Main assembly, shaping/sanding, and dentition done.
Over the weekend I got almost all the main assembly done for both skulls (there’s one final piece that extends off the back of the mask) and did an initial pass at shaping all those square foam edges with a tapered grinding stone on my Dremel mototool. (the regular kind of Dremel, not the coping saw). It’s remarkable how quickly they shifted from “blocky impression of a skull” to “realistically skull-like object”; it was about an hour’s shaping for each skull.
Sunday evening I then tackled adding the smaller teeth and lower fangs into the upper jaw and mandible. I watched the tutorial video about 3 times before what he was doing clicked, and now am pretty happy. SKS was using a preliminary version of the pattern when he did the video, so the number of small teeth didn’t quite match what was in the published template (which were labeled as “adjust size to your preference.”
After all the video watching, there will be one more pass with the Dremel to carve away a bit more material, and then we can do some fill-in and smoothing of joints with foam clay. The skulls already look quite organic!
