Going to start another one project - "The family of scorpions"  4 cartoon-style marionettes.Client want them  as humans .Today I've made some sketches,sent  to client and he liked them   maybe  I'll change the shape of tails

not so clear ,sorry about that, pics of the process will be OK

Iwould use longer tails myself if they didn't get in the way of the strings (maybe a string could operate the tail?)- Steve

Yes,maybe a bit longer.Those marionettes will be simple and easy to operate with minimum strings so tails won't have any movements.

started with tails and "hands" made of magicsculpt [/url

they look nice, great shape...but what is magicsculpt ??

Magicsculp is the two-part epoxy putty, more info about it here  http://www.magicsculp.com/

making the body
some aluminium foil

after sculpting ( I prefer oil-based clay) I've covered it ( plastic food wrap)

Sculpwood will be slide on plastic so I should cover it  first .What I need is some wood filler and some tull ( I was trying to find fiberglass mesh but fruitless so I use regular tull)

Covered the model (like papier-mache method) and let it dry
looks like mummyLOL