Been awhile! But summer and pandemic left me with more time at home than I’ve had in years and I finally started getting finished customs out of the pile.
Made a She-Hulk using well...She-Hulk. The new one from the Super Skrull BAF wave. I very carefully dremeled down the pant legs until I shaped them into bare legs, then fully resculpted the torso and feet. Added a new head from Thundra with some resculpted DCC Wonder Woman hair. The wristbands were from Boom Boom. Kept the original head and repainted too just in case I liked it better. Not sure which one I liked better.
Quite the opposite. Hasbro's engineering is a lot tighter than Toybiz's so the joints need more work. On the upside I've gotten way better at hiding the joint work I did.
The work to get the pants off is just stupid good. I had wondered how difficult that would be as I wanted to make a custom out of the she hulk but was not feeling those ripped pants.
I didn't need to sculpt since I dremeled down, but it was pretty touch n go to dremel without gashing the legs enough that I'd have to use clay/apoxie.
I recently dremeled down my own She-hulk. I used the dremel to carefully take off the big stuff then used different grains of sandpaper to file down the rest and preserve the muscles. Took the better part of a day. Maybe Raybot is using specific dremel bits to attain that affect without sandpaper.
Thanks! I did grind them down. Just really, really evenly. I did that to all the discs, and also dremeled the cavities for the shoulder balls and torso joint so the parts just don’t slice into each other. Wish I had a more exciting trick to share though.
You can use a file if you don't want to risk damage with a power tool. Bend the joints so the disk is exposed and go to work. There's always an angle at which the disk jutts out a little.
Yea, I’m glad I eventually got back around to those. I don’t think the shoes were drawn very consistently at all but I loved the look of the Adi Granov designed ones for the Sideshow statue. Avoiding sculpting those must’ve set this project back at least a week lol.
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(Time to update some of my old ass tutorials lol)
I thought for sure that Hasbro had recruited you, and I'm still convinced they did.