What’s on the workbench, /toy/?Sculpts, castings, 3D prints, dioramas, mods, kitbashes, and repaint are all welcome!Post WIPs, finished projects, ideas, techniques, ask for advice, and most of all, have fun!HELPFUL TIPS:-Invest in a rotary tool such as a dremel for sanding/sculpting, especially a flexible extension tip.-Pin vises for drilling holes can be found at hobby stores like Hobby Lobby and are great for making peg holes.-For soft, flexible parts get Sugru silicone putty and Oyumaru-Hardware epoxy putties such as Waterweld, KwikWood, and PlasticWeld are similar to milliput, greenstuff, and apoxie, can be cheaper some times, and can be found at local hardware stores such as Lowes, Ace, and Home Depot.-Bootleg figures make great custom-fodder, especially if the legit figures are pricey.-Body-chan/kun, Figma Archetype He/She, Romankey x Cowl, and Sozai-chan/kun are great base bodies for import-style human characters.-For 3D models to use for editing, the following sites are good to bookmark:>cgtrader.com (free and purchasable models)>cults3d.com (free and purchasable models)>models-resource.com (FREE 3D game models)>turbosquid.com (free and purchasable models)>grabcad.com (free and purchasable models)>renderhub.com (free and purchasable models)
>is that a perfectly okay toy? I'm gonna DESTR- uh I mean customize >that toy looks so customizable for its age haha...>that X character toy has a passing resemblance to y character, someone should *jerks off furiously* c-c-customize! Behead colostomizers.
>>11821377Oh Hey! thanks for making a new thread, i lost track of time and got busy, godspeed mate!
>>11821377>>11821423>>11821377Another good tip that i mentioned on last Thread's OP is that if you have stuck joints or articulations in your figure, a good thing to have at hand is "Silicone Based Lubricant", this can either come in the shape of Silicone Grease or Silicone Oil>Silicone Grease:Useful for parts that can be taken apart and have too much friction, perfect for bafs or accessories that you fear could break from it, like Figma Accesories that sometimes come in two parts>Scilicone Oil:Usually sold in spray bottles or dropper bottles since it's mostly used on Treadmills and Conveyor Belts, perfect for stuck articulations that can't be taken apart, like Figuarts or McFarlane figures, i suggest trying the hot water bath first, but if that doesn't work or isn't an option, applying the Oil on the stuck joint using a syringe or q-tip is the way to go>What if i want to make articulations Tighter?Most people will suggest using Super Glue and letting it dry or applying it and having it stay in place, instead invest in water-based polyurethane, this often means Floor Polish or Varnish, which is what Kiki-Joint Fix is without having to get the specific brand if you're not in the states
>>11821449The reason why i specifically mention Silicone instead of other lubricants like WD-40 is that other lubricants are often Solvent Based, which can sometimes cause great damage to your figures, i am speaking from experience, RIP Mecha Hulk Chest missile, you had a good run, Best to use things that wont damage plastics like the ones in Action figures since it'll sometimes cause them to melt like Acetone
Found this cloak on AliExpress and I have decided my display needs a badass Red Riding Hood, seeing as I have a ton of big bad wolves by now to play with. I'm thinking oni blank body, give her a battle axe and something skimpy to wear.
>>11821458Noice, may i suggest getting a Notta-toys girl? they are pretty much perfect for what you seek and already include skimpy clothes
Finished linking both tracks, it was 384 tiny parts per one, it was a chore.
>>11821517Now working on suspension's details.>>11821458Tunshi Studio female body has skimpy softgoods, but they don't have heads. Need to find some photos...
