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
>>11824048i did make this suit for my human torch
>>11824873Nice
Thors Helmet = Never dried for some reason, was always able to be wiped off even after three weeks of air drying and some hair dryer Archangels wings = Dried better but reflective coat could be wiped off after two weeks, but, enough paint stayed to keep it shiny GI Joe weapons = Dired, no issue Nightcrawlers sword (Normal and Spider-Man versions) = Dried, no issueWell... lets see how these liquid chrome marker pins work on the main reason I bought them to begin with, Armored Cobra Commander
>>11824873So far so good, I even approve of your choice of Torch! People talk smack about toybiz but alot of their best efforts with characters like Johnny or Silver Surfer have never been surpassed imo.
>>11824873I might not understand why, but it looks great!
>>11822499Like this?https://youtu.be/iOuLRMgDzVs
>>11825511useful! thank you.
>>11825511>that fucking dialectdude is making ARTISANAL resin casts here. Real down home silicone moldin' like mama used to pour.
>>11824048likewise and this looks >>11824873 almost like you made it with plastic!>>11822553I'm looking out for the Brainiac Mego green head, which I suppose I should look for harder in a thrift store since a Salvation Army is where I first saw one and got the idea.Sadly, they sell him as a new figure at absurd prices on ebay and you can find Mego heads for dirt cheap but not what I seek.
>>11825787>I'm looking out for the Brainiac Mego green headHave you considered using the 1999 hasbro Martian Manhunter as a base instead? They're pretty cheap online.
>>11825576Yeah weird mix of deep south accent, asmr vibes, and craft stuff lol
>>11825511Is this guy black or not?
>>11826034now what dingdang difference does that make
>>11826048I just want to know for curiosity’s sake. Some guy in the Glyos thread managed to dox him but his posts got deleted and he was presumably banned before he could give more info
I want to 3D print a figure, but I've never done it before. Can my filament printer handle it, or should I bite the bullet and hite someone with a resin printer?I just want it to not look out of place with my other figures, mainly Marvel Legends
>>11821517What type of 3d printer are you using?
>>11826525FDM Bambu Lab H2D using Bambu matte PLA and Sunlu PETG. >>11826519For action figures I would suggest resin. Even with 0.2mm nozzle you wont get such results.
>>11826519Not speaking from experience here, but I think typically when people 3d print full figures, they get an off the shelf joint kit to build it around, because 3d printed joints are kinda too soft to work well?Alternatively they at least make sure to print the joints in nylon, which I'm not sure is even available as a resin
>>11826884If you do SLS nylon the entire figure can be printed*, no third-party joints required..*This requires using a site like Sculpteo to print it for you because SLS printers are not practical in any way for home printing (not the least reason being the entry-level machines start at $5,000usd and require a fuck-ton of processing work after the print is made), plus you have to account for SLS nylon’s tolerances of the service you use (typically +/-0.15mm) and need parts to utilize minimal wall thicknesses wherever possible and full of hollow open spaces internally to keep material costs down, print everything connected by 2mm thick sprues like a gunpla but closer together to reduce cost of printing space required, and make sure that any thin or delicate pieces have reinforcing sprues to keep them from snapping off if you choose to have your print polished by the service. Then there’s the costs to have it printed and shipped to you with an overall time from order to receiving it on your porch being usually 10-14 days for us burgers. It’s 3D printing on hard-mode, but if you get all that squared away from folks who did it that way giving you all the tips and tricks from the get-go, the results can be very nice albeit pricey.
>>11827054holy shit that looks amazingplz explain SLS printers like I'm an idiot, for I only know plastic-extrusion and UV-zapping resin printers.also isn't nylon kinda hard to paint and thus not ideal for anything but joints?
>>11826519Filament will make it but the issue is during filling/sanding layer lines you can make the figure peel apart. It would be better to use impact resistant resin. Well, the best would be using high heat resistant resin and printing a mold to use with a mini injection mold machine, right? But its a little much if you dont plan on selling garage kits.
>>11824048>>11825787i restrung him, and put the 50th anniversary suit on him. Gonna go to walmart later today and get some gray fabric to make him a decent suit.Also to my knowledge, mego only made an official brainiac with the 50th anniversary release.
>>11827253Good as new! Bruce could use a new suit though
>>11825189OkayLet me just say, Gundam Markers dry within minutes and I can touch them after like 30 minutes no issue. https://www.amazon.com/COORIART-3PK-Liquid-Chrome-Markers/dp/B0DZTD5Z55/ But these arent Gundam Markers, and using a hair dryer for a few minutes still has them coming off on me fingers.So after all this experimenting I dont think I can recommend them
>>11827641This is also probably no shock to people who have been customizing figures for awhile but as a newbie I'm shocked how these pens are basically "erasers" and take care of literally any mistake you make once it dries, and the white one is JUST an eraser for paint. I know this is like a "no shit retard" but I'm impressed.
>>11827641are you talking about specifically the chrome that comes off to the touch or all colors? cause when i chrome spray paint my trash cans with a rattle can, yeah even a week later i can buff off the flakes of silver if i touch it too hard.some sort of finish is a must for metallic colors ive learned.
>>11827056NTA (though I am buddies with him, cool dude) but SLS uses a laser to fuse nylon powder together. it actually holds paint very well but that's because it's highly porous due to being made of fused particulate plastic. The downside is it has a very coarse surface, the machines cost a fortune (which is unlikely to change) and the nylon powder is horrendously toxic if you accidentally breathe it in due to literally being pure microplastic.>>11826884That said, you CAN 3D print durable joints. You can use engineering resin like Resione's stuff (which I use for all my figure parts anyway because it's stupidly strong) or if you have an FDM printer you can use PETG. Just whatever you do don't use regular ABS-like resin (it will just grind itself to a powder and become worthlessly loose) or PLA (it's super easy to print but mechanically/structurally a bit of a shit plastic which will snap if you put any force on it at all and is really only good for cosmetic features).
>>11827647what do you mean erasers>>11827776whoa, fused nylon.meh, any customizers have already inhaled a lot of plastic dust. plastic's entire thing is being inert, it's fine.This is all extremely useful 3D printing info that I will try to retain.
>>11827803>meh, any customizers have already inhaled a lot of plastic dust. plastic's entire thing is being inert, it's fine.Oh, I'm talking about the raw powder they use in the machines (hence why home SLS is unlikely), not just dust from sanding it.
>>11827809that is.. a tad different, yes.
>>11827763With Thor, the whole thing came off With Cobra Commander like, it's more so "I use a hair dryer for 5 minutes and if I lightly touch it with my finger it'll leave a fingerprint cause the paint still comes off on your finger" but since it's silver on grey it's a little hard to tell how much is still left. Just a weird fucking paint. I don't think these marker pens are the cheat people can use instead of spray paint >>11827803>what do you mean erasersSorry I'm not really experienced with customizing at all. The white one just completely removes the paint if it's wet (but still kinda dry) enough. So when I fuck up I just go over it with that and the paint's just removed. I think I'm being amazed over something trivial
>>11827824no I think what you're describing is pretty impressive, just hard for me to grok
>>11827829It's also possible that's not what it's meant to be used for but it doesn't seem to give off any paint itself, the clear white one. I've gone over lots of things with it now and it leaves no evidence really it was there. It's also not full proof there is like a time limit for when it works and when it doesn't that I'm not aware of. Metallic red also gave me issue cause it removed 80% of it but that still had some left behind. But it's still really helpful when it's in spots that I cant just wipe off The black one also kinda works the same but more for black and I've just been lucky that all blacks more or less match with it when it dries (this sounds super obvious when I write it out, sorry)
>>11827836fascinating.. it just .. dissolves the paint?It sounded like you were describing using a gesso kinda thing to lay down UNDER the paint to peel up later, leaving an unpainted spot / clean edge, but you're saying after the fact.
>>11827841It like dissolves the paint, well like absorbs it off the figure, gets on the point of the clear white pen tip, and I just wipe it off on a piece of paper and it's back to being clean. It works just like an eraser, and it's not like super strong cause it doesn't effect the factory applied paint under it (which is why I don't wanna let the mistake dry too much before using it)
>>11827852fascinating! i wonder if a sharp point would do the same.
