shovelchop81 wrote:Not sure about colour matching to be honest, panel liners tend to only come in four colours usually: Black, Brown, Red, Grey. You can buy lots of others but those are the essential ones for building Gundams as a rule. They're only used for colouring very small areas (hence the stupid prices!) so a colour comparison isn't something I've personally ever seen, YT videos on it probably exist. Personally I'd just use acrylics and avoid the whole marker hassle lol, sometimes they are quick and convenient (almost like cheating) but often they are just a pain in the neck with subpar results unless they are the only thing that can actually work on a certain material I try to avoid using them.
Thanks for explaining. I was looking for a shortcut on color matching between the real paint markers for the rubbery TPE and whatever one can use on the harder plastic hands and feet -- acrylics take a while to mix to the correct color and can chip off. But it sounds like they might still be the preferable option.
Valiarde wrote:Finally a bit more time to read into this thread. Man, I love customzations in this hobby. And the more you make on your own the more you can really see the work that went into different things.
I don't know how long you worked on that but it turned out pretty great! I haven't seen the Clone Wars so far, except for first episode. So I don't have a pic in my head of the source material Anakin with the blue lines.
Anyway, the M33 is just a very versatile body, also my favourite for many kitbashes. And the rooting is top notch! Also good job with the artificial hand...sorry if I've read over it, did you had to adjust it or can you plug that hand onto any figure?
Also like the Padme head - every time I see it I think about getting it, but I have to spend my money on other projects right now.
I have no real preferences for the backdrop pics, maybe B, because with the deep purple shades the light on anakin should be a bit different to go with that? I'm not sure though.
Thank you very much for the kind words, Simon! I'm delighted you liked it.
Here is the only version of the episode I found online, if you want to check it out. The native language is actually Hungarian!
It didn't take a ton of time, or at least it shouldn't have. I ought to have looked harder for the episode to get the pattern just right (insofar as there was a right look, because I can swear the lines changed a little bit between views), but I worked off of a collage of stills I found somewhere that supposedly covered all the angles.
Yes, M33 is a great body, my favorite male one by TBLeague so far (I do like M34 and M35 but they are for very specific types), just wish it was slightly better proportioned (maybe slightly shorter arms and slightly longer legs). This is the only instance I have used the ankle extenders (and not the TBLeague ones that it comes with, which are positively evil), and I think this helped get closer to the right look for Anakin. My rooting is not top notch at all, especially in this case (I should have started lower and had more layers, though I did add some extra after the initial application), but I'm glad that is not obvious.
The artificial hand I ended up using is not one of the ones for Anakin from the Sideshow or Hot Toys sets -- the HT I didn't figure out a way to separate from the accompanying lower arm and elbow without damaging it, while the Sideshow one has a peg where it should have a hole for a peg. So I ended up using an unrelated HT droid hand from the Bad Batch Echo set, repainting it brass (like the improvised vambrace I placed over the lower arm). There was no problem attaching this hand to the TBLeague wrist peg.
There are two different Natalie Portman heads here, one from the SuperDuck set, one from KT. The SD version is nicer, but a bit bigger, which is a potential problem if you compare the size of her face with the somewhat smallish Hayden Christensen face (originating, presumably, as a recast).
It's all good, I liked these backgrounds, and I'm happy to see folks liking different options. This sort of experiment is partly rooted in the painting seamless bodies trials, but also in the using computer screen backgrounds as backdrops attempts.