Gary, beautiful work, I'm learning a lot from your SBS.

Keep up the good work

Cheers

Roc.

Gary - What a very nice and instructive SBS! Thanks for taking the time to clarify the pose and figure position. And glad to hear that others throw out numerous failures before they get it right!

All the best,
Dan

Jason, Thanks. I sometimes make rough torso shapes and squares too.

Roc, Thanks. I'm glad you are finding it informative.

Dan, Thank you. This is the best way to do an sbs. It's important to see that sculpting a figure does not come without it's own pitfalls. I'd rather show that it's not an effortless process.~Gary

Fascinating to watch, Gary. Thanks for posting!

Kreston

I have just finished the lower leg portions of the leggings and bottom right side of the waistcoat. This set of photos were taken in black and white so the folds may show up better this way.

A rolled out piece of putty was pressed down onto the front of the leg and slowly worked to the back of the leg. Care was taken to keep the putty as thin as possible on the areas where an actual legging would be tight.

Looks very good Gary, excellent stuff.

Most of the folds were worked into the ankle area and just below the knee. I did not do all the folds around the side and back of the ankle as the raised flap will be placed here and the folds would not be seen.

The crown for his cap has also been worked in.

Excellent. This thing is really going quickly and looking good. Terrific mocs and leggings.

John, Thanks. It is going quickly, a little more than what I'm used to. After all this putty cures I'm going to go in and work some of the wrinkles down as they look a bit large to me. I'm happy with the shapes so far. This figure has me itching to do a 75mm commercial piece from the period, so this helps to get me warmed up.~Gary

Gary, I am enjoying following your work here, especially the subject matter. I did miss the scale however...75mm??

Walt Damon

Excellent work Gary! Your sbs is an invaluable learning tool. Next best thing to being there. Thanks for sharing.

-jim cox

Great Work Gary!

I am enjoying this SBS tremendously, it is great to see you back in action and at a higher rate of speed so we can marvel and your work more often!

Looking forward to the next step!

Walt, Thanks. Great to see you on the planet. This is a 1/35 one off, I am however contemplating a 75mm figure for possible commercial production. I have not settled on the subject, although there are three that come to mind. More later.

Jim, Thanks. I really enjoy sharing the process. Further, I'm open to any and all suggestions about the figure.~Gary

I'm tuning in kinda late, but I just wanted to say what a great SBS this is! BTW, before you started adding the clothing, and it was still a mannequin he totally looked like Vin Diesel. It kept cracking me up.

Francesca

Anders, Thanks a lot. I guess I owe the rate at which this is getting done to my study of the period and having worn similiar garments I my reenacting days way back when. Things will slow down a bit so the figure can be cleaned up a bit. The one drawback facing me is possibly having to do a 1/35 "Brown Bess" as my 54mm may be a bit large.~Gary

Francesca, Thanks. Yeah he does kinda look like him. If you were to fill out the face a bit you could do a character from one of his movies.~Gary

Very smart sculpting! There was a bag of Brown Bess in 1/35 scale by Scale Model Accesories. Unfortunately, I think they are out of business.
I expect to see more

Diego, thank you. I will probably just go ahead and make one. I've already done the weapon in three different scales.~Gary