April 27 2009 | The shirt

Anyway, time to dress that guy properly, with a shirt made of cigarette paper! Like I told I used to smoke a lot and know how to roll a fag, that's the trick indeed, you just roll the paper around the guy and you cuit a space for the arms..

April 27 2009 | Adding a colar

The collar is being made of several layers of paper glued together

April 27 2009 | Finished cloth

here is the shirt now done, and "painted" with superglue for extra strength. The hard thig now is to create an invisible joint with the arms!

April 30 2009 | The sailor's face

here is the sailor's face after 2 days of work. talking about work in progress.. I still have a lot of job to do on him, especially around the mouth, oh dear wish me good luck

April 30 2009 | The feet

if the head is still not finished the feet are. those were sculpted out of Duro. No pain actually but I had sculpted too big ankles and had to slim them down with an X-Acto before fitting them.

May 03 2009 | Here is the completed face

here is the head as completed -I have been adding some Duro for hair aned beard as well as sanding a few details here and there

May 03 2009 | The neck of the fig

here is the neck as fixed. I usually insert a thin wire in both the neck and the body so that I can have the time to think about its height. I usually fill the gap with MS when i am sure of myself,

Notice I have been both fixing and trimming the feet

May 03 2009 | Here is the completed sailor

So now is the completed fig. there might be an issue with the pklace of the nostril and crotch. Will have to think about it twice..