Anybody use BJD resin for moving parts? Heard it doesn’t powderize when it rubs together
>>11827056Sorry for the late reply, and thanks >>11827776 for answering in my stead.So here’s the thing with SLS, you CAN just use a model made for FDM to print, BUT you won’t be able to do infill adjusting. SLS fuses enclosed shapes as a solid piece, no honeycomb supports internally. This means more material used (think 100% infill), which will kick up the price to print in potentially big amounts. The solution is to make the ‘infill’ yourself and leave either a 1mm hole in the walls to let the loose powdered nylon shake out during post-processing, OR, take out entire walls that are not needed such as the inside of a chest underneath the diaphragm. You still have to make joints like sockets and hinges connect to the main body though so that it all stays together, reinforcing connection points with fillets or chamfers. Have a look at the 3D viewable models of my figures on Cults to get an idea of the how the hollow cavities and minimally thick walls work. Using minimal material for prints makes overall figures very light weight too.Another thing to keep in mind is that on sites like Sculpteo there are different varieties of nylon for SLS printing. The bog-standard cheapest variety is good in terms of durability and flex but has a medium coarse sandpaper-like finish even when you opt for the polished treatment. As a quick note, ‘chemical smoothing’ literally melts the outermost 0.1mm of surfaces using acidic fumes (the solvent itself is proprietary and a trade secret, so no buying something off Walmart’s shelves to save on money). This means that any sharp details get softened in their sculpt (not good for surface textures or small figures’ faces, and joints need to be resized. The upside though? Smooth and shiny. No, seriously, the finish requires no sanding. There’s also an ‘HD’ variety of nylon that prints the same way but has a finer grit surface compared to the regular nylon. In-hand it’s not bad unless you look WAY up close at it.
>>11828047(continued)The biggest drawback to HD nylon is the price, nearly doubling in some cases the overall cost if you opt for polished with it. The thylacine pic on >>11827054 is what polished HD nylon on Sculpteo will get you.Now, another option is PA11 Food Grade Nylon on Sculpteo. This material is naturally smoother and semi-translucent but a little less strong (more likely to bend under stress). The engineering I use for most of my prints works with the food grade stuff no problem, but some joints need reworking sometimes. Surface detail-wise it’s on-par if not smoother than polished HD when you get it even unpolished. For the last year now all my nylon SLS prints have been PA11 food grade polished. Details that you can get with the stuff is almost comparable to regular resin printers in many cases. PA11 food grade is also significantly cheaper than HD (slightly higher price than standard SLS nylon) even when polished. And on that note, pic related is an example of polished PA11 food grade.
>>11827948Yeah seems to work fine for BJDs which are under much more tension than an action figure. I don't see why it wouldn't be worth a shot.
>>11827948I use this stuff, and it's great. Only two things to consider-1: After cleaning and curing, leave it for at least 24 hours before assembling any parts, as it needs the rest time to gain its full strength. Premature assembly risks weakening (or at least loosening) it.2: It needs quite precise supports- it's not an especially forgiving resin to print. It's not horrific, but it does require quite a bit of support compared to other resins.Really good resin though.
>>11827934I have a q tip and a piece of tissue wrapped around a toothpick. Im sure theres something else I should be using though
Okay more results. First anyone who owns this and isn't planning on fucking with it like me, be wary of the original paint on the knees, it came off on my finger for some reason. Like just wiped off.Metallic paint on the hands, shoulder pads, belly, helmet (thank god), chest, and knees does NOT come off. After days of drying and sporadic hair drying its reflective, shiny, and I can touch it and its not sticky.Everywhere else is sticky however still, as you can see when I reattach the thighs. Im gonna go over the spillage to fix like the silver on the black tube on his head and the other spots but I dont know if I'm gonna go over the smudges on the part that refuses to stop being sticky with more of the same paint. Like the helmet is bare plastic, but the hands was me putting it over paint. I can't figure out what makes some parts stick and others not outside it's made up of different types of plastic (not unusual) and some just dont work well with the paint
>>11828649Meanwhile once again I used Gundam Markers to change her red to metallic purple/pink and it dries in like 4 minutes. Gundam should make a reflective shiny mirror like silver is what I'm saying.
>>11828654you're telling me they make metallic gundam markers that look that good, and silver isn't among them?I don't believe either of those statements.
>>11828699https://youtu.be/-AIdLVu8j6A?si=SCIQtGOmofw4a2JsHuh I guess they do>>Attaches the pen to an airbrush Oh fuck am I not meant to use these as pens
>>11828654What's the paint rub situation like? Do you have to seal it? Love how there aren't any noticeable streaks
Progress on a Batman shelf dio I'm working on. The structure is in place, kinda just painting and adding highlights now. The buildings in the back are the capital building of Vienna and I just shared off the front facades to build a skyline
>>11828721And here's the pieces broken apart in case anyone finds it useful
>>11828712they wouldnt be pens if you weren't.pens-you-can-hook-up-to-airbrushes have been a thing since I was a kid, though I thought they were pretty low quality gimmicks. you could like, blow into them.
>>11828721increds, dude.
>>11828717No sealing, it dries to human touch in minutes and feels safe to go over with another coat (there's a few coats there). I'm posing these like maybe once a month after I get them in a pose I like so it's gonna be a while but that Thor I did awhile back I used Gundam Marker to paint his head wings whiter and that was on a soft plastic and it hasn't cracked at all in like a month. Paint rub I imagine would be issue on the top of the leg and the belt, but I glued the belt in place so I wouldn't have to think about it. >>11828733Yeah after watching the video it seems like chrome markers are just always going to have this issue. Which... Kinda makes sense because you never see mass market toys painted with mirror like reflection tier chrome paint.
>>11828753wait what issue? it sounds like you nailed it.
>>11828755Oh the issue of "this paint is always gonna lose its shine if you touch it" which I was kinda hoping was just me doing something wrong, cause I do want mirror like reflection but I also want to touch these when I'm done painting them. This video also would have saved me a lot of time cause he says "Dont use top coat if you want to keep the refection" which I found out through trial and error haha. This doesn't look too bad though but it would require buying a Gundam Clear Gloss marker. Oh and >>11828717 in this >>11828712 video he says Gundam Markers scratch easily, not that I notice cause I'm not like throwing these things around but still.
>>11828753>Kinda makes sense because you never see mass market toys painted with mirror like reflection tier chrome paint.You do but they're not painted, rather vacuum-plated with an actual microscopically thin layer of metal, much like electroplated car parts, albeit far thinner and quite a bit less durable.
>>11828762ohh so maybe that's why they dont just topcoat chromed toys
>>11828721In my head I imagine the batcave as being browner to make it so Batman doesnt blend in too much but that's like... the most autistic thing I found myself thinking. Looks great
>>11828775Yeah like Silverhawks. Which even the Super7 ones were plated, which again makes sense, because all the chrome paint I guess looses shine if you touch it.I'm https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DPGCJQT4 curious about this though >>11828802Yeah a lot of stuff is making more sense now, why we don't see more chrome stuff.
>>11828872the super7 ones were plated? I thought they just used very shiny paint
>>11828721Excellent stuff anon, love it.
>>11828874They did dull cartoon colors, and then when enough people complained they did vac metal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7piT_6hV5sA lot of people got mad saying they did this just to make people buy them twice, but even this review points out that the joints don't really work anymore due to all the shit they had to change to make them vac metaled. Seems obvious that this was decided after the fact due to demand I don't want to defend Super7
>>11828876Ohh I see.Yeah this.. this feels like they were giving in, and simultaneously showing everyone why nobody does vac-metal anymore.I just don't get why there's no such thing as like protective varnish...
>>11828834lol it's actually a dark brown basecoat with grey highlights but everything is so dark that it's just turning black. I'm building in blue highlights to give the light something to bounce off of and to exaggerate the lighting but it's mostly falling into shadows. I'll keep trying brighter blues and testing it in different lighting to see what works best. I appreciate the autistic feedback :)>>11828737>>11828875Thanks!>>11828762You'll lose some of that metallic luster but there are some clear gloss enamels out there you could try. Hobby Lobby sells DecoArt's DuraClear High Gloss varnish for about $8, but you'll want to do some test batches to work out brush layers and how the enamel likes to settle so you don't get pooling.
