Xamdou Update II (Here comes the arm~!)

My original plan was to just build the body of this project, since I don't have much of experience of building armature for figure sculptures, decided to give a try on the arm. There is also an armature inside the body, but it was poorly constructed... Anyway, here we go:

Start with 5 aluminum wires, then twist all these wires together, leave one end open to support the fingers. Then I used aluminum foil to warm it around so that it can give space to clay to shrink once is fully dried.




Then cover it up with first layer of clay:



Then the rest:



And here is a test fit (also did some reshape to the body, pics later):



Now I need to figure out which way works best to connect the arms to the body...

For my next project, I will try to write a full self armature build since is hard for me to find a good DIY armature build for figure sculptures.

Edit:

and this is why I like gundam 00....