Last Mods Done inc Longer Legs/ Custom Clone Wars Version Cad Bane Started WIP

Coming along very nicely. Except for those things on the boots, there is still nothing here that screams Star Wars, so this could turn out to be a fairly versatile figure, depending on how easy it will be to swap out heads and stuff.

Stryker2011 wrote:Excellent work on his duster, Alex. Love how this is looking.

Thanks Stryker!

GubernatorFan wrote:Coming along very nicely. Except for those things on the boots, there is still nothing here that screams Star Wars, so this could turn out to be a fairly versatile figure, depending on how easy it will be to swap out heads and stuff.

Cheers GTF! Um, not sure why I would need him to be versatile? I'm making a very specific character from Star Wars lore, he's a bounty hunter inspired by Lee Van Cleaf's character from "The Good, The Bad And The Ugly". First appeared in The Clone Wars, then Rebels, The Bad Batch and recently in The Book Of Boba Fett.

Congrats on that new bundle of joy Pepper! (Sorry, she totally stole the show. )

Cad Bane is coming along nicely. That last show especially is very impressive. Wires make such a big difference in the presentation!

Diana wrote:Congrats on that new bundle of joy Pepper! (Sorry, she totally stole the show. )

Cad Bane is coming along nicely. That last show especially is very impressive. Wires make such a big difference in the presentation!

LOL, yes she does and is one of the only things that can actually make me literally laugh out loud when she tries to catch multiple flying toys. She actually caught a real fly mid-air today by clapping her front paws together, bloody impressive!

Attached and wired all his hoses in different styles and sizes, reshaped his hat's brim, after sanding the head I sculpted details on his face (wrinkles, scars etc..) to make him look less comic book graphic like and more CAD (no pun) graphic like he is on the the tv screen. I used a needle sharp tip on my adjustable soldering iron set to low, then sanded it all down, I need to sculpt his sharp teeth out of Milliput and give him his trademark toothpick.



















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AFTER SANDING

Ohh, nice job on the scarring and wrinkles. Looking good. The new kitten sounds like fun.

I was wondering about the texturing, and it is! I'm sure it will look great when you're done painting it.

Stryker2011 wrote:Ohh, nice job on the scarring and wrinkles. Looking good. The new kitten sounds like fun.

Cheers! And she is when she's not misbehaving! LOL

GubernatorFan wrote:I was wondering about the texturing, and it is! I'm sure it will look great when you're done painting it.

Yeah definitely needed more detail! The hands are problematic though as they are very plain, no wrinkles or fingernails even in the CAD animations, the TV versions however have a lot of detail so I might incorporate those as a crossover for the sake of added 'realism'. The hat I have is super plain smooth plastic with no texturing at all so I decided to change that and try something new. I peeled off a load of the thin plastic film of some knackered pleather from it's fabric backing to keep it as thin as possible; then glued it in sections to the hat to create a nice leather like texture, quite a lengthy and painstaking process (like applying gold leaf or water slide transfers) and even included the use of an old electric toothbrush! I then gave it a few coats of matte clear coat for protection.
I sculpted his teeth out of Milliput leaving a gap for his toothpick and sanded the face down. I'm now painting the face, it's quite interesting how HD cameras can capture more than you notice with the naked eye, at first I found it infuriating as I kept spotting tiny bits of white paint specks showing in the images that I'd missed or more likely were revealed as the blue ink 'settled' while drying; now I think of the camera as an inspection tool as well as a device to capture processes, time etc.. see if you can spot the reveals and corrections in the application of blue ink below!

PLAIN PLASTIC HAT (ENLARGED LOUSY PIC BUT ALL I COULD FIND)



PLEATHER SURFACE GATHERING

















WET CLEAR COAT



DRY CLEAR COAT







SCULPTING TEETH









STARTED PAINT, DIDN'T USE PRIMER AS I THINK IT WOULD HAVE SACRIFICED A LOT OF DETAIL







NOW SPOT THOSE WHITE SPOTS! AND CORRECTIONS..



















STILL IRRITATING THOUGH LOL! AND I MISSED ONE TO BOOT...

