Selling Youself

AWESOME just AWESOME . You want to PM about the price or do you plan to send'em to ebay?

You should submit it to the customs gallery, hes KICK@ss!!!

oh man love the hair TMB! yea looks like foamies, which ones did u use?

~Gj

Looks like foamies with painted edges to me. Great job by the way.

Okay, now you have to tell us how you made the hair!

No problem

Right from price qoute to figure, cool

You can send me a PM or ill send out an email and we can discuss cost

Lol..Should be done tonight...If you don't like it , Ill throw it on Ebay.

Anyway....getting back to your custom, I have a few ideas on the body, The Anime face wouldn't be that difficult to sculpt and the hair wouldn't be that bad either. I don't want to commit to a price on the posts...Just think its wrong. So Email me and we'll discuss a time frame and a cost. I'll give ya deal for being a Figurerealmer-er.

Look what I slapped onto the end of my eBay auction

Damn...maybe a Mystique body? xD

You don't have to sculpt the hair, you could use other stuff like foam or wire to simulate it.

The resident pyschopath of the anime Full Metal Alchemist, Envy, is the custom figure im after. A company released a way of FMA figures before but they were more statues then figures with little to no articulation and ran for a hefty price. I don't know how difficult he'd(yes its a he lol) be to make, I just know at this point and time I wouldn't be able to sculpt the hair to a point id be happy with it. That and trying to find a decent body seem to be the worst part since he doesn't have a real bulky body...

Soon as I get a good picture Ill post it and see how much the price goes



Im currently working on a version of him right now thats about 80% done. The only difference between him and the one im making is a dark blue body suit with black armor, a black helmet with red trim and no jet pack. I just need to make the guantlets, attach the head on and then paint it all and im done

Exactly. In general, I'd probably charge $27 for minor sculpting & painting. A little more if I have to mangle more than one figure.

It can't be that much, it'll cost you what, a little putty, some stuff you have lying around, and some figure parts? Heck you could do an entire figure with only Sculpey if yer good enough xD But if it's something intricate that has to be done, I can see why it would cost more...

I would like this sentence engraved on his forehead in letters half a millimeter tall, please LOL

OKay, can't exactly give an exact price or even an estimate without knowing what the job is and figuring out what figure I'd need for it and how much work I'd need to do.

I like how no one is giving exact prices xD

I'd do stuff for free if I had the money :]

I could give it a try if you wanted

Well, I did just sell a white hat for 60 dollars, so I can definately afford it xD

But my money is going towards food this week :P

is dat a comission ur asking for doc? lol

~Gj

Somebody make the guy in Mr X's avatar! @_@

I think for TMB and the others gettin a lot of comissions, it just happens automatically....it's like a gift for attracting customers....^_^ wish I had it....hehe

~Gj

That would be good...

That I can do, you need pictures along with it?

I guess for a veteran it wouldn't be a hard figure, I just can't sculpt to well yet

I guess that would depend on who here at Figurerealm, you are asking. You can email me if you like. Ill be happy to give you a price quote.

How much would a comission for a six inch figure,no fodder sent go for? I ask because I have a custom in mind that I don't think would turn out well if I tried it

Seems like a good idea, this could work!

I had a guy in the military contact me because he saw some of my work on Ebay, He sends me custom fodder and I do the work for him. He Pays me well on top of all the figures he sends. He has sent a lot of figures to me. Its actually working out very well. So in answer to your question, I think your work speaks for itself in these matters. As far as sending cards or flyers, I have spoken to people that feel that is too in your face advertising for them.

Always a good idea to drop some customs off at the comic shop for promotion. Theyt display it and people start asking where it came from and VIOLA! You have yourself a customer or at the very least word-of-mouth adevertising :P

My "local" comic stores are...interesting. One usually has loose and/or figures missing limbs everywhere. Theyve got a pretty good comic selection though and allot of older figures that could be used to make some decent customs.

Lol.... all the comicbook merchandise is rare in the UK and is SO DAMN EXPENSIVE! But we do have a lot of the shockers, they're always in ASDA (owned by WalMart) but im gettin loads of MLs for xm,as

Wish I had a "local" comic shop. The closest comic shop to me is 35 minutes away on bad roads and the store sucks now and pretty much only sells manga to fat little kids.

Sorry VP I beat ya there. I always give a flyer with all of my auction promoting. I had 2 people interested in various Emercency Alternators but in the end none of them ever got back tome. I'm thinking about dropping some stuff off at my local comic shops, and even putting some of my work on display for examples.

$#!t now I gave away my idea!

yea I wish I knew what these people do to get comissions. But dats a good idea wit the card for your auctions, I migh try that. Thnks VP!

~Gj

I know, he was offering me $80, plus he was going to buy the figures and pay for all the shipping! Then he was gone. I hope he didn't die or something, then I'd feel slightly bad.

That stinks, I hate it when people just ignore you. Not even a simple "sorry I found someone else".

If someone wanted a comission and they offered to buy all the figures and pay the shipping then I would go for it, lol.

I've gotten 2 comission request and I was too busy to do one and the other guy stopped responding to me after he told me he'd get the base figures sent to me.

I just got some business card paper and printed some cards to go in with my sales from eBay to let my buyers know I'm serious and not just some kid making toys. Even though I guess I am just some kid making toys.

Well, I don't promote myself at all, because I don't do comissions, and I occasionally get a comission request. I can only imagine how many requests the rest of you get with so many of your fancy customs on display xD