I told you this is a process, an ugly one at that

As you can see, my first attempt at armatures was educational. That said they are bad, why? First of the scale, while it almost impossible to tell, the proportion are for the most part ok, the black marks, marks are also too wide and therefore variable, indicate the foot, hip joints, while the bottom of the loop and top of GS glob is the shoulder, simply put thought they are too big, about 35mm. The wire is not stiff enough as well as being aluminum, which I have read is bad to use for the vulcanization process. The putty was real old, when I was working the GS. I was wondering why the GS was feeling stiff and old, when I just bought a new box. I started to worry, that I have lost what little feel, I had for the GS, after a relatively long modeling hiatus, it was from my old stock. Finally, I also made a very common Newbie mistake, even thought I tired to mix a small batch, I was compelled to try to use it all, and I made more armatures, each worse the last, should not rush the process, its as important as any other step. I read in a FAQ that you should have a relative large project to use what left over you have, so they do not go to waste.

Also, I have a number of reference site and material to review and I will be trying once again.