Early Natives

Using arms from Airfix Desert Rats Multipose figures, legs and modified torso from Historex nudes, I fashioned a Papua New Guinean native in a squatting position. Modifications and musculature were done with liquid plastic. I had some simple references then on PNG natives. Leaves were made from paper. Painting was done with enamels.

I also made a Lisaw woman, one of the hill tribes from the Golden Triangle of Burma, Thailand and Vietnam. Most of the details were added from Milliput, a very unsatisfactory epoxy putty, being hard to mix and apply. It seems to keep very poorly, and always has lumps of cured putty in the mixture.

I went back to making a finer version of another PNG native, this time of a Kaluli tribesman. the head-dress is particularly fascinating and the white feathers were created from aquarium plastic leaves, painted white. The spray of leaves were made from plastic strips and sheet.