Introducing someone to customizing
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Introducing someone to customizing

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Well the new girl I'm talking with, I guess we're a couple at this point, asked me to teach her how to customize figures. I wanted to see how you guys think I should go about starting her off. I figured start her with simple stuff like parts swapping and such. I want to try and convert the tutorials off here into PDF files and email them to her (she's in Canada).

Posted by somebody1
on Thursday, June 4, 2009
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somebody1 -
Friday, June 5, 2009
lol. I think I have enough stuff other than figures to make a dozen boxes for her to use.
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BDCdiesel -
Friday, June 5, 2009
Thats simple, show her you aren't a creepy perv (as far as I know, j/k) and offer to send it somewhere else, a po box, a friends, something like that. Anyway, that would be an easy way to establish whether or not she wanted to give you her addy. "hey baby, I got something to send you, but I don't want you to feel uncomfortable about giving me your address, so is there anywhere else I can send it?" I'd wait until she has decided to customize, of course. Becoming natural to you? sounds like trial and error wins again, better than school training!!!
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somebody1 -
Friday, June 5, 2009
lol. Once she trusts me enough to give me her addi I will send her a set and I should have plenty of figures to spare soon. She's still thinking about it. I'm just glad she's interested in it. It's funny I was so bad at 3d art in art school but the sculpting is starting to become natural to me.
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BDCdiesel -
Friday, June 5, 2009
Hello there, back to your original problem(?) First of all, you should be a sweetheart, and send her a basic customizing set. If she is the type of girl that likes a challenge, you should send her a couple old figures and give her a challenge and tell her to make any character she wants out of the stuff you sent her. Of course, offering yourself available for questions. Tutorials are awesome and all, but the best teacher is trial and error, I still suggest you send her some links. Tell her to use the leftovers to practice painting on and such. you're a lucky man, I wish my lady was into customizing. she doesn't have anything against it and she is super supportive, but she just doesn't want to do it, and she calls herself a graduate with a bachelors degree of fine arts. and she's a damn tough critic, if she doesn't like it, or think it's good enough, I don't post it.
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somebody1 -
Thursday, June 4, 2009
we have 2. I got my parents one for xmas last year. At least when this is in my room I can do more customizing.
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Top-notch comix -
Thursday, June 4, 2009
lol that's probably why I don't have a computer at my house
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somebody1 -
Thursday, June 4, 2009
lol. I'm amazed I haven't spilled paint on the keyboard customizing yet.
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Top-notch comix -
Thursday, June 4, 2009
... my bad... sorry...
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somebody1 -
Thursday, June 4, 2009
responded...and just bit my tongue eating and typing at the same time T.T
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Top-notch comix -
Thursday, June 4, 2009
yeah... I need your addi... PM'd!
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somebody1 -
Thursday, June 4, 2009
lol. I was kidding. I sent the cash yesterday. Hopefully I got the addi right, I had to yank it off the envelope from megaman.
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Top-notch comix -
Thursday, June 4, 2009
hey... that was harsh... I was bein serious... not insulting your age!... side note: am I still getting the money?...
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somebody1 -
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Y'know, I can still get that 10 back that I sent you for the figure and parts lol When you get to be my age you're lucky to remember anything.
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Top-notch comix -
Thursday, June 4, 2009
yeah... its kind of hard to remember stuff like that when you have been at the site for sooo long
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somebody1 -
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Yeah I just realized you don't have to join lol.
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Top-notch comix -
Thursday, June 4, 2009
just copy and paste the addresses...
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somebody1 -
Thursday, June 4, 2009
She's thinking about it. I wanted to see if she even liked the basics of customizing first. I was going to send her to our site to give her a taste of things but I lost the link x.x
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DTM -
Thursday, June 4, 2009
I'm guessing, if she took the time...make her sign up on here. There are also tons of tutorials on the site. Maybe if you sent her links of them to her...
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HeartBreakKid -
Thursday, June 4, 2009
smacks TRQ whats wrong with you boy lol and I need to redo the pic of you I made the head huge lol
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somebody1 -
Thursday, June 4, 2009
I'm kinda hoping it goes past that lol
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The Real Question -
Thursday, June 4, 2009
in the end r u gonna try nad boink her?
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