1/6 Indy Customizations: Image Thread

[The Rogster]

Ugh, so frustrating, my v3 has been sitting in UK customs for three weeks now.

Mine took a month. It sucks but it was worth it.

 

[Solidsnake1256]

I redid the eyes on my V3 the other night

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[Solidsnake1256]

Now I just need to weather and it?s about done

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[The Rogster]

Good job! I’m nervous. Haven’t painted before but today I’m gonna paint my V3. I hope I like it well enough. Don’t feel like redoing or having it redone. Any tips from y’all?

 

[ZedBelkon]

Good job! I?m nervous. Haven?t painted before but today I?m gonna paint my V3. I hope I like it well enough. Don?t feel like redoing or having it redone. Any tips from y?all?

Good luck sir! I'm an illustrator, painter, customise figures, make some accessories, make stands ......but after painting maybe 7 or 8 headsculpts, DAMN, that is a tricky thing to do well.

The pro headsculpt painters always get my respect!

Tricky to get a good skin tone, then texture, then match it to the body colour, then the eyes on that v3 I found trickier than v2, then the eyebrows......ha ha, it's all difficult.

Some quick tips that I have battled through.....

Use acrylic paints, and if you don't like what you've done, get it in a bowl of water, use a toothbrush and it will all scrub off again. You can then practice on the same sculpt over and over until you are happy with it. I painted the v3 four times!

Mix a pot of decent skin colour paint. I always mixed paint as I went, then when I had to correct things I had the nightmare of having to mix a matching paint from scratch.

In the end, to get a decent tone paint, I used a couple of different skin colour paints, brown paint, white paint, red paint and black paint, kept mixing it and tweaking it in a separate pot until I got it right.
Trial and error I painted it onto the top of indys bald head, let it dry, judged it against the body, amended colour, repeated. Now I have a whole pot of that custom paint and that made life a whole LOT easier for correcting errors as I went (eg around the eyes). You always have the right colour to hand!

Eyeballs are not white. Paint them white and they look dazzling. Go with a grey.

Stubble is tricky.....and I've ended up of the opinion that an extremely thin watery black (almost no black in fact) repeatedly in layers over the beard area creates a decent subtle effect.

Eyebrows.....go lighter than you think! Then go lighter again. Dark eyebrows overpower the sculpt. Go a little lighter on the hair too.

Hat, paint a darker brown, then dry brush a lighter brown all over the hat, put the dark brown band on last. The dry brushing gives a nice texture to the hat.

Eyeballs. Paint medium/light grey. Paint a dark grey circle on both eyes first. Colour on top of that, darker main colour then lighter highlights, leaving the grey circular outline. Black dot on, then gloss varnish just in the eyeballs.

One more I've just tried out and was amazed how well it worked. Actual make up takes on an acrylic painted head sculpt.
So, I used a red blusher, applied it gradually and lightly to nose, cheeks, ears and it actually gave me the subtle colouring variations that are very tricky to achieve with paint. Doesn't seem to come off either, just tints the acrylic paint. This also worked using a black powder around recessed (around the eyes). But use it VERY sparingly! It proved a bit of a game change for me this one.

Anyway, just some of the trial and error things I have learned, if they are of any help. Just my thoughts.

 

[The Rogster]

You sir are awesome! Haha thanks a lot. I practiced yesterday and some today on a Bruce Wayne sculpt I have. Thank god I practiced on a spare head first. It’s been a hell of a time. I’m having skin tone issues. Your post has helped a lot.

 

[ZedBelkon]

Glad to be of help.

Yes, skin is the trickiest of all as no skin coloured paint is remotely skin coloured....and no persons skin is evenly coloured.

From what I can tell, the pros use airbrushes.....too rich for my occasional efforts!

Oh, and this useful....think I picked it up here a while back but can't remember.





If you can get those coloured highlight lines into your painted eyes, you are doing way better than me! Basically, you need some kind of magnifier to see that detail (double magnification) a super fine brush, and very, very thin paint.

 

[Evil_Ash]

This is such a cool tutorial!

 

[The Rogster]

So I painted a Bruce Wayne sculpt for practice before I take on the Indy. I’m gonna try a few more times before I tackle Indy. I’m waiting on paints for the eyes. I hope it’s ok I post this here, I know it’s not Indy but he’s the goal. Haha what do y’all think?

 

[shells075]

You can get 1/6 eye decals if your not confident with paining eyes.

 

[ZedBelkon]

You can get 1/6 eye decals if your not confident with paining eyes.

Just had a look at these online, I wasn't aware of them until you commented. Are they any good? They look very fiddly and I guess you would also need to cut them down to fit/take the top curve off.

Whenever i have used these water decals before (miniature Space marines) i always found them pretty tricky and failed more than half of the time. Probably just my lack of skill though.

 

[davejames]

Yeah I tried eye decals a couple times and always found it a huge pain and more trouble than it was worth.

 

[Rzeznikk]

"It's not the years, honey...it's the milage."
-Doctor Henry Jones Jr.
[RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK]

V3 is home and on my Raiders Indy and I'm one happy guy right now! I thought I was content with my V2 but this pushes it to a whole new level. [emoji1665][emoji171][emoji170] It!!

Fortune and Glory my friends!!

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[Wor-Gar]

"It's not the years, honey...it's the milage."
-Doctor Henry Jones Jr.
[RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK]

Awesome!

 

[Rzeznikk]

Awesome!

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[punisher1974]

Rzeznikk that is one awesome Indy figure. Love the Headsculpt and the Base. Very cool.

 

[Rzeznikk]

Rzeznikk that is one awesome Indy figure. Love the Headsculpt and the Base. Very cool.

Thanks man. Fortune and Glory!

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[heon123]

That's terrific.

 

[Evil_Ash]

Looking good. Always liked the Premium Format style pose.

 

[Cap'n Cook]

After any Indy belts, bags, hands, weapons etc in case anyone has any ?spare?. Thanks.