Thread 11565703

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)
>makerworld.com/(free and purchasable models)

September is here, and so are gone 9 months of this year, i hope they treated you well!

>>11565703 (OP)
Source on the Soul of Cinder custom? That's honestly friggin sick~

>>11565716
@masterchef_photography on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/p/DNbbIzYys0W/?img_index=3

Burger King Woody glow up. I re-sculpted the mouth and re-painted the wonky eyes. Added real jeans, leather belt and a brass belt buckle. Plan to fix up the west too so it stays closed better.

>>11565742
Thanks anon. Great stuff.

So I'm working on a custom Batman inspired from Battinson that's meant to evoke Hasbro's style of figures. It's more or less done, but right now I'm genuinely torn between using a fabric or plastic cape. On one hand, the wired fabric cape gives more posing options, on the other hand the plastic cape cuts a nice silhouette around the collar/cowl. It's worth noting that the plastic cape isn't glued down to the edges so it should sit even more flush if I end up going with that option. For the fabric cape, this is about as flat as I can adjust its folds around the shoulders.

I kinda asked about this in the Marvel general, but I'm curious for people's advice and which one looks better? While I originally planned this custom with the fabric cape in mind, later I found myself really liking how the plastic cape forms a nice silhouette around the head/neck area with how clean it looks laying flush around the collar. I already own the Mafex, Figuarts 2.0, and Mezco 1/12, so it's not like this will be my only Battinson figure. In this case, I guess I'm more concerned on the balance of functionality vs aesthetics. Thoughts?

Started doing a custom HftF High DIO and The World because I'm not a big fan of the Super Action figures. Modelling these parts would be easier if I had a scanner/wasn't a poorfag but it's getting there slowly

>>11565989
Damn, those look good! The bodies are a great fit.

Cooking up a thicc preggers amazon that I’m just going to sell for others to tinker with, no joints or breaks in the sculpt, just Boolean however you want.

The actual interesting part is that this started as an edited tracing of a pregnant milf character from an Agata manga one-shot, drawn in MSPaint. Said drawing was fed into the Tencent AI 3D model generator with a few tries. Once I got it mostly to my liking I downloaded the STL and did some tweaks (original model was in a non-symmetrical pose with arms tucked in) before reverse-engineering it to where it is now. I’m really impressed how well the Tencent AI modeling can be most of the time, though there are some tricks that need to be utilized sometimes. With how well it can make 3D models of IRL faces, illustrations, photoshopped subjects, etc for base models to start from (and for free) it’s a godsend.

>>11565764
You gave him the fluoride stare

>>11565936
My first thought is the figure looks slightly too small for the head, maybe it's just the angle but the plastic cape gives the illusion that he's bigger.

>>11565764
impressive mouth resculpt

>>11566401
Yeah I can't tell if it's back lighting making the head look wider and/or it's me fucking up the camera focus so it ended up with a fisheye effect. I initially used smaller heads (around Bucky Cap scale) but they ended up making the body look way too buff so I settled on the Mezco head instead. If nothing else, I don't mind the thinner frame resembling Battinson.

Yeah I was thinking the plastic cape made him look "bigger". I think it's because of the wide shape and the thickness of the plastic which is what's creating the illusion of broader shoulders.

>>11566434
Took some more photos under normal lighting with the latest ML DD.

>>11566438
And the cloth cape.

Are there any videos or resources on how to generally customize and disassemble figmas without breaking them? I need to start a custom, but everything I look up has that dumb webapp show up instead.

>>11566449
Moonshine made a video about figmas specifically a while back:
>https://archive.org/details/making-custom-figma-a-creative-process-ft.-cecilia

it's since been deleted from youtube but it was archived thankfully

>>11565764
really well done

>>11566347
>this started as an edited tracing
Could you get into legal issues because of that?

Hollow Knight wip

>>11565703 (OP)
Real glad to see this back. got some advice in another thread about a ball joint that simply refuses to stay in, pops right back out, and trying to maybe dig it a little deeper. I'm hoping this spherical bit is the right thing to use... roughly looks like this.

>>11565764
hot damn dude, you know those movies never really explored the relationship between happy meal toys and 'real' toys, did they.. especially 'of the same character'
>>11565936
the eternal struggle. I think you nailed the flow of the fabric cape, so that one wins in my mind. but I wish someone made a version that like.. the part at the neck is plastic, then the amount of plastic-soaked-into-fabric decreases in a gradient, until it's normal fabric down past the shoulders.. Does anyone know if that would work? I mean that's how we used to make raincoats, minus the gradient obviously.

