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    The big problem with this scene ever getting built was my reluctance to attempt to create the figure I needed to be in the window. This photo shows the G.I. very close to being finished. I was able to mnipulate a white metal armature enough to put it in a leaning position. I "locked" him into position with small bits of two part epoxy putty that set up really very quickly. So quickly that I knew I wouldn't be able to use it for the rest of the sculpting. I was able to sculpt his arms and shirt from a mixture of peach colored Sculpey, mixed with a smaller amount of harder, grey colored Sculpey. This made a putty that wasn't too fragile or sticky and was easy enough to push around with a toothpick and a paintbrush handle. I gave him a very quick heating with a heat gun (not a hair dryer) and the Sculpey setup enough to clean up and paint. I think you can find a heat gun pretty inexpensively and they are a little dangerous because they get extremely hot. It was a good tool for this particular task, but you can cure Sculpey other ways.

    The figures head is resin and came from a very German looking figure with straight hair combed over his forehead. I carved the hair away and added some on top with some green automotive putty. I was trying to make him less fierce looking and as though he had been lounging in bed.

    Here is the G.I. test fitted in the window opening and a view of him from the rear. He is on a little block of wood and his hands are keeping him in position.
    The shiny silver in the lower part of the photo is the drain pipe made from aluminum armature wire.

    Here is the box to create the dark, enclosed room. It's some thin styrene painted flat black. The depth is equal to the back edge of the wood base and although it makes for an unrealistically small room, the dark shadow inside the window doesn't betray how shallow the opening is.

    Here is the almost complete telephone line hanger, made from styrene rod, strips and styrene "C" beam. The holes are drilled with a pin vise and the construction is based upon a combination of reference photos I have accumulated.
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