Rocket Raccoon completed

Here is the Raccoon!!

Rocket Raccoon (dedicated to Gabriel)

Very slowly I'm working on this Rocket Raccoon just dedicated to Gabriel! Cannot wait until tomorrow to have them finally at home (hey?! I'm not talking about the Raccoon!!!!... ghghghghgh!!)

Making superhero figure tutorial 7: end. Mr. Immortal

Finally had time to complete this new figure.

The character is Mr. Immortal, thanks to a suggestion from John!

Who is Mr. Immortal in brief:

Mr. Immortal possesses the superhuman ability of immortality. Before her untimely death, his teammate and sometimes lover Dinah Soar was the only one able to calm him down when he was revived, as he was prone to fits of rage upon returning to life. This unique ability has always given him the courage to try daring, reckless life-endangering stunts and he is quite ready to sacrifice himself for the rest of the team. It has also left him in frequent states of depression by having to watch his loved ones die around him. He discovered his ability after attempting suicide several times. He is quoted as saying, "All you're threatening me with is death. And dying's what I do best!" (Courtesy of Wikipedia).

The final painting:

1-Drakenhof Nightshade blue wash shade (Citadel)

 2-Alaitoc Blue (Citadel)

 3-Guilliman Blue wash glaze (Citadel)

 4-Again Alatoic Blue Layer (Citadel), the visible the masks for painting the black (Matt Black Life Color opaque) and white (Matt White Life Coloro opaque) parts. Then painted.

 5-Bloodletter Red Wash glaze on red parts again (Citadel).
6-Desert Sand 49 (Life Color) on face plus Flashtone shade wash (Vallejo).
7-Hair: Chrome Yellow (Life Color) plus Flash Gitz Yellow Layer (Citadel) plus a wash with Sepia shade  (Vallejo) and finally again Flash Gitz Yellow spotting.

 8-Again Alatoic Blue (Citadel) on blue spots, second smoother wash with Flashtone Shade (Vallejo). At the end, not visible here, the final paint on the base: two hands of Matt Black opaque (Lifecolor).

The final result is shown at the beginning.

Well, I have to say I really enjoyed making this Mr. Immortal figure, a scratch built figure mainly produced with Super Sculpey. But above all I hope you anjoyed the tutorial and I hope that the many of you that are not yet involved in this nice hobby to create Superheroes for their own collection will be motivated to try.

Hope to get your comments.

And now...? What's the next?

I think soon I'll start on Rocket Raccon, and probably a couple of pure custom works just in order to not loose practice in customizing Eaglemoss wonderful miniatures!

Icon version of Mr. Immortal

byezz!

Making superhero figure tutorial 6

Ok, time to spend some brush on the other figure. We left with the body and head sculpted but with some little modification to be done. As shown in the next photos, I made these corrections and started painting.
Just to resume:
Almost all figure has been scratch build with Super Sculpey grey firm: body and face. Hands, hair, feet and neck are made scratch built using white Magic Sculpt.
Let's see:

Pic 1: just a grey primer Tamiya
Pics 2 and 3: Mephiston Red base from Citadel

Pic 4: a Vallejo wash Red Shade on the Mephiston Red and later on a layer of Evil Sunz Scarlet from Citadel (just a little brighter than the Mephiston Red). Some line already traced with Matt Black (satin) from Lifecolor
Pic 5:  Black lines almost completed and a first blue layer (Alaitoc Blue from Citadel)

Hope tomorrow I'll have time to finish with the blue parts and go ahead with the rest.

Probably the most addicted to Marvel Comics could start to recognize who is the charatcter...

byezz

Making superhero figure tutorial 5

So finally the troll was painted. yet to be finished with a couple of wash layers to light some areas and add dark to others, plus still a final satin tranpasrent layer, but pratically finished.

It seems to be Ulik.
Ulik belongs to a race of Rock Trolls who live in the dimension of Asgard in the "Domain of Trolls" in Nornheim. Like all trolls, Ulik has an innate hatred of the Asgardians as they were driven underground by the King of the Norse gods, Odin, and forbidden to live on the surface. Ulik is commanded by the Rock Troll King, Geirrodur, to steal Thor's enchanted hammer, Mjolnir, before an attempt to invade Asgard, leading to an extended series of battles with the Thunder God. Ulik proves to be a match for Thor, as the character possessing increasing strength and is equipped with knuckle dusters made of the metal uru (the same metal Mjolnir is composed of). He nearly defeats Thor after going into the berserker state of mind, but is transported away by Geirrodur. Later on Earth he traps Thor in his guise as Don Blake, and tries to gain the power of Thor with his cane. Don tells him to strike it again, although Ulik says if this fails he will kill Blake, but when Ulik brings the cane down Don suddenly holds it, meaning he transforms into Thor.