>>11828985Did you 3d print those buildings? I was going to say before the background almost looks real haha, thought it was an image.
>>11828988Yeah lol I took a file of the capital building of Vienna and sliced off the facades then printed them in pieces. There are going to be mirrors on both sides of the dio so there'll be an infinite reflection of the skyline in both directions.
>>11828993is that really gonna work? wouldn't it just look weirdly uniform? Also wouldn't one of the mirrors kinda block your view?
>>11828997It looks alright in the Metropolis/Coruscant dio next door. They're really thin sheets that slide behind the frame of the build, you can kinda see one on the left side but it still has the film on it.Also here's a custom random jedi with a black series body I found on clearance and a printed head.
>>11829000so this pic is using that technique? I don't see it
>>11828993Nice, I love mirrors in dioramas. I had plans to make a haunted house veranda with the door open, and do the trick with a 45 degree mirror so that it looks like you can see down a long hallway when really it's bending.Either that, or a pepper's ghost.
>>11829002>I don't see itHoly shit thank you. Here's a better example. A mirror on each side, then it stretches out to infinity when you put your head in the dio and look around. I'll do the same thing with the Gotham dio, just with the mirrors behind the brick wall and the cave archway.The biggest problem I've had the Metropolis dio is the mirror picking up the back of figures so I have to be careful where I put them, but with the forward parts of the bricks and cave in the Bat dio it should solve some of those problems. If anyone doing this is thinking about mirrors I can't stress how important it is to check your angles before you've built and painted everything lmao
>>11829002Nta but see the line that starts below at the figures hand, that's the mirror. You can see the reflection of the figures foot at the left edge below the lightsaber.
>>11829009Ooh I love illusions like that.Deep Space Nine taught me that matte paintings can substitute for hallways if you're clever enough. but Labyrinth taught me that the angle has to be exact.>>11829010>>11829011Ohhh that kind of mirror situation, yes yes, sorry. I thought you were talking about an infinity mirror, so the cityscape would recede BACKWARDS, each layer identical.yeah this works great.
>>11829009They add so much more depth to a build and I love how much more light they bounce around, adding more volume and presence to the figures. That build is sick, I wanna see the figures who live there
I'm making a custom Luluka Moria and the hair I got printed turned out amazing. With only one issue tho, that being that there's not really a way to connect the two pieces together. The image has it stuck together with sticky tack but you guys have any tips to get connect both hair pieces together? I was thinking maybe some small magnets.
>>11821521Decided to take a break from doing the suspension so I focused on the side hatches. All are openable and stay up... no idea for how long. In V2 I'm gonna use those really tiny screws to hold those hinges tight for good.
>>11829257You really only have the options of glue or magnets Magnets do work a lot better then you'd think. https://youtu.be/Qz05bhUggos this guy uses them for capes
>>11829257drill holes on both sides of both halves, then glue pegs into one of the halves, so it.. plugs together now? can put tack on the pegs in case they arent tight enoughnext time, print it with pegs and holes.
>>11829600Oh yeah I guess you could do this tooThanks for bringing this method up
>>11829603my engineer grandpa would be proud
>>11829257I bought a lot of used DC Direct figures, some of which the previous owners kids had cracked the joints on and he super/gorilla glued them. I cleaned that all out and used poster adhesive to display them, which works perfectly fine for a few months and even through several poses, but does have to be "refreshed." I'm not sure you'd need to "refresh" something as standard as hair? I think poster adhesive should work well and just prefer it to blutack, personally. But you can also use museum grade putty, which is essentially the same thing, just meant to be more secure, longer.Eventually, the plan was to re-drill and replace the pegs >>11829600 and yes, definitely a more permanent process. >>11829436Yeah, I have seen people do this really creatively for effects. I didn't see all that video but didn't realize you could find and purchase what's essentially magnetic ... strips? sheets? So get really thin magnets. Of course, weight becomes an issue when you get small, but you need smaller magnets for small areas, like hands.
I also scored a bunch of Hasbro fodder which included 'female' hair I have been treating like wigs, using poster adhesive to apply it to different heads from which I've removed their "factory" hair. When I decide what's going to be permanent, or when I make a custom kitbash I might want to sell, I'd probably try something like this >>11829600 drill method personally.I might as well get some use, other than assembling crap and putting holes in my walls to hang things, out of the drills I own!
>>11829789it's funny, I constantly find myself wanting to use the power drill instead of my dremel, because I need a hole drilled that is JUST beyond the size of my largest dremel bit.
>>11829785>Of course, weight becomes an issue when youWell kinda. They do have magnets that are so strong you might not even be able to pull them apart without help, but I dont know how small those get.I know of the big ones they have in junk yards
>>11829809NTA, but I once bought tiny neodymium magnets that were about 3mm diameter x 3mm thick discs.
>>11827934Okay I decided to not be stupid, days later, and show an example. So I got some gold from a completely different brand of paint pens on the foot right?Like not the plate I very sloppily painted gold, I'm gonna fix that, but see the little specks outside of it right?
>>11830391I use that Gundam Marker pen on it and it comes off. And that gold paint had been drying for 24 hours, so I was off about it still having to be wet
>>11821449If by 'stuck' joints or 'stuck' articulation, you mean TIGHT, why not try heat, a hair dryer, or warm water? It's a one time or free purchase. Yes, silicone, as just one example, is also a one time purchase but would need replacement and you can't find it at thrift stores or yard sales.
>>11830393impressive.
random feckin question butamazon vine has some car touchup paint available for me to get for free, is that any good on any kinda toy or model? or does it prefer like... car.
>>11828762>>11828753Yeah, I'm one of the people that chimed in about Thor and didn't understand why it wasn't drying either. So if you are happy, I'm happy for you anon.That said, the spoon on the left is what I would want for myself as far as a shine on my Thor helmet. Now, I don't own a Thor but I own several Mjölnir but one is for a worthy Cap and I don't think it should be shiny.>>11828876>>11828892sometimes you just buy shit because it looks goodalthough hopefully it's like the things I grabbed from the clearance end-cap for like $5 each
How best to put a matte spray on a figure to lessen how shiny it is? Last time I tried I think I was too close and the figure still looked a bit shiny. How many feet away would you suggest, and how many coats?
>>11831111Yeah, you can see my end result here >>11821922 ended up way less reflective cause I didn't do any research on top coats like a retard
>>11830881I think it will be fine
>>11830881>>11831346As long as you put a finish, I agree. I've used water color paint and non-acrylic paint, like plain old spray paint, when I did some backgrounds and other stuff for some people's Diorama (and for a neighbor kids toy room background) and I think as long as you put some sort of finish, top coat, you should be fine on plastic. I've used spray paint on plastic (cheap kids toys as a backdrop) and the only concern I had was even application and some "lumpy" looking application. I wouldn't use this for myself for my own bedroom, say, or to sell to someone but these kids didn't care. And it's not like the parents were paying me in cash (Costco access, actually). >>11828654>>11828699So "metallic markers" are not the same thing as "gundam markers?" And the off brand ones I ordered and bought to panel line PICREL, of which I ended up with two just for the point of learning and testing with a gundam marker will what - just wipe off or something?
>>11831620Theres like a liquid chrome marker that's not Gundam but Gundam does make one, sorry for the confusion
>>11831664Well I have these Chinese bullet and brush tip markers in hand, they were 12 for $8 so I might as well test them out on SOMETHING. It didn't say anything else other than "fast drying" and that they were "metallic." Spider-Man has known suffering before so it's nothing new!
