Minor Hockey Player

Here is a figure the I made for my brother's birthday on October 11. I thought it would be fun to make a figure based on him as a boy in one of his minor hockey uniforms. From start to finish this figure took about a day to complete. For this one I am including some pictures of what the figure looked like before it was painted so that it's easier to see how many pieces were used in it's construction. While at first glance it doesn't look like it, this figure is actually built out of 19 separate pieces, some of them actually functioning a little like a skeleton. What I mean by this is that some parts, such as the arms and the gloves, have a separate internal piece of wood connecting them. What I did was drill out a hole in the lower portion of the arm as well as through most of the glove, and then insert and glue in place a smaller rounded piece of wood. I did the same thing with the hips. For the lower legs, skates and base I did pretty much the same thing except this time I had the internal piece coming from the lower legs go down through the skates and deep into the base. This should make the figure far more secure than if I had just glued the skates to the base for instance. Like most of my more recent figures the head is able to turn and is also removable so it can be placed on another body. The figure is about three inches tall, including the base.