{"id":1935,"date":"2012-03-09T18:48:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T18:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirkd.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1935"},"modified":"2018-10-03T20:59:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T19:59:31","slug":"further-adventures-in-sculpting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkd.co.uk\/blog\/further-adventures-in-sculpting\/","title":{"rendered":"Further adventures in sculpting"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve started slapping some bits of sculpey around in the last few evenings so thought I would chronicle my adventures in the creation of my little ‘thulhu.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>First up was a night of cranking the sculpey. As this stuff is more than 10 years old its gone a little hard around the edges, fortunately its been kept in an airtight box in my nice dark, cool cellar so its still usable. I’ve heard tales of the stuff being delivered where its like slime, dripping with oils and viscous matter but I’ve only ever seen it ‘soft’, ‘slightly hard’ and ‘don’t drop that on your foot if you want to keep your toes’. In the process of cranking it through I managed to break the gears for the widest setting on the pasta maker so I was reduced down to no3. Fortunately this seems to work pretty well as it pulps the sculpey up well.
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\n\"\"<\/a>Snigger now and get it over with… All done? Good. The armature beneath that item is the top of an old jelly bean dispenser with a rod of metal inserted firmly into the top. It stands around 7″ from base to tip and is nice and firm so there won’t be any sagging. (Impressed I managed to get through all of that without saying erect?)
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\n\"\"<\/a>A couple of hours work gets me to this point where I am starting to block out the basic shape, there is a head, basic position of the legs and bulking out the body. I’m working off a few reference images, mainly a Bob Eggleton painting of squidhead, but i’m trying to get this one to be something that has come out of me rather than someone elses design. I’m basing the design on Lovecrafts description of the statue from the story “Call of Cthulhu” and there are hundreds of other peoples interpretations and they all follow the same basis. Squatting tentacled horror, hands on knees, cryptic runes\/text around the base… Fairly normal for your everyday run of the mill ancient slumbering evil god.
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\n\"\"<\/a>While working on the shape I jabbed myself on one of my tools and managed to get blood all over the place. Funny thing is it was only a tiny stab wound but the blood wouldn’t stop, probably because the tool was quite sharp and this morning it was really tingly.
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\nDays cycled to work: 48
\nDays tramped along in snow and ice: 2
\nDays driven: 0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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