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My character wears: Samurai Suit, Samurai Wig, Bandages, black shoes, with white hair. Because he always has this on, the neighbors in Rosewood have begun calling him a Samurai Guy to each other, it's how they identify him. So I wanted to create this look for my figurine, but also give him a cool pose, so I decided he would be going fishing, with of course his Golden Rod. But still, no, he needs something more... Samurai. So I wanted to pose him ready for Nukichi. Don't know what that is? here, a description from Historynet.com:

His mind cleared of any distractions, he could practice and practice until the wielding of the sword became second nature to him — intuition and action would indeed spring forth at the same instant, with deadly effect. The end result of such concentration and practice was a samurai's ability to draw his sword and kill an enemy in one smooth movement called nukiuchi

That's right, my Saumrai Guy is such a skilled fisherman that he can cast his rod and land a fish in one smooth fluid movement!

Materials Used:

Sculpt-it! - Sargent Art (no bake clay)
Acrylic BASIC - Palmer Prism (paint)
Metallic Craft Paint - Anitas (gold)
Tiny wooden dowel rod (for fishing rod)
Basic clay sculpting tools
Detail paintbrushes
Superglue
Switchblade knife (for whittling wood)
Small wood circle (for a base)

All of these things can be found at Hobby Lobby, and probably any other hobby store, like Michaels. Anyway it's pretty straight-forward, I took the no-bake clay and shaped my figures head and body, I made the body + limbs all 1 piece, then just let it air dry. If you use this stuff wait at least a day to be sure everything really is dry, because it can shrink and crack while drying, and you will want to fill in the cracks with more clay, or if it's tiny cracks, super glue can fill-em up nice. When you are positive it's all dry, super glue the head to the body, and wait a couple minutes, five should be fine, and you can now paint it!

Most of the colors in the set I used are ready to use without mixing for the head and body, there is a perfect skin-tone color, red, yellow, teal color (for his socks + eyes), & gray. I did have to mix some colors for the cliffs and grass, as well as the darker grays used on his Samurai Suit. When I crafted the base and the clay was still soft I pressed his feet into it so there would be indentations for where to glue him down, so there would be more for the glue to grip, but by the time the grass was done drying/shrinking he barely fit. It was still good enough, so he's secured pretty well. The base took a while because it kept shrinking for a few days because I used this small round piece of wood and put clay around it, and I had to keep filling in cracks and re-painting. If you try one, just wait the few days before painting, maybe next time I wont have wood at the core, it doesn't shrink with the clay.

As for adding the fishing pole, I just waited till after I painted the figure to taper the end thats tucked between his arm and body down to a wedge, and then I painted the rod and just glued it in there. The tiny handle piece that he has in front of him is a separate piece of wood shaped glued to look like the pole goes all the way through his hands. The bobber is just a tiny wooden point pushed through a tiny ball of clay. That's really all there was to it, it's just really hard to paint details that tiny, especially when it's a strange shape.

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