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Post by Branjita on Aug 14, 2013 11:56:14 GMT -6
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Post by Branjita on Aug 14, 2013 11:56:26 GMT -6
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Post by Branjita on Aug 14, 2013 11:56:39 GMT -6
Wilderness Survival Gohan in orange Piccolo giDifficulty: 3/10 How to make: This wasn't too difficult, and because it was such a good base, there is actually no apoxie sculpt involved except in lengthening the sword and filling the holes in his back. Use a DWC bootleg Angel Goku (the one that comes in a set of 4 with SS Trunks, SS Vegeta, and Android 16 is a much higher quality bootleg (much better paint quality) than the other bootleg version). I'm not sure if the Chara Puchi Gohan I used was a bootleg or not. He had a better paint job than the other one I had, and came on a base that had a sticker on it instead of just a clear base. The dragonball was still the pale orange color, so it's probably a bootleg as well and I think he's from a series called "scouter" something.... Anyway, since the skin tone matched, I didn't repaint the skin. I didn't repaint the body at all except in areas where the paint wasn't perfect and I just tried to match the color. I also repainted the boots completely, did some dark details to the fingers, ears, etc., filled in the area where wings used to be on his back with apoxie sculpt, repainted that, repainted the hair dark black (it was charcoal), changed the mouth and eye outlining to brown instead of black, repainted the sword sheath only, made a piece of string as a strap and painted it yellow, and glued on symbols I designed and printed. Oh, and the belt, I'm not sure what I got that off of, but I just glued that on and repainted it. It was kind of a lazy custom for me since I didn't repaint the entire thing, but when something isn't broken, you don't always have to fix it. The only thing to note about this before/after pic is that the CP Gohan head shown here I used for the other wilderness Gohan, the one in white and green. It, as I alluded to above, wasn't painted as well as the other one. In fact, it looked blurry. Plus, as you can tell, the skintone is pinker than Goku and the other head. Also, I will be selling my Jakks custom in the near future. I might make him a sword before I sell him. Since the unmodified, ugly figure is worth about $18, I'm going to want $50 for the custom, which is a bargain.  i48.photobucket.com/albums/f232/BrangetaBB/IMG_2896.jpg i48.photobucket.com/albums/f232/BrangetaBB/IMG_2892.jpg i48.photobucket.com/albums/f232/BrangetaBB/IMG_2899.jpgi48.photobucket.com/albums/f232/BrangetaBB/IMG_2894.jpgi48.photobucket.com/albums/f232/BrangetaBB/IMG_2895.jpg
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Post by Branjita on Aug 14, 2013 11:56:58 GMT -6
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Post by Branjita on Aug 14, 2013 11:57:11 GMT -6
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Post by Branjita on Aug 14, 2013 11:57:20 GMT -6
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Post by Branjita on Aug 14, 2013 11:57:42 GMT -6
Barnabas Collins from Dark ShadowsDifficulty: 20/10 How to make: Necklace:Gold string/rope I unbraided, and hot glue that I just sculpted with the hot glue gun, and candle wax. The hot glue was about 10 or 15 years old and for some reason yellow--I don't know if it was a wood glue-hot glue hybrid or what. I just have a cheap glue gun so I don't know if it is high temp or low temp. The jewel is candle wax I dripped into half of a plastic ornament (after smearing vaseline in the ornament) that I let cool in the refrigerator after I was done dripping the wax in. Then I got it out by pouring a little microwaved water on the mold and it popped out. Since wax gets all over everything and isn't durable I mixed up some epoxy and covered it. The epoxy covered irregularly (probably because of the remaining vaseline) so I put superglue in those spots the epoxy didn't cover and it ended up giving it additional color variation and texture. The hot glue I painted with acrylic paint. Delta Ceramcoat gold and Folk Art metallic charcoal with a small amount of Delta Ceramcoat silver mixed in. I used some of the charcoal/silver to tone down the gold string. WIP:  Finished:  Finger extensions:I ordered these online and they were ugly but fit my fingers really well.  I cut the tips off, used apoxie sculpt to make finger tips and glued fake nails on.  The first time I painted them, I didn't like the way they looked. I used Sherwin Williams Duralast white exterior latex paint as the base (latex sticks to latex, duh) and mixed in acrylic paint.  Delta Ceramcoat doesn't make realistic colors, so this was a very annoying, long process of mixing contrasting colors in to attempt to match not just my skintone, but my skintone with white paint on my skin. I shortened the fingers to correspond with my knuckles properly after repainting them the best I could match.  Showing that the knuckles correspond  The ring:I forgot to wear the ring last night. I made it from a polished black rock from my childhood rock collection that I surrounded with apoxie and attached to a keyring that fit my finger. I then painted it gold and semiglossed it. It was easy compared to everything else.  The makeup and hair:I spent countless hours on the hair. The wig has black feathers integrated into it to make it fuller and longer in certain areas. I did most of the sculpting with the wig on the bottom of a bucket about the size of my head. The makeup took me 5 hours to apply. I ended up overdoing the white while trying to get consistent texture. I've never done makeup before some trial runs for this Halloween, so it was difficult. I used Manic Panic Dreamtone Virgin color white foundation I ordered online after reading that goths like to use it. I did not want to use the grease paint crap they sell on the halloween aisle. I ended up using too much while trying to get really even coverage and ended up super white. Everything else on my face is various eyeshadow colors, some eyebrow pencil, and mascara. My ears were hard to do since I can't see them.     Finished costume:The blazer was a single breasted blazer that is a 42R when I wear a 40L. I made it look double breasted by pulling the material over and having my mom sew buttons on and a snap for the top button to hold the lapel. She sewed the sleeves into cuffs so they would be shorter and show more of my shirt. I made cuff links to match the necklace out of hot glue and candle wax. I painted my hands with white Delta Ceramcoat acrylic paint. They say on their site that it isn't for use as face paint, but that it is non-toxic and I looked at the MSDS for it and it seemed safe to me. I didn't have any irritation at all from covering my hands, but after a few hours of people shaking my hand and my sleeves rubbing on it, the paint did crack and flake pretty bad in areas.    Figuring out how to walk to emphasize the fingers    Some pics my mom took of me outside and on the couch       I couldn't use my camera at the Halloween party/costume contest (because of the finger extensions) but here's one pic of me that somebody posted so far. I made it to the top 10 costumes, but they didn't do crowd participation for selecting the top 5. 3 of the top 5 were chosen by people at the front by the announcer, and they chose their friends. The other two were chosen by the two announcers. One chose their friend and the other chose a costume that didn't make sense as being contest worthy. A lot of people boo'ed at the decisions. That was handled poorly and was obviously not in my favor.  Here's a pic of the 2nd place winner. I haven't seen pics of the others in anybody's albums yet.  Overall, I'm disappointed I didn't win $750 but I have never been so popular with women there before (I already do alright, but this was like 400% better), I was photographed more times than George Clooney, and I had a blast teasing all the girls by running my fingers down their backs, playing with their hair, and putting my arm around them. Many were quite receptive of this and I left with the hottest girl's phone number LOL! If we actually end up going out, then I won't feel so bad about losing the contest. But does that mean I need to be in character for the date? 
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Post by Branjita on Aug 14, 2013 11:58:17 GMT -6
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Post by Branjita on Aug 14, 2013 11:58:29 GMT -6
Krillin from the Saiyan battle as well as Namek SagaDifficulty: 6/10 for the sculpting, 8/10 for the painting How to make: I used the legs from a Burger King Gohan, the top half from a Burger King Krillin, and the head from a Chara Puchi Krillin. For the legs, I cut the lips off the shoes and sculpted minorly. For the arms and chest, I had to shave off the undershirt and resculpt. For the head, I had to make it fit a bit better. I then articulated the neck and arms and engineered it all to work together. The belt I sculpted from scratch. The open hand is from Real Works Frieza form 4 (a bootleg). Repainting Burger King figures takes a long time because their plastic doesn't accept paint well for the first few coats and it takes a lot of paint to cover the dark pewter plastic. To complicate this, blue is notorious for being the worst color to paint with, because one mistake and you have to repaint what you got the blue on, because it has so much pigment, it doesn't just wipe off. Anyway, I think this turned out really nice. I could have done a little better job sanding the socks and articulating the arms (the angle of the left arm looks a bit off because drilling this stuff is very difficult), but I think it's near perfect. It makes me want to repaint a new coat of paint on my Cell Saga Krillin I painted years ago. I may also redo the articulation on him.  i48.photobucket.com/albums/f232/BrangetaBB/IMG_4115.jpgi48.photobucket.com/albums/f232/BrangetaBB/IMG_4116.jpgi48.photobucket.com/albums/f232/BrangetaBB/IMG_4119.jpgi48.photobucket.com/albums/f232/BrangetaBB/IMG_4120.jpgi48.photobucket.com/albums/f232/BrangetaBB/IMG_4121-1.jpgi48.photobucket.com/albums/f232/BrangetaBB/IMG_4123-1.jpgi48.photobucket.com/albums/f232/BrangetaBB/IMG_4125-1.jpgi48.photobucket.com/albums/f232/BrangetaBB/IMG_4126-1.jpgi48.photobucket.com/albums/f232/BrangetaBB/IMG_4127.jpgi48.photobucket.com/albums/f232/BrangetaBB/IMG_4128.jpg
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Post by Branjita on Aug 14, 2013 11:58:35 GMT -6
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Post by Branjita on Aug 14, 2013 11:58:49 GMT -6
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Post by Branjita on Aug 14, 2013 11:59:06 GMT -6
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Post by Branjita on Aug 14, 2013 11:59:14 GMT -6
Cell Saga KrillinDifficulty: 4/10 overall, 2/10 for the touch up work How to make: I originally painted (and articulated) this figure around 10 years ago. I did a pretty good job repainting it, but it had some pink paint on it from my old Dodoria for some reason, no clear on the paint, poorly done eyebrows, a neck joint that was off quite a lot, and inaccurately colored boots. I didn't have a drill back then so the way I articulated him was PGV's method: heat up a small nail on a candle while holding it with pliers, press it into the arm to make a hole, reheat it, stick it in the body for good, cut the head off the nail, and hope it aligns. The arms aligned pretty well. The head did not. I repainted the boots, redid the face, did a red wash over the entire gi to freshen it up, repainted all of the blue, glued on new symbols, touched up areas of the skin needing it, cleared everything, and finally drilled a hole in the head in a more accurate location for the nail I used as a peg years ago. It's a much better looking figure now, even though it was still pretty good to begin with.  i48.photobucket.com/albums/f232/BrangetaBB/IMG_4385-1.jpgi48.photobucket.com/albums/f232/BrangetaBB/IMG_4387-1.jpgi48.photobucket.com/albums/f232/BrangetaBB/IMG_4388-1.jpgi48.photobucket.com/albums/f232/BrangetaBB/IMG_4389-1.jpgi48.photobucket.com/albums/f232/BrangetaBB/IMG_4390.jpgi48.photobucket.com/albums/f232/BrangetaBB/IMG_4391.jpgi48.photobucket.com/albums/f232/BrangetaBB/IMG_4392.jpg
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Post by Branjita on Aug 14, 2013 11:59:23 GMT -6
Cell Saga Hercule (Mr. Satan)Difficulty: 0.25/10 overall How to make: I was watching DBZ Kai and noticed Mr. Satan has blue Bulma-style eyes (much smaller though, they are practically just dots like any other male character). I looked at the Irwin figure, his eyes were solid black. I put two dots of blue and used a pen to put pupils. I like it much better now. It's very subtle though.  
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Post by Branjita on Aug 14, 2013 11:59:33 GMT -6
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