I think the scarring and detailing worked out very well with the paint.

Nice work on the hat and head/face. Coming along nicely.

GubernatorFan wrote:I think the scarring and detailing worked out very well with the paint.

Cheers, still plenty of paint to do on the face as always! LOL, I love how Peter would just add the tiniest amount of paint in just the right areas and make it look excellent whilst I take more of a full FX makeup team approach!
Don't like the hat mods then? I still need to sharpen the silver edges and perhaps uses a real fabric black band too.

Stryker2011 wrote:Nice work on the hat and head/face. Coming along nicely.

Cheers Stryker! Funny how I seem to be doing a crossover of two of your favourite things, Star Wars and Westerns!

More paint done, still have to mix up a lighter blue to gently apply a light 'dusting' of it with a dry sponge, paint his hood thing properly and see how it looks then.


















Anyone know how to bring these back to life? They're practically new only used once or twice if at all with a couple, they cost £5 each and don't bloody ever seem to work for me! But they're the only ones that don't just wipe off plastic.

Interesting Beavis connection. Looks good, and I look forward to the finalized look. I can offer no advice on Gundam and hard plastic. The ones I use (real touch) would wipe off, at least largely. One of the markers in your photo is a sharpie. Somewhere I saw something about dipping a dry marker in white vinegar to "revive" it.
Here's a video with some suggestions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAkMySbsZ4k

As for the hat, sorry, I was just not all that interested in it to comment -- not your work, their design (part of the reason why I'm not all that into this character to begin with). Doesn't mean I dislike it. It looks good. Don't take it personally. Do I take offense at the dozens of my posts you don't comment on?

By the way, if you wanted an unmasked version for only $16 (which is not at all bad for a head sculpt these days), I came across this:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/385000410731?hash=item59a3d00e6b:g:FrgAAOSwgDtiy6fW

GubernatorFan wrote:Interesting Beavis connection. Looks good, and I look forward to the finalized look. I can offer no advice on Gundam and hard plastic. The ones I use (real touch) would wipe off, at least largely. One of the markers in your photo is a sharpie. Somewhere I saw something about dipping a dry marker in white vinegar to "revive" it.
Here's a video with some suggestions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAkMySbsZ4k

As for the hat, sorry, I was just not all that interested in it to comment -- not your work, their design (part of the reason why I'm not all that into this character to begin with). Doesn't mean I dislike it. It looks good. Don't take it personally. Do I take offense at the dozens of my posts you don't comment on?

GubernatorFan wrote:By the way, if you wanted an unmasked version for only $16 (which is not at all bad for a head sculpt these days), I came across this:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/385000410731?hash=item59a3d00e6b:g:FrgAAOSwgDtiy6fW

I wasn't taking it personally and I know you don't like the character or anything except the OT, I only meant the 'new?' technique I came up with to give it texture rather than something else like sand added to paint/clear etc... I couldn't take it personally if I wanted LOL, I didn't design or make the hat .
Cheers for the link to fixing markers, The sharpie in the pic was the wrong one, I meant to show the needle tip one.
The head's really good and cheap until you get to the shipping, $21 without import tax added.. they did a better job than I have done but that just challenges me! LOL.

That thin pleather recycling is a neat idea, much cheaper and probably more effective than using the real stuff. Breathes some new life into plastic pieces.

I tried to revive som kind of markers years ago with vinegar. It worked for a while before the tips turned into some green brown mould straight from an alien horror movie.

Ovy wrote:That thin pleather recycling is a neat idea, much cheaper and probably more effective than using the real stuff. Breathes some new life into plastic pieces.

I tried to revive som kind of markers years ago with vinegar. It worked for a while before the tips turned into some green brown mould straight from an alien horror movie.

Cheers Ovy! I think the pleather 'skin' being so thin is a useful trick to cover already existing items, I have loads of real leather which can work great on it's own if it is thin enough but not for covering 1/6 hats or holsters etc..
Decided to add more wrinkles to the face, resculpt the mouth and detail the hands not only after the TV live action version of Cad but also after seeing some SW Duros prop hands used in other live action shoots.

