Gooboo's WIP stuff thread

Finally got some time to do a little work on my personal projects.

I tried creating my own hair with some mohair for the first time. For my first attempt I just used a headsculpt I had already bought, I don't remember the brand. Overall I thought it was pretty successful, although the top part where the head separates could have been better. There's too much glue in some places and the hair doesn't quite separate the way I wanted it to.













I created a full scalp for the sculpt using some super sculpey, which I baked then glued to the top of the head like with these headsculpts I plan on doing.





I painted them with a layer of acrylics over the top to sort of match the skin, but after finishing the first one I don't think that was necessary. Here's some custom headsculpts I've done in various states of completedness-

They all look to be coming along great.

Fantastic Work and great Skills in Painting. You choose a Head that looks like in every Skintone real authentic. Normaly there are some characteristics that some Races had like big Lips, Flat nose ect.

Please this is no racism. This is just for to sculpt the Head of typicial race.






my favorite is this one. That´s a masterpiece.



The Hair Job is Fantastic to. She looks like a real person in the last pictures.

If You like to do a very special HS and it´s possible for You with the 3d printer, do it without the Eyes and use real glass ones. Could be a authentic reflection by Photograpie.

Stunning work , gooboo!

That hair job looks pretty good, and nice work on the head sculpts. By the way, the brand of that first one is Kimi Toys (I wonder whatever happened to them...?)

Been working on some more head and hair stuff.

I redid the hair on the Kimi toys head I showed earlier. That one was my first attempt and there were some things I didn't like about it, this one turned out a little better I think.







Here's one I redid of my favorite Super Duck head. I'm not that crazy about this one because the hair gets kind of frazzled when it's dry, (but maybe that's realistic? My hairline is receding so I wouldn't know, lol) I've been thinking about turning it into a fantasy style ponytail or something.







This is the head from Lucifer's Wings of Dawn. I didn't like the symbol on her forehead, so I removed all of the paint with acetone and redid it, as well as giving her new hair. She kind of looks like the actress who plays Aragorn's girlfriend in the LOTR films? I don't remember her name. I really love how the hair turned out on this one, though. It's a test run of the hairstyle I want to use on my black/african headsculpt.







Comparison to the original Lucifer sculpt-



I'm in the process of repainting and rehairing this headsculpt from Cowpen toys. The picture is a little blurry. I was really excited to get this headsculpt at first because I thought it was pretty and I like the kind of fantasy style ponytail twist she had, but when I got the sculpt in hand I realized the color didn't match any Phicen bodies at all. It was like a sun-burnt red color, and you couldn't tell from the promo photos at all. I think that was when I first learned you couldn't take for granted what promo photos show for head sculpts with these toy companies. She's going to match the Phicen suntan color when I'm done painting her.





I basically finished painting these two, just need to put some gloss on the eyes, and maybe a few nitpicks here and there. Waiting to get more practice hairing other headsculpts before trying out hairing my own custom sculpts.

Forgot to add, I finally got my Sinful Suzi body in the mail a week or so ago. Painted some hands and feet white to match. I think I'll make something like an albino elf sorceress character, but I need to make a headsculpt in 3d and have it printed first.

Also, is this the same body as the Kier and Gethsemoni figures? It's a really pretty figure, and I hope Phicen makes a general release of the body sometime soon.

Work is coming along nicely. Your latest hair jobs look pretty good.

Nice re-hairing and re-painting. Your redone Lucifer looks so much better than the original to me.

Gorgeous work on the re-hairing and re-painting jobs, gooboo! You are very talented at this!

And yes, I have the Sinful Suzi body as well, and to my eyes it looks the same as the Kier and Gethsemoni bodies. I don't have those ones on hand, but based on comparing them from images others have shared, I am pretty sure it's the same mold as those Court of the Dead figures.

Oh WOW you made a Liv Tyler (Arwen)! Gorgeous!

I never noticed how similar the headsculpt was to her until I gave her black hair and eyebrows. I wonder if Lucifer used her as reference for that particular sculpt, or if it's just a coincidence.

So much great work on heads and hairing! I wonder how the finished figures will look like.

Decided to take some Super Duck heads and give them custom hair. I really like this head sculpt SD made, so I was excited to giver her some new hair.







Wanted to try something straighter and longer looking. I really like how it turned out, but it's a little bit "poofy," or perhaps thick and voluminous. I might have used a tad too many hair wefts on this one for the look I was going for.

This one I actually repainted to match the TBLeague suntan bodies, but you can't tell here. After taking these photos I realized there's a smudge in the paint above her eyebrow that I'll have to fix.





Still futzing with the shape of the hair, trying to get it to look right. I want to try a shorter hairstyle next time, like a bob or something. I still have my custom heads waiting for me to put hair on, just need to get more confident with different hairstyles before I attempt those.

I think that you've managed to improve the heads with your custom work. Well done.

simply fantastic!

Great work again, looks very in scale. And I know what you mean about the 'too dense' hair. But it will always look great when de puffed.

No offense to the Super Duck heads, but this looks much more real/interesting/unique with the real hair.

Nice job customising the Super Duck heads! You do have a knack for both the repainting and re-hairing. : )

Excellent re-hairing. They look awesome.

Some stuff I finished recently. Finally got done re-hairing that Polaris headsculpt. It took longer than expected because the first attempt at using Dullcote stripped off some of the paint. Dullcote is some powerful stuff.















I'm going to try creating my own silicone body molds sometime later this month, after I've ordered the supplies necessary.

Very nice work repainting and rehairing, despite the hurdles (I myself had an unpleasant experience with Dullcote or similar products and have given up on them -- but you seem to have managed in the end).

Nice work on both, and the hair work is exceptional. Might I suggest getting a gloss enamel and adding a bit to the eyes to help bring back that shine.

Finally got some more time for my 1/6 projects. I tried out casting in resin for the first time today, I made some headsculpts with some earlier test molds and also made a few neck pegs.



I used a urethane resin from Smooth On. I picked urethane instead of epoxy resin for its faster drying time, but it came with some setbacks. Because of the moisture sensitivity of urethane I got little bubbles underneath the surface of the headsculpts. Once I tried putting a layer of paint on the sculpt it wasn't a problem, but I think I'll go with epoxy resin next once I've used up all of the urethane resin I have now. A pressure pot is supposed to fix the problem but since I'm doing all my resin stuff outside (my apartment doesn't have suitable ventilation) I'm not going to be able to use one.

The resin also turned out to be much stiffer than I anticipated. For the heads this isn't a problem but the neck pegs required some carving with an x-acto on the inside to get them to fit on the metal peg. Smooth On makes an additive that makes epoxy resin more flexible, which is another reason I'm going to try epoxy resin next. Ultimately I'd like to try my hand at making a custom armature out of a strong resin, since casting/forging stainless steel is out of the question for me.

Sounds like a cool experiment. I thought about getting into casting, but a pressure pot and motor are out of my comfort zone.

I ended up getting a vacuum chamber and pump for my eventual custom silicone bodies, but urethane resin needs a compressor. In addition to the reasons mentioned above, I also don't want to spend money on one.

cool

Got around to testing out an epoxy resin. This one worked great- no bubbles at all, feels pretty strong and sturdy.

I decided to try re casting a TBLeague head I liked, except for the fact that I felt it was too small. I enlarged the size a little bit, though it might be hard to tell from the photos, and changed her ears and was pretty satisfied with the result. Looks much better when placed on a s46/47. I don't know why many of TBLeague's recent head sculpts are too small, or at least they seem that way to me.

Very impressive results.

This looks very good. I love the more subtle elf ears.