Female head with TBL body catalogue

craftsrmyluvlanguage wrote:

GubernatorFan wrote:So I painted some blank head sculpts I had collected to match.

I hope this is helpful.

The skintone for the custom paints are such a great match. Would you be willing to share the name and shades of the paint you used? I may be attempting a repaint myself.

Thank you very much! Insofar as I remember it correctly, I'm happy to share.
I used Vallejo acrylic paints and media, except for the Liquitex Ultra Matte Medium.

• First, I primed the blank headsculpts (which were bluish grey and in the case of Gamora light beige) with Vallejo black acrylic surface primer. 
  
• Then I applied a couple of thin layers of a mixture of primarily Vallejo's German C(amo) Black Brown with small amounts of their London Grey and Burnt Umber mixed in with an almost equal amount of Liquitex Ultra Matte Medium.
  
• Finally, I gave it a layer of Vallejo's Matt Varnish.
  

Naturally, the eyes were done differently: off-white with a bit of ivory for the base color, some reddish pink mix (made with ivory, leather red, and vermillion) for their inside corners, a near black line at the top, and a dark red/brown one at the bottom, black for the pupil and iris, and for some eyelashes; the eye surface was given a layer of gloss varnish, with a couple more layers of it building up just over the pupil and iris.

davidd wrote:  I am amused by the image of the heads lined up on the sofa. Someone has little tolerance for those who displease her!

Reminds me of that career-killing movie “8 Heads In A Dufflebag”.

Stryker2012 wrote:

davidd wrote:  I am amused by the image of the heads lined up on the sofa. Someone has little tolerance for those who displease her!

Reminds me of that career-killing movie “8 Heads In A Dufflebag”.

I vaguely remember that film. It was not absolutely God-awful for a comedy. By the way, thanks again for the head sculpt. Yes, it is work in progress and I realize the actual subject was much lighter-skinned.

I found the remaining heads I was looking for. The one of Halle Berry is far too pale to even try, but Hot Toys' Shuri is a close enough match for the "dark brown" skin tone of S24B. Admittedly, this Shuri is slightly repainted -- due to my modification to obscure her warpaint and the traces left by her removed chin accessory -- but I think it is still basically the original color.

That looks about perfect. Nice repaint and thanks for showing.

Valiarde wrote:That looks about perfect. Nice repaint and thanks for showing.

Thank you very much, Simon, I'm glad you liked it.

Nice Ian! I really wish I'd picked up the Halle berry sculpt back then. Funny the things we regret buying?

Wow !
another post that I lost sight of. Just fantastic. My favorite is the valkyrie, you made exactly the right choice not only in terms of color but also in terms of the dimensions of the bodies. The last lady fits the petite body perfectly. Thank you for showing.

Oh yes, there was still a lot to do on the skinny lady's head. Very well modeled and color enhanced

BAMComix wrote:Nice Ian! I really wish I'd picked up the Halle berry sculpt back then. Funny the things we regret buying?

Thank you, Dal, glad you liked it. I forget which version of the Halle Berry sculpt I picked up, there may have been several. It is nice enough (I think I have it pictured in the painting seamless bodies thread somewhere), but quite pale.

Ephiane wrote:Wow !
another post that I lost sight of. Just fantastic. My favorite is the valkyrie, you made exactly the right choice not only in terms of color but also in terms of the dimensions of the bodies. The last lady fits the petite body perfectly. Thank you for showing.

Oh yes, there was still a lot to do on the skinny lady's head. Very well modeled and color enhanced

Thank you, Ephiane, I'm very glad you liked them. Valkyrie is a tricky one -- it barely matches, but I guess I got lucky with the light. The darkest heads are custom painted, everything else is as is, or just slightly modified (for Shuri, to remove warpaint and neck guard).

GubernatorFan wrote:Hot Toys' Shuri is a close enough match for the "dark brown" skin tone of S24B.

Yeah, it looks like a perfect match.
I like her expression, though: "Hey! A little privacy, please!"

Visisonor wrote:

GubernatorFan wrote:Hot Toys' Shuri is a close enough match for the "dark brown" skin tone of S24B.

Yeah, it looks like a perfect match.
I like her expression, though: "Hey! A little privacy, please!"

Thank you very much. I think that is a very good reading of her expression.

Sorry for my complaining in advance, but the light brown-skinned ones are too light for me and the dark ones are too dark. I know it was me who had to start coloring bodies and should be happy with the new color variants. Why don't they have a female Afro American with the same skin color as the male bodies already available? TBL must have already had the color for the silicone.

