106. Day, 16. April 2014
Today I finally start building the base.
Our friend is quite simple standing in an autumn steppe landscape, like this...:
This is the base , which I have chosen me - a beautiful piece of burl that I have "shot" low last year at Ingolstadt show...:
I start so that I the smooth surface of Wood base ...
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...with cutters and drill bits with the " Proxxon " planned devastating ... :
This increases the surface area and are the "floor " , I 'm going to sculpt , more space to " cling".
Next, the whole piece is carefully wrapped in kitchen foil, I mark the previously selected front...:
Then I mix with a thick " sausage " from " Milliput " to ...
...and with a rolling "tool " between two sheets of baking paper ( then nothing sticks ! )...:
The "Miliput" is placed on the wooden base and fashioned with all sorts of tools to a " ground structure" ... :
The Cossack figure is separated from the working base next - fortunately without breaking ...
...and is subsequent position on the base. Not exactly in the middle (which could look boring) - and besides, I still want to build a gimmick ... :
The holes for the pins which hold the figure are drilled - and " masked" for security with toothpicks , so I do not close it later again.
As next step I use small stones (which I have collected some years ago on a Greek beach ) .
With the spoon , the stones are carefully incorporated into the still soft " Milliput floor " .
That's it for today.
Do you have a plan for the groundwork?
! You really went the extra mile on this Cossack, not to mention that you even gave us a view of each and every step along the way. Very well done Sir, and thank you!
