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Wow? that Salacious looked incredible. Can I ask a totally ignorant question from a beginner Customizer. ? Do you just use the epoxy, then use a carving knife to carve the mold. Then Paint it using a base color or wash? Ya, I'm new to customizing and this thread has been great. About 5 or 6 years ago I used to cut lightsabers off and glue and do repaints, but nothing like this. Great Job!
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qvos wrote:Wow? that Salacious looked incredible. Can I ask a totally ignorant question from a beginner Customizer. ? Do you just use the epoxy, then use a carving knife to carve the mold. Then Paint it using a base color or wash? Ya, I'm new to customizing and this thread has been great. About 5 or 6 years ago I used to cut lightsabers off and glue and do repaints, but nothing like this. Great Job! Nah, you just mould him one simple shape at a time, giving it a little time to dry before adding the next piece. First I sat his hunched over body on the base, then added the arms, legs, head, then tail. The fingers/toes I put on individually, and were a bit tricky because gravity pulled them together and they would get stuck if I was not vigilant. The hair I did after everything else was totally done and dried solid. I added bits of epoxy, then poked and twisted them with a small metal pick. The paint I use is doesn't like special painting techniques, and Crumb was too smooth to wash anyways, so I just painted a few coats with various shades of skin to get the right effect. It looks a little odd on the camera, but it looks great to the eye. Greenstuff epoxy is too expensive to sculpt like a stone statue, and it wouldn't look smooth anyhow. Its kind of like modeling with bubblegum, except its a little more stable.
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LeftiesWillRule wrote:qvos wrote:Wow? that Salacious looked incredible. Can I ask a totally ignorant question from a beginner Customizer. ? Do you just use the epoxy, then use a carving knife to carve the mold. Then Paint it using a base color or wash? Ya, I'm new to customizing and this thread has been great. About 5 or 6 years ago I used to cut lightsabers off and glue and do repaints, but nothing like this. Great Job! Nah, you just mould him one simple shape at a time, giving it a little time to dry before adding the next piece. First I sat his hunched over body on the base, then added the arms, legs, head, then tail. The fingers/toes I put on individually, and were a bit tricky because gravity pulled them together and they would get stuck if I was not vigilant. The hair I did after everything else was totally done and dried solid. I added bits of epoxy, then poked and twisted them with a small metal pick. The paint I use is doesn't like special painting techniques, and Crumb was too smooth to wash anyways, so I just painted a few coats with various shades of skin to get the right effect. It looks a little odd on the camera, but it looks great to the eye. Greenstuff epoxy is too expensive to sculpt like a stone statue, and it wouldn't look smooth anyhow. Its kind of like modeling with bubblegum, except its a little more stable. Hold up, when you say epoxy, you mean green stuff? So you made him entirely out of green stuff?
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LeftiesWillRule wrote:qvos wrote:Wow? that Salacious looked incredible. Can I ask a totally ignorant question from a beginner Customizer. ? Do you just use the epoxy, then use a carving knife to carve the mold. Then Paint it using a base color or wash? Ya, I'm new to customizing and this thread has been great. About 5 or 6 years ago I used to cut lightsabers off and glue and do repaints, but nothing like this. Great Job! Nah, you just mould him one simple shape at a time, giving it a little time to dry before adding the next piece. First I sat his hunched over body on the base, then added the arms, legs, head, then tail. The fingers/toes I put on individually, and were a bit tricky because gravity pulled them together and they would get stuck if I was not vigilant. The hair I did after everything else was totally done and dried solid. I added bits of epoxy, then poked and twisted them with a small metal pick. The paint I use is doesn't like special painting techniques, and Crumb was too smooth to wash anyways, so I just painted a few coats with various shades of skin to get the right effect. It looks a little odd on the camera, but it looks great to the eye. Greenstuff epoxy is too expensive to sculpt like a stone statue, and it wouldn't look smooth anyhow. Its kind of like modeling with bubblegum, except its a little more stable. I am Impressed to say the Least! If I may ask, Since you don't usegreenstuff, Is there a specific type of epoxy(molding material), and paint that you use? Thanks for the Info Lefties.
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Excellent MArkedman, they look incredible!
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Got some more done... YVH 1  Rebel Commando Munitions Expert (The arm is from a Warhammer 40000 Space Marine)  Nen Yim  Bastila Shan, Jedi Master  Imperial Knight Master 
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Darth Loch I like your Nen Yim. How did you make her/what mini is she?
