The sculpt is pretty rough and ready but I'm quite proud of it. While I've finished some larger monster sculpts in the past, all of my attempts at 28mm size and smaller have never made it past the wire armature stage.
I knocked it out in only a week, with an average of one hour's working time each day. The figure is a bit thicker than originally intended, and his gun will obviously need to be replaced with an epoxy version.
What I particularly like about the figure is that it has an old school feel. I specifically combed both internet archives and my personal minis collection, measuring figures from the late '80s/early '90s to determine which proportions to use.
The figure is exactly 32mm to the top of the head, about 28-29mm to his eye. His head measures just a hair above 6mm, making him about 5.2 heads tall, just a bit more cartoonish than the 5.5 head height I was targeting.
He's intended to be a Wild West gunfighter type. As I said, he's a bit chunkier than planned, as I used the polymer clay over epoxy putty technique, and I laid that initial layer of epoxy on a bit thick. I also intentionally didn't give him the typical cowboy hat, as I planned on casting him in metal and then sculpting the hat on directly to the metal figure.
I'm already working on the next figure and hope I can keep the momentum. I'm surprised at how much better I feel on any day where I spend at least 30 minutes in the morning sculpting.