>>11566993
how would anyone ever know? he also ran it through a chinese AI. I hope he's not gonna charge much for it, because yeah some work went in, but..

>>11567119
>I wish someone made a version that like.. the part at the neck is plastic, then the amount of plastic-soaked-into-fabric decreases in a gradient, until it's normal fabric down past the shoulders..
Yeah it's really frustrating. If I could somehow mix the smooth sculpt of the top part of the plastic cape until it cleanly flows down into a fabric one, that would be ideal. Bandai "sort of" tried with their SHF 1.0 but the plastic portion just wasn't flush enough and it just looked too bulky, like a shell over his shoulders.

>>11565936
>>11566439
The shoulders and neck on the fabric cape look decent, but also if you're going to pose him in any dynamic way, the plastic is just not going to look good. I say stick with the fabric

>>11566993
While it was a tracing, it was also heavily edited with many parts. The original pic never showed the knees-down and also had hands cradling the pregnant belly with the arms overall thinner. The puffy vulva was a my own doing, the original's pussy nowhere near as plump. I also made it a tad curvier than Agata had in the bust, belly, and hips. At this point it's hardly the same as the original pic.

>>11567124
I won't be charging much, probably just $5 or $6usd for both a SFW version with a the vulva crease removed and a NSFW version that keeps the vag slit and will have sculpted nipples. Even with the AI generator I still had to make changes to the sculpt like adding the thigh gap for allowing modelers to separate the legs for adding articulation along with chopping up and re-sculpting the arms from their original pose (the armpits on this are 100% scratch-designed since the original arms were tucked in to the torso). Besides, this is just for users to mess with on their own and make their own custom designs from. When I eventually articulate this and sell it it'll be priced like my usual stuff and made for Sculpteo SLS nylon printing.

>>11567202
okay cool, I like that. tossing somebody a fiver for a model they worked on is super cool. i've done that for like, instrux for a custom lego design

>>11567222
Yeah, this isn’t what pays my bills. I like making some pocket change for my stuff, and the sales’ money has come in handy for emergencies. My fully-articulated action figures are usually only $12 or so which gives me $10 net-profit per download, because personally I don’t want to be cost-prohibitive to 3D print anons who are just getting started in this hobby.

>>11567303
yeahhh 3d printing.. yeahh.. the barrier to entry is not low enough yet, but someday.. i'll be able to make fuckin ANYTHING.
and if I actually manage to have kids, i'll be able to make them accessories for THEIR toys.

>>11567191
Thanks. While I think it looked okay, I really wasn't sure if the fabric sat decently on the figure and was curious for people's opinions so I appreciate your input. For now, I've actually glued down some folds of the fabric onto eacch other so the top portion can maintain its shape on the shoulders while still allowing a good range for the wire to be posed around.

>>11567660
that makes total sense, as long as it doesn't soak through and ruin the look. I bet they even do something similar in movies.

>>11565764
I had one of those growing up. The pants have pockets so you finger puppet the legs n shit

Painted a deathclaw skull while waiting for that McFarlane NCR ranger to release.

>>11568277
printed in resin

>>11568278
should be a decent fit

>>11568279
base coat of paint

>>11568281
a darker bone color for the horns and a wash

>>11568284
more washes

>>11568286
and the finished details on the teeth and more touchups

>>11568277
fuckin kickass, dude.
>>11568278
so shiny.. did you rough it up at any stage? Or did the matte paint really solve that.

>>11568294
That was pre-curing process, so still a bit wet from the alcohol rinse, after a cure it goes more matte. But, yeah thats all paint, it was a ton of washing, so it pooled into those little scrapes and dents really well.

I'm working on my first custom figure ever and I have a couple questions I'm hoping you guys can help me with.

1: What's the best way to strip paint from a Marvel Legends figure? I usually use Simple Green for models, but ML figures are a different plastic so I wanted to check if there's a better option for them

2: After it's stripped I want to dye it. All the videos I watched about dying figures say you need to cook them at significantly lower temperature than the dye instructions say, but none of them have any specifics. I don't suppose there's a good rule of thumb, like, "don't go over 150 degrees" or anything like that?

>>11568498
working on a coomer fig there are you?

>>11568500
yeah, a latex drone. This is going to Latex Drone MkI, the prototype. If it works I'll try casting the head so I don't need to buy a ton of GI Joe Firefighters just for the gas mask, and I'll switch to the upcoming Emma Frost figure as the base body, and that'll be Latex Drone MkII, the production model.