>>11830457I should clarify, i didn't just mean just joints, yes, some figures work with the Hot water method, but not all, and sometimes this can harm certain figures, a Hair dryer/heat gun are what i often use to soften things up, however, i recomended Silicone oil specifically because of what it's use is, It's meant to lessen friction and rubbing, since it's a lubricant it can enter hard to reach places like some joints and articulations, and yes! you CAN indeed buy silicone in those places if you know where to look, but also, in this day and age, they are incredibly cheap in online stores, such as amazon or other places like home depot's website among others, where you don't need to buy great amounts unless you fix A LOT of figures, so a small dropper bottle from amazon is quite affordable for it's task, silicone oil is often made specifically for treadmills and orher moving parts that deal with a LOT of friction, so it's perfect for the plastics used in figuresTl;Dr : Lube lessens friction in moving and rubbing parts, so your toys lasts longer, heating up is good for certain figures but not all, if it keeps getting stuck or is in a hard place to reach, or perhaps the figure is to expensive or hard to disassemble, lube is your best shot!
>>11831620okay so it's not like bulletproof. I was hoping maybe i'd hit on some really special extra durable paint but expensive so nobody would buy it, but for free.and yes I second your other questions.
>>11831677>>11831906>>11831664I'm going to let you guys in on the secret, it's a paint that I've been using for the last 6 years that will change how you paint metals. It's called Sunin7 and you can find it on AliExpress which is really the only place I've ever seen it. This paint is one step removed from being illegal Chinese PVC factory paint. Hell it might actually be that stuff just labeled different because you need to wear a 3M organics vapor mask or painted outside. It dries to a unscratchable surface in about 5 minutes and I mean you can handle it, it's cured, done. The paint requires mineral spirits to remove from your brush and though it looks like it goes on thick once it cures it adheres to the finest detail. Super stainless steel is the best neat-chrome silver of the set and Duraluminum is your darker silver for iron colors. The other colors are great but need to be mixed often and you have to put something on top of the open jar, like flip the cap upside down on there to keep it from rapidly outgassing. The large bottle of Sunin7 metallic thinner can clean your brushes and it makes the paint last longer, go through an airbrush easier.But you see those orbs right? That's the finish you can achieve with a brush using this paint and I couldn't believe it. It doesn't even need a primer just to clean surface however using MTN Plastic Primer spray will make all of your paints stick to any surface no matter what kind of paint you use and I would suggest that in your arsenal for everything. The plastic primer won't make anything sticky except for stretchy rubber. Nor will Sunin7, I've used it on every type of plastic, even waxy unpainable polypropylene once I've sprayed it with MTN
This is the thinner that I've used with the metallics though I have had success with 91% alcohol to thin, it won't remove it from your brush only mineral spirits, acetone, and the thinner. Another reason why it makes me think it's factory paint. I recommend a glass eye dropper for the thinner or small plastic disposable pipettes. The thinner doesn't stink really, it's the paints that require the mask or high ventilation. This stuff could just be a type of mineral spirits so try thinning your metallic with that too I just haven't experimented with it yet. Once cured at about 5 minutes you can buff this paint and even top coat it with a gloss or matte. Applying a second coat must be done quickly or it will melt the first coat and drag. And again it may look like it goes on thick but will adhere down flat against any surface and will show any sort of cut or sanding marks so it really is good for fine detail. The paint is flexible enough for pvc, capes, just not soft rubber or stretchy limbs.
>>11831972nice to know!
Resin printed out some XL trees!
>>11832012had to slice it in half and added keys in blender so it can fit in my printer and socket back together smoothly
>>11832013Base coat of brown spray paint
>>11832014random brown drybrushing, and added some green flocking at the base
>>11832015im happy with them
>>11832017as well you should be. nice forest here, without a single branch
>>11832012>>11832017These look incredible!
>>11832015>>11832017I inch closer to buying a resin printer each time I see something like this.
>>11832012>>11832013>>11832014>>11832015>>11832017>>It’s LOG, LOG>>It’s big, it’s heavy, it’s wood>>It’s LOG, LOG>>It’s better than bad, IT’s GOOD
>>11832015Looks great
>>11831980>I recommend a glass eye dropper for the thinner or small plastic disposable pipettes. Something like PICREL?I already own some repurposed flavoring bottles from cooking, except they aren't clear and don't have the measurements on the side, but I can eyeball shit and measure other ways.
>>11832487Yep! That's the safest for thinners and solvents as long as you don't suck it up into the bulb. Plastic pipettes like these are made of a special poly plastic and won't dissolve either. I use them for paint as well but they're one time use.
>>11832837You thin the paint for brush use too, or just to use it with the airbrush?
>>11832837Thanks, good to know I saved those for some good purpose!>plastic pipettes like these>special poly plasticAre those like the pipettes that come with the resin kits, because I have ended up with a few of those as well, but nothing as long as your examples?Or it's something you order or get from say Hobby Lobby? And don't say Hobby Town, the nearest one might as well be the next state over. I can walk to the nearest Michael. Hobby Lobby is reasonably convenient to me in two areas of my Metro. The craft section at the nearest Walmart to me sucks ass, except for fabric. Or if I was a elementary school teacher or a parent to very young ones.
Remember me, from several months ago, asking about cutting mats? These are self-healing ones I grabbed, A3 12x18 sized, five to a package, $16. Thinner than I thought but everything I saw in hand at any craft shop and the few model kits store I hit were also thinner than I thought they would be but this is also why I went with this 5 package at this cheap price.Or am I being too cheap and should spend more? Feel free to be abusive. This is 4chan, after all.
>>11832890I just have a cheap card table that i'm happy to ruin by gouging into it, I'm the wrong person to askI like that it has rulers though, that might be useful
>>11832896This of it as five green tops for your card table. Each cost less than a cheap Dave's Single with cheese.Besides which, I don't own a card table. I have one of those particle board desks from IKEA. Nothing fancy, but it's in my bedroom so I'd like to keep it gouge free for when company comes over.
>>11832901yeah particle board is not a good cutting surface. Mine is fucking plastic, it's stained, it's warped, I give zero shitsNext time I have my own actual place, I'm gonna do a better set up with a fucking worktable that I don't also eat on.
>>11832844I had to thin a bottle of Super Stainless Steel but the next two I haven't needed to. Duraluminum was fine but copper and iron needed thinning for brushing and they came from the same order. If the paint looks lower in the bottle, like they didn't fill it all the way they needed thinning which made me think the caps weren't on tight enough and they outgassed making them thicker?>>11832888Yes! The large one is from a resin kit. Hobby lobby and michaels have the small ones and they're all solvent resistant.>>11832890That's an excellent price for 5! Walmart has a 12x12 blue Wescot one for $13 and that's just a single. However Dollar Tree of all places has small ones, 5x4 maybe? For a $1.50 they work great and I need to restock on them. They're not self healing but are thick and keep stuff from moving, don't mark the object and are doubled sided. I find the thing that screws up your cutting mat the most isn't the cutting but glue/paint that hits it.
>>11830393yeah it's literally just solvent, you're using it exactly how it';s supposed to be used and cleaned. it's a great set, the colored markers are great for doing shading for skin/ clothing, hair for most figures
>>11829022I really like those mirror setups giving the illusion of depth. I just got a cool idea for my own display but I have a question. What is the mirror with the least "depth". I mean the glass ones start to refect with their backside, so if you put your finger on it, there is this distance in between your finger and reflection, basically glass thickness. I need something that reflects immediately with its surface. I'm thinking about making a half of a building and let the mirror create an illusion of a whole structure.
Finished (I think) the paintwork on this orc gal! Most of the work was just dye, but I did add some subtle shading to the body, and did quite a bit of work on the head.Still need to make a better neck connector, though that will be easy as I have some olive green PETG.https://files.catbox.moe/uye8ph.jpghttps://files.catbox.moe/bf3oqo.jpghttps://files.catbox.moe/vd6y71.jpghttps://files.catbox.moe/ubdwcl.jpghttps://files.catbox.moe/7dfz4j.jpghttps://files.catbox.moe/5zj0av.jpg>"Once you go green, you'll see what we mean!"
