He has an obvious issue.
The top of his head is in several pieces. The enveplope contains a handfull of very small pieces.
A less obvious issue is that his arms are hanging and loose. The elastic needs replacing.
At one point some of his head pieces were taped together. You can see old tape residue along the edge here. That needs to get cleaned off before reassembling the bits.
Some of the pieces have cracks.
Some of the contents of the envelope.
This is going to be a persnickety jigsaw puzzle!
One nice thing about celluloid is that you can fuse pieces together with acetone. So, once you figure out where a piece goes, you hold it in place while running a fine paintbrush dipped in acetone along the crack.
Here I have pieced some of the smaller bits into their spots.
The darker peach is a permanent colour change caused by the adhesive tape used in that previous repair.
Gradually he gets back together.
All the pieces are back together although the top of his head has not been fused on to the bottom yet. I am contemplating what to do with three small chunks that are missing.
His head is fused together now and I have filled in the holes with a tinted epoxy.
Now to see if I can minimize the scars and even out his colour.
He aslo has a nose dent that I would like to try to make less obvious.
One of the things I am trying is an epoxy paste that I have tinted.
The paste makes gives his nose a better contour.
Lots of trial and error to get to this point!
His arms get restrung and he is ready to go home.
That looks like a huge challenge!
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