Burrows & Badgers - getting back to sculpting!
Finishing the squirrel...
Next, I sculpted the hands; these were much easier than usual, as the pose meant that a lot of the hands and fingers are hidden, so I didn’t need to sculpt them!
Then I sculpted the tail. This was pretty simple too; a big blob of putty, shoved into place, smoothed a bit, then marked all over roughly, and finally the fur texture gradually tidied up.
I next added a couple of bracers on the forearms using Brownstuff; Greenstuff would have done the same job, but I find the different colour makes it easier for me to keep track of everything while sculpting.
Again, I mixed too much putty, so used some to add a bit of detail to the quiver.
Then I added the squirrel’s head; I drilled a hole into the body, and inserted the wire, bending it where needed to get the pose I wanted.
Then I started adding the quiver and a couple of pouches to fill gaps under the arrow.
Lastly, I needed to add a hood. I used a small flattened piece of putty on top of his head, and added a couple of loops around the ears, then a longer piece on the back of his head, and blended them all together. Then I spent some time smoothing and shaping the hood, until I was happy with the way it looked.
And with the hood done, the squirrel archer was complete!
Quick note – all tools used for this sculpt were the same as in the ‘Tools’ entry earlier.
As if I needed more reasons to get into Burrows and Badgers! Now just gotta save those pennies!
They look lovely! At the rate you are going I wont be able to finish painting the last kickstarter before these are ready to have new molds made from them.
fan smegging tastic as always, well done.
Another beautiful sculpt.
Again excellent but I would keep the picture of the quiver on it’s own away from Warren he might think it’s something else! Or is it just my dirty mind.