Always the first time

[Cookie]

Hi coaches,
it bin a while waiting for my first miniatures to arrive.
After very nice contacts via pn and a lot of information it´s on me now.
As I mentioned before my favorite teams are the Redskins and VT Hokies.
Also I am planing on a historic team of the Redskins like the 85 or 87.
But step by step....
I bought 4 packs of buzzball figures and Coach Rip is a "nice guy" and threw a little extra in it.
Then Hoop came up with a free box with dozens of figures (nice mixture), pieces, bases etc.
Thank you so much guys!
I followed a lot of instructions how to customize and almost everything that showed of pics of ya´ll teams etc.
I went thru the parts and peaces Hoop send me and decided to start with it.
I sculptured on a left arm of a figure that I might have as a DE or OLB.
The miniature I glued together out of two different supplier. I don´t wanna call it wrong so.....
My plan is it to sculpt the left arm, then go for the missing right arm which I don´t know yet where to take from. I like to have one that reaches out straight.
The pad suppose to be seen underneath the shirt, calves and thights more massive.
After I talked to Dimitri I plan on to fix the helmet into a Riddell Revolution or Speed.
I hope the quality of the pics is okay for ya´ll ?!
The last 2 showing is a RB that was totaly cut up and I had to fill the parts
first and will sand´em up by tomorrow and do the fine sculpting.
Here my first try I was working on the last 2 hours....

[Kaintgetrite]

Looking good!!!!!!!!!

[daainchent1]

gotta get myself some of that green stuff,looks good!

[the french guy]

the left arm and shoulder are really well made

The pad suppose to be seen underneath the shirt

One advise : it's easier and faster (an often better) to make the pads final aspect than sculpt the pad then make the shirt tissu on it.

On the second figure, it seems you heated it a little too much

Personaly, I rarely heat the figures, only for fine tuning or modification. I will not transform a static athlete in a runner using heat : it does not work. If you see my customizing topics, I will cut the legs (often in multiple parts) and reshape the move I want. Most of the time, my figs are at least composed with 3 or often more parts.

Moderate heat can be a good tool for fine tuning or anatomic corrections (a biased ankle, a hand not in the right place, etc...) but not -in my opinion- for advanced customizing like new poses.


Last thing : when you use heat, use moderate heat, and have a fresh glass of water with ice cubes in it. When you use it on the fig, make the modification you want, then throw it in the glass a few secs. It will help the figure to stay in the new position, especially on FF.net figures.

Always use superglue gel (or any cryanolate glue, but gel version) for ff.net figures, always wash your figs with soap and water, and you can use glue fastening spray too. But since you have experience in miniatures, you certainly know all that


Well...a lot of criticism, BUT to be honest I'm very impressed about your first sculpting on the arm. You have the catching eye, and a good hand too. I believe you will impress everyone very soon

[Cookie]

Dimi,
to keep it short, the leg was already burned up when I received it.
I just put parts together so far and filled up cuts etc. as I mentioned in my first post.
I will handle customizing new poses as you described it.
Happy Gaming
Mike

[the french guy]

to keep it short, the leg was already burned up when I received it.

OK ! I'm afraid this athlete will lose his leg soon in an heavy surgery But I believe what I wrote can be usefull for other beginners on the board, maybe

I just put parts together so far and filled up cuts etc. as I mentioned in my first post.

But you did the green stuff sculpting, if I understood correctly ? Can't wait to see the next steps of your experiment !

[Megawattz]

"The Cookie Monster"

[the french guy]

I agree, lot of potential

[eflfanatic]

Wow!!! Looking good can't wait to see the progression to the final stages. I haven't tried customizing yet. But I can see that this is the future of the hobby and what will keep it going and bring more people in to the game.

Thanks

[the french guy]

But I can see that this is the future of the hobby and what will keep it going and bring more people in to the game.

I agree. In minis wargames world, we saw these last years an evolution. Now, a lot of people are painters, customizers or sculptors of miniatures (fantasy, scifi, etc...), and barely never play wargames. These guys are the "showroom" of the hobby, bringing nice advertisement to the whole community.

In any hobby, 2 things make it grow : high level competition, and hig level technic aspect, in my opinion.