Thread 11497454

What’s on the workbench, /toy/?

Sculpts, castings, original plushies, 3D prints, dioramas, mods, kitbashes, and repaints are all welcome!

Post WIPs, finished projects, ideas, techniques, ask for advice, and most of all, have fun!

HELPFUL TIPS:
-Invest in a rotary tool such as a dremel for sanding/sculpting, especially a flexible extension tip.
-Pin vises for drilling holes can be found at hobby stores like Hobby Lobby and are great for making peg holes.
-For soft, flexible parts get Sugru silicone putty and Oyumaru
-Hardware epoxy putties such as Waterweld, KwikWood, and PlasticWeld are similar to milliput, greenstuff, and apoxie, can be cheaper some times, and can be found at local hardware stores such as Lowes, Ace, and Home Depot.
-Bootleg figures make great custom-fodder, especially if the legit figures are pricey.
-Body-chan/kun, Figma Archetype He/She, and Sozai-chan/kun are great base bodies for import-style human characters.

-For 3D models to use for editing, the following sites are good to bookmark:

>cgtrader.com (free and purchasable models)
>cults3d.com (free and purchasable models)
>models-resource.com (FREE 3D game models)
>turbosquid.com (free and purchasable models)
>grabcad.com (free and purchasable models)
>renderhub.com (free and purchasable models)

I hope you're liking this new style of OP Banner, i'll upload a base so you can make your own version if i'm not available

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::3D Printable Sexy Petite Ninja::

https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/pm-afg-clothing-set-sexy-ninja

(download includes)

-complete figure
-four heads (masked blank, masked sculpted eyes, unmasked blank, unmasked sculpted eyes)
-four sets of hands (gripping, open, peace, and ninjutsu hand pose)
-articulated fabric flaps (ball-hinge)
-updated articulation and layouts of the legs and arms (blank petite figure has this new layout too, just without sculpted clothing)
-fully assembled STL file of the figure for users to customize themselves if they want.

The figure has not been printed yet but test-prints of the new limb joints in SLS PA11 foodsafe nylon were successful. I do plan to do a test-print of the full ninja figure in the near future.

Next clothed-figure I work on might be a ninja version of my BBW figure, based on a certain chubby-ninja hentai manga by Kojima Video.

Also a pic of Lycaenops from the OP pic that was printed recently, shown next to the Cyberzoic Smilidon for scale.

i printed a bar out of resin

>>11497630
>>11497631
>>11497635
very impressive

>>11497630
I feel like you could be making a living selling these

I made a karaoke for my figures
Link for the walls: https://mypapercraft.net/karaoke-room-paper-craft/
It's an old Japanese papercraft, I just took the walls

>>11498734
>>11497630
Very comfy, did you make the model yourself or found it online?

>>11498737
Found them online, the bar is here
https://makerworld.com/en/models/1593088-dollhouse-bar-pub-drinks-display-1-18-1-12#profileId-1677974
check out the profile for the other bits!

How would you do something like those sewage pipes I think glueing wouldn't work on something so thin. My best guess would be to just push it into xps foam. So basicly finish the wall, paint the pipe, let everything dry and then push the pipe into the wall?

>>11502748
I would get 2cm thick XPS. During scultping would press the pipes to make marks, then cut them out, place the pipes and fill the gaps with modpodge mixed with filler.

>>11498741
kek, very nice anon

I got this!

>>11504590
Holy shit! Recipe?

>>11502748
This kind of makes me wonder, is the Ramen Toy diorama a waste of money? I was really excited about it but part of me is starting to wonder if I'd be better off scratch building my display environments. Ramen's looks good enough and has a lot of versatility but the one you posted has tons of personality and is very clearly a TMNT inspired sewer with the green sludge. I feel torn.

>>11504611
NTA but it seems like Jin used the mcfarlane thrasher armor batman

so glad i took the time to redo these eyes. the ones on the top looked soulless . the new ones look way better

>>11505988
oh i wanted to also ask some advice. im trying to figure out exactly what i am going to do for these whiskers. i want them to be flexible but still hold a shape. i was thinking i could get a heat gun and some sort of plastic strips and deform them into the curls but im not sure what type of plastic i would want to use

I made the Commander from Nikke Goddess of Victory

>>11507041
well done

>>11497454 (OP)
>actually using people's customs
anon you're so sweet. Mine will be in there someday.
>>11497568
awww i love it. . didn't know you were going so small. also dat cyberzoic line has always tempted me.

