Chibi Foreign Company

[captainspud]

1) I believe in you.

2) I had a very productive weekend.

[Baron_Plumpenstrudel]

1) I believe in you.

2) I had a very productive weekend.

I'm unsettled by the fact that you've reached even Camproval, and that I'm the one that put you there, but good work is good work. Still, I feel like I've lost my identity. Like I'm a shell of the person I once was.

[captainspud]

I still don't like Hannibal's character design, but whatever, he's done. *shrug*

[Quickit]

"Yeah, I'm gonna have to ask you to bend over and cough.  I won't enjoy this any more than you do."


Best.Doctor.Model.Ever.

[captainspud]

In retrospect, it may have been a mistake to pose so many of the models to be un-photographable except from very low angles. Group shots are becoming a pain in the ass. >_<

[Snake Eyes]

I like the sneaky Zero trying to hide behind the lightning blast

[Quickit]

I'm sorry to hear that you won't be able to show off your models at Adepticon - good news is no pressure to get the last two done before you leave!  If society still exists next April, I'm sure they'll be ready for that Adepticon.

[captainspud]

I'm still aiming to finish them for the same deadline, just without a lot of the other accessories I was planning to do (multiple trays, etc.). I had those days off either way, so I'm going to truck down to St. Catharines and premiere them to the world on an episode of Guerrilla Miniature Games instead.

[captainspud]

Massacre got paused over the weekend after the bad news hit, but I sighed and picked the brush back up yesterday, and he's "done enough". He definitely has a good and a bad side, though-- the left side looks really weird and dark, and I might need to keep poking the shading to balance everything out. But, he's good enough to take pictures, so let's all just close our eyes and pretend the rest for now.

[Baron_Plumpenstrudel]

Massacre got paused over the weekend after the bad news hit, but I sighed and picked the brush back up yesterday, and he's "done enough". He definitely has a good and a bad side, though-- the left side looks really weird and dark, and I might need to keep poking the shading to balance everything out. But, he's good enough to take pictures, so let's all just close our eyes and pretend the rest for now.

Any inclination to make a chibi corona virus? Or a cute Corona-Chan for Ian's YuJing?

[captainspud]

Hey look, it's some guys. ^_^



I need to do my nitpick pass on Valkyrie (all of the pictures I post in this thread had about another 1-2 hours of cleanup afterward), but I'm pretty pleased with her overall look.

Remaining work for the army:

- Build bases (desert with smashed REM parts)
- Paint bases
- Build tray-slash-photo backdrop
- Add Valkyrie and Laxmee's glasses. I've done a limited prototype that I'm reasonably happy with in concept, but I need to do a full-scale prototype to confirm that it works before I risk the actual models. I've been dreading this finishing touch throughout the project, but we're finally just about at the point where I have to rip off the bandaid and do it. ;_;

[Quickit]

Really amazing job.  Very impressed!  I'm curious to see the reactions when you put this on the CB forums.  This level of cool might get a reaction from CB itself. Anything special planned for the bases?  Will they match the display stand?

[captainspud]

So, I spent a few weeks doing prototypes for the glasses in a few different ways, and I thought I had a pretty promising approach sorted out, but my full-scale test yesterday was a huge disaster. Sooo... Plan A and Plan B (both of which involved Water Effects, and both of which clouded up in the tests) got abandoned. >_<

That put me on Plan C, which was "things that will look good but may not be sturdy enough to last forever". I'm not excited about the knowledge that they may eventually fall apart, but I'll content myself with them looking good for long enough to take pictures. :/





These are made with teensy rectangles cut out of a ziploc and super-glued in place. The bond isn't very strong due to the minimal contact area. Also, the reticule on Laxmee wasn't planned-- she got some glue schmutz on her lens that I couldn't get off, so I added the design to mask it. Still looks okay. *shrug*

Bases are well under way and should be done today, so I'm hoping to put together a preliminary set of "pretty photos" by tonight. ^_^

[droftarts]

Looks good!  How much time did you spend from concept to the finished sculpts?

[captainspud]

Concepts were done over a couple of days in October, and sculpting basically began in January (I started one of the zeroes in December but barely did anything until I was back from the holiday break). I've been pretty good about sticking to the work and not getting distracted, so it's been a pretty solid 3 months of work. However, unlike my usual production misery, this was all pretty fun to do-- chibis are less miserable than normal sculpting (since the rounded shape that the clay wants to assume is your desired result, instead of something you have to endlessly fight against), and the painting was fun since most of the models had their own unique colour schemes to play around with.

Happy potato. ^_^

[Quickit]

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Any inclination to make a chibi corona virus? Or a cute Corona-Chan for Ian's YuJing?

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Nope - I'm still waiting for this.  Whenever Spud feels inspired!




He'll make a fantastic Puppet Master.  His three puppets will be named Donald, Eric, and Don Jr. 

[captainspud]

[Quickit]

I hope that's not you dropping dead from Covid. 

Otherwise, Epic!  I had assumed you had found a toy A-team van.  Didn't suspect it would have to be scratch built with everything else. 

[droftarts]

Awesome!:hk_thumbsup:

[Baron_Plumpenstrudel]

A TEAM VAN NICE!

A worthy project to go out on. Hail Corona!