Burrows & Badgers - getting back to sculpting!
Final posing decisions and hands...
At this point, I got nervous about the pose again. I thought the pipe would be OK, but I thought he looked good with the hand down too. In the end, I decided on the pipe, and started filing it down to reduce the size and get it smooth.
With the pipe filed down, I glued it to his hand with superglue. You have to be careful with superglue; many mould rubbers react badly to it, and it liquifies and foams badly under the heat and pressure of the vulcanising process. In this case though, it would be fine, as the superglue would be entirely encased in putty, so not anywhere near the mould surface.
I moved onto sculpting the hands; I pressed a lump on putty into place, then cut lines in for the fingers, and used the Clay Shaper to gradually refine them. Then I cut a line across for the claws, and continued gently smoothing the fingers, shaping them to show joints and knuckles. Finally I added a thin sausage of putty for a thumb.
The other hand followed the same process.
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