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qvos wrote:LeftiesWillRule wrote:qvos wrote:Wow? that Salacious looked incredible. Can I ask a totally ignorant question from a beginner Customizer. ? Do you just use the epoxy, then use a carving knife to carve the mold. Then Paint it using a base color or wash? Ya, I'm new to customizing and this thread has been great. About 5 or 6 years ago I used to cut lightsabers off and glue and do repaints, but nothing like this. Great Job! Nah, you just mould him one simple shape at a time, giving it a little time to dry before adding the next piece. First I sat his hunched over body on the base, then added the arms, legs, head, then tail. The fingers/toes I put on individually, and were a bit tricky because gravity pulled them together and they would get stuck if I was not vigilant. The hair I did after everything else was totally done and dried solid. I added bits of epoxy, then poked and twisted them with a small metal pick. The paint I use is doesn't like special painting techniques, and Crumb was too smooth to wash anyways, so I just painted a few coats with various shades of skin to get the right effect. It looks a little odd on the camera, but it looks great to the eye. Greenstuff epoxy is too expensive to sculpt like a stone statue, and it wouldn't look smooth anyhow. Its kind of like modeling with bubblegum, except its a little more stable. I am Impressed to say the Least! If I may ask, Since you don't usegreenstuff, Is there a specific type of epoxy(molding material), and paint that you use? Thanks for the Info Lefties. I do use greenstuff. I just refer to epoxy/greenstuff the same way. @ Markedman: Those customs are great, and the CIO is brilliant. For the hood on the Jedi Seer, may I reccommend the Jedi Watchman? I've used some lightsabers from those guys, and cutting off their hoods are a great way to use the leftover parts.
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@ Lefty
Yeah, I thought about that after the second Jedi Seer. I wanted to see how it would turn out with an epoxy hood. One turned out ok (the pictured one) and the other turned out... meh. But, I do have a few watchmen and I want to use them for other things. Working on turning the EJA (Surprise!) into a Jedi Demolitionist. Something about his position and his 2 for 1 lightsaber screams making him into another piece.
Working on a double mini if I can find enough pieces. One is the inspiration for the other. I want to do a Master Treis Sinde but also make him distinct from him being the Imperial Knight Master, which would be the non-Unique form. Much like Atris, now, versus what she was before.
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wannabe mexican wrote:Darth Loch I like your Nen Yim. How did you make her/what mini is she? It's a repaint of Mage Knight - Mending Priestess
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LeftiesWillRule wrote:qvos wrote:LeftiesWillRule wrote:qvos wrote:Wow? that Salacious looked incredible. Can I ask a totally ignorant question from a beginner Customizer. ? Do you just use the epoxy, then use a carving knife to carve the mold. Then Paint it using a base color or wash? Ya, I'm new to customizing and this thread has been great. About 5 or 6 years ago I used to cut lightsabers off and glue and do repaints, but nothing like this. Great Job! Nah, you just mould him one simple shape at a time, giving it a little time to dry before adding the next piece. First I sat his hunched over body on the base, then added the arms, legs, head, then tail. The fingers/toes I put on individually, and were a bit tricky because gravity pulled them together and they would get stuck if I was not vigilant. The hair I did after everything else was totally done and dried solid. I added bits of epoxy, then poked and twisted them with a small metal pick. The paint I use is doesn't like special painting techniques, and Crumb was too smooth to wash anyways, so I just painted a few coats with various shades of skin to get the right effect. It looks a little odd on the camera, but it looks great to the eye. Greenstuff epoxy is too expensive to sculpt like a stone statue, and it wouldn't look smooth anyhow. Its kind of like modeling with bubblegum, except its a little more stable. I am Impressed to say the Least! If I may ask, Since you don't usegreenstuff, Is there a specific type of epoxy(molding material), and paint that you use? Thanks for the Info Lefties. I do use greenstuff. I just refer to epoxy/greenstuff the same way. @ Markedman: Those customs are great, and the CIO is brilliant. For the hood on the Jedi Seer, may I reccommend the Jedi Watchman? I've used some lightsabers from those guys, and cutting off their hoods are a great way to use the leftover parts. Gotcha, Thanks
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Darth Loch wrote:wannabe mexican wrote:Darth Loch I like your Nen Yim. How did you make her/what mini is she? It's a repaint of Mage Knight - Mending Priestess Excellent Job on Nen Yim. Most Impressive!!!!!
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qvos wrote:Darth Loch wrote:wannabe mexican wrote:Darth Loch I like your Nen Yim. How did you make her/what mini is she? It's a repaint of Mage Knight - Mending Priestess Excellent Job on Nen Yim. Most Impressive!!!!! Thanks.
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I just attached Jaina's Light (Dunder Mifflin is a part of) Sabre. Going out tomorrow to try and get my hands on some paints. Green stuff and some Weequays are in the mail on there way to me. So I should have some of my DOTF custom photos up soon. Sora Bulq and my Tusken Chieften at least. My Jaina is just a copy of the one already here so I won't waste time putting her here.
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wannabe mexican wrote:My Jaina is just a copy of the one already here so I won't waste time putting her here. You're welcome to post it if you change your mind. :)
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Right, here are my first three ever customs. Congratulations DOTF. Jaina Sword of the Jedi, heavily inspired from one I saw here, just perhaps slightly different colours. I like brown boots...  Tusken Chieften, inspired by billiv15's creation. I just didn't want to risk moving his arm, so threw the shield behind him and repainted it.  Jedi Seer. I had been meaning to do this to an Aqualish Warrior, and means they might make it out of my box once in a while. You can still see where I cut away the bottom part of his original weapon. I couldn't be bothered to paint it because you can't really see it anyways. 
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wannabe mexican wrote:Right, here are my first three ever customs. Congratulations DOTF.
Those look really good WM. I like the Jaina Solo Especially.. Nice work!
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