Official 3rd SSF Challenge Concept Ideas Thread

[Les Walker]

Either Historical or Television Characters would motivate me to finish some things I've started.

Same here. I have SO many I want to make. So, a challenge would be spiffy for either of these areas.

I think, both should be categories for our future vote. Anyone not think so?

 

[pixletwin]

I would love to see either historical or TV personalities.

(yes... my first Krusade was for 1:6 M*A*S*H... well do I still remember).

 

[lerath666]

So we're looking at febuary for the challenge Les? considering that the Hot toys superman, ant Takara Batman ship around then, how about a Super Hero/Super Villain Theme for the next chalenge?

And considering how loose we can define "super hero" that leaves ALOT of possibilities.

We could even cut it back heroes and villains to make it eaiser

 

[koipond]

What if everyone uses the same base figure? The obvious choice would be a Buck. You could also choose a figure universally reviled as 'The Worst Figure Ever' (tm) like a Faith and see what some of the best artists on the board can do with them.

 

[die]

Just a suggestion....maybe two....I think it would be cool to have a challenge start at the beginning of a month & end at the end of the month. That way once people starting seeing the figures posted, they could get inspired and not feel like they are too late. We could have a whole month of resposes in the response thread too rather than feeling like you have to comment on 10 or 15 people's figures all at one time.

I also think January would be the perfect time for a new challenge. I think with most of us getting time off around Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year, we'd have some extra time for customizing. Plus, we'd be able to kick the New Year off with a bang, right?




my ideas for possible themes:

-Futuristic (anything set in the future...Terminator, Back to the Future, Blade Runner, androids, cyberpunk, robots, etc.)

-War (anything war related,Rambo,Saving Private Ryan, Jarhead, etc.)

-Cult Classics (any characters from movies with a cult-like following, Army of Darkness, Clockwork Orange, Blade Runner, Night of the Living Dead, Barbarella, etc.)

-LOL (anything funny. It could be from Super Troopers, Harold & Kumar, Caddyshack or Dave Chappelle as Rick James or even your own funny creation pulled from your own imagination.)

 

[Les Walker]

So maybe,

TV Personalities
Super Heroes
Worst Figure Ever Redo

How's that for a start on votable categories?
Good start this go round! Any more we have to have in the vote?
Historical maybe? More?

And yes, I vote February. But, this is a democracy. Let me know your thoughts guys. Remember, no one's getting much done in December...I doubt anyway...so it will come sooner than you think!

 

[Reinhardt]

So maybe,

TV Personalities
Super Heroes
Worst Figure Ever Redo

How's that for a start on votable categories?
Good start this go round! Any more we have to have in the vote?
Historical maybe? More?

And yes, I vote February. But, this is a democracy. Let me know your thoughts guys. Remember, no one's getting much done in December...I doubt anyway...so it will come sooner than you think!

although i love aliens and robots, worst figure ever redo is an interesting one... and TV personalities.

 

[Les Walker]

Just a suggestion....maybe two....I think it would be cool to have a challenge start at the beginning of a month & end at the end of the month. That way once people starting seeing the figures posted, they could get inspired and not feel like they are too late. We could have a whole month of resposes in the response thread too rather than feeling like you have to comment on 10 or 15 people's figures all at one time.

I also think January would be the perfect time for a new challenge. I think with most of us getting time off around Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year, we'd have some extra time for customizing. Plus, we'd be able to kick the New Year off with a bang, right?




my ideas for possible themes:

-Futuristic (anything set in the future...Terminator, Back to the Future, Blade Runner, androids, cyberpunk, robots, etc.)

-War (anything war related,Rambo,Saving Private Ryan, Jarhead, etc.)

-Cult Classics (any characters from movies with a cult-like following, Army of Darkness, Clockwork Orange, Blade Runner, Night of the Living Dead, Barbarella, etc.)

-LOL (anything funny. It could be from Super Troopers, Harold & Kumar, Caddyshack or Dave Chappelle as Rick James or even your own funny creation pulled from your own imagination.)

All good ideas, but for myself, here is where I stand on a couple of these ideas...

Your categories, fine as submissions for votes to me. Bring on category ideas! I like the LOL as a title for humor ones!

