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....

Project Xamdou Update #1

This project turned to be alot more tougher than I thought, mainly because is the design/structure of the model, but a really good test for me to see how far I have got from my first one =D. So here is the progress for the body, got the shape out for the head:











That's it for now, stay tuned!

Project Xamdou

Since my sculpting class won't start until Friday, it will be a waste of time not doing any sculpting/modeling work until then.

Here are the reference pictures from their official website:





and here are some progress:






Oh... here is the PV of Xam'd from youtube:



Hopefully once this one is complete, I can move on to super scupley clay... That's it for now, stay tuned!