The first bake seemed to go OK, the legs have set well and it means I can hold them while I work on the upper torso.
I started off by filling out the torso to get the anatomy more or less correct. Then moved on to adding the doctors coat. It sits at a jaunty angle, and initially I was a bit concerned that it would look out of place on a male figure. However, I think that this will be resolved once I get more of the outfit in place.
I also felt it was time that I added some supporting epoxy putty (ProCreate) to the head area.
As I approach the shoulders it is apparent that I need to get the arms in position so that I can work on the fabric around the shoulders. Using my scale template I cut the arm wires to length and belt them at the elbow joints. Once again, I applied some ProCreate to the arms to bulk them out a bit and give a surface for the polymer clay (Super Sculpey) to adhere to...
I have also done some more work to the doctors coat and added some of the armour like plates down his left leg.
As my confidence grows with the polymer clay I have decided to leave further bakings at this stage as I am finding I am happy working on the miniature in it's soft state at the moment.
It is interesting to see how the polymer clay tales details, I had really considered using ProCreate for the plates on his leg, but the Super Sculpey is working well at the moment.
Just as a side point, I usually sculpt at a couple of different places and carry my tools and sculpts with me. This has never been a problem as I could just drop my set sculpts into a plastic box and they would be safe. However, with the change to polymer clay I have to carry un-set sculpts, and rattling around inside a plastic box is liable to destroy all the detail before I can bake it.
However I have manage to get around this by using some foam to secure the figure, so that it is suspended within the box and is securely protected during transport...
Look for another post over the next week or so, as the figure moves on, and I hope to start approaching some more of the detail!
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