ok, let's change that thing into something with more....more content in it
honestly i'm not a fan building the head as first but this time i had to change a lot things here in comparison to the other hedgehog models, where you have sharp and upwards lifted spikes, Knuckles has this allready known rasta spikes what need a complete different build method maybe you know what i mean the head is not open until the end, so you have more or less build in two ways
first i started with thet eyebrows and the eyes
then i added the first pieces for the mouth and added the first two pieces what are under the spikes (don't ask for the number yet, i'll add a footnote which one and edit thhis text when i'm done with the post processing)
after the face i build all the spikes and combined it with the face piece sry that i have no progress shot here, it took all of my three thousand hands that the model doesn't collapse
all i can say is, that i designed the model in that way, that you have to combine the first spike to the face, then the second to the first, the third to the second and so on
if you have all seven spikes attached, you have to close the top of the head the last piece of the top is inverted that means, that there are only two tabs at the side what you have bend underneath the others (inside the head)
the next three photos show a little trick how to prevent open gaps at the head i cut myself a few little pieces out like you can see on the photo then i glued them into the head worked very well to close this gaps and to prevent that the pieces are get ripped apart
then i added the rest of the head parts be aware here, they are not really easy and you have to a lot of pieces quite blind
later i'll add (as always) some numbers to all pieces, so then you have just follow them
it's hard to explain why i build it this way this time i thought really long how i could do it, but found always that way one of the reasons was that i have a nice a clean build of the face and a maybe ugly face at the back and the inside of the head if i would build it in the other direction it could be that the face will be messed up with a allready build head
but to reassure you the head is here the hardest part from all
and love it.
btw any tip on how to hide the evil white lines left by the paper thickness?
thank you
i test it first if the color fit
sometimes i have to mix two colors together, but alltough it work very well
the next pieces a lot more easier as the head
thank you