>>11506024
okay this probably isn't going to help you, but.. I feel like if you buy a big bucket of pretzel bites or chocolate-covered almonds or somesuch from costco, and slice the cap of the container up into strips, you could heat-gun those into little flat golden curls that hold their shape. no promises but that's what feels right in my mind's.. fingers. And has roughly the right color, since painting something like this would be a pain.
oh and don't forget to add highlights to those eyes.

>>11507742
Bonus meme.

>>11507744
the color wouldnt really matter cause ive got some gold fabric im going to slip over top but that might work. if anything it doesnt and i get snacks

and highlights. noted

>>11506024
Aluminum sheet, cut it out and bend afterwards.

>>11508177
it sounds like anon doesn't want them to ever be re-bendable, e.g. from laying the plush down on its face by accident. just flexible enough not to break under said pressure.
Otherwise yeah that would be the obvious choice. hell, just make the ribbons with a bendable wire core.

>>11508322
this. its intended to be handled to some extent and not just a display piece so i dont want to use anything metal that will bend and get brittle. plus metal probably wouldnt be that comfy. plastic probably wouldnt either but probably not as bad

>>11508533
you know,... there's always glue-stiffened fabric. I feel like if you use the right kind of glue, that could actually be durable and have some give. The kind of stuff they twist hemp rope with to make dragons and shit at fairs.

>>11497565
These new type of joints are all really really ugly anon, sorry to say. Way too intrusive to the sculpt and they all have huge gaps which are really bad looking.

>>11508544
hmm ill have to look into that. didnt even think about it. if i can do it in a way that isnt a huge fucking mess or makes the fabric look/feel gross that might be the way to go.

>>11508551
yeah I think the key would be, MAKE your whisker-fritos first, (look up how this works, I don't freakin know), let them be totally dried, _then_ glue the gold fabric to them (possibly in the form of a fold-over?)

>>11508554
of course. if anything because im probably goign to fuck it up a couple times at least.

anyway heres the current state of my head prototype. need to start chipping at a rough torso and get that process started but im not ready to bust my brain over it just yet

>>11508570
i am impressed. softgoods are really hard to work in. I had trouble enough putting buttons on my hat, so it could have a neck flap connected.

>>11508581
hey its all in what you choose to work in regularly. i couldnt sculpt a figure if you held a gun to my head probably. at least not without a year or so of practice

>>11508586
Yeah that makes sense, but I did learn sewing machine use in home ec, and before that my mom taught me hand sewing, and I'm still terrible at it. whereas I was good at clay sculpting immediately. I think we just have individual talents.

>>11508597
yeah, talent may not be implicit but you could convince me that affinity is to an extent. like this was my first plush i made and like its not incredible but i've seen other peoples first attempts and they were not this for sure

>>11508602
awww this one is cute.. and whatever flaws it might have, they only add to the kinda moe feel of it. Nice job.

>>11508547
Yeah, they're certainly not perfect, they're a product of the SLS printing process and its clearances/tolerances. It also doesn't help that I lean more to articulation than sculpt.


In other news,

Custom Neanderthal Male and Female heads. Used realistic 3D models of modern human heads as bases to make these two.

https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/art/reconstructed-male-neanderthal-head-bernard

https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/art/reconstructed-female-neanderthal-head-betty

How hard would you say is it to make something like this with no talent for art and crafts whatsoever?
I thought about
>using two xps foam plates one for the floor and one as background
>Prime it all black with (black acrylic paint + white glue)
>put another layer of pure black paint over it
The floor would be easy because it looks like it's just same sized squares so I can just use a ruler.
>Use a ruler + pen to pre draw the squares and use some blue neon paint to finish it.
The background gives me the biggest trouble because I have zero talent and I can neither draw a straight line nor a circle. But I think it would be easy if I just use a pair of compasses, right? If that would work I can use the ruler again to make the horizontal lines and paint it all with neon green.

1.Do you think it would work like this or am I missing something?
2.Would it be better to leave the bottom of the background black or pull the lines through? I think leaving it black would make it look more 3dish because I'm not really using any kind of deepth for the floor?
3.Does the coloring work like I'm imagine it or is the black paint to dark for the neon colors to pop and I should prime white, make the necessary lines and then paint it?
4. What are some good neon colors that work without black light? Preferable in small packaging? I don't need the 500ml bottles.
5.Did I overlook something?

Thank you in advance.

