Well, here it is, my first casting! After popping in some quickly made eyeballs he really is starting to come to life!! The next step now is to make the separate hand molds and I have a few minor armature adjustments that are being handled by my armature guy. The foam sheet wrapping method worked really well for easier movement of the limbs, but since Kong is such a big boy he still weighs quite a bit. For this prototype casting I'm having beefier ankle joints made to help support his weight, but I'm also going to experiment with some "foam silicone" that I discovered for the next cast. I'm probably going to wind up using a combo of both types of silicone for the future runs, we'll see how the foam silicone works..... I think it will really help decrease the weight but for now the beefier ankle joints will handle this big guy just fine. The gap in the neck is from cutting out the silicone to free up movement, the gap will be filled with polyfoam when I'm ready to apply the fur, I'm also going to cut gaps in the shoulders to free up more movement as well. It's all now just a matter of finessing and fine tuning to finish bringing the big guy to life. I'll take some more close-up pics of the face and chest later today so you can see the detail a little better, I know it's hard in these pics with him being tinted black but the next batch of pics will show the detail much better