I don't reveal yet who is the other character in progress, but John would be glad to see him soon...

Making superhero figure tutorial 4

Added hair to the human figure and started sculpt of his hands and completed feet.
I gave also a primer grey layer to the troll figure.

With the grey primer it's easier to check for errors and parts to be adjusted.

Mainly I think still have to correct something on the right hand of the human figure, his hair are too long also and a little cut of hair is needed on the troll also... tomorrow when the Magic Sculpt is dry I'll manage these changes.

I'm enough satisfied till now. My complain goes to the fact I couldn't finish everything in Super Sculpey. I still need some base to support the figure when sculpting. I ordered at the shop, hope will be ready for the next figures. By the way I loved this first experience in Super sculpey!

Making superhero figure tutorial 3

After assembled the head to his body and placed the feet bases to the figure, had some time to start sculpting the other one. On the main body made in Super Sculpey Firm I just modeled some accessories, the face and the hands with White Magic Sculpt

Making superhero figure tutorial 2

Giving him a head...

 and starting a company. Bad company...

Making superhero figure tutorial 1

This time I started with a new material to me: Super Sculpey.

Just modeled the iron wire on the right proportions, then started sculpting:

 Some fining:

 Couldn't find any tubolar junctions on e-bay for less than 29€, so deceided to model it all in Super Sculpey except for arms, feet and head that I think I'll do with white Magic Sculp or green Milliput.

Here after baked 15 minutes at 130°C:

I was really worried about baking as a previous old experience with Fimo was a total disaster. I have to admit Super Sculpey is much more easy to bake and is really easy to model, same of Magic Sculp, with the advantage that you don't need to rush.

Penance completed

Penance is now completed and ready to be shipped. But... how to ship this delicate figure without the certaintythat will be destroyed during transportation????

Made starting from a official Eaglemoss Captain Britain resin copy, with changes in whitw Magic Sculp:

A 360 degrees view

4 shots during painting, from the left:
red base and glaze color given
black and titanium given
black finishing (belts)
baseplate painted and two red washes given.

Hope you like it!
byezz

The many faces of Jennifer Susan Walters

While waiting the weekend to paint Penance I took a picture of any of the customs I produced on She Hulk figure. The character is considered by the most only for the Red She Hulk variant (that I made instead from Rogue figure, cfr. my custom number 49 at http://ffz.leonardo.it/discussione.aspx?idd=9516246 ).

Here it follows six characters I liked to obtain from She Hulk figure:

In the picture still missing other two: Xenith the Shi'ar and Hela, in the next snapshots:

I think She Hulk official Eaglemoss is really one of the best figure in the collection. Also for customs.
See you soon this weekend, byezz!

Ashema completed

Finally a made from scratch one!
I'm pretty satisfied with the body in general and the dress. Painting also.

Still a long way to walk if I want to have a satisfactory female face sculpt and even the hair, that I dunno consider a difficulty, do not satisfy me 100% in this case.

On the next made from scratch custom I shall give longer time for sculpting the face. I think passing from Magic sculp to Super Sculpey could help in this respect, because Magic Sculp remains shapeable and can be modeled for one hour, while Super Sculpey stays forever until baked at 130°C for 30 mins.

After ending Penance (and the custom that I'm making for the 8th contest that cannot be shown yet) I want to post here a tutorial on different kind of resin and compound for sculpting I used until now.

With Penance my intention is to make a tutorial about painting a custom.

Some detail about this custom of Ashema from Marvel Comics:
the baseplate is a resin copy of the standard eaglemoss one, the character finishing is entirely modeled from scratch with Magic Sculp white type. The core was instead made with Green Milliput just to give a start form. In the previous posts you can find the tutorial step by step from the beginning.

The character was requested by my friend Ash, aka Ashema. Now she can come here to collect. :)

Be back soon! Stay Tuned! byezz!

(Just Added ico version)