And if that goes well I have some ideas for building a dronification station and making a little tableau

>>11566438
Which company is the batman from? He looks good

>>11568498
I use diluted acetone and qtips. Move your tip fast and don't slob the liquid. Acetone will still eat at plastic, but only create tiny imperfections. You can then sand the imperfections away

>>11568504
that takes me back. havent seen latex fetish in nigh on 15 years.

Not great lighting but here's two dioramas I made for some NECA figures: >>11568939
Still might print off some background images for them. The lighting is powered by standard LED strips you can cut into segments, and then wrapped in coloured cellophane.

>>11567114
Ah! i think i know what you're referring to specifically, is it the Figma Fluted Knight? if so let me tell you i did the same, i used a slightly bigger dreml bit, it made the socket a bit bigger and it didn't pop off since, i also did add a bit of varnish on the ball joint, but i was just being careful, if you wish to try be careful

>>11568525
He's a mix of parts: Mezco The Batman head, ML 80th Invincible Iron Man upper torso/arms, McFarlane The Batman gauntlets/bat emblem/utility belt, Black Series TLJ Kylo Ren lower torso/legs.

>>11568525
He's a mix of parts: Mezco The Batman head, ML 80th Invincible Iron Man upper torso/arms, McFarlane The Batman gauntlets/bat emblem/cape collar/utility belt, Black Series TLJ Kylo Ren lower torso/legs.

>>11568915
Why, when I was your age, there was latex babes all around this country! You'd go the theatre and say "One ticket for Underworld, please" and you'd pay your five dollars to watch a lady in latex do spin kicks for an hour and a half. But you kids wouldn't know about that. You're too busy with your vtubers and Russian murder cults to enjoy the simple pleasure of a beautiful woman head to toe in skintight latex....

>>11568958
pretty gnarly.
>>11568976
nope, it was a zoid kit, so I have to be even more careful. model kit plastic is soft enough to saw or drill by hand after all (though people act like you can x-acto knife it up and no you fucking cant)
though it was a hard, springy sprue of that real tough kinda plastic, so that helps.

>>11569021
Ah! funny thing, i did the exact same thing with a zoid too, if this is the case, i suggest using a drill instead of a dreml, the kind you can control with a finger, so you can be as slow as possible, since it's delicate, i wish you the best

>>11568997
NTA but man I wish I had a nice figure of my waifu. She is wearing a latex-like bodysuit with some accessories over it.

>>11569043
I feel like you could get pretty close, albeit not in those specific proportions. If you were willing to go more standard human proportions I don't think that would be too hard

>>11568993
Wow, couldn't even tell it was a custom. Really nice work!

>>11569060
Thanks! For the body, I definitely tried to combine parts with sculpted details that somewhat resembled Battinson's suit without going for complete movie accuracy. Like it resembles the movie suit enough at a glance until you start scrutinizing the details.

>>11569036
ohhhhhhhhh, put my spherical bit into my pin vise?
that's not a bad idea, though I think it's going to just slide into the center where i THINK there's already a hole (like to let air in for the ball joint, you know how they do)
i'll think about that. pin vises are great for some things.

Got a Venom sculpt from ebay and made some adjustments. He needed some lips

>>11569423
Also How do I make some saliva for his mouth and tongue?

>>11569427
If you want clear saliva, get Games Workshop's (the Warhammer people) technical paint 'ardcoat. It's a gloss varnish that when applied in multiple coats makes a great clear gross slime. The pic is a model covered in 100 coats of the stuff.

If you want green saliva, they also make something called Nurgle's Rot. Which is the same as 'ardcoat but tinged a sickly green.

Shortstack-anon again! Been slacking a bit but trying to get back into the flow of things. Still working on a fully printable petite body; gonna try out this design for the wrists. I figured I'd go with the angled 30MS style cut to avoid weak points at the pegs.

>>11569439
And here's a shot of the full body so far. Mostly done, just gotta do the knees and ankles, finalize the torso connections and then tidy up the sculpt, and test prints can commence.

>>11568094
That's a different version actually, but they pretty much look the same, except this version didn't have the legpockets, but has some velcro on his arms so he could be attached to Buzz. I removed the velcro too

>>11569438
Do they have something like that that sorta makes 'smoke'? I did that once with some clear acrylic stuff dyed with marker ink, and it turned out okay. that was decades ago though.

