So this is my character - Tyler Samuels - Strange name but what the hell why not thats what I say... Also I have altered his waist line higher as he was not in propotion in this image. (LITTLE LEGGGGGS)
We started with - a piece of 2cm (roughly) thick square MDF and two blocks for stands parallel to one another attached to the wood. We then drilled a hole in the wood in relation to the characters pose - as mine was a very neutral standing pose (direction of UP) I drilled my hole pretty much centre of the wood allowing some room for the other leg to come across.
I then attached a washer and blot to a long piece of metal wire (I think 60mm) once poked through this hole. poking out the bottom of the wood was about 1 cm with a washer and a bolt. The same was done to the top and then it was tightened to fasten my (what was currently) MASSIVE bit of metal for a body. The metal was then ' trimmed ' shall we say - I say it like this as we pretty much made it about 1/5th of its size. NOTE - make sure you have a bolt on there already before you saw it off - this allows the thread on the metal to be repaired when you take the bolt off again :-)
We then bent the metal into the Pose using whatever means necessary - Pliars or MASCULINITY either way works. The next stage was similar to the last - we got other bits of slightly thinner metal and then bent that into shape for arms and the other leg. This was a lot easier as it wasnt the 'spine' of the model. These were attached with smaller bits of wire initially and then for extra stiffness we used ****look up official name here**** putty which you combine with another putty by kneeding it into one ending up a green neutral colour. This putty dries solid after approximately four hours! EXCELLENT! We just literally wrapped this around our sketchy joints which we'd just made with wire!! And that was the end of week one - leave it to Cool/Dry/Harden :D
Heres a few images after Week Ones Work:
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