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After yesterday's animation experiments, day I made the armature of the Orpheus puppet today. I used aluminum wire for the main skeleton, and white Milliput for the bones.

Some parts of the armature (the head and the hands) are replaceable, those will be attached through square K&S brass tubes. I've written an e-book about my model making for animation process last year, in case you'd like to learn more about my process.

Right now I'm tinkering with the puppet's tiny hands. On the one hand I want to give JON's (aka gluegunslinger) GAP/FILL/DIP method a try, but since I need a rather seamless transition from the hand to the arm, I'm also thinking of modeling it from plasticine and casting it of cold foam…

Next steps on this puppet:

• solving the hand's problem
  
• sculpting the model
  
• casting the mold
  
• casting the puppet, and finally
  
• completing the puppet with a clean-up.