Hey Gamera, even at this early stage the creepy factor is cranked way up.  Looking forward to seeing more!

Love it Gam Gam!  One of my favorite scary movies.

Thanks guys! Working on the TV now. This has been a nice break from vehicles... 

Hi all. Obviously I have been absent for some time. When I last posted I thought I was ok and dealing with things, and then the bottom fell out. Due to my grief I have not been near my bench, or even looked at the FSM website for months. I now have a better handle on things and have started building again.

I would like to offer a big vote of thanks to Gamera because it seems like he's been holding things together here, for which I am very grateful. I would also like to thank you all for your patience and commend you for the fine work you have been putting in. Hopefully I have updated everything, but if I have missed something, please let me know.

Dodgy

Hello Dodgy!

It's good to have you back with us. I've seen you put my M79 gunner on the front page - thanks a lot! What are you working on now? Have a nice day!

Paweł

I'm sorry to hear about all you went though Dodgy. I hope maybe we can take your mind off things. 

And I've done nothing really, just plugging along on Sadako-san. I'm still working on the TV. The thing about 3D printed is you get the straitions though everything and I'm trying to sand the worst of them out.  

Welcome back Dodgy.  Sorry to hear what you've gone through and glad your doing better.  

Grief takes time.  I've had my share of losses and give yourself time.  The other thing is you can be chugging along doing okay and something blindsides you and tanks you again.  Time my friend.  The only solution.

Hey Dodgy,

Sorry to hear about what you have been going through mate. Having people you can talk to, taking time and acknowledging grief can help on a long road.

Take care mate.

It's good to have you back Dodgy.

Some great work shared so far.  I've only recently gotten started on my figures.  An early shot of the two characters at the bar.

I haven't done a figure before (only tabletop game miniatures) so it's slow going.  I'll probably create a WIP post in the Figures forum and provide occasional updates here. 

Looks cool Phoenix, looking forward to seeing where you go from here. 

I need to get some more work done on mine... 

There is some great work going on here.

Drums and Jarrod, the Spartans are amazing, so good.

Glamdring Fury man is very cool

Ikar, that is one scary dude there

Pawel, nice job on the launcher man

Pat, good work on your space cowboy marine

Phillie, Mando looks all business. Can you take the helmet off?

I have had the Aussies on sticks and primed for a few months. I am converting a tankman, and I was not happy with the lack of gear on board so I did a mould around another figure to cast some of their gear.

The mould being formed

And the gear in place on the figures, ready for more primer.

Progress of the bartender.  Test fit the head and arms with blue tack.  Not sold on how his beard looks. Plenty left to do with the face and body.  Unfortunately much of the detail on the bartender turned out to be rather soft.

Sadly they only included that one section of the bar top.  Thinking of scratchbuilding a couple more sections to provide sufficient room for the figures to be posed as intended.  Getting started on his human partner.

Aw krap, sorry I missed your post somehow Piers! Nice work there casting off a replacement set of packs! 

Phoenix: That looks great! Super job on the jumpsuit and the face looks perfect! Crazy about not offering more a bar top though. 

Thank you all for your kind thoughts. This is truly the hardest thing I have ever had to deal with. 

Moving on, Lost Again, the way you moulded those packs was really clever and informative, thanks for sharing.

Phoenix, I'm loving the bar tender! What is it about the beard you don't like? If it's the representation of a beard, have you thought about working it with a hot needle? Sorry if I'm teaching you to suck eggs, but a needle, blunt end first, is pushed into a cork, and then you can heat the other end to work on refining beards and hair.

Dodgy

Phoenix, I'm loving the bar tender! What is it about the beard you don't like? If it's the representation of a beard, have you thought about working it with a hot needle? Sorry if I'm teaching you to suck eggs, but a needle, blunt end first, is pushed into a cork, and then you can heat the other end to work on refining beards and hair.

Thanks Dodgy!

I did not know about that trick with the needle.  That is worth giving a try.  Adding it to my book of tips!  While I do think the beard is lacking in physical texture, my comment was more about the coloration of the beard.  I've continued to play with it as I put him together.

Hopefully the two images will post side by side so it's easier to see the differences in coloration.  I drybrushed a couple layers of different colors onto it.  Final dry brush is a metallic copper, which suprisingly didn't leave a metallic sheen to his beard.  I think it's made it look a bit more natural.

The fourth arm won't be attached till I finish up the wine bottle.  I want to print a label for it and have it pouring.

To mimic beverage pouring I stretched a bit of sprue that I'll attach and finish shaping to hopefully help create the illusion. This was my first try at stretching sprue.  It was surprisingly challenging to do.

