Basic Forming

Pressing onward: I drew out the bottom-view of the head so I could create a styrene template from it and glue it to the bottom of the head work-in-progress. This makes it easier to establish the contour and edge of the bottom of the head and also to create the snout (and to ensure that it’s reasonably well-centered, too). I then used more poly putty to fill in the contours, both for the head and the snout. At this point I decided that I’d gone as far as I could usefully go with Bondo, so I switched to Mori Mori. I can’t find my Mori Mori catalyst at the moment so I used Doro Doro catalyst (I have plenty of that since every time I buy a can of Doro Doro it goes bad before I use it all up…) So far it hasn’t hardened up fully, but I expect it will in a few hours. Just for kicks, I included an old, modified 1:144 Zaku Kai head that I made about four or five years ago in the picture – comparison, if you like.