The Playground

Remember that post I made over a year ago saying I was making models of the main characters from Frankenchicken? Well, let's just say that time passed rather swiftly without any progress until fairly recently. Happily, I have just gotten another model at the ready-to-paint stage:

I use Daas over a wire and polystyrene skeleton that I shape and sand back. He's pretty much ready for painting.
Some points about his character:
He was modelled on a friend's beagle that, alas, is no longer with us. The Dog's character is pretty dour but he has reason. He was once a therapeutic animal for patients in a children's ward at a hospital, but with closure of the wing, was consigned to an experimental laboratory. There he was used as a test subject for an artificial vocal device and titanium teeth. The former was developed for humans that have lost their own vocal chords and forms part of the collar around his neck. The advantage of this prototype is that it is not locked to any particular voice, so he is able to mimic pretty much any sound he hears. This makes him an excellent choice to head Communications, hence the earpiece and microphone. The titanium teeth was a trial for police dogs that had previously damaged their own teeth in bringing down suspected criminals. I believe this is actually a true experiment that was done. For The Dog, it merely allows him to be even more intimidating.