I went into school during my study leave and finished the Sculpture; there were some final things that needed to be done - some of the toes were falling off (despite the method I used to make this less likely to happen. The method did help however, and it was easier in general to make the sculpture.)
I stuck the toes that were falling off back on with slip (how I was originally sticking them on), which wasn't the best method of making the toes as I had previously discovered - but I couldn't afford to redo the whole leg and foot as well and I would have had to detach it from the main body which would have been risky and the sculpture could have broken.