Head Shrink

There are two methods for shrinking a head that I'm aware of. Neither is exactly fast or cheap, but both can give you pretty good results.

The first is the Hydroshrink method. You can buy Hydroshrink and see a video explaining its use here: http://www.theengineerguy.com/Hydroshri ... t-Kit.html

The second is the NOVOCS method. Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we0nOvtAMw4

Personally, I think that the NOVOCS method gives better results, but it's definitely the more fiddly of the two.

When it comes to both, you're going to have to do some math in advance. For example, one of the projects I'm working on involves shrinking a 12" figure's head to the 6" scale. I measured the head to be shrunk (5.08 centimeters) and measured the original head of the new body it's going to go on for comparison (2.01 centimeters), and ran them through a percentage calculator. 2.01 is 39.5% of 5.08, so I found I'd need to shrink the larger head by 60%. NOVOCS reduces by 20%, so I figured I'd have to cast it three times. Then I remembered almost immediately after I'd written that down that no, that's not how it'd work. Because the new casting would reduce by 20% of the new casting's size, not the original's. So the math involved would actually go like this:

5.08 - 20% = 4.07
4.07 - 20% = 3.26
3.26 - 20% = 2.61
2.61 - 20% = 2.09

It'd still be a tiny bit bigger than I wanted, but 8/10s of a centimeter is ultimately negligible in this scale.

So basically, make sure you have a good ruler and this little buddy onhand before you start casting: http://www.percentagecalculator.net/

Does any of that help?

Dude, thank you for the links and the answers, it sure will help a lot!