We’re actually finish! With this one we bring everything together…add the smaller details, glue a few pieces together and then mount him on his base. I think he turned out to be a pretty nifty character. There are photos of the finished product in the Gallery and your comments are appreciated.
Thanks again to Stan up in South Dakota for the suggestion and for all of the reference material.
We’re almost there. After this only a little varnish and some fine tuning and we can set him out for display.
This wraps up the carving segments and I apologize for losing the information on carving the right arm, hose and bullhorn. But I guess those things happen…just too bad it had to happen here. Anyway……
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I’ve put the drawing for the horn in the gallery along with a scan of the horn itself and the hose. I think we’ve covered enough to where it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out how to do these items should you want to following that route.
We finish up carving the left arm with this one. He’s really starting to look good…at least I think so.
Time to do some serious chopping! In this segment we carve the Axe and position it into the hand before gluing the arm on. I didn’t go into actually showing how to carve the axe as it really isn’t that hard to do. If you’ve made it this far producing that axe will be easy. Also, Stan send me another group of reference material which will help you in fleshing out your own figure. Here’s the link:
https://picasaweb.google.com/dakotahope/LynnFFReferencePics?feat=email
As you’ll see at the end of the video the addition of the arm and that axe really gives us a great idea of just how neat this figure will look when finally completed.
This will be about attaching arms. Probably take another video to get the job done.
Finally, back to work on this fella. With this segment we get the trunk of the body ready for the arms.
With this video we map out the lower body. I’ve decided to go with a 3/4 bust which will give us lots of opportunity for detail and once completed will result in an impressive piece of sculpture.
I’ll give you the measurements of the body in the video but as part of this exercise it will be up to you to come up with your own pattern as that is part of the overall process of developing a character.
With this segment we finish carving the head and take a look as what’s ahead with the helmet. And I don’t care what some might say I’ll bet anything that there is a Fireman out there somewhere that puffs on a stogy while hosing down a flaming building!
With the Kerosene Lantern project wrapped up we’re back to the Fireman and roughing out the head.
I want to thank you for all the really neat ideas and suggestions for the next video series. I think I’ve got one that you’ll approve of and that will make one of the niftiest carvings we’ve done yet. We’re going to do a bust of a Fireman.
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My good friend Stan Hope up in South Dakota sent me a suggestion and a whole load of reference material on Fireman, both antique and modern. This project will incorporate details from several different time periods. I’ll use some details and equipment that might not exactly match up to the correct period but it will make a neat figure.
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Here the link to the material Stan has allowed us to use:
-https://picasaweb.google.com/dakotahope/LynnFFReferencePics#
There is enough here that will allow you to use something different if you want. It’s all good and we owe our thanks to Stan for putting it all together.
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So let’s get started!