>>11569442
definitely an interesting way to do a wrist.. but wouldn't it be better if the ball were smaller?

>>1156966
I could certainly try making it a bit smaller; now that I look at it, it is a bit bulbous. It's 4.5mm diameter at the moment. Maybe I should shrink it to 4 or 3.5 and replace the split-mushroom-peg (or whatever you call those) with a simple 1mm hole to use a wire pin with.
Might need to print some test designs of just the wrist joints.

>>11569665
They don't sell a smoke product. Most of the smoke effects I've seen on models are done with cotton wool. But I've never done it myself so I don't have any tips

Alright I was hoping to find a gentler paint stripping method than acetone. I really don't want to risk damaging the figure and I know Simple Green will strip paint off a plastic model no problem. So I took this spare body I had, let it soak in Simple Green for 24 hours, then gave it a vigorous toothbrush scrubbing.

Here's the before pic on the left, after pic on the right

>>11569687
i definitely like the offset idea, it can cover a lot of wrist movements by twisting both pegs. i just think scale the entire apparatus down and it'll look better.
>>11569698
oooh not bad. I guess i just meant like clear stuff you could drip/sculpt/guide into making tufts. like i guess it'd also work for flame

>>11569770
Oh yeah I've seen people make flames out of hot glue and they look pretty good.
>>11569772
yeah...

>>11569774
hot glue! yes! Thank you. That makes sense.
sorry the simple green didn't do it for you. Maybe next time selsun blue. or onions green.

>>11569781
dammit. soilent green
stupid filter ruining my jokes.

Dwarf bodies are hard to come by.

>>11569888
is that your work or is that what you're using? Because if it's yours A) holy fucking shit you nailed the head completely, and B) the hands don't match

>>11569888
I'm surprised you didnt use maz kanata's body. You did a great job with these parts though. Where are the legs from?

>>11569894
Head is not mine, I just gave the 90's Toybiz Gargoyle head a black wash.
>>11569911
I needed a mad scientist/doctor vibe for him, so a $6 Krennic got his shins removed and put back together ala Cotton Hill.

>>11569915
well damn, toybiz did a great job.
I'm amazed limbs can just be recombined like that, I assume there's a lot of drilling and shimming work involved since nothing's gonna just fit first try.

OK I am abandoning my latex drone figure idea. I got prescribed a mild amphetamine, and I just found out that can cause hypersexual thoughts. Which would explain this sudden desire for horny action figures, and why I've recently taken up gooning as a hobby out of nowhere. So I'm pretty sure that when I'm off the pills I will be very embarrassed to own a bunch of handmade latex drone action figures with sculpted chastity cage bulges.

Good luck on all your projects, anons.

>>11569926
this mild amphetamine.. what kind of problem might one need to convince a doc- I mean need to HAVE in order to get a prescription? Also is there a comedown? Asking for a friend.
>taken up-
that's called having a functional system. You're supposed to do that. I'M supposed to do that.. but it's.. hard now. Er- it's not- you know what I mean.

That said, yeah. I mean it would be embarrassing to have something that is both the current and original definition of 'fetish.' I only have one anime girl figurine. It's probably best not to mix that with anything that costs money.

>>11569952
Weight loss. It's working great on that. And no comedown, it's one pill in the morning, and for the rest of the day I have no food cravings and general hunger is significantly reduced. It's also replaced caffeine completely. It's a goddamn wonder drug. Aside from the gooning.

And when I say I took up gooning, I mean like 4 hours a day. I used to jerk off for the normal amount of time.

>>11569926
we've all been there

>>11569960
Huh, I would think hunger and sex drive would be tied real closely.
>aside from
THAT IS THE BEST PART, YOU MOOK. You'll understand when you're 40, or if you're dumb enough to take heartburn pills.

>4 hours a day
... what? it removes the refractory period? because... there are people who would kill for that, but that sounds terrifying. I guess that helps with weight loss, though. How the fuck doesn't it just hurt? There's no way an amphetamine is speeding up the actual healing and recharge..

>>11569972
I'm 37 man. And I actually was taking omeprazole for the past couple weeks.

And it doesn't remove the refractory period, it's more like I'll jerk off for two hours in the morning and the same again in the evening. Often longer in the evening. Each session, like a normal masturbation session, involves cumming only once at the end. Absolutely fantastic orgasms each time, just out of this world.

And yeah I have started to get some painful spots on my dick. It's not a good thing to do! Don't goon, folks!

