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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Liberty Belle (DC) and Flashback (Marvel Comics)
Hi, I'm back. Or should I say... I'm Flashback??
Strange to say, but I've made my first non Marvel custom. It was only to join the contest in the new forum: Fumetti e Dintorni **Italian Job**
Of course she can't stay in my collection so that will soon leave my house to go as a gift to Andrea.
Made starting from Eaglemoss Moondragon, arms, hands and feet totally scratch built using Magic Scuplp White and the head is just coming from the last Tutorial: "how to get a head in Super ASculpey blah blah bla...." of course made using Super Sculpey Grey Firm.
In order to avoid too long exposure to this interior conflict, here is soon a new Marvel comics character:
Gardner Monrooe as Flashback.
Flashback is a mutant with the psionic ability to cause temporal counterparts of himself from alternate future timelines to appear in the present and to control them. Each duplicate appears in a reverse-color version of the original Flashback's costume. These counterparts vanish whenever Flashback is rendered unconscious; lacking any apparent skill in combat or tactics (relying solely on his advantage in numbers), this makes Flashback a comparatively easy foe to defeat, as he tends to stand back from actual combat and focus solely on the activities of his duplicates, to the exclusion of all else.
Made scratch built in Super Sculpey G.F. and finishing in Magic Sculp White.
Who's coming next?
Binary almost completed, Ironman old version ongoing, Syn ongoing, Yelena Belova ongoing and soon I'll start my scratch built Starlord...
Hope to see you soon back here! byezz!
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Tutorial: Super Sculpey, how to get a head in 32 minutes
The most boring part of this hobby is starting sculpt from scratch, the first phases of modeling are quite boring and repetitive specially when sculpting a face or other particulars.
I needed quickly a face for my next creation and didn't have time enough (while changing the child's nappy, or calming the wife because I'm always late from work ....).
Some steps for a quick easy head from scratch:
1-Turn on the Oven (130°C) time needed for the operation: 5 seconds
2-Take a old miniature, put a drop of vegetal oil (that one you use for cooking) on the face to avoid Sculpey being stuck on the miniature. Press vigorously a piece of Super Sculpey grey Firm on her face. Remove the Sculpey slowly and gently, put then the modeled Sculpey in the Oven when the temperature is 130°C and leave it for 15 minutes. Time needed: 15 minutes and 55 seconds.
3-Remove the hardened Sculpey, and look at what you get:
take another little piece of Sculpey and press it firmly into the mold just created:
remove gently the Sculpey from the mold and look what the hell is the result (left piece):
Time needed: 1 minute
4-Now you can easily adjust with few touches the face at your needs (facial expression, lips, cheekbones, eyes etc...) and remove the fins and parts not needed (borders, fins, ridges, burrs etc...)
Time needed aprx: 5 minutes
5-In the oven again, another 15 minutes at 130°C. The head is now ready, time needed: 15 minutes
Total time: 32 minutes
Ingredients: Super Sculpey few grams, 1 drop of vegetal oil or soapy water.
Have fun!