>>11832944>However Dollar Tree of all places has small ones, 5x4 maybe? For a $1.50 they work great and I need to restock on them. They're not self healing but are thick and keep stuff from moving, don't mark the object and are doubled sided.Thanks, I actually hit a DT a month or so ago when I was trying to chase these down in person, to pick up these pallets. I don't remember seeing any mats but next time I am at the Ross in that shopping center, I'll go next door and look. At $1.25, it would be worth it to pick up an extra few. >>11832917>I'm gonna do a better set up with a fucking worktable that I don't also eat on.I actually finally own a dining room table and STILL eat at my current desk! The dining room table is covered with open toys, boxes. plastic baggies, etc. I have to set up the IKEA, which will be in my bedroom and a futon sofabed, which will be in the living room, and then I'll probably be very old grandpa and get a table tray and start to eat off a TV tray while sitting on that new futon, even though I don't own a fucking TV!
>>11833368Perfect for the Dead by Daylight display
>>11833366outstanding job dude!
>>11833388Thanks anon! Tempted to gloss her eyes to make them a bit more distinct.
>>11833054the gundam marker pen is a solvent??
>>11833350By definition, you'd be looking at pure chrome metal then. a vac-metalized sheet or whatever. Basically there's a reason glass mirrors were invented, everything shiny is scratchable.>>11833366Boy not my thing but iiiiimpressive.>>11833368you at least have extra monitors for TV shows, right?
>>11833409>extra monitors for TV showsNah.Large Motorola for when I am in bed and want to catch some 5-10 minutes of something like Hot Ones or Lewis Black. Or watch a bit of a cartoon or movie trailer.I stream shows on my retina screen laptop. I might watch an hour long drama, I've actually been trying to work my way through an old Channel 4 or ITV drama from Great Britain that apparently was also on PBS but when I had a TV and an OTA, I never was aware of it. But movies I actually go see in theaters. I was supposed to go see either Sheep Detectives or Disclosure Days and have lunch but slept through being able to shower and get there. Friends now want to see a 6 pm show but I doubt that will be feasible for me because of how far the theater is. There's a World Cup game in my home town today.
>>11833386$1.25 at Dollar Tree. They had these wooden tables I also picked up two years ago, grabbed two, haven't seen them since, I also pick up small wooden boxes with hinges, and other things like that. Want to make some wooden baseball bats, versus the plastic ones that come with wrestling figures but the sand paper I bought doesn't really work and they are essentially hazards to use with your figures. It's not permanent, but if you wanted cheap paint for backdrops, they have that as well. Hobby Lobby is actually better for SOME of these things (including similar pallets) since they do sell doll miniatures and other stuff like these wood craft pieces, but nothing is really as dirt cheap at a dollar store.
>>11833368They often stand them up on their side and lean them against the paints so they're hard to see but they're 9x7, forgot they were this big!
So I'm interested in getting the new Ishizu figure and removing the head and putting it on the dark skinned romankey cowl body, but I'm worried the head would be too big since it is supposed to be 1/6. However, I recently got the City Hunter Kaori figure whose head isnt that much bigger than the typical anime Figma or SHF heads (most of the height of that figure went to the limbs). I'm wondering if that's typical of anime figure proportions so my plan will work, or if the head is gonna be huge and I will fail in my endeavors
>>11833692what scale is the body?
>>11833692the figue is 9 inches dont waste money
>>11833722actually maybe a 1/6 scale figure head on a 9-inch body (that's like what, 1/8?) would result in decent anime proportions
>>11833755the statue is 9 inches and the blank body is 6 inchesIf this doesnt work i might just try top get any dark skinned female anime face blanks that exist and print a decal for her face. Nor sure which one is more difficult since I dont think I have the tools / patience to chop off and sand off the head
>>11833760ah, gotcha. that would not work then.It is annoying how few blanks there are in scales other than 1/6 and 1/10.
>>11822553>>11827253He is moving along very very nicely. Just need to make him some gloves, and then find some boots and a belt.
The Gotham dio is almost finished! Took the film off one of the side mirrors and put in some plastic trees. All that's really left is filling the space with props
Im gonna put a huge cape over this so I'm debating if I wanna paint the back of it I probably will
>>11833890If you could do tiny bats or crows I think that would be like the sprinkles on the ice cream to food comparison >>11833054That makes senseIm glad you're not retarded like I am
HmmmmThat doesn't seem like its the right color
>>11834436the little gray parts? yeah that doesn't match the hands/upper arms color
>>11834491No that marker is implying that will be a gold similar to the gold thats on the cap but it came out looking like that
>>11834511got it. yeahhh I think you either applied it wrong or you got taken for a ride.
>>11833408>solventsolvent isn't necessarily a bad thing or dangerous, it only means that its a fluid that pigment (color) can move around in. I think the one op pictured is some kind of alcohol.The marker reactivates the dried colors and sucks it up. You can see the same effect if you brush paint on, then dip a separate clean brush or qtip in your cleaning fluid, and touch the paint. It runs back up into the new tool.
>>11827253>mego only made an official brainiacYeah, it's annoying it's so expensive. I want the green head and hands for a kitbash custom on your vanilla standard action figure ABS body but it's just far too expensive for something that isn't that great to begin with and some other green heads are easier and FAAAR cheaper to get.But both those look good!>>11833787I might have tried the logo with the yellow circle? And maybe there's no reason to not consider using different fabric on that? Something with a little sheen. You might also hit a Michael's for fabric selection; they swallowed Jonann's fabric stores and while they not might have it stock in local stores, they might have shit you can use online.
>>11821377jeez louise it is easy for these threads to hit auto sage on this board
>>11834896DESU custom threads are booming lately. Few months ago they had like 20 replies max before dying.
>>11834852right but I meanis this actually 'a solvent pen' that anon has picked up? they make it? as a deliberate eraser?because he didn't give that information previously, at all. he made it sound like its intention is laying down pigment, but it instead removes it.
>>11835154Im sorry I'm that anon but I just didnt understand what it was at all
>>11835158got it, well then that's awesome. I could sure as hell use something like that for really pinpoint erasure
Going to go over it a second time, maybe use a different gold instead of Gundam Marker goldI gotta say while my own painting is no spring chicken so I shouldn't be throwing stones, going over this red plastic with the stuff really shows how badly the underpaid factory workers hacked it off the original mold
Yeah okay I like this gold better.
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>>11835141Yep I remember those. But these can be fun and helpful.With rarely the drama and shit-stirring
Almost done...By that I mean like another day or two
Sorry, stupid idiotic question, am I meant to be putting like a primer spray on this first Paint hasn't been coming off anything else I've painted, but its reacting strange to this bare plastic in particular
>>11835784some plastics require more help than others, that's for sure. I've always used the kind of paint that kinda has primer in it already, so I'm not the best to ask, but I do know for a fact that specific plastics are gonna fuck you over harder. in transformers they call them 'unpaintable plastics' (they are paintable, but with extra work and very special paints, and not able to stand up to toy factory codes and efficiency)
>>11835803I wonder what the advantage of that type of plastic even is. Stronger maybe?
>>11835846yeah if I'm not mistaken, we're often talking about the nylon used for joints here. kinda rough, slightly translucent, and extremely resistant to repeated flexion in a way that other plastics aren't.. which is why all my old Beast Wars guys have somewhat loose joints. They hadn't hit on that yet.
>>11835855Hmm, then I dont think it's the same plastic this dinosaur armor is made out of, cause its soft and I know if I squeeze it the paint will crack I guess I'll just give it 24 hours
>>11835873ah, yeah that's kind of the opposite kind of plastic. flexi stuff often will not bond to paint readily. I don't know why.
>>11835875Yeah, I assume it's something I just paint, top coat, then don't really fuck with forever unless I want cracksSpeaking of painting, the Metallic Pink kinda kicks the shit out of Metallic Red when it comes to vibrancy with the gubdam markers. Maybe red is just less pretty in these lights
>>11821377Are arcylic marker and gundam marketr good for painting figures?
>>11836023>>11828654If you think this looks good, yes for Gundam Markers, if you think this looks like shit, no for Gundam Markers
>>11836025Both colors are from markers? Looks decent. Also any way to tighten a ball joint?
>>11836034The prevailing wisdom is to use water-based polyurethane, as used in floor polish but also purchasable on its own. Just give it a coat and let it dry, if you fuck up somehow, it will wash off.The much scarier version is do the same with superglue. give it a coat of that, let that cure completely, then pop it back in the socket. Never tried it, don't want to.
