Wood carvings

[Micktoon]

Thanks for the comments lads ............... After another good few hours of Skullduggery today this is what 'Richard the 3rd ' looks like now to now

Greg then feet look really good, no problem adding to post , the more the merrier !, Mayhem, the wood is lime wood as you will see the skull must be smaller than you thought , saying that it might get more of a reaction if they thought a monkey had been harmed lol

This is the carving bench I have made so I can take it to the club, the front tool tray just slides off, the sliding seat lifts off and the front post with the vice on also lifts out so its able to fit in the car for transport, I just made the front swivel tilt set up the vice is attached to from what was lying about , its not ideal but does the job for now until version 2 gets made .



Just more of the same really , carve more out with the gouges , then sand smooth , then decide the next area to alter comparing to the drawings.



The same area as above after sanding smooth.



I have drawn the teeth on , I have just sized them up then done them by eye , so they will not be perfect but things like this are better a little bit random as in real life.



Starting to go around the teeth with fine gouges here , bearing in mind I have never carved teeth or been a dentist, its all just try it and see stuff going on here.



This is to give you some idea of size, it would be easier to do these teeth if the skull was bigger I think.



The indentations above the teeth in the jaw are the worst bit , the grain of the wood is running downwards and you can see where the wood has split off in places, I will get away with this much but I am having to be really carefull to stop anymore from splitting.



This is a top view , I think the teeth are sticking proud about the right amount, I will just have to keep refining the teeth until they are as good as I can get them , the worst bit are the indents in the bones where the roots of the teeth would go, I will have to do some trial and error here as the very small gouges are not doing the job.
So this is the stage its at now, I will take it to the club tomorrow night and see if there are any ideas about the jaw indents.







Hope none of you lads are having any skull nightmares mind :lol: :bugeye:
More to come soon :thumbup:
Cheers Mick