>>11821458>>11821521Same base body was used for that post-apo mechanic girl with legged bike.
want to see if I can do a similar paint job to get the gravity suit colors on the Prime 3 Figma but I wouldnt know how to make it look that shiny. Also thinking of doing glow in the dark paint for some of the light patterns
>>11821523I don't know if they have it in the states, i assume y'all do, but where i live i have this "Metallic Medium" that helps make any paint look metallic, surely it would work on a figma, but i also heavily reccomend knowing what you're doing, since brush strokes sometimes ruin the work and Glow in the dark paint is a notorious pain in the ass to get right unless you know what you're doing
>>11821538yeah i think its just called metallic paint over here. anyway I have a general understanding of how to repaint something as I have done a few Nendoroids, but never a figma so it'll be something new and unknown kinda
So for the guy who said Thor shouldn't have a reflective helmet it looks like my Top Coat agreed and it really dulled the result (I mean I knew it would thanks to what happened to Citizen V). I still like it though.I also top coated the gold legs which resulted in some flaking but you dont notice in real life
>>11821922Not my picture but here's what it looked like originally. I couldn't stand the gold plastic look so I decided to brave those metallic paint markers
>>11821377ahh glad to see this is back.I need to do some more customizing but I get so discouraged.Tell me, I know how hard making silicone molds and getting resin to cure and not have bubbles is, all that nonsense.. is there a fucking quick and dirty way? Is there a reliable just 'fucking copy this' mold, that you can then press apoxie into? like it only needs to look good from one side.. I always hear interesting stuff about 'sprue glue' and it both intrigues and terrifies me.
>>11821517may they never break.>>11821538Has this worked for you? I find it just dilutes the metallicity, and the only hope is putting down a layer of metallic first, THEN clear candy coat over it.>>11821523glow in the dark is so frustrating. Back in the day, you could get things that were both gitd AND visibly neon bright, but now you have to pick. And I've tried mixing them, they do not get along. You have to pick either looks good with lights on or lights off. UV lights of course work for both.additionally, a lot of gitd paint that has colors other than green.. turns out to just glow green., or off-green, or off-orange.. so getting the precise teal here might be tough.
>>11822499Epoxy putty such as greenstuff and plastic weld (the latter is actually for plastic plumbing tubes) can work in place of resin, they are somewhat pliant when cured, and a good way to prevent bubbles is to just powder the inside of silicone molds (and pour out the excess powder, you need only coat the inside with a thin layer). Also, silicone molds can also be made with silicone putty 2-part compounds found at hobby stores. Thick silly putty but softer when in unmixed forms, you just combine equal halves of the two compounds until evenly mixed together then apply to the surface(s) you’re trying to replicate.
>>11822514thanks you, Anon. I will write this down for later. I'm just in a frustrating period where I just wanna fill in some hollows, and I have various styrene parts, and I'm just bad at cutting and I KNOW how easy it would be to have something 3d printed, and also that I could fill the hollows basically perfectly by cloning the opposite side piece and making them mirrors. Too many options, none of them just falling into place.
>>11821377Just bought a type 1 mego batman off of ebay for cheap. Gonna make him a costume and stuff.
>>11821377Just want to say that fat pikachu is glorious
>>11822499Can you use a vacuum chamber? It's pretty good at removing bubbles.
>>11822893like I said, I'm aware how much rigamarole there is in molding. I'm trying to see if there's a quick-and-dirtier way that maybe wouldn't be good for absolute precision, but fine for gap-fillers. or in this case, because the limbs basically look cut in half, just cloning their opposite sides to fill in that missing half.
Adding gold to little places, like the metal on his strapsVery relaxing
>>11823347Detailing! hell yeah.
Is there a way to do small scale plastic injection molding? Or something similar? I don't like how resin likes to chip.
>>11823941Ever try "thermoplastic"? It sometimes is good as a substitute for resin parts.
>>11822553Badass, I cant wait to see the end result.
>>11823351Its very funAlthough I kinda understand now whenever you see those really bad paint jobs people upload online cause in real life this looks smooth and uninterrupted but after taking a photo I'm starting to doubt my own sanity after how shitty it looks
>>11824165everything looks bad up close, even from factories.
>>11824031>It sometimes is good as a substituteI'll look into it, could still be good for some things for sure, but I need better than a "sometimes"
>>11824165Thets why detail handpainters wear or use the magnifying glasses in factories.
>>11824291Any you recommend >>11824225Although I agree