>>11836036Thanks.
>>11835784>>11835803>>11835846Did you prep the plastic by washing it in warm soapy water and rinsing/drying? That's a step often forgotten and you have to do it with model kit sprues as well as figures. Humidity also plays a factor, the paint can 'orange peel' and draw up into little patches if there's skin oils or lots of humidit. I use MTN plastic primer on everything. It'll even work on polypropylene, that's the waxy unpaintable stuff Ninja turtle weapons/gi joe missiles are made of. It's super tough used for ball joints and armor that gets a lot of play wear. Remember that enamels should only be used on hard ABS/Styrene plastics, if at all. Lacquers, acrylics, and the Sunin7 PVC lacquer factory paints all work on PVC softer plastics most figures are made of. Regular primer is enamel or has solvents in it and won't help on figures. And bulldog adhesion promoter is now almost $50 a can (it was once $15) so I've switched ally primer to MTN. Also all my topcoats are MTN acrylic varnish, matte/satin/gloss because I got tired of paying for Mr Hobby and only getting a tiny can. With MTN I get 5 times as much for $9 and it's the same superfine perfect surface quality.
>>11836201I have never washed sprues before, does it make it any more scratch resistant? better bonding? because I've also never really had trouble with paint staying on sprues.now this acrylic varnish you speak of, does it come in a spray can too? because yeahh mr. hobby is kinda fucking me.
>>11836201NTA but I just spent an hour taking legs off Marvel Legends and Joes, it is surprisingly easier than I thought, I didn't even use heat but I was tired and angry at fucking Walmart for cancelling another action figure order. I did need some hot water but just used it for something unrelated to toys, but not boiled, just from my bathtub. And I did have to use it on of the torso packs on a GI Joe. Jeez Louis does Hasbro really force their poor Chinese workers to put all that shit on by hand.And I am putting all this stuff on new, but now headless Professor X bucks - the ones with the Green Coveralls, that could also be military greens - never read that Savage Lands comics arc so have no fucking clue.It was actually kind of relaxing to take my rage at a large fucking corporation by tearing apart the toys from another large fucking corporation.>>11835873If you painted or highlighted or 'toned up' any of that with paint, it looks pretty decent, anon.>>11836025>>11828654I thought this looks good, personally, but I also likely need to see it in hand, in a few spots it looks like it might not be as smooth as I personally would like for something I might sell to a stranger or even if it was just for display. I've touched up blacks and then felt I had to go over the entire thing to get a smooth, even, consistent look. tl;dr depends on your OCD levels.
>>11835154>is this actually 'a solvent pen' that anon has picked up? they make it? as a deliberate eraser?yes, they used to advertise it like that every few months in hobby japan for beginners
>>11836236>painted or highlighted or 'toned up' any of that with paint, it looks pretty decent, anonThank you, but sadly I learned the red plastic might be too soft for paint unless I never touch it, I was kids gloving putting the arms back on and it still cracked and flaked through the top coat. Strangely whatever silver and gold Hasbro put on that I painted over is fine? I didnt even think about this >>11836201 due to starting like a month ago/being retarded so maybe thats the issue
Metallic Blue doesnt really stick to soft plastic shoulder pads, but normal red does, no flaking for normal red. It's probably just the Metallic paint I think until I remember the chrome gold sticks to the red soft plastic arm guards no problem, but that's paint applied on Hasbro factory paint. Silver on the legs has the same problem as Thors helmet, except it can be wiped off even with a top coat while the top coat kept Thors silver in place, but gold and black stick to that no issue. Im gonna put a big cape on this so there really wasnt a need to do the back at all but I messed up the top coat and the black looks splotchy anyway.I'm basing this on a custom a Japanese guy did but when I looked for it Yesterday they deleted it. Strange
Krazy Glue > Gorilla Glue
With the gold for whatever reason it's really hard to see the missing spots unless you take a picture and then you see a million of them.This looks a lot fucking better than the default plastic though.
>>11836716Oops forgot pic
>>11836719that is a feckin cool dinosaur
>>11836753It's from the GI Joe line, they do some really cool animals
>>11836757the fuck you say? that's not the gi joe I know.well then again there was that cool wolf..
>>11836764Yeah it's new, named Professor Rottclaw. They also have giant articulated scorpions too.Currently trying to do, I dunno, that thing when you put paint on it and then wipe it off after a few seconds to give it more depth on his dinosaur skin skirt. Using black brown and yellow
>>11836771ink washing. very nice.
>>11836771I looked em up, they look amazing.. I wish there were people who hated them and just wanted the joes, because I do not care for those. Just want the critters. I suppose I could mod the humans into something else, but...
>>11836774The giant scorpion goes down to $25 so I'm hoping Rottclaw goes down that much as well, because he comes with a head to make him an army builder. Just keep an eye on it as it just came out so in three to six months it should start going down. Unless it's underproduced, some Joe's are but I think Army Builders arent >>11836773Thank you, I didn't know the name. Added more yellow
Not that I have to tell you anons this but this type of painting is fun
>>11836846right? there's something very satisfying about itit might look a little obviously like a painted toy in macro, but in hand it's like.. this is amazing, I am a factory tier painting god
>>11836855Absolutely, I love how it looks in person and it's very satisfying. Looking at it in pictures is like self torture. But I did buy two of these so I wanted to make one obviously the main guy while the other is the grunt (I might do something with the fur on his neck) and I feel like I need to make the metallic blue on his groin plate less splotchy. I really hope these clearance cause I want like six more. I love this line.
>>11836862Oh I forgot to mention the back is also something that looks fucking awful in pictures but is fine in person. Why are toys like this
>>11836862nice
>>11836202Yes it's a spray! Lots of it for the money and I get mine from SprayPlanet usually or spraygunnerThe bonding is always better when you remove the mold release/hand oils and grime but I noticed the finish was so much better on all the Koto Megaman kits I painted when I washed them off before priming.>>11836236Nice customizing endeavour! Figures used to have their pins inserted and body parts assembled right after they popped out of the injection mold while they were still hot. Dunno how it's done nowadays, I think after painting because I see underspray on figures that wouldn't be there if they were assembled first. Maybe they use heat guns? Hot water bath? Brute force born from their tortured lifestyle under an oppressive communist regime?
>>11836993well snap, I need to do that then. at least on joints with a lot of rubbing potential.>MTNshit this looks great, I'm seeing it available in a few places, too. Question... is 'satin' the same as semi-gloss? because I typically use semi-gloss. I want things to look as shiny as bare plastic, but not as shiny as fucking glass or varnish, and not boring matte either. but when I hear 'satin' I think 'slight metallic sheen like an old photograph or hard candy or like dried popsicle drips on the floor' and that is not what I'm into
>>11836683Gorilla glue is a water-activated polyurethane glue. It's amazing...for wood and porus surfaces but crap for figures. You wanna know about Cyanoacrylate glues? There's so many different brands and some are great for overcoat, others for plastics, and others for flexible stuff. It all depends on what you want to use them on. DAP makes an amazing Rapid Fuse supeglue that Ive been using a lot lately, for vintage Kenner it's great! Loctite Plastic Bonder System is also my go-to.
>>11836994Yes, tho get their matte and satin to compare because you may find their matte is more your style for semigloss. I think their matte gives things a Figma skin look but still has some semigloss quality to it. Mr Hobby Premium matte is super flat, makes colors look like plain paper.
>>11836997gorilla glue is cyanoacrylate, normal superglue just like krazy glue. Unless they have more than one glue under the gorilla brand.>>11836999gotcha, thanks.
>>11836201Do you sand the plastic before the wash and the primer? Or you go straight to wash and primer?
