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Post by Adz on Jul 7, 2014 15:32:30 GMT -6
Hi all
here i'm going to show my modified and customised stuff, maybe some things from the past, WIP's and finished stuff I want to do in the future ....
first off is some of the Figuarts eyes job!
I mostly hate the way the figuarts angry faces are always looking to the side - it may work in about one pose but honestly they should just be facing frakkin forwards!!!!!!!
so heres the finished mods on normal Goku's eyes and boot Vegetas angry face and the first Krillin head aswell...
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ha ha man I hate how stuff looks close up on screen!!! the outline of the eyes was all good up until theend and I dropped the ball but I still think it looks better in person looking forward , so i'm happy! (for now!)
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Post by Adz on Jul 7, 2014 15:36:26 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2014 16:36:02 GMT -6
Do you plan on changing the forward looking bootleg Vegeta's eyes? If you like them, that's great, but if you change them, I'd like to see them smaller, like how you did with the angry face.
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Post by Adz on Jul 8, 2014 1:23:12 GMT -6
I will do the smirking looking sideways vegeta face to face forward, but not sure about the forward looking one - I mean hes already looking forwards  but maybe... the Goku and vegeta ones above were a rush job yesterday really Ive wanted to do them for ages so just wanted to do it!! |
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Post by Adz on Jul 11, 2014 2:18:47 GMT -6
been fiddling with my camera and found out how to do better close up shots!! so heres another shot of boot vegetas eyes Attachment Deleted |
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Post by Adz on Jul 11, 2014 2:21:33 GMT -6
and another eye done... only on a bootleg shf piccolo Attachment Deleted( again like the Vegeta head , I have shaded with an illustration marker - but it doesn't stand out so well in the pics) Attachment Deleted |
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Post by cosmiccustom on Jul 16, 2014 6:03:44 GMT -6
Nice paintings with krillin... Bravo |
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Post by Adz on Jul 18, 2014 8:12:08 GMT -6
time to take it back to the old school... before these glorious days of SH Figuarts etc, we had the super battle collection, Irwin, jakks and the garage kits of which elfin ripped off and I bought as these were the only DBZ things I could get for a while before I could get anything from the net... anyways this was my DBZ display for a while as I really wanted the Z fighters in the scale I started collecting to begin with, I just found this old picture of my customised kits I thought I would share with you all... . from left to right... Mr.PoPo - built from scratch Future Trunks - elfin kit untouched Vegeta - elfin kit untouched Yamcha - just an older Gohan painted different King kai - Irwin figure untouched Tien - customised from a Piccolo elfin kit Chiaotzu - customised SBC gohan Goku - customised from a super saiyan Goku elfin kit as strangely there was no normal goku kit available!! Krillin - customised from a goten elfin kit Picollo - customised from - you guessed it - a piccolo elfin kit - (made taller and added cape and turban) Chi Chi - most poorly customised from a Irwin figure trying to be more in scale with the rest ... Master Roshi and turtle - cant remember but im guessing a modified Irwin figure of Roshi Future Trunks wife beater style - elfin kit untouched the quality isn't the best but it must be at least 15 years ago now and at the time it was the best I could manage!!!... Attachment Deleted |
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Post by Branjita on Jul 18, 2014 9:49:17 GMT -6
Those are pretty awesome!! Model kit customs are not easy! Putting the kits together is hard enough since they are hollow, have to be trimmed, and have horrible instructions usually, so you end up over cutting something and then can't figure out how you're going to glue it to the other part, because every stupid thing is hollow  I have some SOL kits I never finished, and the arms always gave me trouble, because once you trimmed them, it was questionable what tiny edge of the remaining shoulder actually made contact with the torso! I did mine before epoxy putty for sculpting was available easily, and even with that it's probably still a pain in the butt to have to fix stuff just because the edges aren't perfectly made to fit together flush. Nothing is fast with those kits and they are a true test of patience, which I have very little of when it comes to glue fumes. |
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Post by Adz on Jul 18, 2014 12:16:40 GMT -6
Those are pretty awesome!! Model kit customs are not easy! Thanks dude.. yeah they are a bit of a challenge, and the instructions that were crap and in Korean I think didn't help, but I got used to building them at the time... you quickly learn that a scalpel and milliput is your friend with those things.... that or you are constantly repairing because something you glued fell off!!! I remember I used a tonne of milliput on Picollo's waist to make him taller and for his cape - it ended up being quite heavy, kind of like in the manga/anime when he drops it on the ground! ah you see -my attention to detail is just that good !!   |
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Post by Adz on Jul 19, 2014 7:01:18 GMT -6
Heres my next minor SHF modification… Another minor detail that was annoying me was what I like to call ‘'Goku's slaphead’’ To me there's a little too much space between those spikes over his forehead… Attachment DeletedSo to remedy this I have used some blutack on his fringe piece and a bit of that bendy black wire you get on stuff when you buy an electronic gizmo, cut into a spikey shape… Attachment Deletedand voila… Attachment DeletedGoku’s now waving goodbye to his slaphead!  |
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Post by Adrenaline on Jul 21, 2014 8:37:28 GMT -6
I really like those old customs. Back in those days, it was all we could do. I still remember making Tien out of a SBC SSGoku without his hair and Android 17 from an AB Buu Saga Krillin lol
I think the Figuarts Goku hair was better before, but nice to see you care about such detail.
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Post by Adz on Jul 22, 2014 5:51:57 GMT -6
I really like those old customs. Back in those days, it was all we could do. I still remember making Tien out of a SBC SSGoku without his hair and Android 17 from an AB Buu Saga Krillin lol I think the Figuarts Goku hair was better before, but nice to see you care about such detail. yeah, in a way it kind of sucks we have to do these things ourselves... BUT then again I think we grow to like it really!! you must do judging on the amount of customization you've done - I just took a look at your customs page!! woah... kudos to you my friend!!! Thanks for the comment Adrenaline... i'm hoping that I can pull off my future customs to satisfy my own attention to detail- but only time will tell!! |
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Post by Adz on Jul 26, 2014 2:18:13 GMT -6
rummaging in the loft I found some old photos (remember those?) and there was a different one of the old DBZ models I posted earlier so I took a digital picture of a picture as I couldn't be bothered scanning!! .... Attachment Deleted |
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Post by Adz on Jul 26, 2014 13:15:49 GMT -6
Another minor modification here Ok so as you can see from before, my Krillin has anime eyes now - BUT he doesn’t look happy  … Attachment DeletedBandai/ Tamashii -look what you did!!  so to remedy this I have painted his boots to have the blue anime trimmings and sole – just look how happy the little guy is now!!! .... Attachment Deleted Attachment Deleted |
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but maybe... 
I have some SOL kits I never finished, and the arms always gave me trouble, because once you trimmed them, it was questionable what tiny edge of the remaining shoulder actually made contact with the torso!
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