About that, I was just on the phone with my mate who has the 3D printer and I was thinking about maybe making casts instead of individual prints. But I will have to see how much that would cost me, the Prints alone would be more than 700€ easy plus a few litres of quality silicone to get good results would also add a few hundred, then a few litres of resin...yeah loads of money I'd have to put in up front, which at the moment I just don't have. Being an artist is not about money, I know, but sometimes having some cash actually helps get stuff started and into actual production, while not worrying how to pay rent the next month and not having to starve... I don't want to annoy you lot with my artist blues though.
As mentioned earlier the shapeways prints only make me very little money and I will have to see how I make the Amanaman possible. At the moment there is just no way I can pull the financial part off for a resin production.
That said, the sculpt is already started however and if everything works out I might even have it finished sometime next week. In the meantime I'll think about how to make it possible to get him into an actual physical form without having to sell my organs. Since I did not charge a single penny for the sculpting of the heads and hands and whatnot, I'll have to do some annoying commission work inbetween to get some cash in so bear with me if it takes me a little longer.