Building the skeleton

So, finally I got around continuing the project. I was a bit irritated by the smell that the epoxy left floating around in the apartment when I applied it on the wire skeleton. But daring fate itself I continued applying it and eventually got the first stage done.

These are basically just iron wires connected to each other with epoxy. And they result in a basic skeleton structure where I start to put some Super Sculpey on.

Here are two pictures of the epoxy stage of the skeleton.


It is fairly simple skeleton (my very first one) and presumably there are many, many flaws in it, but we can only wait and see how it works.
*Disclaimer* My goal with this project is NOT to achieve the greatest Super Sculpey figure ever built but to introduce myself to the process of creating these things. So, if the end result is not identical, or even close to the original idea, in this case Altaïr from Assassin's Creed, then so be it.

Here is the other picture of the skeleton stage, this time from behind. Here you can see the connection I deviced while pondering how to get the figure disconnected from the armature once it was complete. The idea is that there are couple of nuts inside the epoxy that are screwed on the armature. Once the epoxy hardens, the skeleton can be un-screwed from the armature. This should be possible once the figure is heated in the oven.


Here is a quick illustration how the armature is connected to the epoxy skeleton.


The nuts eventually are left inside the model when the armature is taken off.

I decided to change the pose of the figure to an easier one. So instead of the dynamic action-packed jump-attack pose, I ended up with this stiff-looking standing pose.

"Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger