How to Get Started Customizing, Figure Repairs, Other Advice

Just ordered some apoxie clay. Been using sculpt basically this while time and it's frustrating trying to get that fine detail and using water when making points or edges and it gets too moist and rips apart! Here's hoping the clay will work better!

Ya I'm basically working on re adjusting goku's hair, had to cut off various hair spikes and tried to build new ones from sculpt but it's consistency is making it difficult. I could spend an hour building new spikes from the point of where I cut off the old ones and run into problems like:

The sculpt not being moist, sticks to the tools and rips off when disturbed
The sculpt being too moist (water applied) and deteriorates into a liquidy pastey mess
Finally getting everything in place after much neck cramping hard work and the head slips out my fingers, falls, and everything I just did is ruined due to its soft-like consistency when first mixed

So Im going with the clay, I think it should work out

I need to do something like this. Tired of using a box under my hands and then just throwing the box away.

Yeah, there's no way I could do that unless I just sand over a clean table and vacuum it up after.

need help. I got a SS4 Goku by Jakks pacific without a tail. I don't have the tail for a lot of years, and I want to make a new one on my own. I know NOTHING about customizing and if you could, please tell me what to do, what kind of stuffs do I need to buy, and how to do.

Apoxie Clay would be best for that. Just mix a little of both parts together with your hands with latex, vinyl, or nitrile gloves on, then sculpt the hair on the surface using a toothpick, knife, or whatever you want.



You just shake it up for a few seconds and then I just put one drop on a plastic plate and depending on how thick the paint is, either use a dry brush, a wet brush, or add a drop of water and use a wet brush.

not DBZ related but this video has a ton of awesome customizing tips. I'm sure a lot of you will enjoy this. There are tips for adding black detail in small spaces, advice on adding battle damage, a little demonsration for adding matte spray sealant (HIGHLY recommended, flat surfaces always make a figure look better), a tutorial for water slide decals, and instructions for making styrofoam bases (something I didn't really care about but am now considering).

(the guy in the outfit is pretty absurd and the presentation is a bit cheesy but I assure you, the video is worth watching)



I have to get my hands on one of those weathering pens. I have no idea what I would use it on but that battle damage looks so good.

kept watching. I've wanted to work with decals for a very long time but felt it was too complicated to worry about. completely wrong, it seems very simple...the problem would be printing high quality decals without losing details. anyway...here's a video that shows how to create and place decals (something Branjita may be interested in since you have all those shirt logos).