>>11569977
... the refractory period's like a day usually, isn't it? that's the whole point, that's why it's great. You do your shit during the day, you lay with your wife at night, you're good. That's how we're built.
>don't-
look first of all you irritating lego on the carpet, stop talking like a drooling gen Z retard. it's called masturbation. secondly, you -have- to do it regularly or you get problems and/or it happens on its own.

>>11569977
oh wait you're saying- okay so it takes you THAT LONG to-
that's priapism, dude. that's gonna blow out your sponge blood thingies. I forget the name of them. It's supposed to hurt when it takes that long, the little muscular valves in your veins cramp up and slam all the way shut instead of just restricting.

>>11569926
This is like the figure equivalent of a post-nut clarity.

>>11566995
Trying to sculpt the hands for this is making me homicidal. I've sculpted hands before, but 3 fingered insectoid ones apparently break my brain.

>>11569066
Yeah, i get it. Looks close enough I'd say

>>11570024
i'd think they'd be the easiest.. though I have to think the hardest parts of hand sculpting include: getting the fingers to JUST touch but not fuse, and getting the grip just tight enough to hold things..

>>11569770
Thanks! I shrank the wrist joint to 4mm and it looks much better. Much happier with this, should still be plenty sturdy.
>>11569926
To be fair, anon, you could always try and aim for a figure that has sex/fetish appeal but looks sufficiently "cool" that it could pass as a "normal" figure too? A lot of that sort of BDSM gear almost looks like some kind of sci-fi military equipment anyway, so...

>>11570150
Also, nearly finished the knees. Basic engineering is in place, just gotta smooth out the kneecaps a bit. I did have other ideas for the knee design but settled on double joints; it works for girlpla after all.

>>11570151
I did try doing Revoltech AY style single-cut knees (which somehow manage to look great and get amazing range) but I lack Mr. Yamaguchi's engineering wizardry and the result was absolutely hideous, so I shitcanned that idea.

>>11570150
you're gonna print the joints in nice hard nylon resin, right?

>>11570154
double knees are better because the kneecap is naturalistic anyway. Though having a big gouge in the the popliteals is okay since there's a visible joint there on people..
Do keep us posted, can't wait to see this all done.

>>11570646
Yep- got TH-BJD which I've had very good results with.
>>11570647
Thank you! As it happens I've basically got her finished (I hope). Need to make some more alt hands and chest pieces, but assuming the engineering and tolerances are all good, she's basically done. Need to test print now.
FWIW I am aware the joints aren't very pretty, however I find Blender usually makes everything look worse than it actually is so hopefully it looks better printed in person. Also because she's quite small (the pinholes at the joints are for 1mm wire, to give an idea of size) I daren't make her much daintier; even Resione stuff has its limits.

>>11569050
I'm limited in what I can get my hands on, but I'm curious as to what you have in mind. Do tell.

>>11570819
From the back. These are all SFW pics just to adhere to board regulations FWIW. Once I'm certain the basic formula works I'll sculpt her some alternate chests with various sizes of tits.

>>11570819
that is one pretty skinny chest/shoulder area. but they do come in that variety.
>>11570822
excellent. there's zero reason not to make things anatomically complete if you're working on it yourself.

>>11570822
And from the side.
Now to support everything and pray it prints...
>>11570824
>that is one pretty skinny chest/shoulder area. but they do come in that variety.
That's partially due to the divots I added to allow for some shoulder range, as they're on ball-joints ala Figma. This body is meant for small characters anyway so hopefully it'll look OK with appropriate figure heads.

>>11570827
And finally X-ray shot to show engineering. Trying to replicate Snail Shell drop-down ball-armature hips. Time will tell if it works...

>>11570827
>>11570829
we'll see. you might print out a test and decide it looks better with the shoulders wider, but yeah if I take the joints into account, they are wider than the hips, so. can't really complain.
wait what are those internal pelvic joints? drop-down you say? like, for high kicks?

>>11570840
Yeah; each hip is on an L-shaped double ended ball-stem. The torso end sits in a channel it can slide up and down in to allow for greater movement and to work around the solid pelvis piece. It's been done before with girlpla, so I figured I'd try it myself.

>>11570845
some people are cool with that.. to me, it's never quite right before what actually needs to happen is a hinged flap has to open up in the abdomen. and obviously that aint happening. Unless the entire hip socket connects to a cut-in joint or something
Personally I really wanna see shoulders similar to this, so they can raise upward in addition to butterflying. so many things, swords held up, superhero flight poses, just look dumb when all you do is rotate the arm up

Have you ever tried to make a custom and realized it turned out terrible?

>>11570875
i try not to think about that possibility. i'm a good sculptor, and i'm getting okay with things like drilling and inserting rods..

>>11570875
Was working on a Mutated Casey Jones, but ended up not feeling it.

>>11570883
shame, that WIP looks really good.

>>11570905
Thank you.
I make pick it back up one day just to finish and maybe sell it off.

>>11570908
or just be like, a random mook for your other figures to fight
if you want my advice, and I don't think you do because this will fucking suck to do, you gotta carve the left side of his torso off with joint intact, add a buncha putty, then secure the original back on. No idea if this would have good structure integrity, I suggest screws in the putty. But the point is, the big arm needs a big scapular process, or it just doesn't feel dynamic and cool.. just tacked on.

>>11570932
Ill give it a try.

>>11568498
>>11569717
Same person? Acetone is what everyone uses on ML. It's fine and works well. Just don't leave it on for more than a couple seconds. Wipe with a acetone soaked Qtip, wipe with a wet paper towel soaked in water to remove any acetone left over, dry with a dry paper towel, and repeat. The harder torso plastics ae what you need to be really careful with since those degrade in acetone after a few seconds. The softer limbs and heads can withstands at least 10-20 seconds without damage so those are simpler.

What are you trying to dye? The first pic is almost all black plastic so dye won't do a thing to those parts. But a pot with boiling water, some acetone (like 1/4 or 1/5 the amount of water in the pot is what I've heard somewhere but you'd need to find a tutorial to double check), and some dish soap along with the Synthetics RIT dye. You'll have to just keep an eye on the parts soaking over several minutes to a few hours to see when each part has absorbed enough dye. Different plastics will absorb the dye at different rates. Then wash them really really well with soap and water. Some even put the parts in a sock and tie it off then run it through the washing machine. No joke. Then let the parts soak in water for at least 24 hours to see if any dye seeps out. After that, dry and clear coat with some matte spray before painting over top.

Did a Nuka Cola Vending machine

>>11571235
printed in resin, this maxed out my printers height, but its a good size.

>>11571236
base coat of colors, wasn't really worried on accuracy as i was already starting the weathering.

>>11571239
some weathering

>>11571241
instead of printing out the rack, i just used some real chicken wire/fencing, it looks better, and did the little sodas.

>>11571244
putting on the front door, touch ups to the sodas, and more weathering. and finished.

>>11571235
PROPER weathering. nice.

>>11571090
Have you ever tried Isopropyl alcohol? I've seen some people say it works and is safer than acetone.

I want the figure all black. Everything I've seen has said you should NOT boil the water because that makes the figure melt. Unfortunately they aren't specific at all about how hot you actually do want it. I hadn't seen the tip about letting the figure soak afterwards, that makes a ton of sense, thanks.

>>11571412
>IPA
No, i don't think that'll work. I use 91% IPA for resin print clean up and that won't strip paint off figures. Maybe 99% will with repeated scrubbing, but acetone is instant. Just wipe it on and the painted detail comes right off.

>Everything I've seen has said you should NOT boil the water because that makes the figure melt.
Boiling water is not hot enough to melt any of these plastics. You want it just under the boiling point I guess, but it won't melt plastics. It can deform super soft plastic like hair or capes, but that can be put back into the proper shape while it's cooling. Everyone is using boiling or close to boiling water to pop figures apart so it's not harmful. Thankfully dyeing black will be easiest, just be aware that over time (many months or years), the dye can seep out of the figure parts and ruin lighter colors painted over it. Especially black dye. So give the dyed parts a super good wash and let them soak for 24-48 hours to be extra sure as much dye that wills seep out has done so before you give it a clear coat before painting.

>>11571247
This is fucking amazing. Such a nice job!

>>11571247
STL?

>>11571671
Thanks!