>>11837004Yep there's 4 diff types of Gorilla Glue. Make sure you use the GG super glue on figures, it doesn't expand like the original GG formula. It does however contain rubber so the bond is somewhat flexible. I find it's not that great for figures in the normal sense of attaching an arm to a hand but is great at making a flexible connection, say a piece of armor thats moved by the arm or a rubber cape that needs to move a bit even tho its glued to the figures back. >>11837114Depends on the kit. I had to putty and sand the Megaman kits and washed them before primer. But the pre-colored bandai kits like Bdman, 30 min missions, they don't need sanding at all and I just wash the sprues as one piece, then clip the parts and assemble. Sometimes I wear the blue nitrile gloves when building kits but I don't wear anything when customizing figures because those get washed before the final paint step no matter what
>>11836716>>11836719I saw those renders, they look interesting. I got a Mattel dino at a Ross for $12.99. I actually bought three of them but wish now I had kept them but really have no room to display that many at one time. But I'd rather get dinos for cheap than even clearance Joe animals. I did get two crocodiles today in the mail! My feet hurt from about five miles of walking around I did today, returning shit to FedEx Office, hitting a Ross AND a comic book store AND a Target on opposites ends of one of those huge collections of parking lots that suburban America passes off as a strip mall. God forbid they stick the LCS, the Dollar General, and the FedEx next to the Target, next door to another convenient store, like WalMart.No, we need to put them a few miles from each other so the landlord can collect rents from them.Anyways, my feet were killing me and I already came home with groceries plus two bags of fucking toys. Fuck bringing up a box of some 50 body bucks from an eBay auction. Even with the two crocodiles.Although I am curious as to what all is in this pile since the Seller didn't bother to more clearly show it. The bucks alone were well worth the price I paid, so this is all essentially "BONUS" and will definitely be useful for customs.
I've turned left into right. My first ever paint project. My biggest regret is not having done stripes that start from the stomach too instead of just doing dots. Also the stripes on the leg are far to thick but I had to do it to cover spots that neither yellow nor orange manage to do. I shouldn't have painted the eyes over either. I wanted to go for something sickly but it didn't work out.
>>11837190That Mr Hyde BAF Head used to be rare for some reason. I wonder why that guy fucking hates GI Joe backpacks. I almost want to say nothing there is older than 10 years.
>>11837401Yep there were more heads than I expected, about 15-20 in total, enough I can definitely used. He used a Peter Parker head on an Outback Tiger Force buck. In fact, he had a Flint head on one and another variant Flint head on another, and only had Outback himself on one (of the ones he sold to me). So I have all three Flints now, four if you count the Super7 but I'm still not sure what I am going to do with that gift. About 12 of those backpacks are two kinds of Cobra. But some look fun and I can definitely use them because I have a few loose bucks I got without backpacks, like a Dusty and a Duke. I also need to see if the Savage Lands green coverall's Professor X has a hole in his torso, sadly the two Gamerverse Fury's I got to customize don't take a backpack, but I could probably Frankenstein something. A lot is incomplete. I have two (#23) Zartans but they are missing quite a bit of their gear, 5 Hatut warriors with no spare hands or apparently weapons (at least not the ones they shipped with), and so on, yadda yadda.I get the feeling Sellers are getting out of the game when I luck into lots like this and they dump what they can when they are getting out, there were some odd things in here besides that Mr. Hyde, like an old Sentry, some Caps, an odd X-Men female, etc.
>>11837152>4 different types of gorilla gluei did not know this. I've never seen them put anything distinctive on the label.
>>11837271painting stripes over scales is really, really hard. I like your color scheme. That's inspired by an old JP toy, right?
I again tried some character modellng, this time results look way better. I hope one day I'm gonna be able to make a fully articulated figure in 1:24 scale, it would be such a milestone for me.
>>11837518Godspeed, I really hope you make it. you are cool.
>>11836591Well...After everything I do like the end result!
>>11837481>I like your color scheme.I just searched for "Dilophosaurus book" and made an amalgamation of multiple versions shown there.
>>11833480They were all messed up but one. Apparently they do sell a bigger one than 9x7 because those were tiny in hand.Altho you are correct, it would be easy to put it over another mat, and they felt nice and sturdy/thick DESU.And use it to guide for cutting and a few other things. I grabbed fine point Sharpies to use to panel line since the metallic markers I grabbed are not fine point, even the three that claimed to be.
Making a gob lin figure
>>11837718Hip joints are just Lego ball and socket pieces I welded together using a woodburner. Don’t usually post on this site but other sites are kinda slow
This is one of about 6 or so Everett Ross heads I got stuck with. In a different bit of rage at Walmart (another cancelled order), I started playing with fodder crap I was sorting and tried out coloring Martin Freeman's grey/white locks. You can see the actual factory red of the actual head that comes on the action figure the Freeman head sculpt is on, and while this doesn't look awful or as shiny as it did during my 'rage,' it still doesn't have the dull sheen of your standard non-costumed cape figure head. I think I need a matte top coat? I also think I should pop this one and maybe two more to play with, in water and take the hair off to make it easier to paint?Has anyone "dyed" a hair sculpt for a custom? I've seen it done, impressively so. But that's beyond my current skills and even ventilation options ATM.
This is a "dye" of blue black Superman hair (and also trimming the sleeves on the classic Superman upper uniform down to a short sleeve to fit the comic art to paint as flesh tone skin and match with the hands, face, neck, etc.). The base figure as you can see at the link is the DC Direct Superman from circa 2012 or so, and to me, you can tell the hair is painted but this probably looked good on a shelf next to the factory releases of Batwoman and Superwoman.https://pilliod.net/customs/superlad/
>>11837585Looks great. Did you pull the design from an existing source or was it something you put together yourself? I dont keep up with the AU nonsense Marvel puts out now.
>>11838186Thank you, and it's based on a Japanese person who puts Doctor Strange heads on everything for some reason, and when they put it on that Iron Man I thought it fit very well.
>>11837585tiiiiiits. I like this a great deal.I only wish someone had figured out how to make hemmed edges not look like hemmed edges.
>>11837271What kind of paint, looks very matte?>>11836591>>11837585Looks good, especially the cape. >>11838339>someone had figured out how to make hemmed edges not look like hemmed edgesYou need to be really good on a machine and go really tight to the edge and use good quality fabric. It would cost about $10 but taking it to a dry cleaners and having them press it and give it a good starching - might also make it look better, visually, but I think it looks fine. Anon can buy cheap starch at dollar stores and use an iron himself.
>>11838519but one of the reasons I hate hemming is how stiff it makes the cloth as a result. I want it to flow like it was unhemmed.
This base is just a waste of money, right?I should just shove them into broken up cardboard pieces, since I have plenty of boxes, like was suggested me in another gen?But 20 of these little fuckers should be more than plenty?
>>11838733IF they plug snugly into the holes, it's quite useful. you hold the stick while painting, then place it. Cardboard would wobbleOn the other hand, if they only fit in loosely then it's shit. and I used to think the flexible ones were best since you could kinda move the piece around as you paint it, but no. stiff is better.
>>11838523>is how stiff it makes the cloth as a result.AH GOTCHA.I thought you didn't like the sort of 'quilt' look to the edges, especially through the lighting, and wanted a more seemless look - like it was one elegant piece of fabric, instead of something held up by wires. I personally think that a Cloak of Levitation needs some stiffness around the neck, but that's really based on animated appearances and liking the way the plastic cape looks on the Zombie Hunter MLS Spidey, which is one of the few good plastic capes I think I've seen, for a plastic cape. I think we just need to be clever and come up with something other than wires - what, I have no clue. Capes aren't a current priority for me. If it was just photography, you could do everything with clear thread or fishing line wire, and then edit it out in Photoshop. But since people also want this for actual physical displays, an alternative to wires is needed or you get picrel on top of your hem concern.Sorry to have misunderstood!
>>11839192That too. it looks bad twice. two reasons.you're right, the collar should be stiff. that's the tricky thing
>>11838733That depends on your imagination and ingenuity. I have this exact one from hobby lobby and use it all the time but not just for holding parts. I use it to hold wires together while I solder them, use metal dowels and wedge things between them when I need pressure to hold a glued edge together, it also functions as a stretching rack for hair, ribbon, or fabric that you wrap around the posts or pin down into the holes. If it's the same one I have, not the bottom of the base off glue something heavy inside of it so it doesn't tip over as easy being that it's hollow plastic
>>11839230>glue something heavy inside of itdifferent guy but fucking thank you, I knew something was off about this setup. next time an appliance breaks, which is decently often thank you very much planned obsolescene, I'll just take a heavy piece of metal and put it in there.
