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A few more photos.

Don’t know why photos keeps going sideways

Looking good. Yea the pale bodies are so pale, unless the head was specifically made pale, I find very few that pale. Sometimes Superduck heads tend to match, but even these days, a lot of them are closer to the suntan. Great idea for the magnets. Only time I've had them snap is when it came close to a stack of other magnets and it mustve been on an angle and pulled harder on one side, but usually 1 or 2 should be fine.

Gwebberarts wrote:Don’t know why photos keeps going sideways

I've had that happen before. I think i cropped them slightly and miraculously they were right way up. Don't know the reason why though but usually it happened with my phone camera pics.

csyeung wrote: Great idea for the magnets. Only time I've had them snap is when it came close to a stack of other magnets and it mustve been on an angle and pulled harder on one side, but usually 1 or 2 should be fine.

Yes, I’ve had some that were 3mm thick chip out sides and such .. the cheaper brands do that a lot.
Love playing with crazy ideas using magnets for costume elements, in the future all my figures will have magnetic boots (space theme, so it makes sense), so they can “free” stand on metal plates. Still need to work out how many magnets to use for a strong grip but still get them off the base plate without a hoist.

The Commander got an updated gun holster eliminating the plastic version and a few new belt details.
New girl had to have a 1/6 inch trimmed off the top of her neck plug to get a better fit down to her neck , now she wants to know where her costume is … I guess it’s chilly.
Meanwhile the tester girl got all decked out for a photo but is demanding a better body than the hard jointed one.  Sadly she will have to wait as i have another girl coming … well, her head and costume anyway.   Meanwhile Ill be making more belts and whatnot for these girls.

So I’ve been thinking on this project and and will be adding a fourth figure with a different costume design that I hope to loosely base on a movie character.

The other thing I’ve been pondering hard is the hands, while some old Sci-fi films opted for bare hands, I tend to like the gloved hands as it feels more complete costume wise. The issue becomes the more I study the “look” the more I feel like they should have full black gloves instead of fingerless or white. That creates the problem of needed four sets of gloved hands and that is going to get pricey ($20 per set from what I’ve found so far). So gloves may have to wait a while and I just burned cash on a head, body and costume parts all in the same day 🫤

Very cool!

One of my projects starting to take off.
Costume held together with super glue and a prayer.
May or may not change the head , not sure yet.
Not fond of this hard jointed body, but it’s just a throw together project , so it is what it is.
May do more detailing in the future.

It may be only just holding together, but she looks fantastic!

Looks reasonably realistic, hard sci-fi - I like it.

BAMComix wrote:It may be only just holding together, but she looks fantastic!

Thanks, it was definitely a learning experience and maybe sometime I’ll use it as a pattern to make a better harness that’s stitch together, but that would be for a better body than Miss Nipples

Visisonor wrote:Looks reasonably realistic, hard sci-fi - I like it.

She’s not too bad, a bit of a test bed for ideas which hopefully will get improved over time

Talk about annoying .. a lovely head sculpt, nice hairdo, and then ….
Somebody in quality control is color blind , on a long hair head this would be ok, but on a updo hair style it’s just a crime. Badly mismatched color front to back on an otherwise really nice head.

Really like these three heads a lot, just have a nice feel to them and look fairly life like (with good lighting anyway). I have a fourth head coming that I’m hoping will fit in with the group, but I may have to mix and match who plays what character. I can only pst three photos at a time, so I’ll post the fourth head in next post. Once i have all the heads and basic costume parts, then I can get on with scratch building accessories (belts, holsters, weapons, costume parts and details, etc)

Head number four still in shipping.  There’s others I may consider as well as I’m not 100% sold on the smile for the character .. nothing like having more heads than bodies

I guess I'm colorblind, lol. I'm not seeing a difference in color between the front and back of the hair.

I agree, they're nice looking head sculpts

Zes wrote:I guess I'm colorblind, lol. I'm not seeing a difference in color between the front and back of the hair.

I agree, they're nice looking head sculpts

I think he's talking about the different skin tones between the front and back of the skull.

Talon65 wrote:

Zes wrote:I guess I'm colorblind, lol. I'm not seeing a difference in color between the front and back of the hair.

I agree, they're nice looking head sculpts

I think he's talking about the different skin tones between the front and back of the skull.

Ah, yeah, I see it now. Thanks. I was thinking they used two different shades of rooted hair before, lol.

Yeah, I assume they couldn't be bothered to match the colors on both head pieces. Bad QC, indeed.

Zes wrote:I guess I'm colorblind, lol. I'm not seeing a difference in color between the front and back of the hair.

I agree, they're nice looking head sculpts

Front and back of the HEAD not the hair. The plastic color is mismatched

A head sculpt I found last night that I really like is of course not only a pre-order, it’s a delayed pre-order as well and after asking, theres no known updated ETA for it either.

I dont know about you guys, but waiting for stuff from to come from China when I can’t find a US seller is bad enough .. but a unknown pre-order that only has a tiny discount and no known future ? .. no thanks … love the sculpt, but not that much.

Working on an assortment of Blasters for the ladies.
Blasters and Costumes are far from their final form, but waiting for stuff to come in the mail is just part of the hobby.

They look great! A formidable crew indeed .

BAMComix wrote:They look great! A formidable crew indeed .

Thanks, as soon as I get some more bits and pieces in and cand sit down and work on the costumes, it’ll get more interesting (I hope)

Some closer shots. Long ways to go still. Enjoy.

They do look very 60s retro which suits your crews look.

BAMComix wrote:They do look very 60s retro which suits your crews look.

That’s the general game plan, hardest part is finding head sculpts that have the right look and realism.  Which is why I’m still struggling to find two or three more heads that fit in.  Too many just look off.

Well, so far building the Blaster Guns has been going ok with a few minor changes nowhere and there.
Will update as I make more progress. Ordered two more heads so theres going to be a bit of a mix and match party when they get here around end of month. I should have more costume parts before then so I can dress bodies and start planing the details.

Anyway, Ill post photos as things happen.

Gwebberarts wrote:Well, so far building the Blaster Guns has been going ok with a few minor changes nowhere and there.
Will update as I make more progress.   Ordered two more heads so theres going to be a bit of a mix and match party when they get here around end of month.  I should have more costume parts before then so I can dress bodies and start planing the details.

Anyway, Ill post photos as things happen.

Looking forward to the future updates

The second basic uniform came in today, so I got her dressed for a couple photos.
I’ve also been working on the Blasters a bunch making adjustments for better fit to what the figures can actually do in a pose (wrist movement, arm length, hand hold).

Also added some more goodies to the Commanders belt, the buckle got some updates, added some detailing, radio has a magnetic mount, so it comes on and off like the buckle.  Everything still needs sanding and paint, that’ll be well into the future when I can afford to buy suitable paints.

Thinking I may do a series of photos of all the heads on a single bare body so people can do comparison shopping, so to speak. I know others have been doing this too, so I thought I’d help out when all my heads arrive.  I’m really picky about having a certain “look” for the heads I will use and I’ve looked at hundreds of heads and only bought a few only to still have rejects.

Something interesting I found is I have four S17 bodies and some have only a single wrist ball and other have two joints in the wrist allowing for better movement of the hands.  I have to assume the single wrist is older stock (?) that I ended up with even though they all were bought within the year, a couple with in the same month. Also, one of the the neck stud sticks out much further than the others, that or the pour of TPF it was short .. had to cut the plug short so the head would sit lower.

Anyway, enjoy the photos, comments welcome.