The other thing I'll show off here is using a Dremel to make the process easier.
You can see an example here of how it looks when I finished.
I had considered replacing his teeth with stones, but that was looking a little logistically crazy and to be honest, I liked how his teeth looked. While rooting through my terrain bits I came across the pearl chips and it all came together.
You can also carve the nails out with a knife, but a rotary tool is just tons easier and faster.
A few features:
- Cordless
- Still has the torque (strength) of the plugged in model and portable.
- Battery charges really fast, but a second can be purchased for uninterrupted extended work.
- Flex-Shaft Attachment [link]
- This is a light-weight extension with flexible tubing that lets you easily work on smaller detail while hanging the heavier Dremel out of the way.
- Normally a rotary tool is just the large part hanging in the top right of the picture here. Non-Dremel brand tools may not have this available.
- Bits
- There are all sorts and sizes of bits available. Often you're working with grinding, sanding or cutting.
* My favourite attachment is the fibreglass reinforced cutting wheel. That thing is great for everything from cutting slots in stripped screws to grinding through metal.
Finally, a knife is a good way to clean up anyone roughness left by the grinding.
Then I dumped out some of my pearl chips and tried fitting them to the missing nails.
As I found ones that fit, I used green stuff to fill the gap and sculpt it into the fingers.
Below, you can see all the chipped pearls. I didn't glue them into place until after priming and airbrushing, so I marked underneath them as to where they go.