>>11512148
a ruler is indeed your friend. First to mark off evenly spaced lines, then to guide the paintbrush (though really you should probably mask it off, especially if your tape was just the right width)
What do you mean by 'pull the lines through' ? personally what I'd do here is start with a piece that transmits light well, mask the lines before adding the black and/or cut out the lines later, then put LEDs under it to get the glow.
for paint you'll want to look for something that says fluorescent or 'uv-reactive' but beyond that, uhh let me check for you.. Golden brand. Golden has never let me down, but i've only used their green.

>>11512148
anon you got this, just know that the more time you spend on it, the better itll look.
The only hard part is getting the curves of the lines correct. You can always draw on the foam before you commit to painting it.
I would suggest masking and spray painting though for a clean painted look, you arent going to get a sharp clean line with brush strokes.
It doesnt need to be neon colors either, prime black and use blue and green.

That being said, if your 100% sure you arent cutout for painting and crafting, then just make a photoshop file of the green and blue backgrounds separately and get them professionally printed somewhere and just glue them into the board.

>>11512700
>What do you mean by 'pull the lines through' ?
you see on the left image the green lines go from top to the bottom but on the right there is a wide black space between the end of the green lines and the floor.
>LEDs
While I do think this would look better it's also a step I'm not willing to go.
>for paint you'll want to look for something that says fluorescent or 'uv-reactive' but beyond that, uhh let me check for you.. Golden brand. Golden has never let me down, but i've only used their green.
Does this work on black primer
>a ruler is indeed your friend. First to mark off evenly spaced lines, then to guide the paintbrush (though really you should probably mask it off, especially if your tape was just the right width)
Any idea on how to make the green lines? Maybe my eyes play a trick on me but those aren't straight lines right?

>>11512747
>Any idea on how to make the green lines? Maybe my eyes play a trick on me but those aren't straight lines right?
Do you specifically need the surface to be flat? The easiest way to accomplish the curved lines to me seems to make a straight grid and then just bend the surface. It would then look like that in perspective. The green grid in that screenshot seems to represent some kind of dome.

For the glowiness, I was reminded of how in Escape from New York they used thin retroreflective tape on pitch black models then shone a light on it to create that glowy vector graphics look without using computers. But I'm not sure how feasible this is for a DIY project.

>>11512754
>Do you specifically need the surface to be flat?
Not really but I already have XPS foam so I thought I could use that
The easiest way to accomplish the curved lines to me seems to make a straight grid and then just bend the surface.
What material would you use for this? oh wait than I would also need to cut the foam for the floor, which would make the stage a lot smaller.

To think that I thought that this would be an easy stage to build...

>>11512768
to me, the background looks like a dome. You can see how the floor is circular. I think the logical thing would be to make a circular floor and a hemi-spherical background. then masking and painting will still be easy, straight lines.

>>11512787
it IS a dome in game, but i dont expect him to replicate this in real life, DESU just printing it out with the curved lines would be the easiest way to get this effect.

I'm a complete noob and need help cocnerning star wars blakc series figures.

How hard is it to pop off the legs at the thigh swivel like in pic related after a hot water bath? should i go for that or a whole leg swap? and secondly, i want to remove Kylo's belt, it's glued at the buckle, should i try to pry that open or just snip it off him from the back and then glue it back onto the figure i want to use it on?

building my brick wall right now, I already regret caring about scale.

>>11513469
ok I was dumb and used white paint + glue as a primer instead of black. the blue foam is shimmering through but I think I will paint over it any way instead of using another layer to avoid filling up the carved areas. But I wonder if I used to little paint or if the white is just not able to cover the foam.

>>11512148
Draw it on PC and print it in large format in some printing house. Then glue it to 2mm grey board paper sheet. This is how I made the background for my Metal Slug collection.
I think you can handle drawing a grid with some glow effect on top.

>>11512148
You're clearly a noob if you a) want to attempt something as tedious as this, and b) think that painting anything, especially light fluorescent colors over black paint won't make you want to jump off a building. The fluo over black could take like 3 or 4 coats. You have no idea how time consuming and frustrating that'll be when you're entirely free handing the straight lines.

>>11512881
Hot water, near boiling, for both. Easy peasy. Legs pop off at the thighs fine, and the heat will soften the glue and allow you to pry the bely open pretty easily too.

>>11513879
printing is a famously lousy way to get colors to glow at all, just fyi. perhaps if printed on luminescent paper...
>>11513947
surely he'd put down a set of white lines first
that's why I was saying mask off the lines BEFORE putting in the black.

