Niners offense : custom, sculpt, paint

[the french guy]

Hi,

Now I made my linemen, I'll do the "score men"

So I start as usual with bare FF.net figures I modify more or less.

The first, the running backs : classic HB FB scheme.

For the half back, I take a right hand RB chest I put on a "gallopin ghost" legs assembly. The legs assembly was modified to a (IMHO) better realistic look. The whole thing was re-glued on base, and balanced.

the full back is made from a "dominator" figure I modified. I moved the head, modified the legs, and base position. The goal is to make a powerfull rushing look.

Of course, my RB and FB will have a little cure of steroids (especially the FB) before painting

then, my two wide receivers. I keep one of them stock, the other had just the head cutted and moved to look the inside of field (classic left and right receiver scheme). I'll make the now usual modifications (face, helmets, arms, and chest) of course.




On the pic before the last one, you can (almost) see that I'm currently experimenting a new face sculpting technic...if I achieve anything good, I'll make a tutorial. It should be a WAY easier to do than using putty, but with decent results.




Finaly, The tight and and QB are not done for now.

The tight end will recieve a special treatement, you can see all the pieces on the last piece. Yes, it's Vernon Davis you're watching here

[the french guy]

I realized that I didn't glued the good chest for my half back (left hand)

[the french guy]

Hi,

I fixed the problems of my running backs, here's the pics. Perhaps I'll move slightly the FB back arm too, I'll see that tommorow (it's 10.30pm).

[Taylor]

One thing that I recommend is that you take the running back on the right in the last pictures, and you take his left arm and move it forward so it looks like he is running, because when a person the runs they alternate their arms and legs moving forward and backward, so left arm forward, left leg back. You know what I am saying?
Nice job on the starting stages.
Taylor

[the french guy]

yes I see, very clever observation I didn't think about that at all.

But I think I'll let him like this : I wanted him more "rushing" than running. So I wanted to avoid to have an arm wich can be hooked by the defense

[the french guy]

Hi,


this morning before work I made the rough shape of my tight end, and slightly modified my FB too.


The TE concept was to make a "square" player, very low center of gravity for power, balanced weight, and no edges a defenser can hook. You can see on the top view that the figure is not larger than his base, for that purpose.

This tight end is made from bits of RB figures, I cutted the head, chest, legs, right arm. You can see on the pics that I'll have a lot of resculpting to do. As I expected, the TE figure will be the biggest customization job I'll do for this team (with the Oline center).



For the FB, I just made the arm more inside, for same rushing purpose.

[the french guy]

I modified the faces and helmets, and start the resculpting job on the tight end.

I also started to reinforce the glued parts of some figs, and resculpt defects too.

tonight, I'll finish the fixes.

[the french guy]

Hi,

tonight I worked on the arms (need some muscles) and sculpted the chests.

Here 's the pics.

First, the tight end and receveurs. The tight end is stronger than the receivers.


Then, the half back, full back and quarterback. The HB and QB are thin, the FB is stronger.

next steps tomorrow. I hope to start the paint sunday, so My offense squad will be complete before the end of the month. After that, I will have one month to build and paint my D squad AND my brother's team too (before Xmas).

[sweetka]

We call them skilled players.

Is that a soccer term?

I actually like scoring men becasue they are all skilled players.

[the french guy]

We call them skilled players.

Is that a soccer term?

I don't know ! I just didn't know the right term, so I invented one