Topic: spuda's misc. (half tracks pick up, knox)

[spudafett]

Now that is a fine example of spuda re-engineering of a figure. Heck, Devin, that one looks almost factory fresh.
Good job.

it's amazing what a little white primer will do for skin tones....   I finally found me a bottle of testors white primer so I used that on the chest area before painting the flesh tones... makes a world of difference.

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I'm really liking what I've seen mate great work all round.

Ron

[Luke Sprywalker]

another awesome creation. Good job on moding the head and hair.

[spudafett]

another awesome creation. Good job on moding the head and hair.

thanks.  It was realy simple.  Just had to fill in a little bit of the peg hole with apoxi sculpt, and like I said I didn't wait long enough to start messing with it for the sculpt to harden so it got a little rinkled, but you don't see it in the photos that bad...

my question is should I leave her a brounette or repaint the hair so that she's a redhead like she is with the original figure?

[Luke Sprywalker]

Dude, red heads are hotter! haha and more accurate for your figure.

[spudafett]

I guess I can't realy take credit for this, I'll call this my sister's first custom figure. 

she took the coat and tightened it up with a couple seams on the sewing machine.  She crimped it at the side seam that was already there and did a new stich from the arm pits to the waist to tighten it up a little, and then did a new stitch down the front on each side to lock the colar down and keep it from being all flappy....

anyways, maybe you can tell what I'm talking about by the photos:

[CaptainLux]

nice man!

[spudafett]

my take on bat man, inspired by another customizer's version that uses a similar recipe (from a dif. forum).



i'm also working on my own take on the main "villian" from the new animated bat-man move "bat man: under the red hood"
here is a promo shot of "the red hood"


I won't ruin for you who the red hood is, or what his character is, but if you like bat-man I suggest you watch the movie.  It's short, but it's pretty good.

here is my take on "the red hood" so far:

[Phatty]

That Nick Fury is SO much better.  That's been one of my complaints since they started making soft goods Jedi robes: They're too fluffy, if you will.  Your sister did well.

I'll be interested to see what comes of your Batman and Red Hood.  You always do well with the G.I. Joes, so I'm betting they'll look good!

[CaptainLux]

i agree is sooo much better man!!

[hangarbay94]

That looks really cool! are you going to make a display base for it?

[spudafett]

That looks really cool! are you going to make a display base for it?

hb was this post supposed to go in someone else's thread?...   if not... then I'll go on and answer you with a big ol' no sir.  I haven't gotten the motivation to do display bases yet... although I realy wish I would.  I still havn't even started working on my iron man diorama scene yet, I just can't get motivated to start such a large project these days.  Too much other stuff to do.

anyways, keep an eye on this thread tonight as I'll be uploading finished pictures of bat-man and the red hood, as well as a few shots of the repainted bat-mobile.

[spudafett]

im too tired at the moment to upload all the photos tonight but I got one uploaded that kinda catches all three of the afore-mentioned items in one shot:



you'll have to wait until I get some shut-eye and can actually see strait to upload the rest of the individual photos...

[Clonehead]

Your sister did that nick fury? That is so flippin cool!!

I really like your wip shots of the red faced batman. I love that you go to tackle concepts like that, Devin.

[spudafett]

Your sister did that nick fury? That is so flippin cool!!

I really like your wip shots of the red faced batman. I love that you go to tackle concepts like that, Devin.

thanks clint, yeah my sister worked the sewing machine on that fury figure!  She laughed because apparently she had to do the same type "doctoring" to a shirt of her own that had the same fitting issues that fury's trenchcoat had... but she did say that it was the smallest item of clothing she's ever sewed!

the batman/robin figures came out alot better than I'd hoped, they could be improved upon but I like em.  I'll post the rest of the photos up tomorow sometime, I've been up for 27 hours strait as of right now so I'm a little bit tired....