Hal jordan Resin kit

Hal Jordan Resin Kit 1:6 scale

The kit comes cleanly cast in 4 high quality  resin parts, including display base. The kit will require basic assembly skills, and comes unpainted, so will require finishing.

this kit will only be dispatched approximately 7 working days (that's 1 weeks including the weekend days) after payment is received. This is because the kit is hand made to order, which takes time, and i also only have limited opportunities to get to the post office. With this in mind, it will take approximately 2 1/2 to 3 weeks to receive your kit, as i'm using regular air mail for the shipping, to keep costs low. . Please do not buy if you do not accept those terms,for any other questions please contact me at franciscocacereu74@gmail.com.

price:$USD101 (includes shipping) 

Modelado de una mano en Super Sculpey

Despues de mucho probar diferentes metodos he encontrado una forma de modelar manos que me acomoda bastante, ya que no es tan complejo de mecanizar para intesrtarla en la figura y no tiene tantos alambres como para que sea dificultosa su construccion. Es mas trabajo de modelado, pero precisamente esa es la gracia:

Lo primero son las referencias: aqui he tomado fotos de mi propia mano sujetando un trozo de carton enrollado simulando un pergamino (que es la forma de la mano que tengo que modelar) varias vistas para usarlas como referencia y luego las imprimo de 2 tamaños: del tamaño de la pieza a construir y otra copia un poco mas grande para no forzar tanto la vista.

Un vistazo a los materiales: Super Sculpey firm (que fue cortado en cubos y amasado con un rodillo hasta que adquiere una consistencia plastica y no se desgrana), las herramientas que voy a utilizar, espatulas de dentista (wax carvers) my cuchilla de modelismo y unos pinceles de goma para borrar marcas. Finalmente corte un par de secciones de un tubo de aluminio y puse un alambre enroscado en uno de los extremos pegado con cianocrilato, esto me va a servir de soporte para agregar la masilla que voy a usar.

Tomo un churrito pequeño de masilla y le agrego un poco de aceite emulsionada para que tenga una mejor consistencia para modelar (no mucho o se resquebrajara en el horno al cocer) y agrego un poco de material a la paleta que sirve de base para crear un muñon que sirve de base para poner algo de masilla para formar el pulgar. Finalmente agregamos otro tubito para que haga las veces de soporte y se pueda modelar la mano encima.

Ahora amaso una tira de super sculpey y la corto para darle forma a los dedos. las voy poniendo de a una y en orden desde el indice hasta el meñique, y voy añadiendo con cuidado usando la paleta.

Sguimos añadiendo dedos. y aprovecho de trabajar la palma de la mano que queda expuesta por el reves.

Luego de agregar todas las falanges que dan forma a los dedos, fundo los trozos de masilla con una espatula y uso la cuchilla de modelismo para definir las lineas de los tendones del dorso de la mano y para darle forma a la palma donde se sujeta el tubo.
Aqui ya va pareciendo una mano, pero falta todavia.

Se ve que hay que corregir la posicion del pulgar para que el agarre se vea mas natural.





















Aqui corto trocitos muy pequeños de masilla para crear los nudillos. los coloco e posicion y los fundo con la paleta.





 



















 Aqui vamos fundiendo y borrando marcas de herramientas con un pincel con diluyente sintetico.

Finalmente se agregan dos tiras muy pequeñas de masilla para las venas y se vuelve a fundir con diluyente.

Wonder woman Comission

I´ve been working on a piece based on a drawing by the grear artist Claudio Aboy
(original art can be seen here:http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=699034&gsub=107553)

This piece has presented me a great challenge, since not only it has to look as much as possible like the drawing, it´s up to me to figure out the rest of the anatomy and looks from every other angle, specially the face. So let the games begin:

 The first sketch was done on the fly, based on a typical 1:4 wire skeleton (this proved to be a real pain in the A$$ later on)

Here the problems with proportions comparing the base structure with the ref. art are pretty obvious: the lenght and position of the legs, the lenght of the torso and of course the size of the Boobs :P.

Being a knuclehead i was reluctant to start from scratch having invested so much time on this particular figure, but it was finally my client who pointed me in the right direction by giving me a 5 point list of things that needed to be corrected, which were:
- The neck could be a little bit "shorter". looks a little bit long compared to the pic.
- also the lower part of the body (below the bust) could be a little bit "shorter". looks a bit stretched
- arms and legs: little more flesh on them
- a bit more busty^^
- head little more downward and bit smaller face and shorter forehead
- little more hair
- left arm a little bit lower

So i went to sleep thinking about starting from scratch all over again, and then it came to me:
Polyester putty.

I saw a couple of years ago a video from kotobukiya´s monster sculptors where they showed how they made a beautiful and sexy figure using this kind of material. So i started by printing a few copies of the drawing the exact size the statue was meant to be, and then cut them down to use the negative space as a template to fit the curves and slopes of the drawing on top of my figure, and it worked like a charm. (wonder why i never did this before....hmmmm.)

Almost finished, now i´m doing the hair with epoxy, remade the hand to make it grab the boot, and hopefully by Sunday i´ll have the statue painted and ready to ship.