2009 Halloween Egg - The Ninth Ring of Hell

Step 6 Building Satan Part 1: Body Building

With the base and egg begun we can now move on to the focus of the piece: the figure of Satan. Since Dante portrayed Satan has having three faces on one head we'll need three action figures. One will have to be larger than the other two.

First, of the two smaller action figures choose the torso and arms you want to use. I chose the figure that was more muscular as Satan is described as being a powerful creature. With that decision made disassemble all three action figures. You can do this by removing the small screws ususally found in the back of the torso. WIth the screw removed they should just pop open. Set the heads aside.

Now reassemble the torso and arms you plan to use and put the rest of the parts into your parts collection. Since Satan is supposed to be trapped in the ice I decided to potray his arms as being immobilized. Notice how the arms hang past the bottom of the torso. We'll either have to cut holes in the ice to allow them to pass through, or cut them off. I chose to cut them off.

To figure out the cut points position the arms so they are hanging down at the sides of the torso. Then hold the "ice" we made in the last step even with the bottom of the torso. Where the arms intersect the ice is where you'll want to cut. Mark these positions and use a Dremel with a cut off wheel to remove the arms.

More than likely your action figure torso has some sort of molded in details that one doesn't find mentioned in Dante's description of Satan, such as shirt sleeves, logos, straps, pockets , molding marks etc. I removed these details using a brush attachment on my Dremel to scour them off and some very fine grain sand paper to remove the scour marks.

With the torso cleaned-up it is on to the head.