Post #634962 by Atomic Mess on Fri, May 4, 2012 6:19 AM

Thanks again guys!

Got a more recent piece coming up. I've done some PNG shield/gope board style stuff in the past (will post them when I get round to photographing them) and I painted them in parts, so I wanted to try it out on more 3d piece.

I usually buy bits of mahogany or other decent wood to carve but i was worried about messing up a nice bit of wood with the paint so I decided to use a bit of pine I found in the street. I've carved pine before and it's a pain in the arse but this plank seemed to be really hard which I've not experienced with pine before - really chippy and easy to splinter but also super tough to cut!

Anyhow I finished eventually so here goes-

I decided to try and cut most of the outline with him still attached to the plank, I wasn't sure if the wood was treated so I wanted to use a hacksaw to rough it out and this gave me something to hold-

sorry for the crappy pictures, no daylight in England in January!

it was hard to get the details without splintering bits off...

all done with chisels, gouges, hand drill and box cutter...

I got excited and forgot to keep documenting the steps again...

I'll try and take some better pics if it ever stops raining!

Thanks for looking,