Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

This has been a busy week for me... and I got impatient and jumped ahead on something.
I'll end up using them as 'practice pieces'... but not only did I NOT sand down the edges on the left arm and forearm pieces... but I slapped a layer of Bondo on them.
Did I connect the forearm pieces to each other and fiberglass them solid?
Of course not.
Have I articulated the elbow piece to the upper arm and forearm pieces to form a working joint?
Of course not.
Does this mean I'm going to have to do the left arm (bicep, forearm and wrist) completely from scratch again?
Yeah. Probably.
Shut up. LOL

From the start of this project - be it impatience, be it distractedness, be it external factors... whatever... I've been beset with small hiccups that have forced me into a bit of a learning curve after-the-fact.
For example... the files laboriously and meticulously 'Pepped' (created and edited in Pepakura) by Robo (Thanks again, Robo!) are for a specific body frame and size... and from varying posts I have read, should fit someone with a 32" waist (which I more or less have) and 6'0" tall.
I'm a bit bigger than that, though... and thicker than a 'medium' bodyframe... the upper arm (for example) ended up quite snug with little room for movement within it and threatening to split apart at the elbow joint if I gave it a good solid 'flex'.
So I had to resize it.
Luckily, KAV is a Graphic Designer, and we have Adobe Illustrator CS on her home office computer... so resizing a pdf wasn't anywhere near a problem... except when it came to printing it... even an increase of a mere 5% in size meant that the same polygons might not fit in the same print area as the original-sized bits.
Plus... the pages of the pdfs had to be individually resized... so that's more that 300 pieces... increased in size by 5%, rotated and coaxed into fitting into the print area of the home printer.
Pain. In. The. Ass.
Needless to say, I resized a couple times before settling on a 5% increase... why I didn't listen to my gut instinct I have no idea... but I made a +10% and even a +15% bicep piece before the 5% size was adopted.
Further along this line... with a 5% increase in size, the forearm bulge (closer to the elbow) felt like it was a little TOO big. So I used the smaller 100% size instead; ditto for the calves.
(As a wonderful little chunk of irony, it seems that both the forearm-elbow and knee joints articulate a little better with the altered sizes I have established. Score one for 'serendipity'. LOL)

Even after reading about how I should grind/sand down the edges of the resined pieces so as to allow a smoother end-finish with the Bondo, though... I STILL put the Bondo on the left arm pieces.
Durrr...

Well... at least I know what's involved now with the Bondo... and so far it seems pretty idiot proof.
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We shall see...