mvde27 wrote:I am making a guardian figure. The other one is going to be molded, armature removed, and then cast in silicone with white pigment.
I think it worked out very nicely. How did you paint the dark figure? So you are going to "flay"/strip this second, darker body for the armature? I applaud your adventurous enterprise, but hope there is something seriously wrong with it before taking such a drastic step. Anyway, it would be interesting to see how it turns out.
troycruzy wrote:This forum is a literal godsend. I want to make an attack titan and an armored titan to go along with the figma AoT figures, so that it is more in scale. Someone in a discord gave the idea of phicen bodies, and for the attack titan it seemed like throwing one of my headsculpts on an arnold body would do the trick. For the Armored titan, though, achieving the red color and detail in the musculature seemed impossible given that its on that TPE. This forum seemed to have given me a way to do it, maybe even given me a way to add more detail to the attack titan so its not so boring. I will be sure to update if anyone is interested.
For the Armored titan I think I'm going to 3D print some or most of the armored pieces and paint them then attach them that way. If you guys have any insight as to what bodies would be best, please let me know. I need to save some money to get the bodies and I am not all too familiar with 1/6 scale figures so I'm sure someone might know a more muscly body to use for either one of these guys before I start.
I don't know if the most muscular TBLeague bodies (M34 and especially M35 are the most massive) are quite colossal enough for titans (then again I don't know how large you need/want them to be), but you can check out more information on them all, with links, here:
https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t3013-tbleague-phicen-seamless-bodies-with-steel-skeleton-catalog-updated-continuallyFor coloring the bodies, check out the posts above. I can vouch for the oil pastel technique, but you have other options too.
You can certainly 3D print armor, but perhaps experiment with some easily shapeable material on the actual body before doing that. Or, just an idea, not sure how well it will work in practice, if the armor is not meant to be stiff hard material (I have no idea what is called for for these characters), with a lot of patience, you might be able to build up such an exo-muscular (?) structure out of something like silicon glue right on top of the body (it will be reasonably resilient and flexible -- and possibly detachable, in principle).