{"id":11789,"date":"2015-10-07T19:52:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T18:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirkd.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11789"},"modified":"2025-08-11T16:25:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:25:35","slug":"fiddling-with-bertram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkd.co.uk\/blog\/fiddling-with-bertram\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiddling with Bertram – Gavin part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blimey. Five months since the last post… I’ve not died, I’ve just not finished any projects off in that time. This is a bit rubbish but I have been busy, honest. In fact I’ve finished the Goddess recently and also reached a halfway stage on the project I’ve asked you all here to talk about. A few months ago I was approached by Bertram Fiddle, leading Victorian Explorator, to immortalise his noble manservant Gavin as part of a Kickstarter project<\/a> to fund his next adventure game (I’m not sure about how a Victorian explorator was able to get in touch with me over the vast gulf of time that separates us but I’m sure it involved brass tubes, cogs and some steam).<\/p>\n

Armed with a number of images of Gavin, I was able to quickly sculpt a passing semblance of the chap in a short space of time. And by short, I mean a few weekends where I binge watched all of Gotham and several series of Stargate SG-1 (thank you netflix) and he is one of the quickest sculptures I’ve done recently.<\/p>\n

Gavin started off as a bit of wire slathered in Milliput to work out the rough hight, then I broke that apart after realising he had two legs not one (proper facepalm moment when I notice his legs have a gap between them). Lots of wire, milliput, brass tube, Super sculpey firm, wood, pins, primer paint and more super sculpey firm later, voila. A body. The hands and gun got built independently as I wanted to cast them separately from the main body. When cast he will be assembled, painted by hand and then mounted on a wooden base befitting such a noble servant.<\/p>\n