03 June 2013

A regenerated lycanthrope. . .

Some of you might recall that there were some scaling issues with the right hand of the Creoda sculpt:
The right hand is actually a half-fist, with the proximal phalanges reduced to a flattened plane that rests on the ground as the front "leg" of the tripod (i.e., fist- walking, as in orangutans). This will either have to be built-out, or the hand resculpted in its entirety. As a clenched fist is a good fit with what I have envisioned, I opted for the former. There is a bit of a problem in that the right hand, as truncated, is not in scale with the left, but I will hopefully be able to work around this and not have to resculpt the entire hand. Stay tuned. . .
My attempts to build-out the right hand, while not unsuccessful, were ultimately unsatisfactory. Thus was the project tabled until a satisfactory solution could be found. And said solution was found in the emergence of Mierce Miniatures, and their making available the component parts of the BaneBeasts line. I ordered 2 of Creoda's left arms, and these arrived in a secure, timely fashion last week.

My plan was to convert the left hand into a right hand by reconstructing the orientation of the thumb and fingers onto the reduced metacarpus, And I am happy to report, that the surgery was an unqualified success! All that remains to be done is to reconstruct the fleshy portions of the hand, and seamlessly integrate the fingers into the metacarpus. The right half-fist has already been removed, and the new carpus fitted and pegged to the distal portion of the right forearm.

More to follow. . .

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