Upper Arms are Pepped
I won't really go into the details of their construction because that was already presented in earlier posts. Here are the photos.
This photo shows an extra support strut I added to keep the curved front part square with the piece, as it didn't want to hold its position reliably due to the disproportionately small attachment points on the sides. The extra support strut holds it in place so it won't shift during hardening (and by "hardening" I mean resin, Rondo, and glass). You can also see in this photo how I've glued in mat board panels behind flat areas that I want to have
staying flat during the hardening process (giggity-giggity).
Here they are together and you can see the two notches added to the backside. I know they're a little large but that's intentional since their radius will decrease when bondo and paint are added (both of which will add thickness to the holes).
Here is a close-up of the backside:
Here is the front side (the creases in the lower shoulder are intentional to match the slight angle that exists in references - it will be refined better during finishing):
The added shoulder lower indents will be extended to the bottom corners during finishing (it wasn't practical to pep such a subtle edge near the corners) and all the thin line details will be smoothed and tapered:
These pieces and the handplates will get their first resin application on the weekend. Next up I'm returning to the forearms to add details with cardstock and mat board instead of later with bondo.
Thanks for looking.