I hope it is allowed to show your picture Gube. And Yes, sure. The Skin tone of the new light browns is a 100 % match to the Heads You show.

Ephiane wrote:Sorry for my complaining in advance, but the light brown-skinned ones are too light for me and the dark ones are too dark. I know it was me who had to start coloring bodies and should be happy with the new color variants. Why don't they have a female Afro American with the same skin color as the male bodies already available? TBL must have already had the color for the silicone.

I hope it is allowed to show your picture Gube. And Yes, sure. The Skin tone of the new light browns is a 100 % match to the Heads You show.

That's fine, of course (to use photo). That's a good body for that sort of thing, remember my custom Michael Jordan? Worked perfectly -- in terms of height too. Actually, if I can ever finish it, I'm working on another post with a basketball body. 

The lighter "dark brown" bodies (coded B in the instances I showcased above, but varying in lettering depending no the body model) are indeed lighter than the "dark-skinned" bodies (coded C above), and a good match for several heads. All the heads I know are too light for the "dark-skinned" bodies, unless we custom paint them. It's odd they chose that color, especially as I think (but I'm not the best at telling color) they are not 100% identical to the their previous "black" bodies (used for their pseudo-Egyptian god sets) -- but maybe they are meant to be.

Do you (or anyone) have a simple solution for painting actual silicone bodies (TBLeague and Jiaou are TPE, which has pores that trap the oil pastel particles, allowing the successful coloring method you discovered). I just had a time consuming and completely failed attempt to recolor a new LDDoll body that way. It is an idiotically pale color that works for no head, even my one anime head is too warm colored for it.

Ephiane, you make a good point. I had expected at least one of the colours to match their existing male body.

Tbleague makes strange choices sometimes....

That being said, I will definitely purchase several of these new bodies once I can afford it. Just hope nothing too crazy happens between now and whenever that might be... O.o

The Staedler oil pastel Brown looks really good to me on a TBL Skin. I hoped they will do a brown female Body in a Skin tone like this.
The oil pastel painting sometimes wears off if you have to touch the surface often to pose the figures. I was hoping I could use the new Afro American skin tones. Somehow both of them don't seem necessarily authentic to me. 80% of the Afro-American people I've seen are somewhere between the two new ones that TBL uses for the characters in terms of skin color.

Brilliant shot! I love the different height sizes!

Great shot!
The shortest character looks very realistic.

Ephiane wrote:Somehow both of them don't seem necessarily authentic to me. 80% of the Afro-American people I've seen are somewhere between the two new ones that TBL uses for the characters in terms of skin color.

I agree. Those tones could have been better chosen. I wonder what was their train of tought.
What's the body on your shortest girl? I'd like to, someday, make a teenager and she looks great!

Integrity toys head sculpt in the Nubian skin tones

Very nice, Grover. And welcome!

Pretty nice kitbashes!

Grover wrote:
Integrity toys head sculpt in the Nubian skin tones

Thanks for this. I was debating about buying the head on the left for my new dark skinned body but wasn’t sure if it would match.

The body in the blue dress is the Bastet body and the one in the red is the Month body.
If you use the integrity toys head you'll need to modify it.

Esganado wrote:

Ephiane wrote:Somehow both of them don't seem necessarily authentic to me. 80% of the Afro-American people I've seen are somewhere between the two new ones that TBL uses for the characters in terms of skin color.

I agree. Those tones could have been better chosen. I wonder what was their train of tought.
What's the body on your shortest girl? I'd like to, someday, make a teenager and she looks great!

Sorry for the late answer. This is one of the first Pichen figures. Unfortunately it has not been available for a long time. At that time there were no different heights in the TBL. This body itself is modified to represent a slightly smaller Asian woman. The lower metal leg sections can be removed from the ball socket and shortened.

Grover wrote:
Integrity toys head sculpt in the Nubian skin tones

Those look amazing! Fit perfectly in color. What was the change that had to be done to the head to fit in place?

Esganado wrote:

Grover wrote:
Integrity toys head sculpt in the Nubian skin tones

Those look amazing! Fit perfectly in color. What was the change that had to be done to the head to fit in place?

I would guess primarily (or at least) the neck opening. It is likely that it would have needed to be drilled open wider, judging by other doll lines and their heads.

I put the neck connector in the clear tube. Widen out the neck of the head sculpt and trim the tube to the height I want the head.

That's a neat way to do it. I would have just used rolled-up foamies, but this is more professional.

Grover wrote:
I put the neck connector in the clear tube. Widen out the neck of the head sculpt and trim the tube to the height I want the head.

Very neat!