arms finished

Finished the arms (apart from the claws on right hand).Decided not to give him gloves partly because this is an excercise in how detailed I could do hands and partly because I want it to be a more realistic interpretation of wolverine.

cut up wolverine

Cut him up. This sculpture has been dragging its heels lately so working on an individual arm or leg will help speed up the process and also its just physically easier.

I used a jewellers blade to cut him up but its almost useless.Maybe this wax is too gunky.Instead of the nice clean saw break it decides to break off somewhere else (see close up pic).Managed to sort that out though.

wolverine WIP

Body in medium grade willow wax.Using the infrared heat lamp to warm up the wax so I can use it like clay.Have to work fast as it hardens pretty fast but better than trying to build up big masses by slowly dripping using the wax pen. I got the anatomy Ed for christmas and I am using that in conjunction with a body builder magazine,Taishiro Kiya kits and anatomy books to create the anatomy.

TMS wolverine head

Made a waste mould of the blue wax wolverine head and cast it in the toxic mama wax and worked into it.It looks nothing like the original now (thankfully).Still a wip, trying to work into the hair. This TMS wax is brilliant-I cant find a fault with it.

Wolverine head

A wolverine head made from a homemade blue wax based on Tim Bruckners recipe.The hair is some white modelling wax I bought from Tiranti. Its very soft and dosen't need warming-probably too soft as it gets mashed easily when handling the sculpture.I think I might make a quick waste mould from this and cast it in the new TMS wax I bought and give that a try out.

Spidey finished

Spidey painted up and finished,mounted on a bog oak base.Apart from the grey primer, this was all painted by brush and not airbrush.

Spiderman primed