Enough talk, make with the ugly already!
Makin’ Ugly
Before the arms were attached, I decided to get the basic sculpting work out of the way. It started out as gap filling on the torso and repairing some missing details. It was all so innocent. Then I had a leftover ball of putty going to waste and next thing I knew I had the beginnings of the face and the foundations of the stacks done. It’s almost like automatic writing sometimes. I wake up from a trance-like state and there’s something sculpted staring at me.
The idea of the mutated gorilla starts to take shape here. I built sagging jowls and a large lower lip around the tusks. The disk covering up the bug eye that I don’t like will be the base for a real “bug” eye. I didn’t go too crazy with the torso detailing as a lot of that will be added to / covered up in the final stages with boils & sores.
Another ball of putty, another sculpting frenzy. I was able to direct this one a bit though. At some point I decided to break off the tusk under the bug eye as it was competing visually. That and Nurgle isn’t exactly known for his dental plan. All of this work is on the face and neck area. Bulking up and adding nasty bits here & there. A face not even a mother could love…
Up In Arms
Satisfied with the majority of the work, I set about attaching the arms. I wanted to bulk out the shoulders and make the build as near bullet-proof as I possibly could. With that in mind I went back to the three pin method that I used on the torso. These were lengthened though to space the arms away from the body a good 1/2″.
Once I had the arms positioned where I wanted them, I drilled the corresponding holes to receive the pins and set them in.
With the idea of a posturing gorilla I wanted the arms angled out and away from the body, not all tucked in like the stock sculpt. I ran into a slight problem though. The sword arm looks good above, that is until you attach the sword. Then it looked wonky. So I adjusted the holes to bring the arm down a bit to accommodate the sword angle. Good thing there’s lots of metal there to work with!
Fixing the major gaps between the arms and the body was fairly simple. I bulked up the area with Apoxie and let it set. Once that was cured it was a simple matter to come in and sculpt details over the area without worrying about sagging or distortion from a large quantity of putty. The added bonus is the strength (and cheap cost) of the Apoxie. Those arms won’t be coming off for anything short of a hammer strike.
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