Many thanks for the kind words, I hope to move it along a bit this weekend & have it finised by next week.
MHoxie - fantastic bit of cod Beach Boys!
Dezmond - I'd forgotten about the Fenris one, I'm not sure it's on their site any more - I think it's made to order. By all means feel free to nick my method, it's probably the easiest way to make something that size & it's also pretty quick (you'll probably spend more time waiting for things to dry - glue, paper mache & air dry clay than actually modelling - I used standard cheap Das by the way - just roll it out to a couple of mm thick & drape over the frame like icing a cake - you can then wet your fingers & smooth it round the armature. I taped a bunch of old brushes together to make the stippling - using the handle ends, & some finer stippling with an old stiff bristle brush. The eyes are just balls of dried Das pressed into the skin, which is raised up around them a bit).
Sterling Moose - funny you should say that, a clue in the original scenario is slime full of penguin bone fragments - I had thought of a pool of slime full of disarticulated skeletons might be fun (probably just use pva tinted with a little ink).
