March 02 2007 |

Now with the fixed head on the body -looks like a lot of sanding will be needed..

March 04 2007 |

Back to the boiler for the time being -thanks to Mr Pete Vill, i now know that what i took for an empty space between the boiler itself and the steel plates aboves was in fact covered with ropes and then with plaster, so that it could do some sort of isolation layer and therefore keeping the energy inside the boiler so there it goes: first unglue the steel plates (*sigh*, the lenghths you have to go to be accurate.. ;)

March 04 2007 |

... Then I sculpted a tool of flat platsicard of the right dimension so that I could apply the plaster evenly.

March 04 2007 |

Finally I made some bricks (the boiler was actually put on very light bricks inside the boat) out of plaster (molded on a roughly made plasticard master).
And then I proceeded to scratch out the ropes and plsater so that i could have this really leprous look :)

March 06 2007 |

What are those bizare things? these are some feet! these are to press in the wet sand where the kid will be standing!

March 06 2007 |

As a friend asked earlier today, no sketches for my dioramas -or better still there are some, buried under pounds of resin.

March 06 2007 |

Another view of the global shape of the diorama, before the eventual layers of plaster..

March 06 2007 |

Dry-fitting the diorama with all the different elements. now like for Archangel, the right bending / posistion of the elements will be the main important thing for the final result..