Garage Kit Destruction part 2

Current damage report on that garage kit:

Side blocks are shaved off and they don't look as horrible as I worried. Her torso is tilted at an angle such that it looks convincing if her sides are straight. And it makes sense because the sculpt near the blocks is without wrinkles. Then again, it was also supposed to house those little thingies so... I dunno. Maybe if I stop mentioning it then it won't matter anymore.

As far as sculpting hair, wow, that was an amusing adventure in futility. The epoxy putty is so sticky I couldn't really do what I wanted, which was roll it out into long ropes, stick it on her head, and then file it down later. I put a blob on where the hair portion was supposed to be and tried shaving it down to a "hair hook" but it looks horrid. I'm hoping the paint over it will hide the shame. Unlikely, but, meh.

Next step is to drill holes for wire. The idea for this is that glue alone may not be strong enough to hold. Resin isn't heavy, but a bunch of pieces in a row can be. So the point of the wire is to give pieces a stronger joint than they might otherwise have which would be good in case any one piece all of a sudden finds itself a load-bearing piece.

Now 1/16" seems to be the diameter du jour so I bought bits and a collet for the Dremmel. Bits? Two of them, like $1.79. Cool. Now, the 1/16" collet... $3.99?! W-HAT?!

Oh well.

I bit the bullet and did it. Yeah, I could borrow a drill. But I don't have any control with a big old honkin' drill. So I'm drillin' and going nice and shallow. So far so good. Nice clean holes. Then I get over confident and drill right on through the back of her hair.

D'oh. Dough. Dou.

Nothing putty can't fix, but, still, it was pretty shameful. If you've ever used a rotary tool, you know to put as little pressure as possible. So when the resistance gave way while I was drilling my hand went "FUCK" and then I pull it out and turn it off and then look and then the rest of me went "FUCK".

I'll keep you posted on the continuing progress. There's a deadpool going on that I will cause a fire.