Gooboo's WIP stuff thread

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.

Good job at getting rid of those 'keebler elf' ears, I found them too distracting. The face itself is nice and looks better with the modified ears.

Nice job. Looks very promising.

That head looks beautiful! How did you increase it in size? If it was a digital 3D file I'd understand, but with a mold...
I can only think of
- creating a mold
- casting it
- adding material to the cast
- creating another mold
- casting it.

You can dunk the mold into some solvent for a time and it will absorb it and expand. It's not a perfect process as it doesn't always expand evenly across the face, but for the elf head it seemed to work perfectly this time.

gooboo wrote:You can dunk the mold into some solvent for a time and it will absorb it and expand. It's not a perfect process as it doesn't always expand evenly across the face, but for the elf head it seemed to work perfectly this time.

Ah! I thought it might be that, remembering shovelchop's Boba Fett process, but couldn't imagine it being exact enough. Thank you very much for the clarification. Very exciting!

It's been awhile since I've posted anything in here, and I just realized I never showed any of the work I was doing with my new 3d printer. I got it back in December and have been printing off custom headsculpts and other things. I started working on a series of black female headsculpts, since there's basically none available to buy from any of the major toy makers.













3d printing has been a lot of fun. Really opens up possibilities in terms of custom figure making.

Nice

She looks very good, both with normal and elf ears.

Great work on the 3D-printed heads!

Those look great!

Really good looking head sculpts.

I have these sculpts available for sale if anyone is interested in painting their own headsculpts. They're not super expensive.

https://www.ebay.com/usr/georgedwilliams?_trksid=p2047675.m3561.l2559

Trying my hand at an alien gal.







The skull is a little too small, need to make it a bit larger.

Pretty cool. I agree, a bit larger would be good.

Nice work!

Looks nice. Perhaps a smaller body might help.

NICE! I saw these on ebay already and immediately recognized the signature style.

They are all really nice! I'll have to get one one day, once I actually lift a single finger to actually repaint one of the 10 or so heads I already have lined up.

gooboo, will you have the twi'lek head for sale on ebay too? I would really like to have one of those.

Yes, it's for sale on ebay.

gooboo wrote:Yes, it's for sale on ebay.

Ah thanks!