Modelling The Rifle

One important item in a soldier's kit, is, of course his rifle. The soldier I am sculpting has a SA80 rifle in his possession. The difficulty I had with sculpting this was that it needed to be rigid to withstand the modelling that went on around it (the arms etc). For the gun I opted to use Fimo as I had previously done with the brush and pen.

With FIMO, the object you have made can be placed in an oven at something like 110 degrees centigrade for 30 mins and this hardens it. In future I think I would actually model the gun from cut plastic strips and tubing as FIMO is quite spongy, which ultimately softens some of the detail.