I resculpted his hair again, filed down his goofy elongated muzzle and resculpted it( pretty happy with how that came out), resculpted the eyebrowes and filed down some grooves around his face that made him look old (he still isnt perfect in that regard...i may try to smooth it out some more) and gave him another new paint job. I'm getting closer to the sideshow chimp skin tone...I just needed to mix some pink acrylic in with the tans, browns and whites. I used Cornelius Jr. pictures from "Battle" as reference (the classroom scene mainly). I used fabric paint on some Mego clothes I ordered and pieces of a chopped up Hasbro Dr Zaius jacket glyph for the leather strips. I don't know if it's because the scene was in broad daylight, but Bobby Porters wig looked a lot more brown to me than black, but I used black anyway so that he would be in sync with the other chimps. Should I give it a more brown tint?
Awesome idea Jessica. I do have Cornelius' PJs that I was going to use to make the camp fire/Aldo plotting to kill Ceasar scene, but I suppose it wouldn't be a big deal if he wore the regular chimp child clothes. The way I glued the strips onto the outfit would make it difficult to remove anyway, so I'll likely keep it on. I'll try sculpting over the feet, or I could sculpt over a pair of mego shoes and file down the existing shoes until they fit over it...
I've been working with sculpey III only because it's cheap and easily attainable at Jo Ann Fabrics, but like Steve Strange warned me, it can be a bit brittle. I may use apoxie on my next project.
I'll post a pic of my child chimp so far later today.
