This worryingly enthusiastic-looking mister is Gregory, my resident mad scientist, last seen here---> [link] Don't call him 'mad', mind you. He prefers 'differently sane.'

Gregory here seems to have done something inadvisable to his left hand. Good luck with that thing in a lightning storm, mate.

I started with a wire base and a torso, hands, head and feet sculpted from Fimo polymer clay, painted skin and highlights with acrylic paint, then added clothes and hair made from feather boa. His robotic hand is made from two bolts, four rivets, an icing nozzle and a corn-on-the-cob fork, and his cameo is made from a cog from a pocketwatch and a tiny red button. His hair is two-tone- mainly black with a big shot of grey at the top. One too many sleepless nights in the lab, methinks.

I'm always frustrated by how hard it is to take a good picture of my three-dimensional work. I want to show everything, from the way I added skin tone and creases to his hands and nails, right to the way I sculpted the lines on his face, but I had to settle for a good overall picture.