>>11571689
https://makerworld.com/en/models/166392-nuka-cola-vending-machine-colourised here and
https://makerworld.com/en/models/431713-nuka-cola-bottle-replica

Been having some...difficulties with printing; massively oversupported the parts (to the point the rather thin pelvis overlays just instantly shattered when I tried removing them) and on top of that I let my resin get too cold, leading to major adhesion issues. Whoops! Ordered a resin heater to help with that now we're entering Autumn.
On the plus side I did get some parts printed, including a bunch of spares, meaning I'll be able to get a complete first figure soon.
A few things I've noted:
>Wrists work very well, definitely going to use these in future.
>Hip system seems a winner but need to see how it works with the overlay.
>Speaking of, I need to majorly thicken/reinforce the pelvis shell so it doesn't instantly break when you try and remove the supports. At present it's absurdly delicate. I've done this style before so I have no idea how I managed to screw up quite this badly, though the too-thick supports didn't help.
>Ankles work but are a touch loose. I'm tempted to redesign them slightly and trade the pin-secured hinge for a click-together one.
>Out of frame (only the NSFW version printed properly...) but the chest assembly works, however I need to adjust the tolerance between the shoulder ball and the socket as at present it's much, much too tight.
>The shoulder hinges work quite well once put together but are tricky and fragile-feeling to assemble.
Overall though I'm actually very impressed with how it's coming along. Also I actually don't have THAT much extra to reprint; the pelvises, the SFW chest, a left foot, a torso barbell and slightly smaller balljoints for the shoulders.
Once I've got the design down I'm planning on sculpting a swimsuit version for my Figma Ika Musume. She was my second ever Figma (though I hamhanded her and my current one is a replacement) and I loved the show, but always wished she could cast-off given how often she was in the swimsuit.

>>11572453
lookin real good, man. this is worth it. love that ankle bend. as a kid, anything that could extend the toe forward immediately felt cooler than anything that can't. like a few TMNT figures could.. so appreciated.

>>11566347
>Cooking up a thicc preggers amazon
I saw this and it reminded me of you.
>>>/tg/96486291

>>11572453
Do the joints wear down the more you move them?

>>11573069
Nope- this is printed in Resione TH-BJD which doesn't grind itself down like other resins.

I dyed a figure with Rit synthetic dye a while ago and I just noticed it faded a lot. What happened? Any way to prevent this?

>>11573185
How does it compare to Tough74?

Do dioramas count as customs?

>>11573653
Mechanically identical. Needs less exposure during printing because it's a pale fleshtone; good because prints faster, bad because easier to overexpose. Regardless, very good resin.
Speaking of! I got my resin heater set up and printed a full plate of parts, with not a single failure- I now have the components to make 4(!) bodies! Tomorrow, once the cured resin has fully "settled" I'll assemble one and see how it works. I made a few very minor revisions (notably adding reinforcement bracing to the pelvis pieces, re-tolerancing the shoulder balljoints and lengthening the neck) so we'll see how it goes.

>>11573657
Yeah!

>>11573448
Dyes do fade over time. I'm not sure if there's a trick to preventing it but keeping the figure out of bright light would slow the fading. Maybe a top coat of some kind?

Remember that giant konosuba frog that you can stand in and take pictures of? i thought that would be a cool accessory

>>11573857
printed in resin and painted up, fits import figures pretty well.

>>11573859
it maxed out my printer, so i couldn't get any bigger then this, but its a good size

>>11573862
i have a figure model thats around 1/12 so while that fit inside the frog in the 3d editing program, i tested it before proceeding anyways.

>>11573863
painting it up, i didnt have the right color green in hobby paint, so i used cheap craft paint that was a pain in the ass, but after a clear coat, it looked fine, just not as smooth of a finish as id like.

>>11573857
if that was here it would be FULL of urine in about an hour

Has anyone done any gaming room customs at all?

>>11573966
you mean a diorama gaming room for figures, or some form of customizing an actual room, or... figures that... belong.... in a gaming room? Sorry I've never understood the gaming room concept. Having to move to a separate part of the house to game seems like a total pain.

>>11574068
I think he means like an arcade room for figures to hang out in.

>>11574089
oh an ARCADE, that makes much more sense. They even sell mini machines for that purpose. Most of what you'd need would be that hilarious carpet arcades had, man that was.. i miss those times.

>>11574137
Well either an arcade or a gaming room itself

>>11574222
The scale wouldn't be quite perfect, but you could get one of the Legions Imperialis starter boxes, paint half of it up one way and the other half another way and you'd have two tiny Warhammer armies. Get a little book shelf, put the models on it, boom, your figures are ready to game

>>11574318
Wtf are you going on about. I never mentioned anything about the sad excuse for a hobby

>>11574321
Gaming room is an ambiguous term that could apply to video games or tabletop games.

But really, you are seeking to build a 1/12th video game room for your action figures. I don't look down on that at all, I'm in this thread too, I think that's a perfectly reasonable thing to do. But I also understand it's not the sort of hobby you can have and look down on other people who have different nerd craft hobbies.

