Oh. My. Glob.
I'm still alive? Apparently. Sorry I haven't been submitting much lately, to the three of you who noticed. I've been focusing much more on my music (which can be found at Soundcloud.com/Stephenvaux ) and work, which drains me more than I wished it would.
BUT HEY! CUSTOMS! I really wish the Twilight brushable were the right shade of purple, but oh well, I refuse to paint any ponies that don't truly need it.
If anyone has any tutorials or anything to making these molded hair fellows, I'd love to read/see them, as this is my first try and it really shows. I'm having a lot of novice issues, but I'm hoping that with practice, I can get around them.
I'm following Otaku Squirrel's figures as a spiritual model, along with stock images of Twilight for references. I hope everyone likes it. I'd appreciate any help, criticism or otherwise that y'all can give me, so comment it up!
And yeah, there will be more to come~
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Now granted I used Milliput---but it does translate to all forms of Sculpy! Like on my Octavia--
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I hope this helps! If you wish -- ask me questions anytime! I'm always here!
Secondly, I just saw your Octavia on EQD, congratulations! It looks great~
But back to the point, I have a few questions besides the tail stuff aha. I've been basing how I make my stuff based on OtakuSquirrel's stuff, where the hair is removable and such. With Twilight, I put the sculpey directly onto my pony, and had to bake the whole pony due to the sculpey not coming off the head. Eventually I *cough*broke*cough* the hair off, painted it, glued it back together, painted it, and that was that.
*INHALE* But I didn't enjoy the whole, you know, /breaking/ thing, so I found a tutorial for LEGOs that said to put tinfoil on the head, so I tried that with Rainbow Dash, so I could take the hair off and paint it all easily.
THE POINT. Which do you do, or recommend? Do you apply the stuff directly to the head? And from there, how do you paint and such? And I guess I'll ask again, since I think I was horribly indirect before, do you bake the entire deal? And yeah, I really need better sandpaper or something... My final products are so rough x_x
Also? I ramble. I apologize.
The tin foil thing is something I'm going to try! But generally I'm doing total repaints for background or OC ponys.
When I paint directly on the pony I edge with thinner very lightly. Not enough in the brush to run, but enough to take the paint off the original plastic to the edge of your work! (also depends on the paint you use, but testors enamel thinner won't effect the HASBRO plastic! Just don't get it on the toys original paint!)Acrylics for miniature painting works the best!
Yes I Bake the entire sculpt one time----Unless it gets intricate for accessories--Then twice or even three times at-- 215 DEG. Fahrenheit for no more than 40 minutes per bake!
Sand paper varies on how much you need to take off! Wet/dry auto body papers work well! 600/400/320 are the three you need. Hobby files! Buy them at a hardware store as "SWISS FILES"! This way you can get them for allot less than at the hobby store!(Do you have a "Harbor Freight" store in your town?----Cheap tools!)
You Ramble? Not even close!------HAVE FUN!
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Most of all have fun!
Those are both way more ... non-ridiculous ways of doing this than what I did, aha. Again, thanks so much for your help! I'll absorb as much of it that you'll throw my way~