What's happening is that instead of a model that's just a few wooden components glued together I'm starting to have to add more and more Milliput putty in order to make the design work. I'm also having to saw, sand and carve more complicated shapes out of the pegs to get the components I want and to make these components fit. (But, most of all it's the amount of putty I'm having to use that bothers me.)
I really - originally - wanted something that just went together out of a few simple components, but now it's turning into more of a real modelling or sculpting job. Maybe I'm just being too critical tough, as - in the end - it's the final look that matters.
I think what I will do is to paint this one up to see how it fits in with my painted peg soldiers.
I think you have hit on something that both Dale and I have struggled with ... when you start to get too many different poeces, or when the build takes too many steps, it sort of defeats the point of doing these fellows in the first place. I wish I could tell you where that happy midpoint is. I have no idea.
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