Sculpting a member of the HazMat team

Well I have decided for my first figure(s) to sculpt someone wearing a HazMat Suit. Its slow going building up layer upon layer of the greenstuff. Heres what I have so far. I stil have work to do smoothing out the suit and finishing the arms and adding hands, along with some other minor details that I plan on adding.

The pose will be the guy holding up his left hand to signal the rest of the team behing him to stop, while he checks the readings of his PDA/Meter/Gieger Counter that he will be holding in the right hand. I have sculpted a tab to the bottom of his feet so he can fit on a Slotted base easily. My biggest holdup is figuring out how/what to sculpt for the gadget he will be holding.

Depending on how this one turns out I am planning on sculpting a couple more HazMat team members (unarmed) and maybe one armed team member. If the do turn out I don't have any plans at this time of getting them cast up, though if I did I would probably be casting them myself out of resin.

Exploring Unfamiliar Territories

I am going to engage in the exploration of an unfamiliar territory (to me at least). I am going to try my hand at sculpting my own figures. My inspiration comes from Bryan and the sculpts he has done and shown off over on his Blog http://vampifansworldoftheundead.blogspot.com/  and some of the sculpts people have done on the Lead Adventure Forums http://www.lead-adventure.de/index.php The main source of information on sculpting comes from the tutorial by Jason Miller over on Matakishi's Tea House http://www.matakishi.com/sculptingthings.htm Warning The Tutorial Guide does contain Nudity, both Male and Female Warning

Right now I have two test heads started. they measure 6.78mm H x 5.64mm w for the face of the one and 5.55mm H x 5.26mm W for the other one.The larger head was my first one and I sculpted it with an open mouth and deeper sunken eye sockets, this one I will try and sculpt into a zombie head. The face on the smaller head sort of reminds me of a sweet little old ladies face (minus the wrinkles). I also have two test bodies that I started to sculpt before looking for tutorials on how to sculpt miniatures, as such they are humanoid in shape but obviously they are too disproportionately to be humans or even zombies. I am chalking these up as experiments on getting a hang for working with greenstuff.

I do plan on ordering some various weapons such as Hasslefree's M16, MP5 and Mac-10 so that I don't have to try and sculpt my own weapons. I figure if I take about a week or two on each step I should have a usable figure two sometime this summer.

I will try to update this post with a pic or two of the heads as they are now when I get a chance.

As promised some sample pics

The beginnings of a Zombie????

Again sorry pics aren't of better quality, still have all might lighting gear packed up and buried in the other room.