Today I spent a couple of hours doing what I call my "industrial dummying". It's among the messiest and least fun tasks in my dummy-makin' process. Essentially, I rip apart the Charlie heads to make armatures. It involves sawing off the back of the head, poking out and grinding the eye sockets, pulling out the jaw and trimming it up, and drilling indentations in the interior so the Magic-Sculpt mountings will remain secure. I've done six at a time so I can start turning the heads into characters.
My Dremel tool gets a real workout.
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