Sculpting My Childhood (Updated 12/24/22)

blackpool wrote:great to see you back around!!! Take off the shoes and make yourself at home!  

Thanks! It's good to be back.

Welcome back!

The hair may very well be the death of me.   Styling is going to be such a tedious process, but at least the hair line looks decent. lol

Looks good.

(By the way… dig the nails).

It is indeed a tedious process at times to get the hair right on these figures, but it's going to look so good when completed!

The hairline looks great, and that is one of the tricky parts. Hopefully some product will help the hair do exactly what you want it to do.

GubernatorFan wrote:

OceanGirl24 wrote:Haha yes he will have more hair. His hair was supposed to be here yesterday. USPS claims it's in transit but can't tell me where.

Thank you!

USPS works in mysterious ways, especially as we get to that time of year again. I hope it works out. I had a similar package going rogue for a couple of days situation, but it got here in the end.

Several days late, but at least it made it. lol

Randam Hajile wrote:Nice work on the sculpt. I'm looking forward to see how this head will "develop" further.

Thank you!

csyeung wrote:Welcome back!

Thank you!

Stryker2011 wrote:Looks good.

(By the way… dig the nails).

Thanks on both. I almost always have a mermaid theme going on.   

skywalkersaga wrote:It is indeed a tedious process at times to get the hair right on these figures, but it's going to look so good when completed!

For sure! I just hope I can figure how to do a curly hair mullet...

GubernatorFan wrote:The hairline looks great, and that is one of the tricky parts. Hopefully some product will help the hair do exactly what you want it to do.

Thank you! I hope so too.

Wow great work on that hairline already. Never seen a style like that with real hair before.

Wow! That hair looks fabulous!
I'm sure you'll get it to stay the way you want it.

Good work . I can't wait to see it finished. I use hairspray to fix the hair of the characters.

Ephiane wrote:Good work . I can't wait to see it finished. I use hairspray to fix the hair of the characters.

Thank you and thanks for mentioning the hairspray.

I've been researching what's best to use and have found conflicting information.

I'm not aware of the source but they look great, and the hair also looks really good.

Ovy wrote:Wow great work on that hairline already. Never seen a style like that with real hair before.

Thanks! I'm beginning to think there's a reason for that. lol

Diana wrote:Wow! That hair looks fabulous!
I'm sure you'll get it to stay the way you want it.

Thank you!  

Theboo-bomb wrote:I'm not aware of the source but they look great, and the hair also looks really good.

Thanks. I appreciate it.  

Isn't i basically just a mullet?

Regarding keeping the hair 'in place', there is a method where you can mix 50/50 liquid wax (for polishing floors) and water in a small bottle and apply it onto the hairstyle with a small painbrush (ideally the brush should be about the size of the locks/curls you want to keep in place). But like with anything, you would probably want to experiment with some extra hair first.

GubernatorFan wrote:Isn't i basically just a mullet?

It is. But a curly one and I don't have much experience with shorter curly hair. I've pretty much avoided it so far. Lol

skywalkersaga wrote:Regarding keeping the hair 'in place', there is a method where you can mix 50/50 liquid wax (for polishing floors) and water in a small bottle and apply it onto the hairstyle with a small painbrush (ideally the brush should be about the size of the locks/curls you want to keep in place). But like with anything, you would probably want to experiment with some extra hair first.

Ah. That's interesting. Thanks for info. I'll look into the wax.

OceanGirl24 wrote:

GubernatorFan wrote:Isn't i basically just a mullet?

It is. But a curly one and I don't have much experience with shorter curly hair. I've pretty much avoided it so far. Lol

I suspect Ephiane might know a thing or two (or three) about curly hair.

If you try the wax method, just make sure it's clear wax. Maybe that is obvious, but I forgot to mention it intially...

GubernatorFan wrote:

OceanGirl24 wrote:

GubernatorFan wrote:Isn't i basically just a mullet?

It is. But a curly one and I don't have much experience with shorter curly hair. I've pretty much avoided it so far. Lol

I suspect Ephiane might know a thing or two (or three) about curly hair.

Oh,  thanks!

skywalkersaga wrote:If you try the wax method, just make sure it's clear wax. Maybe that is obvious, but I forgot to mention it intially...

I'm having trouble finding clear wax. Future and Pledge are no longer sold near me and I'm not sure about the multi-purpose stuff that sounds like it's more than just the wax. I regret throwing about that bottle of Pledge I used to use on decals.

Great looking figures, the one guys tool belt looks fantastic!

OceanGirl24 wrote:
I'm having trouble finding clear wax. Future and Pledge are no longer sold near me and I'm not sure about the multi-purpose stuff that sounds like it's more than just the wax. I regret throwing about that bottle of Pledge I used to use on decals.

If you're not able to find any clear liquid wax, you could experiment with Ephiane's hairspray method. I do know some professional 1/6 hair customisers use clear hairspray as well. I just don't personally have experience with it (I tend to avoid spray-on stuff for health/respiratory reasons), but if it works for Ephiane then I'm sure it would be worth a try. : )

Really Great. the trick to get hair curly is just by comb it. I use only mohair for the figures, very fine stuff. I pull the hair by comb it with a a very fine comb, so it gets curly. After a while it looks like it was before.

https://youtu.be/BMrkV5CMf0s

Ephiane -- I also usually use tibetan lamb hair, but I think OceanGirl is using a different type of wool for this figure's hair, a more curly type of wool I don't have experience with.

BAMComix wrote:Great looking figures, the one guys tool belt looks fantastic!

Thank you! I had a lot of fun finding all the pieces for the tool belt.

Ephiane wrote:Really Great. the trick to get hair curly is just by comb it. I use only mohair for the figures, very fine stuff. I pull the hair by comb it with a a very fine comb, so it gets curly. After a while it looks like it was before.

https://youtu.be/BMrkV5CMf0s

Ooo, that's interesting. Thanks!

skywalkersaga wrote:Ephiane -- I also usually use tibetan lamb hair, but I think OceanGirl is using a different type of wool for this figure's hair, a more curly type of wool I don't have experience with.

I did end up switching over to Tibetan lamb's hair. I just didn't care for how the other stuff was looking no matter what I did to it.

OceanGirl24 wrote:

I did end up switching over to Tibetan lamb's hair. I just didn't care for how the other stuff was looking no matter what I did to it.

Ah, I see! Hope it will work out better for you. : )

Progress update. Slowly coming along. Still a lot to do. But not bad considering I have no idea what I'm doing with the hair.

Not happy with the Harley but it'll do for now.

Hmm. Can you get him to actually sit on the seat? His arms should extend about shoulder height and nearly straight if he’s sitting down properly. Then it may be better, and you could end up happy with it.

Actually, I think the resemblance is pretty good already.