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Just listened to The Avengers (Steed & peel) TV theme, classic. And a fine noise it is at that.

Because it's me and my Mrs, 29th anniversary tomorrow.

Well and truly pissed off at the moment.
To start off I just want to let you know that  I really appreciate everyone popping into view this thread, so I feel it's only right  to keep you all informed of what's happening with this sculpt at the moment.

Not a lot it seems, until next week.
The delivery of materials that was due last week never arrived. Contacted the supplier and was told delivery would be today, still no delivery. This time Very apologetic suppliers phoned me to let me know that delivery will be next Thursday, got absolute guarantee that it will arrive ??. OKAY, shit sometimes happens, but I'm still pissed that this has happened.

I haven't lost interest or put this on the back boiler, in fact this forced delay has me itching to get back into this sculpture. So, once again I really do appreciate everyone popping into view this thread and I shall post more details ASAP, thanks for your patience.

Do you mind if I post a few images up on my tumblr?  With credit of course 

To be honest although I've heard of tumblr I've never looked to see what it is, but anyway  You sure can .

The crime is life the sentence is death.

Fantastic news, when this is released we need to get on it in huge numbers and overload the web servers so the page goes down.
That should hit the news stations around the world, which would hopefully strengthen the argument in favour for a Dredd sequel.

ps. Replace that daystick with a KTT !

KTT ??

Finally got the base structure for the arms done, that just about has everything in place and ready for the full detailing to start.

Looking forward to getting this done now, and with the structure and pose set the end is in sight.
I'm waiting on delivery of materials which I'm hoping will be in 2-3 days.

Still a bit of a pain getting time for this but intend to keep going, waiting for parts to dry has slowed me down a bit, but now I should be able to work on different areas as all the support is now dry.

I had hoped it would be a lot quicker, but not doing anything on this scale before meant a lot of hit and miss during this sculpt which has put me on a learning curve.
From what I have learnt I would definitely make another full size statue again at some point, but would do it differently.

My first go at a Lenticular image, give it a moment to load properly and it should work OK.

Hope CF and Planet replicas don't mind me using their image

Don't call me KP. It sounds like I'm nuts.

Just fell off my bloody chair laughing.

My first port of call checking the boards this thread is at the moment. Can't wait to see the finished article. Keep it up and keep the posts regular atp!

Cheers JF

This is looking better and better. Hope you're going to make a cast of the finished article, I'd like one in my garden...   except of course copyright issues...

I would cast this in an instance through the right channels (Rebellion), but the mould alone would cost bucket loads of cash and I wouldn't even know how to estimate the material costs. Then there's shipping. Nice thought though.

Good choice - it's a very "dreddish" pose, but not too complicated anatomically, and the daystick should give it a bit more strength

Yep totally, the arms would effectively be adding strength to each other, and psychologically Scare the shit out of children, Ahem  excuse me, I mean keep people away from too much touching

Managed to get a couple of hours to start the arms, went really well. The sculpting seemed to just move along by itself today. Also found that I lost track of time and drifted into a sentimental retrospective  thought pattern that hit me quite hard today. Back in 2007 my wife developed a heart problem that led to a mini stroke in 2010. Mini stroke implies something trivial, but shit scary thing to happen, everything that goes with a full stroke but with good chance of recovery.  Thankfully she had the strength to battle her way back and has recovered fully. During that period I became obsessed with her health and recovery . I know I said that the change from bust to full size was my wife's idea, but it's more than just an idea, after all that happened this whole Dredd sculpt would never have started if not for my wife pushing me to get back into creative things.
Getting all bloody soppy now, not sure how or why that came about, bit self indulgent there, but just felt like I needed to put it into the wind so to speak.

That's really coming along - have you decided what pose you are going for with the arms?

quick doodle of what I'm aiming at for the look the arms.

OK,  I was going to start on the armature for old stoney face's arms, but I found myself with nearly a whole day spare so got some work done on the legs.

I genuinely did not even consider making anything other than a bust when I started this project, but I am enjoying doing this sculpt as it's the first time I have sculpted anything on this scale.
Although I have made a full sized Dalek, which is more of a construction job than a sculpture.

Sorry some of the photo's are a bit blurred, I think it's due to the fluorescent light.

So we finally know what Dredd looks like. Nice one Sauchie

Seamus's chin is a bit Bollocks though.