the sky in oils.

 

[Obee]

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.

Oh they look like they need lots of filler for the holes, or the rubbish bin ????

John

 

[blaster]

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, and mask away the nasty bits etc.

More WIP on the rest and will add more new figs as well....

Rgds Victor

 

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

 

[Obee]

Victor,

thats better, much more realistic too ,

JOhn

 

[29 Let's Go]

Very well sculpted figures.
Steve

 

[blaster]

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