Keegan
Super Freak
Hi. Thought I’d introduce myself to y’all by way of this project. My name’s Jon and I’ve been hanging around here for a while, not saying too much but enjoying the community. I’ve been collecting on and off now for many years and got interested in the 1/6 world because I’m a big fan of Nathan Crowley’s design on the Dark Knight movies and figured I needed a giant, impractical, glorious Tumbler in my life. You know, like you do. One thing leads to the next and I was quickly hooked. After checking things out and delving deeper into the hobby, I discovered the awesome artistry of the customizers here and was inspired to try my hand.
I picked up the DC Sandman figure and was pretty much underwhelmed. Morpheus is one of my favorite characters and this will be my attempt to make a figure of him that I like. Done a little kitbashing but never tried anything like this before so any and all advice or feedback is very welcome. In preparation for the project I scoured many threads here for techniques, styles and methods to “borrow” from and there is so much killer stuff! Anyway, hope you enjoy and here goes:
Here’s what I'm starting with. Not much to work with from the DC thing. Ditched the body and head but the accessories are great. Helmet is key. Key is key.
The body is a little buff for Dream but the only one I found that would be ok was Bruce Lee and he’s a too little steep (and short) for me/this experiment. I want to be able to go shirtless so if there's a good slightly thin, somewhat seamless, mostly affordable body, please lead the way. The head sculpt is Takeshi Kaneshiro. Never seen any of his films, but I like the shape, expression and need the hair for sure.
Painting...
Helmet before and after...
Next up is hair. (Never really thought I’d ever google “how to style doll hair” but, what the ****, I'm into it). Got wax and scissors and Robert Smith...
Thanks for looking!
I picked up the DC Sandman figure and was pretty much underwhelmed. Morpheus is one of my favorite characters and this will be my attempt to make a figure of him that I like. Done a little kitbashing but never tried anything like this before so any and all advice or feedback is very welcome. In preparation for the project I scoured many threads here for techniques, styles and methods to “borrow” from and there is so much killer stuff! Anyway, hope you enjoy and here goes:
Here’s what I'm starting with. Not much to work with from the DC thing. Ditched the body and head but the accessories are great. Helmet is key. Key is key.
The body is a little buff for Dream but the only one I found that would be ok was Bruce Lee and he’s a too little steep (and short) for me/this experiment. I want to be able to go shirtless so if there's a good slightly thin, somewhat seamless, mostly affordable body, please lead the way. The head sculpt is Takeshi Kaneshiro. Never seen any of his films, but I like the shape, expression and need the hair for sure.
Painting...
Helmet before and after...
Next up is hair. (Never really thought I’d ever google “how to style doll hair” but, what the ****, I'm into it). Got wax and scissors and Robert Smith...
Thanks for looking!