Figure Building
I was really intrigued when I read Chris Walas’ articles on figure building (chapters one, two and three) on MyLargeScale.com. Here is an index into the key sections of Chris’s Chapter One: A Simple Figure:
- Material List for Sculpting a Simple Figure
- Building the Armature
- Roughing in the Body
- Pants
- Shirt
- Fingers
- Feet
- Head
- Hair
- Painting
Armed with all this good information, I started sculpting a figure: Engineer Bill.
He’s based on a photograph from the book "The Fossmill Story" and is designed to stand in the cab of my live steam Konrad engine. I found it much easier to get the proportions right working from a photograph. Here he is after painting:
Written by Barry Cott
March 3rd, 2006 at 7:48 pm
