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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on Jan 19, 2010 23:00:48 GMT
Well, here it is guys. After 11 hours of work, it's finished!
First, I cut out the eyes, and make some sculpey to go over them. I then made entirely new eyes out of sculpey. I baked them for about a minute before they were done. I also sculpted and baked the fang-like teeth at the end of the jaws and baked them with the new eyes.
Next, I cut off the head and the fins. The head and neck are made of a softer plastic than the rest of the body with an obvious seam. So, with my new best friend the exacto knife (man that thing is awesome!), I cut around the head there. I was expecting it to be solid plastic, so when I cut through it with such ease I was surprised. It's hollow! I had never expected that, as it was a pretty heavy figure to begin with. I wonder how many other safaris are hollow to save on plastic? Well anyway here's a pic:
I've actually seen butchered whales that looked like that, heh. But anyways, the next thing I had to do was cut about an inch and a half out of the main part of the body...
And to do that I really had to heat it up! (that's hot water pouring into the body cavity, in case you were wondering.) Then, I cut through the middle of it.
It was a bear. I really didn't heat the plastic up enough. So then when I went back to heat it up again for the next cut, I left it under boiling hot water for ten minutes so it would really get soft. I could cut through it like a hot knife through butter after that.
I tossed the donut hole, and then proceded to stick the two body pieces together with superglue. I twisted the back part of the body so the final result would look like it's twirling around in the water. Then I put air-dry clay around it to kind of fill up the seam line.
Then, I added my pre-sculpted fins onto it via superglue, and put some air dry clay around them to help them blend.
And then I had to paint the fins to match the body. Coming up with the exact colors was tricky so I ended up changing the colors on the model a little bit, heh. I added stripes to the fins to keep them from being to visually boring. I painted all of the teeth (old and new) white. I painted the eyes black, and tiny black slits for nostrils. The problem with the original paint job was that it's belly wasn't white, as every large oceanic predator's bellies are (countershading!) so I painted it white, and painted the bottoms of the fins white too......
So there it is. I still have to go over some paint touch ups, because some are really noticeable in the right light. But, it's basically done! Hooray. As my first "carved" figure I think it turned out pretty decent.
First, I cut out the eyes, and make some sculpey to go over them. I then made entirely new eyes out of sculpey. I baked them for about a minute before they were done. I also sculpted and baked the fang-like teeth at the end of the jaws and baked them with the new eyes.
Next, I cut off the head and the fins. The head and neck are made of a softer plastic than the rest of the body with an obvious seam. So, with my new best friend the exacto knife (man that thing is awesome!), I cut around the head there. I was expecting it to be solid plastic, so when I cut through it with such ease I was surprised. It's hollow! I had never expected that, as it was a pretty heavy figure to begin with. I wonder how many other safaris are hollow to save on plastic? Well anyway here's a pic:
I've actually seen butchered whales that looked like that, heh. But anyways, the next thing I had to do was cut about an inch and a half out of the main part of the body...
And to do that I really had to heat it up! (that's hot water pouring into the body cavity, in case you were wondering.) Then, I cut through the middle of it.
It was a bear. I really didn't heat the plastic up enough. So then when I went back to heat it up again for the next cut, I left it under boiling hot water for ten minutes so it would really get soft. I could cut through it like a hot knife through butter after that.
I tossed the donut hole, and then proceded to stick the two body pieces together with superglue. I twisted the back part of the body so the final result would look like it's twirling around in the water. Then I put air-dry clay around it to kind of fill up the seam line.
Then, I added my pre-sculpted fins onto it via superglue, and put some air dry clay around them to help them blend.
And then I had to paint the fins to match the body. Coming up with the exact colors was tricky so I ended up changing the colors on the model a little bit, heh. I added stripes to the fins to keep them from being to visually boring. I painted all of the teeth (old and new) white. I painted the eyes black, and tiny black slits for nostrils. The problem with the original paint job was that it's belly wasn't white, as every large oceanic predator's bellies are (countershading!) so I painted it white, and painted the bottoms of the fins white too......
So there it is. I still have to go over some paint touch ups, because some are really noticeable in the right light. But, it's basically done! Hooray. As my first "carved" figure I think it turned out pretty decent.