>>11574327
Are you retarded?

Managed to build the first complete body- I'm VERY pleased. Only slight issue is the shoulder balljoints, I think I'm going to fuse the shoulder hinge with the balljoint rather than have it peg into the ball; getting the ball into the socket without deforming the peghole is currently nightmarish.

>>11574507
Articulation works across the board. Need to adjust some tolerances here and there (nothing's wearing out but some pegs are too tight or too loose without some work) but that is somewhat inevitable with resin printing.

>>11574508
Overall, I'd say this is a winner. Now to make some alternate parts...

>>11574345
dude NOBODY knew what >>11573966 meant
>>11574318
how small are these compared to normal warhammers? because the normal ones are already beyond most people's ability to paint. if they actually look good with figures using them for gaming, thennnn....

>>11574507
>>11574508
>>11574509
lookin pretty good!!!
Just keep her deliciously flat..

>>11574771
Very very small. Regular Warhammer Space Marine on the left, Legions Imperialis Space Marines on the right

Which makes the much easier to paint. You could get good enough results with like three colors

>>11574881
hmmmm.. yeah, that could work.. for a 1/6 or especially 1/4 scale figure, you could believe they were doing some tabletop gaming..

>>11574774
Thanks!
Having assembled two more from the parts I have discovered an additional design flaw; the thigh-socket walls are too thin. They don't break or friction-grind, but the constant tension causes them to very, very subtly deform outwards and loosen. Fortunately as it's an engineering error and not a material problem per se, it's a very easy fix as all I need to do is thicken the socket walls.

>>11574507
So impressive man, well done.

>>11574937
ah yeah that makes sense

Anybody have the files for those figma joints? I think the story was that they accidentally released them online?

>>11570875
Yes

>>11569427
UV resin from AliExpress. Drippy and you zap it with a blacklight pen to freeze it. You can dye it green too clear green drool incoming!

>>11575953
holy shit does that work? that has.. potential...

>>11575985
Yeah it does, but if you want something more old-school just get some of that stringy UHU glue and paint it your preferred hue

>>11576153
incredible

Just a "diorama" .
The Wall and floor are EVA foam.
Also, i made the wood box and the shity oil barril.

>>11576590
everything has a fun kinda 'as if from a roughly drawn comic e.g. mike mignola' wobbliness to it. I think it'd look great with more way-out style figures like ones inspired by the old TMNT figs

>>11570875
tried to make a gimp looking catgirl with papi anon´s hip joints + shortstack anon´s tomboy body, gave her bigger arms, feet & hands for somethign cartoony but dindt look appeling.

>>11579222
>also
credits to papi anon & Shorstack anon for: tomboy body + hip joints

>>11579222
looks like a digimon.. very interesting but kinda out there proportion choices.

>>11579222
>>11579226
Oh shit, nice work! Cool to see someone using my stuff for a custom. That's a neat design too.

>>11579222
Nice! Also glad to see people using my files for their customs.

>>11579222
>>11579237
>>11579515
>>11579636
since you liked it i gave her anoter chance.
give her normal size arms and painted some details, maybe i will paint a zipper in the nape area

>>11580083
could definitely see it as someone's weird cat acolyte in like, some kind of.. not Spawn, but... what... kind of a Hellboy kinda thing? Something with some art that's pretty stylized and out there.

>>11569717
I don't know if this guy is still around, or anyone curious, but use Winsor & Newton Brush Cleaner & Restorer. Works the same as acetone, but it takes MUCH longer to do any damage to the plastic. At least I think it does, I've never had it damage anything. Doesn't leave the paint sticky either.

Anyone here known of people that take commission work on custom made plushies? I'm planning on getting a plush made of a character I played in a TTRPG.

>>11573859
STL?

i hate when shit thats wip just looks weird even if its completely going along with the plan. the neck on the prototype looks all distended and gross but its like supposed to be proportioned like that just covered up with fur and jewlery

>>11580083
very cute, would

>>11586680
That's me when doing complex painted rendering in 2d art. It's so weird how wrong things look, even when eyedropped from a real photo, until the SECOND it comes together

LET'S GO CRAZY

wish i had more time for customizing

I also wish we didn't have autosage after 2 weeks.

>>11587727
Painting time.

>>11590513
I await seeing how this went in the next thread

>>11590522
Will do. So far so good, I'm painting the silver in right now. Pearlescent white base coat is already done.