• Two thicknesses of wire
  • Aluminium foil
  • Super sculpey
  • White beads for the eyes
  • Acrylic paints
  • Liquid latex
  • Thin bandage foam
  • Standard sponge padding
  • Talcum powder

That's pretty much the total of what went into him, and I'm pretty pleased with the result. It's strong and can take a fair bit of punishment, seems to have a lot of use in him, as well as a lot of flexibility for facial exaggeration and expressions, which is exactly what I was going for. The methods for covering up the edges of the hairline need to be improved a little but do a fairly ok job (it's simply a case of attaching the hair and then using more flesh and hair coloured latex in patches to blend the edges until it looks natural, a better way to do this is yet to be found).
Next up is the body, and a bit more in depth analysis of the process and what techniques I'm taking from where, and what are my own devising.
 Glossing the eyebeads:

Back fo the head and hairline, and acrylic skin painting around the eyes/face.


"Zeke"is finished, click to embiggen

  
After reading about how wool can be used to soak up latex quite well I thought I'd start a little experiment on how well it works as a replacement for foam for the lightweight bulking up of puppets. First jobbie; ill see how it helps with the bulking out of hands and fingers and hopefully shortening the process of layering up the latex. Lets see how this works out once it's dry...





 And here's a little more progress on the goblin man, with a bit more skin and hair, stay tuned for more progress:

  

For the next model I wanted to do something a little less human, and something very expressive, by putting a few more control wires underneath the face, so for this Goblin, not only doe he have mouth wires, but eyebrows, tongue and ears also. Thicker wire for the maw, as I know that'll have much more tension on it from the latex when posing, and then thinner wire for the ear, eyebrows and tongue.
Before baking:

 Post-baking with foam buildup starting:

 His current state, with most foam work done and starting with the early latex build-up:

  

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