I recently finished a new figure. This one is a fireman for my Bachmann 4-6-0. He’s based on our son Steven. The likeness isn’t quite as good as I would have liked but it’ll do. I added glasses to this figure. They’re a bit larger and rounder than his, but they’ll do too. I plan to do another figure of Steven later, in street clothes, for another part of the layout, so this one doesn’t have to be perfect. Here are a couple pics;
I found out something… it helps to shoot digital pics while sculpting the figure. I did that on my previous figures because I was planning to use them in my GR article. In the closeup, digital images, I saw a lot of things that needed refining, and was able to correct the figures as I went. I didn’t do that on these last two figures. Instead I relied only on the magnifying glass and thought they looked fine. When I shot pics of the completed figures, that’s when I discovered things that should have been further refined – but it was too late. Edit – Here’s a pic of the “prototype” for comparison:
