Calamara Part 2

Here is the long awaited update for Calamara.

I've decided to assemble her entire body without the arms or tentacles in order to make her easier to paint. Both arms have been fitted with pins to make the final assembly easier and any putty that may be needed after attaching them will be in shade and easy to touch up as necessary. Overall the cleanup and assembly of her body was relatively easy.

Here you see the 5 tentacles. Each tentacle has a long pin inserted into the bottom so that they can be held throughout the painting process. The tentacles ended up requiring a lot more work than I had initially expect in order to handle the mold lines that were present. I ended up adding putty along the mold lines and working in the appropriate details. This ended up taking several passes before finally getting them into good shape.

Finally you can see the two arms. Her right arm actually attaches to the right hand which is encircled by one of her tentacles. Test fitting went well for this join and I don't foresee any real issues with the final assembly after painting everything.

 To be continued...

Fire Wings w/ mounted Beelphegor Part 3

Assembly continued...

This picture is the bottom half of the head and the horns. You can see the pin for the left side and get a pretty good idea of how the horns will attach. Both horns fit perfectly and they will not be glued on until after the dragon is completely painted.

Next we have the back side of the bottom half of the head and the neck. Pinning this piece wasn't really necessary but as you will see I will end up pinning all of the major connection points.

And finally we have a pic of the bottom half of the head and neck after they have been assembled and puttied.

 

To be continued...