COSPLAY GLOVES FOR CAD





LIVE ACTION STILL



DUROS PROPS



THIS IS COOL, THE ACTUAL PROSTHETICS WORN BY THE ACTOR PLAYING CAD BANE



MASK FOR REFFERENCE



NOW MY MODS SO FAR, NEED SANDING AND PAINT











MODDED SOME MORE









AND MORE LOL..







FINALLY







PROBABLY MISSED SOME EVOLUTIONS OF HIS FACE BUT THERE'S MOR THAN ENOUGH PICS HERE!

Swapped his undershirt for a brown one as it's more accurate and I want the black top for trooper builds. Painted the face and fingers white after sanding then started with multiple coats of blue ink again.

Cool progress. Like the new sneer and the addition to the fingers. Nicely done.

The skin is looking better and better.

Great craftmanship and character. Love the real bad guys in the Star Wars Universe. Now he just need his hat. I like the wide brimmed hat more than the other they show in the Boba Fett movie. great Job at the Headscuplt, he looks so mean.Is he the same species like these guys ?

Stryker2011 wrote:Cool progress. Like the new sneer and the addition to the fingers. Nicely done.

Thanks Stryker!

GubernatorFan wrote:The skin is looking better and better.

Thank you GTF!

Ephiane wrote:Great craftmanship and character. Love the real bad guys in the Star Wars Universe. Now he just need his hat. I like the wide brimmed hat more than the other they show in the Boba Fett movie. great Job at the Headscuplt, he looks so mean.Is he the same species like these guys ?

Well he has his hat lol, shown in pictures above because I did a bit of work and experimenting on it.
The creatures you show are actually Neimoidians not Duros (Cad Bane's species) but they do look identical! I'd never noticed that before! I just searched wookieepedia for a reason why, they say that both species are related, the Duros discovered Neimoidia and colonised it, due to a different atmosphere and gravity, the Duros settlers over generations developed into a new species now called Neimoidians. Duros are famous for building the first hyperdrive and producing spaceships and the Neimoidians are famous for trading, calculating risks and odds so I guess they are mostly brokers?

Anyway.. finished painting the head and hands except for clear coats, done quite a bit of work on his coat and shirt too.

Finished the coat, made adaptors for his wrist pegs since he needs lanky arms, modded an old fire effect I had to use for his flamethrower. I was going to cast his complete pistol but decided there wasn't any point since he only has one shooting hand; so I decided to give him enclosed holsters like Jango Fett has hiding the missing barrel. I did some more pleather coating for the holsters since I didn't like the painted result, I also did a fair bit of silver dry brushing, gave his eyes the horizontal slits but used orange not black or whatever. Did the clear coating, still needs his toothpick, some jet effects and a securer way to mount his head, he also needs vibro-knives just because. Two teaser pics at the end.

That is looking so cool. Nice way to get around not having a full pistol it all looks so good. Those last two images are a nice tease.

Very nice to see him almost ready.

Stryker2011 wrote:That is looking so cool. Nice way to get around not having a full pistol it all looks so good. Those last two images are a nice tease.

GubernatorFan wrote:Very nice to see him almost ready.

Thanks guys!!
Just realized he needs longer lankier legs!  Ah well that's what tools and glue are for...

Wow, I realised I had hadn't checked in a little while and....he is looking awesome!!!!

skywalkersaga wrote:Wow, I realised I had hadn't checked in a little while and....he is looking awesome!!!!

Thanks SWS!!

Done the final bits, extended his legs, built a stand tall enough to have this long guy flying, added effects, toothpick and modded holsters to be more toon accurate. The pose was unintentional, I'm not trying to mimic or belittle anyone's religion, it just came out looking that way after the joints had settled and the angle I took the pics from, I didn't notice until later looking at the pics.





































I'll do a finished figure thread soon with Boba and co.

He's more machine now than man... Love the solution with the screws. Maybe even stronger now...

GubernatorFan wrote:He's more machine now than man... .

Haha! Good one.

Looks really cool, Alex. Nice job making him taller. The stand works well. The whole figure looks great.

Ah, wow, he turned out great! Good call on lengthening the legs. And I love the shots of him backlit in the air!