Mini-Mes (Myself & Wife) (30 years ago!!!! Not so much now... )

Added the invisibility cloak (it only works once she pulls it up over her head) -- that's how it worked in the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon for the Thief character. I still need to make a belt and scabbards for her long knives and she'll be complete. Thought I'd take a couple quick pics with the Legolas Helm's Deep diorama for $&!t$ & giggles.

Nicely put together. And the Helm's Deep diorama seems to work very appropriately. I appreciate you keeping the hood off, lest she go invisible.

She looks great! Even moreso with that beautiful diorama! I'm sure there is a trap or secret door for her to find somewhere.

GubernatorFan wrote:Nicely put together. And the Helm's Deep diorama seems to work very appropriately. I appreciate you keeping the hood off, lest she go invisible.

Thanks. If I had any Photoshop skill, I’d make a pic of her starting to pull up the hood and she starts to disappear, but alas…

Diana wrote:She looks great! Even moreso with that beautiful diorama! I'm sure there is a trap or secret door for her to find somewhere.

Thank you. I’m sure there’s something around for her to steal, as well.

She turned out gorgeous! The outfit looks excellent as well. And great idea to pose her on that mini diorama. Now we need to see both of you together! ;D

Thanks, S. I need a bigger diorama for the two of “us” to fit. Plus, I pulled off most of the hair on my head sculpt to redo it as I wasn’t happy with the initial outcome.

Ah, gotcha -- good luck with the re-hairing!

Wow, these are great. What a wonderful gift.

skywalkersaga wrote:Ah, gotcha -- good luck with the re-hairing!

Thanks.

ZombieKev wrote:Wow, these are great.  What a wonderful gift.

Thank you very much.

I take it you are rehairing the Fabio version, not the one shown recently, with the molded hair.

GubernatorFan wrote:I take it you are rehairing the Fabio version, not the one shown recently, with the molded hair.

Haha. Correct. It may still end up looking a bit "Fabio-ish", as before my military service, I actually did have long hair -- halfway down my back when I was a wannabe "rock star" (drummer) in a "Hair Metal" band in Junior/Senior High School, so I thought it appropriate to relive those long-gone moments.

Well, it was looking pretty good, so I hope you redo it and don't give up. Hmmm, maybe they should have made a Fabio figure by now. LOL

GubernatorFan wrote:Well, it was looking pretty good, so I hope you redo it and don't give up. Hmmm, maybe they should have made a Fabio figure by now. LOL

I’m pretty sure Mattel made one in their Barbie line-up ages ago.

I'm sure your version was far more realistic, even if it was not meant to be him.

Nice, finally! I guess something personal like this is worth all the money.

And you could photograph the dio with and without her from the exact same position, post them here and let the community make invibility effects

Ovy wrote:Nice, finally! I guess something personal like this is worth all the money.

And you could photograph the dio with and without her from the exact same position, post them here and let the community make invibility effects

That’s probably the only way I could do it (there photo, not there photo), but I wouldn’t honestly expect anyone to take on that task, and I wouldn’t feel comfortable asking since it would probably be a lot of work.

That´s a beautyfull sculpt. Thanks for sharing. Green eyes are very rarely and the facial expression is so lovely .  I really love the reflection of light in the figures eyes, it´s a really good paint job.

Ephiane wrote:That´s a beautyfull sculpt. Thanks for sharing. Green eyes are very rarely and the facial expression is so lovely .  I really love the reflection of light in the figures eyes, it´s a really good paint job.

Thanks, Ephi. Yeah, the eye color turned out really nice -- hazel is such a unique color (sometimes they look green, sometimes they look brown -- I guess it just depends on whether she wants to kill me or kiss me ).

Stryker2011 wrote:Thanks, Ephi. Yeah, the eye color turned out really nice -- hazel is such a unique color (sometimes they look green, sometimes they look brown -- I guess it just depends on whether she wants to kill me or kiss me ).

Nicely put, Mark. Funny, I just had to tackle doing hazel eyes. Even looked up the recommended approximate color make up. Of course, by the time I was done, such a small sliver was left between the outside black contour and the black pupil that it was almost not worth bothering. I should really learn how to use those eye decals, although I'm not sure they come in that particular color anyway.

You know, I don’t know if I’ve ever seen hazel eye decals — you’d think they’d exist, since it’s not exactly an uncommon eye color.

I know I should probably hold off on showing the other characters from my wife's book, but I just can't help myself. I managed to complete one of the other characters to my satisfaction, and here he is: Alex, the Magician.

Excellent custom figure, Mark. Just perfect! Or so I imagine. Funny that some of our own magicians here are named Alex.

I love that custom! Really great for a young mage  

Is that a Harry Redmayne head and King Joffrey coat? Always liked the outfit from Joffrey...you probably had to use the original body, as it is a bit smaller than normal ones? Or could you dress the joffrey coat onto another body?


Edit: I don't know why i think of that now, but with a but more reddish hair, this could be a good Kvothe character (from name of the wind)

Valiarde wrote:Is that a Harry Redmayne head and King Joffrey coat? Always liked the outfit from Joffrey...you probably had to use the original body, as it is a bit smaller than normal ones? Or could you dress the joffrey coat onto another body?

I will let Mark confirm it, but I think you're right. That is an Eddie Redmayne head, and I thought the same thing about the tunic.

Yeah Eddie of course, not Harry

I like him as an actor and he has a handsome face. (Have we se in hand pics of that Asmus Elvish Soldier with Redmaynes likeliness yet?)

You are correct on all counts. Eddie Hot Toys head (and yes, he is supposed to have bit more reddish hair — auburn, I guess), and that is a Joffrey body — complete figure, aside from the added cloak and the satchel, which holds his book of magic. The body is super skinny, with a very, very narrow and short neck. I judged the Joffrey head against the HT head, and oddly they are about the same size. There was no way to put the Joffrey clothes on a bigger body. I had to cut off the lower connector of the HT neck, leaving it hollow, and still shave some of the inside down, and voila — the attached neck head sculpt was able to be pushed down over the existing narrow AF neck of the Joffrey body. I wanted this character to be skinny, and nerdy, so he sort of corresponded with the character he was loosely based on from the animated Dungeons and Dragons series.

Wow ! What a fantastic Idea. So many good storys start with a young magican, like Yours. He looks like from a Fantasy art made by the great artists like Elmore, Caldwell, Jeff Easlay. I love that style. It´s not to much and not to less. Not easy to made a believable fantasy character, but he is one.

Thanks for the explanation - I'm still a fan how that simple cape (and belt), turns him optically into an DnD mage, well done!

Ephiane wrote:Wow ! What a fantastic Idea. So many good storys start with a young magican, like Yours. He looks like from a Fantasy art made by the great artists like Elmore, Caldwell, Jeff Easlay. I love that style. It´s not to much and not to less. Not easy to made a believable fantasy character, but he is one.

Thanks, Ephi. That’s high praise coming from you and all your wonderful fantasy creations. I am a big fan of all of those artists that you mentioned, and bought all the D&D books I could get my hands on (mainly for all the art and the character & creature ideas).

Valiarde wrote:Thanks for the explanation - I'm still a fan how that simple cape (and belt), turns him optically into an DnD mage, well done!

Thanks. I wanted something different for my magic user since most of the time they are all portrayed looking like Gandalf — that’s why I was really impressed with the “fancy” clothing of Joffrey. The cloak was actually a happy accident, as I had originally bought it for a completely different character.