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Imperial Battle Dress (sculpt) added Sep 23, 2005
I've finished all the sculpts that I really wanted to get done, so now I'm looking for new things to try. I decided to try sculpting someone in battle dress (powered armor), which I really haven't done before. I decided to start with a good body shape, so I could fit the armor in a plausible way around it. Even though it was all going to get covered up, I tried to get the base body as smooth and well-formed as I could. Once it was well-cured, I started adding bits of armor. The "muscles" in the abdomen are copper wire coiled around a wire core, and went on first so I could cover the clipped ends with other armor pieces. I'm going to let this stage cure for a good long while before I start the next phase. Eventually I'll come back and try to sharpen up the edges, though the Tamiya putty holds a fairly good edge to begin with.
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