This guy is slow going for me.  Spend a lot of time thinking about how to do the next step.  Not as comfortable with building figures and because of it, tend to over think everything.

Looks great to me Phoenix! I love the wicked smile!!! 

Looking forward to seeing how the poured drink goes. 

There is definitely a significant improvement in the beard Phoenix, but I've got to say that if I walked into a bar and this guy was serving, I'd be out of there faster than a Greyhound chasing a cat! He is one devilish looking dude. Great work mate, you're doing a brilliant job.

Dodgy

Yeah, I'm not sure I'd trust the little dude either. 

I'm afraid he'd slip something in there and then be all innocent 'Really, that was poison to hewmons? I had no idea...'

Gamera

Yeah, I'm not sure I'd trust the little dude either. 

I'm afraid he'd slip something in there and then be all innocent 'Really, that was poison to hewmons? I had no idea...'

 

Yup!

Yeah that barkeep looks awfully shifty!  Especially in the second photo - he looks like he found "the good stuff" under the counter and has already taken the liberty of having some himself!

Dodgy

There is definitely a significant improvement in the beard Phoenix, but I've got to say that if I walked into a bar and this guy was serving, I'd be out of there faster than a Greyhound chasing a cat! He is one devilish looking dude. Great work mate, you're doing a brilliant job.

Dodgy

 

Real G

Yeah that barkeep looks awfully shifty!  Especially in the second photo - he looks like he found "the good stuff" under the counter and has already taken the liberty of having some himself!

Gamera

Yeah, I'm not sure I'd trust the little dude either. 

I'm afraid he'd slip something in there and then be all innocent 'Really, that was poison to hewmons? I had no idea...'

 

It's hard to express how gratifying it is to hear how the little guy has sparked the imagination!

He does appear to be a barkeep of dubious morals.  Perhaps, he might add a little something special to the drink of a particularly well heeled customer.  That it might ease the efforts of certain partners of ill repute, as they relieve said customer of the burden of their valuables. For a percentage of course. 

I certainly hope the magic remains as he moves to completion.  His human partner had to be taken back to plastic after an unfortunate series of events left him looking more like a cousin of the Toxic Avenger.

Painting skin is hard.

Phoenix: Yeah, you can say that again- painting skin is a pain. Looking forward to seeing how the human partner comes out after you get him repainted. 

I got some more work done on Sadako. I hope (and the operative word here is HOPE) I'll have her done by Halloween. I still need to do the white highlights on the robe and the TV base is still in grey primer. 

I've got some printer downloads for tatami mats to try to get a little closer to the movie scene here...

Gamera,

Sadako is looking all creepy, perfect for a Halloween completion!

And remember, a stanadard tatami mat is approximately 3'x6'.

Real G

Gamera,

Sadako is looking all creepy, perfect for a Halloween completion!

And remember, a stanadard tatami mat is approximately 3'x6'.

 

Thanks! I printed out the dollhouse mats today on the work printer. They're about a third too small though. I can probably put them in MS Paint or something like that to scale them up. 

Such a scary movie.  Looking awesome!

The thing I like about eastern horror films is that things don't work out.  Western films always have closure.  In the ring, you would figure once they found her sekeleton in the well and put her to rest that her spirit would move on.  NOPE just evil!  So fun.  Curious though how many eastern horror films involve children and water...  Great stuff

Gamera, Sadako is coming along great.  Have you had any luck with the tatami mats?

Gamera,

Is it possible to Dremel out the TV and place a bright, flickering LED inside, to create backlighting?  That would look absolutely nuts!

Hello guys, sorry been a little under the weather but I pulled out Sadako this evening and got a little more done. 

John: Yeah, most Hollywood horror movies don't really scare me anymore. Too much gore and jump scares. As you say Asian movies are just creepy though! I loaned my copy of the Korean horror film 'The Wailing' to a friend and he really liked it. Very disturbing movie. I'm not totally sure I understand the ending but it's just creepy as hell...

Phoenix: Thanks, the tatami mats aren't perfect, about a third or so undersize from what Real G told me but I wanted to get the thing done so I just went ahead with what I had. I can always pull them up later if I want to redo them. 

G: My friend I think you said something about the lights before. Or someone did. Anyway I found these really neat tiny flickering LEDs each slightly smaller than a grain of rice. I kinda wish they put out a little more light. I'm not sure I should have painted the screen of the TV or not since they looked good before but after painting I have to dim the lights a little to get them to show well. 

Anyway Sadako-kun complete: 

The whole shebang with the screen lit: 

With the lights dimmed: 

I wish I could capture some the flickering action but I'm not sure how post it. My phone's camera will capture video footage but I'm sure how to put it up. 

OMG Gamera, that TV screen looks PERFECT!!