Any tips on how to prep/crack open the sota street fighter line?

I never prime any of my figures (except when a lighter color is applied on a darker one) but hey, nice and informational. Thank you!

I love hoe you did the watch bit

Very helpful tutorial. I have one question and it's out of the topic, what base body/figure did u used? Thank you

Very nice tutorial. Funny and pedagogical.

Am I the only one who read all of that in Samuel L. Jackson's voice? In all seriousness though, great tutorial man.

Nice tutorial and thank you! Always appreciated my friend!

 Some stock photo from google images. And thanks.

Nice tutorial dude, where did you dig up that picture of the man holding a black dot

I have given this tut a passing glance a few times, but now that I have tried it all of my customs are going to incorporate this feature from here on out. Thank you so much for posting this!

cool tutorial. I have a ML gray hulk whose leg is stuck at the upper thigh. what do you recommend?

 maybe,Is it air dry?

This is one of the BEST tutorials in here due to the clarity of it and how often this kind of repair is needed by toy collectors AND custom work alike. Excellent work.

Espectacular tutorial! Much needed!!

 Hm. Thanks, I won't try that. I'd used it to swap arms and legs but hadn't tried on putty.

 I'm not sure that using a heat gun would be a good idea. There is so much heat generated by one that it would probably warp or melt the figure underneath.

Can Sculpey be hardened with a heat gun? Thanks from a noob, both to this board and customizing in this style, to everyone for the helpful tutorials and tips .

Ever try this with a lighter color, like maybe pink? I am working on a custom Twi'Lek and would like her to be pink-skinned.

Thanks for the tutorial!

can someone do a tutorial on how to sculpt a face for a 6 inch action figure ?

Cool. I might use this on guns.

 You're welcome, glad it helped you and welcome to the hobby bud!!

Thank you very much for posting this, just getting into modding!

this helped a lot thanks. doing 3.75 eyes are driving me nutts

this was great now I know what to do if I take amold of a head

Does anyone have suggestions for adding a cut waist to a figure that doesn't have one? Would the screw technique work? Or a piece of a coat hanger? Though that doesn't have the mushroom effect...

Cool

awesome I've gotta try this soon meowers fds

ok what if I can't find THAT exact same light up sword at walmart ? im in canada just asking but im gonna look for it tommorrow dudy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you know if it's possible to make a clear yellow if you add some yellow acryl to clear acryl? Testors doesn't make it and I wanted to know.

Silly but helpful! Thank you!
Rogue

I smell slenderman figure

you can get them at Hobby stores that sell GW paints

This is great. I think I might adapt this to add ankles to some TMNT figures with static legs.

are there any kinds of sealer that don't dull your colors like modge podge matte does? The bright red on my figure dulls when I use it.

Great tutorial. I have recently started doing more in depth customs and I am learning body swaps. I have recently swapped a lower on a DCUC figure and the waist swivel is now very loose. Do you have any suggestions for tightening things up?

 Hi, it' s a simply plastic shape that you can find almost everywhere. I usually work the little protective caps of the throwaway razors, but you could use even other stuff (in plastic, surely) that could be glued in the leg of your figure.
If you have other question, please feel free to ask me.
Ray

What are the materials needed? Please tell me what did you use for the holster

 Thank you for checking out my TF tutorial. This tut is probably around 5 years old when maybe only a handful of people were customizing TFs, so this many years later there are several new things that should be added to it. I'm sure by now there are plenty of step by step pic tuts, but an equal amount of step by step video tuts. As such I would suggest looking up some of those or really as much as you can find cause it all can help even if there's just a little bit of newer information to learn on each one. Anyways onto your questions, here's some quick pointers:

Paint Damage: For a beginner, using the drybrush method would be effective for this. Silver(s) will be the ideal color for this of course and once you have your brush ready, go around certain edges of the figure and spots where you believe it would have taken wear or want it to have wear. Use liberally.
**Generally this paint damage step is administered once the figure is nearly or fully painted as it should look once its done or about done. It should nearly be the final paint step(s) once the figure is assembled.

Battle Damage: I don't do a whole lot of this to my TF customs, but you will generally need some sort of dremmel tool. You can do this when the figure is disassembled, but to make the figure as a whole more streamlined in the damage aspect I'd suggest adding the damage to the figure before it is taken apart. Since TFs are so diverse in scale and transformation methods, depending on what you are working on will really be up to you. Just be sure not to interfere with the transformation method when using the dremmel. A lot of careful planning goes a long ways.

Of course you can combine these methods which is generally the case. If you've done the "battle damage" to the figure then of course you have to also incorporate the "paint damage" effects. However, you can do "paint damage" effects without having to use a dremmel thereby not having to incorporate the "battle damage" effect.

All in all though when it's all said and done, it really boils down to the individual choosing what methods really work for them. I hope these quick pointers help you out.

I am just getting into painting transformers I was wondering how you do the paint damage and how to do battle damage on on the figures

Hi. Newbie to all this. I was wondering if there was a more softer or bendable epoxy product to use for long female hair and clothing like jackets scarfs loin cloths and capes. I hear sculpey has a product that when after you bake it it is still bendable. Has anyone used it before?

This was pretty well done! I saw the shadow creatures on the wall, a nice touch to make the instructional funny!
-JT

does the boil n pop work on marvel universe pegs in the shoulders

Awesome tutorial. I was wondering how people were able to put such super fine details in some of their figures.

I saw this and wanted to say that this is a great beginner soldering tutorial, if I may add a bit of advice, before you solder the wires and terminals together, use Rosin Soldering Flux. Flux helps with the flow of the solder from wire to terminal or post of switch or LED. It comes in both paste and liquid form. It doesn't matter which you use, but paste is way better to handle.Also if you can't get flux online or at Radioshack (about 7 to 10$), there are some solder that have flux in the middle of the solder.Just a word of caution while using flux: flux is corrosive, so if you are using it, make sure you clean the solder joints that have excess flux with 70% or 90% isopropal alcohol in a well ventilated area because the flux will eat at the solder and cause a weak joint or cause an open in the circuit.also your basic circuit works with that type of led strip and a 9 volt, but if you are using leds keep in mind of the type of led you are using and the amount of power it consumes, because if you don't, you can overheat/overload the led and cause it to explode so to prevent that from happening,have a resistor(with the right value) in the circuit to kind of limit the amount of power the battery is sending the led.there are many tutorials online to wire up led's and other circuits. that is all, but great tutorial.

If I wanted to use a little amount,can I still do the steps?

thanks this really helped

Thanks for the tutorial, I had often wondered what to do about this problem as well. I actually have some foam lying around that prob wouldn't ever be used, now I see what I really needed it for.

Thats good advice! I did something like it! What I did was took some soder, which is bendy metal wire, and hotglued it everywhere painted it, and wall-ah!

How do I make clothing and still make the figure move?