>>11512148
What if you used some rolls of fluorescent tape like this? These are called trim stripe and they're made for car detailing. Pic related is a quarter inch thick, which is probably the upper limit on usable width, but you might be able to find something even thinner (or you can just cut it).

Pillars Diorama, once again, in resin.

>>11515406
the inside of the pillars are separate for a different material to print in, clear so that you can shine lights through

>>11515408
all printed out

>>11515410
primed

>>11515412
use the Rustoleum stone texture paint on it, it worked out really well. im impressed.

>>11515417
in use

>>11515406
>>11515408
fucking love it, dude! we need more LED stuff..

>>11515406
what'd you use for the glass?

>>11515444
resin, clear resin, its not finished, as in sanded or glossed, that would give it a clear look, but i like the fog

>>11515485
almost forgot, files here https://www.printables.com/model/161846-overlord-bookshelf-diorama-architecture

>>11515485
awesome

>>11515410
I wouldn't be able to tell. Which printer is that and how much it cost?

>>11515406
Amazing. How did you do the LEDs? With batteries?

>>11515417
I'd give it a dark wash to really bring out those details. Nice work, anon!

>>11515594
a Elegoo saturn 1, a 5 year old resin printer i bought used for 70 bucks.. You should be able to find something much better for around 200 bucks. If your in the market, the only feature i can recommend is a large build plate. The largest you can afford. Its the ONLY thing that matters. Its the only limiting factor. every resin printer can print anything, you can adjust every setting, but the size of the build plate can never change.

>>11515612
Yeah for now, just small LED cubes tucked into the back of the pillars. The models are actually carved out so you can neatly tuck in the wiring behind without showing. i will properly light it, but for now its finished.

>>11515652
Yeah, it was too clean looking, thats why i used the stone texture paint, but its still a bit clean, i agree with adding a wash, ill look into it, apparently this stone texture spray paint doesn't like getting wet, so ill have to test it on a smaller piece.

>>11515410
>>11515406
>>11515417
This is super well done! Fantastic work all around. Modeling, printing, finishing and painting!

>>11515594
Noobs always think it's the printer that gets you good results. Almost all the hobby printers are cheap these days. Under $175 will get you one that does just fine. It's just the skill in modeling, print orientation/print settings, and clean up that results in parts looking that good.

>>11516081
for most of the history of tech, it was about having a good machine. you can't be shocked that there's inertia.

>>11516081
Do the models still come out having visible layers that have to be sanded out or not?

>>11516105
that's the plastic-depositing kind. resin means it actually makes smooth shapes, but you have to go through a whole UV-curing rigamarole and rinse it in alcohol and junk

>>11516123
>but you have to go through a whole UV-curing rigamarole and rinse it in alcohol and junk
It's not that much to do to end up with nice looking parts. As oppose to filament print that always look like shit

>>11516127
indeed, but the guy should know what he's getting into
one requires either tons of sanding or.. someday the tech improving until it can get 'higher resolution' prints as it were, but it's quick and simple.
the other requires ventilation, washing, temperature control, light control... it's a rigamarole, but with it, you can make basically anything. there are resins in every type of material you could want, even ones impregnated with metal.

>>11516129
I was just wondering since I have 3D modeling skills this seems tempting but on the other hand if it's a huge bother to finish the prints and the equipment has a cost I'm not sure if it's going to be worth it over just manually sculpting things out of clay or something. But I really don't have much experience in any of this physical crafting stuff besides flatland drawing and painting. But in my current economy I have to watch my spending so I don't think I'm going to buy a printer either way.

>>11516145
It sounds like you're at the phase where you can commit to getting one, but not to which one you're gonna get yet. Start looking into the best choice, and where you'd put it, and then hopefully your finances improve later and you're ready. if you have 3d modeling skills, that's awesome. Really wish I did. So many things I could make...

>>11516127
FDM printing has come a long way. Get a 0.02mm nozzle and print with a small layer height and you can get prints that rival resin without all the hassle.

>>11517696
hm. hm. good to know..
not that guy, but I too have been thinking about it. someday i'll be ready. then I can make all the parts i want, for models and figures and such. it emboggles the mind.

What are the usual go-to brands for replacement Revoltech joints? I was thinking of switching out some Revoltech joints for smoother non-ratcheted joints and I remember way back that certain brands sold whole sets of joints you could put together for customizing, similarly sized to Revoltech joints. I remember seeing some anons here use them for customs a couple of threads back so I was meaning to ask.

>>11519147
Wait is it Premium Parts Collection joints?

Custom MvC2 Blackheart using the BAF head, movie venom body, masterverse Skeletor feet (two pairs because I had to add the heel claw) and a rubber rat tail.

>>11520015
fantastic! That movie venom body really does seem to be pretty damn good.
Run into anything hard vis-a-vis neck pegs etc?

>>11520019
Just needed to swap the double ball joint our for a different, longer one. The head fits on as is but it's really low on the shoulders. I just found one that was a few cm longer shaft.

>>11520022
lower kinda suits him at least, he's a brute..

Update with the new articulated tail! Thanks tailanon for the suggestion to make it bigger and better!

>>11520818
With all the effort you went through adding little details like the feet, the thin-ass tail was the one thing that really stuck out like a sore thumb. Good stuff.

>>11520908
I'm sorry, I got lazy. It was glued on the figure 2 years ago when I first started working on that body and I just left it on even though I had better tails like the bendy Spawn demons. A third party is super helpful with critiques because when you stare at a custom for so long you get that "wedding dress blindness" where it just looks the same all over.

But what I need to do is take a break for a day and do something else and then come back and look at the figure again and match it up with the source material.

I guess this is the finished version until I can find some cool electrical dark lightning energy effects or some HP/HK demons.

>>11520929
Nah I get ya. It's why I leave alone some customs I've been working on for a while to take a step back and come back to it with fresh eyes. It helps to keep things in perspective so I'm not just compromising when it's something that I can fix when I'm well-rested.

>>11520938
Looks great.

>>11520938
every time i see a great looking blackheart is a custom, damn i just want to be able to buy one, nice job dude!

>>11521209
I'd buy it FOR a custom.

Custom Metal Gear Solid figures

Microman Time Traveller made out of a retro card human torch, Mr fantastic head, iron man feet and fortnite Brutus hands

>>11522435
and the, er, belt? I assume that wasn't on Johnny to begin with. I'm actually curious to see this Torch figure now, because apparently the yellow flame parts are not connected

Nothing is out of reach

>>11522447
The belt was made from Halo brute armor, the orange flames on his arms were just shaved off. Not too hard to sand the forearms back to round.

>>11523017
nnnnnneat. and I guess the gloves helped there.

>>11522153
ha, nice!

Custom RE figures starting to get closer to the “complete” side of things. Really wanna focus on army building zombies and start on the STARS team. Any recommendations on a good body for an RE1 Jill and RE4 Saddler/Salazar?

>>11523181
Thanks anon!
>>11523441
These are badass, amazing work

keep it custin' or you're gonna mise.

>>11524845
oh, we hit the stupid time limit.

I got theses weapons from a generic soldiers from a "2 dollars" shop.
The scale is close to 1/12.

>>11497454 (OP)
that asterix plushie was awesome. I wish more anons would repost their older works. pic related has lived in my mind rent free for the last 8 years.

>>11522447
pic related. It's been a pegwarmer for a few years now. You can still get them pretty cheap. Speaking of shelf warmers, has anyone thought of a good use for the Eternals figures? Across all of the disney blockbuster failure lines Eternals continues to be the one I cant come up with a good use for.

With the lightyear figures you could make anything from Mazinger Z to various Space Marines. With Shang Chi, Wakanda Forever, etc you can pretty easily repurpose them into GI Joe/fantasy characters or other capeshitters. But the eternals are so distinctly bland that besides pilfering them for parts I cant think of any good way to put them to use.

>>11522153
I caught these on figurerealm. awesome job

>>11525693
The Black weapons looks too crude.

>>11525736
does it have some explanation behind it?
>>11525744
ah thank you, i was curious.
that's an unusual desin for sure, with the flames only on the head and hands/forearms.. so I guess the customizer had to remove those black lines. though nothing is going to fix the huge trapezius area, figures have never really figured out what to do with that, have they.

>>11525936
The anon that made it simply had a revoltech Mr Incredible and sought to modify it into a Spumco styled Space Adventure Cobra figure.

As for torch all the lines were deco'ed on. Thats easilly removed with just some rubbing alcohol. The proportions look odd because of how small the standard head is. That body was mostly used for Spidermen, who on average, feature larger heads.

>>11525830
It's not all that noticeable unless you really fixate on it. It works for what it is.

>>11526001
ahhhh yeah, that makes sense.
It seems to me like, in addition to the butterfly joint, they should have the whole thing attached to hinges that form the trapezius, so that can swing out and lift.

I cant even finish a project before these fucking threads hit autosage