There's been a lot of progress lately and I'm overdue for an update. First off, I've finished sculpting the pelvis:
Once it was smoothed out and polished, it was time to mold. I started with the front section:
Here it is somewhere in the middle of the process:
The mold ended up being five parts: front, back, left, right, and top. Here's the mold nearly complete:
Once the last section had cured, I pried them all apart:
Then I got to polishing the insides:
The polished mold sections were coated with mold release and then bolted back together:
Laying up the part went pretty quick. Here I am pulling the mold apart:
Once I had it out of the mold, I had to try the pelvis on:
It still needed some trimming, but it looked good:
Stacked up with the waist and chest, it looked good too:
Along the way somewhere, I attached the toe to the rest of the boot with a hinge:
They're shaping up nicely:
Meanwhile, I've been finished and basecoating a lot of the parts. Here's the thighs:
And the forearms:
The calf parts are a ways behind:
I've still got a lot of work to do on the chest. I've started some of the tiny detailing:
I'm almost ready to paint the shoulders too:
On the shoulders, there's all of the lettering to deal with. A while back I had all of the letters cut in thin styrene on a laser cutter:
To prep for paint, they were sanded lightly before removing the waste plastic:
Tape was applied to the backside to keep everything neat and in order when the letters were placed on a piece of cardboard:
Once they were all taped to the cardboard, I sprayed on a couple coats of primer:
After that dried, I sprayed on the gold:
So here's where everything sits now:
Soon...