Rainmans 'Killer A'

[robbiethepainter]

I thought I would show how I made mine.

First thing is its the muscle Kaustik body.

It has a neck so you have to mod it to except the necked head.
Make a cut along the sides so that you can remove the rubber torso.
Once you have that off you want to remove the neck section by cutting it out. Anton is kind of yoked, so I left the muscles on the sides and basically scoped the back and front out. This allows the head neck to show through the shirt opening but sill has the pyramid neck on the sides.

The body neck has several ball joints so remove them all except the ball sticking out of the body.
You can then put the torso back on the body and glue it together.
I then had to pry the neck connector off of the head because it makes the head sit way too high. You can see that I chipped some of the resin off the head in the process. Once this is off, I remove the rubber section out of the connector.

I then glued it into the hole of the resin head.

This allows the head connect back into the body. It also gives it some articulation.

I also padded out the belly using paper towels and masking tape.

The triceps are really big and don't allow the shirt to fit so they got trimmed down.

And then finally I had to swap out the ankles becuase of the difference in sizes of the ball joints between HT and Kaustik. Its pretty easy. Just heat the legs and pull them out. I did have to glue the new ones in.

Becuase I like HT hands, I drilled out the holes for the hand pegs to get the HT pegs to fit. If you use a 9/64" drill bit for the holes, a little hair dryer heat and they will fit really nice and tight.

And that its it. If you have a sharp knife and some super glue, its pretty easy. Dremel would make the cutting of the arms down easier but I didnt use mine. If you got a head and clothing set, this mod is easier because you don't have to remove the neck plug or alter the ankles.
Once again, here is mine.

 

[PopCultKid]

That's awesome work broski. That answers my question that I keep asking of how the head connects to the body .

 

[Commtech]

Great job, Robbie!

 

[marlindesign]

Thats looking near perfect now!

 

[turbo.VS.ozone]

That's a super mod Robbie, but yikes! Did the bottom of the sculpt chip a bit? Trying to remove a glued neck adaptor could probably break off an entire piece of the neck.

 

[Calcifer]

Ya Robbie yours is my fav so far, but still think I will go the captain a body route, I'd love to go with the Kaustic but it's just too expensive with shipping n'all.

 

[turbo.VS.ozone]

I'd like too see what it looks like on the captain America body.

 

[robbiethepainter]

That's awesome work broski. That answers my question that I keep asking of how the head connects to the body .

Yeah it works really well

Great job, Robbie!

Thats looking near perfect now!

Thanks guys

That's a super mod Robbie, but yikes! Did the bottom of the sculpt chip a bit? Trying to remove a glued neck adaptor could probably break off an entire piece of the neck.

Yeah it was a scary few minutes. I was really scared about the bangs. I thought for sure it was going to break while holding it. The glue wasn't strong but there was an undercut that kind of locked it in.

Ya Robbie yours is my fav so far, but still think I will go the captain a body route, I'd love to go with the Kaustic but it's just too expensive with shipping n'all.

If I hadn't had one laying around I would have probably not gone out and bought one. I would have just altered something else.

 

[PopCultKid]

I'd like too see what it looks like on the captain America body.

If these clothes were bigger the Cap body (plus a little gut padding) would be close to perfect! I tried it out and it fills out his shoulders and balances that noggen really well put it's only good for poses with his arms at the side. The back of the jacket gets really tight between the shoulder blades and it doesn't look good from the back because the jacket is very taut and bunched. Because of that it doesn't really work posing him with both hands on the shotgun while aiming it and holding it high. The jacket would probably rip. And that sucks for the people like me who like more extreme poses.

I have no clue how Robbie squeezed that Hulk body into these clothes (even after shaving it down) but I'm sure his is very tight across the back too and can’t lift the arms without stretching the jacket to the limit.

I don't have time to post how the clothes look on the Cap body now because if I don't go play with the lil' lady and watch TWD now she's gonna flip her s__t . I'll get those up tomorrow but I'll show a body comparison for the Cap and the TTM21. The Cap is SIGNIFIGANTLY bigger in every way (except the calves)

CAP LEFT TTM21 RIGHT​

 

[ShortRound]

Cap body looks great Mike! Might pick one up.

 

[karamazov80]

If those muscle bodies work, it's only because the head is too big IMO. Bardem ain't that jacked up by a long shot.

 

[turbo.VS.ozone]

Thanks Mike! There's also the Captain First Avenger body. I wonder if that one works at all?

 

[karamazov80]

First Avenger body was pretty different. Didn't have all the funky sculpted parts on the upper torso, I think it had plastic versions of the TTM-19 arms, and it didn't have the abdomen padding.

 

[Commtech]

If those muscle bodies work, it's only because the head is too big IMO. Bardem ain't that jacked up by a long shot.

He is overweight in NCFOM. But yeah, the head is big.

 

[robbiethepainter]

First Avenger body was pretty different. Didn't have all the funky sculpted parts on the upper torso, I think it had plastic versions of the TTM-19 arms, and it didn't have the abdomen padding.

The width of the shoulders is smaller also. Looked into using the arms from my First Av. Capt

 

[ShortRound]

Just having way to much fun with Anton.

CALL IT!

 

[MarfMaster]

Killer pics homie, congrats on an amazing piece!

 

[emarae]

Just having way to much fun with Anton.

CALL IT!

Oh man!!! That's freakin' killer!!! LOL! Love it, man!

 

[PopCultKid]

Nice Hec love that effect! He is fun as hell. But the body situation is frustrating the s__t out of me

If those muscle bodies work, it's only because the head is too big IMO. Bardem ain't that jacked up by a long shot.

No broski, it's a lot more than just an effort to balance the head. He was nowhere near that kind of shape in the flick. I'd say easily 30-40 lbs. heavier. This little foam vest really ain't cutting it and without a proper fat suit, the TTM21 is definitely too small for Anton.


I'm going to look into that FA Cap. This Avengers Cap would be awesome but these f__kin' clothes don't fit

Honestly I hope that we can make RM understand that Vincent needs a real deal fat suit, not a little foam insert. I'm not gonna make a huge deal about this on this one, but I'm really not looking to do body swaps and mods for Vince. All of that should be taken care of in RM's shop. The easy part is doing body swaps and padding stuff up but when the clothes are tailored too small like this situation, then it becomes way more difficult.

Vince should have a tailored fat suit (something like Iminime offers) that respects Travolta's physique in the flick, with clothes that are tailored for that build. We really shouldn't have to do all this and he should be good to go right out of the box.

 

[vareika]

Great pics and poses!