He's Got a Knife: Finishing Touches

By now, I had a monster that pretty closely represented what I wanted from the finished product. Not done yet, though. FYI: I'm out of pictures until the final, final product. Sorry.

1. The Dust.

Here's where I cleaned up the finished product. This involved a lot of sanding and dusting. Not exactly difficult work but definitely messy and a little tedious. Fortunately, the Super Sculpey modeled pretty smoothly so I really didn't need to do much sanding. Just a bit to clean up some of the fingerprints and the sections where I seamed pieces together (i.e. fingers to arms).

One thing to note is that sandpaper does not like Super Sculpey. You're essentially sanding plastic and the sandpaper tends to gunk up pretty quickly. I burned through a lot of sandpaper.


2. The Man.

I haven't discussed the sculpting of the guy much outside of mentioning the aluminum foil skeleton. I went right to Super Sculpey with the man...he was small enough that he didn't need bulking up and I wanted the strength of the Super Sculpey. Even though he was small, I still modeled/baked the guy in two cycles. The first cycle resulted in a body without any hands or feet. Those were added as part of the second cycle. I knew these would need extra modeling and I was afraid I'd mess of the body if it wasn't pre-baked. The hands are pretty basic...one flat and one pointed. The feet are really just oversized bases to allow the figure to stand upright. As for the face, it's pretty vague. I did rough in a nose and eye sockets but left the rest for the painting.