Genestealer Update 24: Just a Little Bit of Hand Sculpting

Well once again it's been longer than I'd like since my last update on this project.  Mostly that's just because I've been completely buried under a bunch of other projects that have actual deadlines.

The good news is that, while I've been drowning in projects, Jeff has still been able to come in to the shop a couple of times to tinker with sculpting out the new hands.  He's started on the upper, three-fingered pair:

The other day it was his berfday too, so we had to stop for cake:


My very talented friend Walter Welsh of Welsh Creations also came along for a day of sculpting and giving Jeff some pointers on how to dial in the look of the hands.  Sadly, I neglected to snap any photos of him with his hands in the clay.  So I'll have to get him back up here again sooner than later.

So yeah.  It's been several weeks since we cast the elbows.  In that several weeks I've mostly been unable to make progress, but Jeff's gotten the upper claw hands to look like so:

The upper right hand being much further along than the left:


And Walter has done a bang-up job on the lower hands:


Especially once you look at the backside:


Seriously.  These guys are going to be gorgeous:


Things are slowing down a tiny bit, so we should see more progress on these guys in the coming month.

Stay tuned...