Dear all
Feeling good after managing to make Neil's torso I decided to move straight onto continuing with Buzz's torso. It had reached the stage where the lower torso had been made and I had started the upper torso. They looked like this
Feeling confident, I decided to join these two arts together straight away and then build the torso up. So a bit of "cutting" removed the tabs off the upper torso and then the joining could happen. Here it is part way through
I then started adding the torso parts. Of course this was a lot more relaxing knowing it could be done. Here are some various stages
The last photo above made me smile. It reminded me of a film my kids liked to watch when they were small. This film is Megamind
which has the line "What is the difference between a Villain and a Super Villain? Presentation!"
I continued with the tops of the shoulders, forming the neck hole and the left shoulder (all of which was the same as Neil. I also added the disks for the mission patches holes.
The left shoulder is now complete, including former (cut from 2 mm card as with Neil).
The next thing I tried was to do Buzz's right shoulder (which is different to Neil's) and first off was to cut the former out (again from 2 mm card). Cutting the formers has been getting steadily harder and harder because my hand joints are finding it increasingly difficult to grip the knife strong enough. I am really struggling to finish this former and can cut less and less before my hand just gives up entirely being able to grip the knife. I need to have a rethink on former cutting.
Regards and take care
Kevin