>>11838519>What kind of paint, looks very matte?dollar store and craft store acrylic paints
>>11839411that cheap apple barrel stuff? shit. Hope you topcoated it.
>>11838986>>11838733Turns out there are better bases, that connect firmly ("stiffly"), and are magnetized. They also look a little less cheap. And while you get less alligator clips with them (only 12) and they cost a few bucks more, I'm going to risk it if I don't see something on my Hobby Lobby trip next week.
>>11839809I think they kinda give you extras knowing you'll lose or break some, because it's silly to have like 23 of them on one tiny base like that. The parts need room
>>11839230Thank you for the insight, sorry just read this. Good points and something I prefer to see in hand so I will look next week when I hit Hobby Lobby.>>11839230Concrete, friend. Any street construction happening in town will service your needs. No need to wait on planned obsolescence.
Ideally, I would want 5 or 7 of these raptor troopers, but I only have two for now because they're $55 and I'm poor so I have wait for a clearance. But I've done another in silver, knowing top coat ruins the chrome
>>11836719Redid the gold for this one
>>11840457helm comes off, right? then you could get the inner side of the teeth. also just now noticing the 'bit'. that can't be comfortable or good for biting.
>>11840527I dont know how I missed that...
>>11840529I always miss that if it's a tiny little space that'd be hard to get into. putting paint on only one side of a brush is a pain.
>>11840537No I'm more retarded because I'm using Gundam pensThe gun holster is done with the black gundam sharpie and dries really nice. Possibly all sharpies work like this I dunno
I think I might have gone too far in a few places. Painting is so fun its kinda hard to stop
>>11840709right? especially soft, gradiented painting. you're never truly done.
>>11839415No I didn't do that yet. I thought you only need to do it for toys with articulation or you play with a lot. The dino can only open it's jaw and I don't think I will do anything with it.
>>11840714yeah that's probably why it's lasted this long, but.. I mean if it's not coming off on your hands, then i guess you're okay.
>>11840711Yeah, I completely agree. Again compared to a non painted grunt. The metallic blue shows up really badly on camera and I'm not sure why. The groin plate and the spot under his chin look like a flat shiny blue in person but in photos it looks swirly and like I used different blues on it.
>>11840720Oh I did paint this on the grunt, its the """gold""" from this >>11834436 and I really like it. If this pen was actually a fuck up and its not meant to be this rusty and brown I'm gonna be sad when its gone
>>11838519Thank you, I really cant stand plastic capes anymore.
>>11840722brassy. not bad.>>11840750I wish we got more microfiber softgoods. Like the original Splinter's robe.
These markers are pretty good on covering black. >>11840842Completely agree
This dark blue is giving me the same issue this >>11840720 blue gave me Dark blue Gundam Pens seem cursed, cant get the coat even like the light blue. Maybe I shouldn't be painting if I'm going to be this autistic about it
>>11840709Yep that gold looks great. I got preoccupied but am going to try some more hair colors with these acrylic markers. I don't want to call them gundam pens since they were cheap $8 and $10 sets form a KO Michaels craft store wannabe.
>>11840750I'm okay with some of the plastic ones, I wish they detached like the one on Quasar or the one from Savage Lands Professor X. There's a lot of quick and easy testing you can do of some ideas.But yes, there are many cool things people can and should do with fabric.
>>11842625Post pics I'm planning on doing a hair color soon >>11842797Actually yeah there are some I'm fine with, like Animated Doctor StrangeFinished Masked Doctor Strange. Ideally the Marvel Legend Whiplash would work better if I wanted to make what he actually looked like but I'm a big fan of the yellow gloves and didnt wanna change it.
>>11843292I like his The Cheat gloves
>>11843292That looks good. I also really like the gloves.Speaking of re-use and MLs, I won these six Hatut Zeraze warriors in a much larger lot, they were essentially free given what I paid for what I wanted and what I could easily flip and re-sell, that even after paying fees to flip that stuff, these 6 (and a few others) were 'free fodder parts on top" of what I paid to win the auction.I mean, I appreciate that, except for that blue thing on the calves and the wrist (which you can apparently sand down and paint over), it's essentially a white body, so I can use them - but I don't have any need for six and none of the obvious suggestions on line (Ghost Spider, White Tiger) interest me or do I care enough to want to make even to post to sell.But I also don't think can flip them as is, I'm missing the spare hands and the weapons. The seller seemingly had them kitted out as a Joe's division but got tired of them and dumped them in this lot to auction but as you see. I would strip the Joe gear and I probably have enough spare white hands from a hand fodder lot I won, to give 2 of these bodies at least one spare set, and probably give those same two one spare gun from another weapon's lot, but I still doubt I could get more than the $5 to $7 that the lowest priced listings right now are asking for the body without the weapons or extra hands. One person is selling the headless bodies as fodder for $8.99 but I have been watching that listing for two weeks now, which I know is not long but that's when I won the auction, and none have sold.
>>11844153You could turn one into a Rex Fury Ghost Rider
>>11844470>Rex Fury Ghost RiderThanks, interesting suggestion.Trying to convert these into him is the same problem as trying to use female bucks on cat suits as civvies. Because the Hatut Zeraze are essentially wearing skin tight white spandex, I would need to make it look like pants and a shirt. The hat would actually not be as hard as people would think and a white horse would just be an extra expense. I don't know that I'm interested in the character enough for myself and I'm not sure I could make him to sell, but it's worth looking into what it would take. There are probably a few other all white cowboy comic or IP characters.
Anyone here who has these two pieces know how how they'd look together? Unkval Smasher body and ML Ghost Rider head.
Haha does anyone know what would be the closest skin tone paint to Savage Land Rouge Marvel Legend or is that something that you just find out by mixing
>>11845700Someone did a video about this and used multiple variations of Valencia - but it wasn't specific, that I recall. It's on YT, not a 4channer as far as I know, but people here have name checked it. I apparently didn't save it, sorry.But it's not a YT video specific to MLs, or to Rouge, much less Savage Lands Rouge - just a customizer talking about how they match skin tones. I do know and can point you to someone who did a good video about fixing the skin on a Spin Master 6" action figures of Superman (Corenswet) and making it look like one of the high end head sculpts that pop up for $30-$50 on line. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SninCaiz4VAThere are several people on line that have done this, but this guy gets raves in his comments about his paint work. I haven't seen this in months since I checked it out so I can't recall what he recommends but he walks through the process, and it would be different since he started with a painted head sculpt, not an unpainted printout.Back to Savage Lands Roughe - do you have ungloved hands that go with the figure? Or a neck you are using? Why not just skin tone match it? (Or attempt to skin tone match, I mean?)
>>11845700Cool print anon, what kind of printer was used?
>>11844638There are some other figures you could pilfer parts off. Cowboy Deadpool and a mess of SW black series releases namely, but if you're no fan of Rex I get it. My only other suggestions are either an army force of nameless shadowy grunts or deepcut capeshitter pulls like Replikon or The Mutant from Batmanga.
>>11846091https://www.ebay.com/itm/366248988751Oh I bought it from them, it was kind of a gamble because they didn't have any printed examples pictured but it looks fine >>11846083It's okay, I actually have the recent Marvel Legend of it but I hate the head, so I wanted to match the skin tone of that. This video is helpful thank you
>>11846675No problem. That dude actually has a some neat stuff on his channel, and some interesting custom work, and more importantly it feels like he enjoys the hobby versus doing it for the clout or free stuff.
>>11846128>>11846127Yeah, I actually have those (batmanga trades) and skimmed them once and thought there were a lot of great ideas but never actually sat down and read them. I should make time to do that once I get my new (refurb) Dell laptop set up. I noticed Marvel already has some sort of all white cowboy dude as well, when I was looking for something else on the Marvel Legends master site.
>>11845700https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cnI8WyTHA98?feature=shareYou just gotta mixWish this guy said the names
