Observation

Posted in Action Figure Chatter

I find it interesting how sometimes a small, seemingly insignificant detail can make or break a custom. For example, I was recently working on a figure and everything was looking great, at least until I got all the parts put together, something was "off" and I felt like I'd just wasted several hours in prep and painting. Since the body looked good prior to adding the arms and head, that's where I focused, swapped out several different heads, some working better than others, but none really looking right. It wasn't until I added a small bit of blue tack to the top of the neck peg so the head would sit a little higher, and slightly adjusted how one arm was posed, that the figure went from "pile of hot garbage I'm about to set on fire" to "ok, this actually looks pretty decent." Kind of crazy that such minor changes made all the difference.