In these pages I will be explaining how I go about making a wildlife
sculpture and later on some other subjects.
Get
a picture of the animal you want to model, and enlarge or reduce it with a
photocopy machine. Put it on a block of foam and draw around it. Mark a
line one quarter inch inside this outline. Cut this shape out and rasp it
to shape. To start a model of any animal first cut the basic shape from a
block of polyurethane foam. Push in some bronze rods for the legs, make
sure the bends correspond to the joints in the bones, and solder them in
place.
Start
applying modeling clay or plasticine to the wire on the legs.