1:6 scale "Out-A-Time Kid" headsculpt. **now available**

[Maglor]

Yeah, I cut a little bit at a time and ended at the hair. Can't see how any less would look right.


Can someone post a pic of how they did their's?

 

[The Rogster]

Mag, to make the glasses stay on, Why don't you try blu tac?

 

[karamazov80]

Yeah, mine go past his ears and rest against his hair a bit. You can sorta kinda see it here:

Glasses arms don't necessarily (or even usually) end right at the hairline unless the hair is really shaggy and drooping down, so it doesn't look so odd for them to go a bit beyond that point IMO.

 

[Raymond F.]

thats how mine look, i also shaved/tapered the arms off a bit so they sat nice and flat at the ears not sticking out... very happy with the result they look completely natural.

 

[karamazov80]

I actually have a little clamp that is a bit duller than it should be and thus automatically tapered the arms when I clipped them, so I didn't have to do any extra modding for that.

 

[Maglor]

Mag, to make the glasses stay on, Why don't you try blu tac?

I was thinking about getting something like that to make the glasses a bit tacky, but I'm afraid that will ruin the paint. :/

Yeah, mine go past his ears and rest against his hair a bit. You can sorta kinda see it here:

It's hard to tell what I'm looking at from that angle, but it doesn't look like the arms go up to the ears on yours to me.

Glasses arms don't necessarily (or even usually) end right at the hairline unless the hair is really shaggy and drooping down, so it doesn't look so odd for them to go a bit beyond that point IMO.

Yeah, this is a pretty shaggy hair-do though.

 

[karamazov80]

Well not perfectly, but that's due to the design of the sunglasses. There's only so much you can do there. Something's gotta give, considering that we're using a set of sunglasses made for a completely different figure and trying to apply it to this sculpt. You can push it down and forward a bit, or try to sit it higher on his nose (looks like what you did), but really, I don't see a need for that.

And my point is that it isn't odd for the arms of the sunglasses to go over his hair. Whether you choose to do it or not is your own choice, though in this case by choosing to cut it so short it now won't seem to stay on.

 

[pitbull]

Can someone please post a picture of how the dremeling should look to fit the neck adaptor? I'm kind of new to all this and I just want to do everything right.


Thanks guys

-Mike

 

[Maglor]

Can someone please post a picture of how the dremeling should look to fit the neck adaptor? I'm kind of new to all this and I just want to do everything right.

Never hurts to ask questions. I should have asked more questions and I could have avoided screwing up the sunglasses!


Anyway, here's hom mine came:

 

[karamazov80]

Maglor, an option might be using some clear fingernail polish--a fix-all solution for many things. If you apply some to the insides of the arms of the glasses, and let it dry, it will build up a coating that may help them to fit a bit tighter on his head. The only potential issue is that there could be unintended side-effects with contact with the paint/sealant used on your sculpt, so it might not be worth the risk. You might counter this by painting over the fingernail polish with silver paint so there is no kind of wonky chemical interaction.

Or, you could try heating the glasses in hot water and slightly bending the arms in then running cold water over them while holding the arms that way. That's an old trick I used for re-shaping plastic figures that were slightly warped. But these glasses feel pretty flimsy.

 

[Maglor]

...these glasses feel pretty flimsy.

Yeah, the arms actually bend quite easily. I bent them the first time using heat, but they bend easily even at room temp. Sadly no amount of bending makes them stay on.

 

[karamazov80]

Well, you can pick them up for around $11 shipped on eBay if you wait around for the right deal, so if worse comes to worse, there's always just buying another one.

 

[The Rogster]

Yeah, the arms actually bend quite easily. I bent them the first time using heat, but they bend easily even at room temp. Sadly no amount of bending makes them stay on.

I honestly don't think that a very small circle of tac at the end of the arm will hurt the paint. JOhnny painted it right? Ask him.

 

[karamazov80]

So, anyone actually try to use this for non McFly customs? As crazy as it sounds, I wanna try to do an Alex P. Keaton yuppie scum custom

 

[cokebabies]

So, anyone actually try to use this for non McFly customs? As crazy as it sounds, I wanna try to do an Alex P. Keaton yuppie scum custom

I'm trying to find a 1/6 recording studio, so I can bash an diorama of Fox recording the voice of Chance for "Homeward Bound".

 

[karamazov80]

I'm trying to find a 1/6 recording studio, so I can bash an diorama of Fox recording the voice of Chance for "Homeward Bound".

LOL Seriously though, I think this would be awesome.

I was a huge fan of the show back in the day, and his character was the most memorable to me. I would also love to have a Norm from Cheers, and a Bob Newhart. They would go on my shelf that people would look at and say, "is that X? Why the ___ do you have a doll of X??"

 

[Maglor]

BTTF2 version would be perfect.

 

[karamazov80]

Yeah, he had the longer hair for much of that show. BTW, that was from an episode where he was feeling "mature" because he was sleeping with a college girl

 

[Maglor]

I loved Family Ties too.

 

[dchung]

Hey, guys, sorry to go off topic a bit here, but I know a few of you have expressed interest in a film-accurate 1:6 scale JVC camcorder for Marty so I started an official interest thread here:

https://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4181457#post4181457