moogle! (finished)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moogle

Looks good - from the drawings to what you have made i think the nose is alittle flat , the tummy needs to stick out more , the arms thinner. What material did you use to sculpt it.

thanks, i didn't draw those, that's final fantasy 9 design art.  you're right, it's not an exact representation.  the moogles in the picture are more round and rolly-polly.  mine's a bit skinnier, kind of a bit more grown up.  it's a bit late to fix since it's baked and hardened but i might make another one later.  good to see constructive criticism though.  the material is sculpy for the body and brass sheet for the wings.  still figuring out what to make the pom-pom on its head out of.  probably more sculpy.

Not bad. Like you say, a little on the thin side, but as soon as I saw it I knew what it was. The head looks perfect.

Can't you just add some material? It shouldn't take that long. That's Super Sculpy right? How does it finish out? Can you sand it or shave off offending material with a knife? That's what I like about epoxy putty, which is what most of the sculptors who make the masters for all of the figure companies use. Plus, baking is an option that speeds curing, but you can just let it set on it's own. The thing I like about that is that the putty has different sculpting properties as it cures. If you form a basic shape, for say, a pom-pom, then let it set for about 20 minutes or so, it will be more stiff than when you first mixed it up and will take fine detail without loosing too much shape. You can wait up to about 45 minutes to do that kind of detail, but at that point you'd better get cracking because it will start to harden after that. Take a look at the bearskin (hat) on my French Hussar. I did the bearskin and the plume in that manner. The plume has a wire core. http://promodelmaker.com.istemp.com/images/3rd/32.jpg

 I use Magic Sculpt exclusively.

Looks great though, keep us posted on your progress.

Looks good!

For the pom-pom, would sculpy be light enough to be supported like that?  What about real pom poms like you would find at a craft store?  Or would those look out of place?

Just use a guitar string. You can get a set with an unwound G, which would give you three unwound strings in three different gauges to choose from. You can get them with the high E at .008, .009, 010, or .011, though the larger gauge sets will have a wound G, so all you'd get is the B and E string unwound.
 It will be thin enough, yet will be stiff enough to support nearly any weight you'd likely put on it. The pom-pom, no matter what you make it from, will sit just fine. Plus, it will wave and wiggle freely.
 The wound strings will make good hoses for car, tank or aircraft engines, so they won't go to waste.

for those of you still interested, the moogle is still a work in progress.  i nearly finished him off:  the paint was complete (preshading and everything, probably more complex than it needed to be) and all it needed was a top coat and the pom-pom.  I coated it in micro flat but the stuff cracked up big time.  when i tried to smooth it out or wipe it off, the paint completely peeled off the brass wings.  now the figure's been stripped of all paint and is being smoothed/primed with tamiya putty.  it probably needs it anyway.  going to work out all the finger prints in the clay and the accidental niks and wrinkles in the surface, adjust some of the minor misshapes, rework the wing attachment for easier painting and PRIMER IT THIS TIME!!!  it's too bad i didn't have the brains to take pictures of the paint job before it all got flushed down the drain...

goat monkey wrote:

it's too bad i didn't have the brains to take pictures of the paint job before it all got flushed down the drain...

Sorry to hear that.  So close too.  Pictures, next time!  I would have liked to have seen it.

the moogle returns.

this time i'm doing the parts separately.  the body's finished.

that would be a wing.  and those would be my fingers.  and no, i can't let go.  thank you super glue.

Aluninum foil over a wire armature? Looks great.

yes, it's a christmas ornament.

goat monkey wrote:

that would be a wing.  and those would be my fingers.  and no, i can't let go.  thank you super glue.

Too funny!

It looks very good.  You were always planning on making it into an ornament or was that a last minute change?  Just curious.
 

cute  very nice

thanks.  i don't think it was supposed to be an ornament per se but it was supposed to be a hanging figure, hence the pose.  it was actually supposed to be something to hang on a rear-view mirror but now i'm having second thoughts about that application since the wings are made of thin brass and are pretty sharp.  if that thing's flying around during a crash or something it'll take out an eye without much effort.