The present work aims at demonstrating the feasibility of high quality articulatory synthesis for fricative consonants, and in particular to match a given reference subject. The synthesiser includes an articulatory model based on cineradiographic pictures of the subject, and a simplified aerodynamic model. Two approaches have been used: direct articulatory copy synthesis, and copy synthesis by acoustic-to-articulatory inversion. Coordination between supralaryngeal and laryngeal articulators has been quasi-automatically determined, based on supplementary aero-dynamic data. A set of VFV spatio-temporal examplars has finally been built, and should serve to establish sensory-motor templates for synthesis.