As for when, I can't be in it in January. I personally can't. Doesn't mean you guys can't decide to have one then, I would just hate missing out.
Why will I miss January?
Holidays, TONS of work to do between now and then, and January 25th through the 27th is the Orlando TOY FX show https://www.fxshow.com/
and I will be getting ready most of January to go to that (clearing out work, doing what I need to to be able to go to the show, etc.), and just can't promise I could get any figures done in time. That only leaves me February, and that ain't long to make anything, but I can try. I can gather before that time.
It does give anyone else all this time though, so I hope it's not too much to ask for.
If not, cool. I just can't be as involved. That shouldn't stop a challenge though. I just hope it wouldn't be a category I really would wanna do!


HOWEVER, your other point,
the notion of a challenge lasting a month, isn't a bad idea, but, without a pretty serious deadline time, it just becomes another random thread with posts here and there for a month or however long. The whole point has been to try to get a figure or figures done BY A DEADLINE, so an event of sorts can happen. Otherwise, I think it just loses it's luster. It becomes the "Cool Challenge of the Month Thread" and you can post and comment at leisure. That loses all interest for me. I for one need some poke in the butt to get me going and making any extra figures for any challenge. Hence the word "CHALLENGE". If it loses a lot of that, I am not in favor.
However, I am cool with a longer posting timeframe.

All this is food for thought, not some demands on my part. This is how I see these, and so far, with real deadlines and limited times to post, there is this excitement of looking forward to the day, and to see all the posts.
Who cares if responses take forever! A week, whatever! It's about the doing, and seeing what those responses are. The deadlines are not for the responses, but for the figure makers to deliver the goods.

Hope that makes it make more sense.

Anyway, ideas are what makes this fun, so debate this. Prove me wrong. Or at least, convince me and/or others that some other structure would be more viable for a creative customs event. Either way, I will most likely defer to what I have posted above to some degree. That is my "argument" as it were, to use a phrase, but in it's lightest possible meaning. I'm cool with change, I just feel strongly about those aspects of this. But, I can be swayed.

 

[Les Walker]

C'mon gang! Something needs to happen with this, so we can get the vote going and a deadline, etc., and get crackin' on something!
Any more ideas for this one? It's wide open right now...

 

[Anzik]

Well after seeing Josh's rendition of P!tu's dad, it got me thinking of doing a WWII version of my dad in his uniform.
So I vote for War.

 

[Les Walker]

So, maybe some good ones to vote for so far are these?

TV Personalities
Super Heroes
Worst Figure Ever Redo
War
Futuristic
Cult Classics
LOL (Comedy guys)

Any more to add to the mix?

 

[drunk_leprechaun]

a mix of war, futuristic almost sci-fi? oh oh and only female characters? and this does sound interesting Worst Figure Ever Redo

 

[Rogue Trooper]

Febuary is a good time for another challenge.

How about Commando's, any era from a roman or ninja commando, modern, futristic and movies.
Any character that you want to make from a comic not just heroes.

Something milatay would be cool, theres alot of stuff ou there which i would'nt mind using.

 

[Les Walker]

Anybody up for renewing this old thing? Dust it off, see if there is enough CHALLENGE blood left in you guys to try for one more?

 

[pixletwin]

I would love to see either historical or TV personalities.

(yes... my first Krusade was for 1:6 M*A*S*H... well do I still remember).

Bump.

 

[Captain Faramir]

What about classic comedians? Groucho Marx was incredible, what about Abbot and Costello, Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplain? There are tons of possibilities; for an added challenge they could all be in Black and White! Just a crazy idea . . .

 

[jungle jom]

Captain...

That is it! I'd love to see what could be done with the comics of the past!

If only Sideshow would understand, Bud and Lou, Stan and Ollie, Martin and Lewis, Stooges, Marx Brothers, Satch and Muggs, Burns and Allen, Burns and Shriver...

Burns and Shriver???? Huh?, Yeah, Huh?, Yeah, Huh?, Yeah...

I don't know how they got in there?

 

[Anzik]

I would like something I could use after the challenge, so how about if we do an "addition to existing line" theme?

 

[barryo]

what about a character off of an album cover?......those possibilities could be really endless. post a pic of the cover and the figure to see the likeness or lack of..

 

[DarkArtist81]

I'm still down for this, as always.