Attn: Custom Artists!! Newbs, ask Questions here!

[dhampir46]

I like it, think a dragon body will work?

 

[knucklefunger]

I know a regular body wouldn't fit inside, so here's what I'd do (just me though)
-Use a Hot Toys body
-make a red or gray spandex body suit & stripe it up to look like Guyver muscle
-cut the vinyl kit into seperate body armor pieces, shave them down from the inside so that when placed on the blank body it looks size appropriate
-paint up the piecces, attach velcro to inside of armor & where they will be placed on the body suit.
-install the Hot Toys neck into the vinyl head

Now you have a one off Guyver
Hell.I'd consider slicing the head open & place small pink marbles inside to replace the eyes

Just a suggestion

 

[dhampir46]

good suggestion, thanks knucklefunger!

marble's an idea worth pursuing.

 

[knucklefunger]

Glad to be of any help

 

[JacktheRipper]

Alright knuckle, the free Slave Brent I got from SS is in the tank. See what he looks like tomorrow.

 

[knucklefunger]

Jack, looks great. You paint that up? Damn nice, love the variation in the hair/eyebrows

Great, now I'm gonna have to watch the films again

Has anyone ever done the human leads from the TV series?

 

[JacktheRipper]

slight misunderstanding. That's not a repaint (yet). Just meant that I put him in the container with the pine sol.

Isn't more paint suppose to come off? This is after a couple of dunks.

 

[knucklefunger]

Damn me
It looks like it lightened the paint, like it
Sooo
Try this, let it soak overnight then give it a scrub with a firm bristle brush. I managed to strip all the paint off of a Hot Toys plastic head. It did take 2 days though, soak & scrub. May take time but it will work. Has never failed me yet. Bustin to see how that paints up. If it did lighten the skin after the first soak I thin a lighter skin tone may bring out some of the facial detail

Sorry for sounding like a dolt about the painting, still, whatever it did, it improved the original work.

 

[JacktheRipper]

...whatever it did, it improved the original work.

that's exactly what I thought

 

[shocktrooper_au]

slight misunderstanding. That's not a repaint (yet). Just meant that I put him in the container with the pine sol.

Isn't more paint suppose to come off? This is after a couple of dunks.

Is it me or does this sculpt look like Vincent Price?

 

[drod26]

Re: ATTENTION all Custom Artists!!

Ok, finally...

PART 3:

When last I left you all we were working on skin tones. It's a really tricky thing, skin. You have to take into account the actor's skin tone, or the characters skin. You then take a lighter shade and a darker shade and alternate until you have the desired shade. At least that is how I do it. We all have different methods and ever tutorial out there has said something new... So just experiment until you are happy.

After the skin is resolved and I stop ripping my hair out... I can start the base hair.... First you find good reference for the character you are trying to represent. In this case it was Mustafar Anakin and Episode 3 Obi-Wan. So Anakin will have very dark hair to simulate the sweaty mop he had while fighting Obi. Obi-Wan will have a reddish-blonde hair set... So if you go from dark to light, as you should... Obi will have a dark red base and Anakin will have a very dark Brown base. This sets the tone and lets you have fun with layers upon layers of lighter shades to give it a nice realistic look....

Tomorrow I will show you guys the next steps on the hair process, lightening and giving it depth. It's a tough process but in the end it produces wonderful results....

TBC

Part 4: Hair

Ok, now that we have the base hair on, we just need to give a few more layers. So I mix the proper shades needed.... For Obi, different degrees of reddish blonde.. 2 different ones, one medium and one lighter. I use a round tipped brush and do a little drybrushing of the medium shade (a reddish brown) over the entire area, hair and beard. Let this dry... And come again with the lightest shade, making sure your brush is nearly bone dry, and I hit the area again.

If done properly, you should have this....

Now for Anakin... I mix a regular brown and a lighter blondish-brown. Use the same drybrushing technique as with Obi-Wan and start with the medium and follow up with the light. But this time with the lighter shade, you only hit certain areas of the sculpt... Just the higher raised areas and the front on the sculpt. I don't know why it works so well, it just does.... I lightly brush on the back to give it uniformity, but very very light....

You should now have this...

Here are a few more views of the completed hair...

TBC

Dark Artist,

I am new to painting and wanted to repaint my sideshow figures and ran into this 4 part paint tutorial but unfortunately the pics have been deleted from part 3 and 4. I was wondering if you still have these photos, I would like to take a look at them for reference. You think you can repost them if you have them.

Thank you..

 

[gdb]

Alright knuckle, the free Slave Brent I got from SS is in the tank. See what he looks like tomorrow.

I thought this was a Hans Gruber Alan Rickman at first.

 

[villainsfan42]

3 Random Questions:

-what is the best dremel to buy, and if the best attatchments?
-what is the best material to make cast in?
(i have the smooth on oomoo and smooth cast, but i don't like the smooth cast, what is a better quality alternative? *possibly with more flexibility like hot toys heads*)
-what is the bets sculpting material to use to make heads, and to fix up sculpts
(i'm leaning towards apoxie sculpt, but i'm not sure...)

please help...thank you

 

[Kabukiman]

Re: ATTENTION all Custom Artists!!

ou think you can repost them if you have them.

I hope the pictures weren't forever lost in the great hard drive crash of 2009...

 

[JacktheRipper]

decided to just jump in. I bought pure acetone. I didn't like the dunking idea, so I went with using a cotton ball. Worked like a charm. I bought the one that stated, "maximum strength." There is warning about not using it on plastic. The paint came off like butter. It did not damage the head at all. I used a cotton swab for the tight spaces.

 

[knucklefunger]

Jack, that worked so so well. I have acetone at work & rarely use it, it actually melted a plastic eye wear frame, so I've stayed away from using it. The Pine Sol has always worked, 2 days tops, never any problems with damage to plastic or resin sculpts.

I'm gonna give the acetone a go

 

[JacktheRipper]

I could tell the pine sol was going to work, but my patience is very thin. And you know what that freakin' head still stinks like pine sol.

The acetone is strong. Got some on my fingers and it burned like hell. The head was a freebie and I wasn't too worried (yeah I was ) about screwing it up. I did use this head to gauge how much acetone I could use and how aggressive I can be with these sculpts.

 

[wilcocash]

Question....how does one recast a head to make it larger?

 

[villainsfan42]

what's the best casting resin for a head? something simlar to the hot toys heads

*not the silicone*

 

[samueljd]

Okay, I have some completely newb questions. What is the best type of paint to use, what materials are best to use for head sculpts and do most folks use airbrushes on painting a head. I have a couple projects I would like to work on and was wondering about what I would need to get started.