Outpost 206

I think it goes without saying, but I’ll say it anyway: blogging hasn’t been a huge priority for me these past few months. So much so, I’m a bit taken aback that this is my first Shop Log since October. I’ve spent half of November and half of December visiting with my family in Ohio for the holidays, which hasn’t left a ton of time for my more focus-heavy projects (and even less time for blogging about it). But that doesn’t mean I haven’t been crafting! Earlier this month, I made a little bit of progress on my Mecha Burger project. Though that progress mostly consisted of adding ball joints to a resin duplicate of the torso sculpt and an attempt to rough out a sculpt for the two upper leg pieces. This was before I purchased an angle cutter for clay and struggled greatly with creating beveled edges. I also tried to sculpt the rest of the head, which made me realize that I’m going to have to redo the entire head from scratch, including the face. I also drilled out what will eventually

 This was a side project that I finished back in October and to be perfectly honest, I was kind of on the fence about giving it a write-up but since I haven’t updated in over a mont h due to the usual combination of holiday stuff, work stuff, and generally prioritizing catching up on my projects over blogging. But since I haven’t made a mind-blowing amount of progress on my major projects (the Mecha Burger action figure being chief among them but I’ve also gotten more into improving my sculpting skills as well with various practice projects), I decided to just go ahead and post this to tide the blog over while I continue to chip away at the big ticket items. This project started life at a random resin recast of a Lex Luger from Galoob’s early 90’s WCW line of non-articulated figures. I had initially made the mold of this figure to pour melted Monster Clay into to use as a kind of base body type for sculpting projects but I ended up making a few urethane resin castings from it as well