James van Spronsen
Just a little freaky
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I just wasn't happy with Han and his big head, so I thinned out the cheeks, and then reduced the sculpt. Reducing the sculpt requires, stripping it of paint, creating a two part mold of the head, making a reducing cast from that, creating another two part mold from the reduced cast, and then casting in super strong, lightweight resin. This is version 1.0 as I think I may fine-tune it a bit from here. The main thing was getting the head to be just a bit smaller.
From left to right, here is the original sculpt and paint from Sideshow, the stripped and thinned Sideshow, and then my reduced and repainted version. Aside from the size and puffy cheeks, the sculpt is quite nice.
I also don't care for the Sideshow body too much and converted it over to Dragon. It was just too thin in the hip area, and a bit too tall. The jacket now doesn't seem too short. I modified the Dragon body by thinning it out, narrowing the shoulders, and adding ball socket ankles for better posing (thanks for the inspiration, John). The Sideshow hands were retained and used. Here you can see that the ball socket ankle joint allows for better articulation and posing. I also ditched the Sideshow boots in favor of these.
Additionally, I had to make a bunch of new belt studs as many of mine were loose in the box, and some on the belt were poorly attached. I made new ones that are set much better and all are perfectly round. Some of the Sideshow studs were mis-shapen.
Hope you like. Now I may take another look at Jedi Luke....
From left to right, here is the original sculpt and paint from Sideshow, the stripped and thinned Sideshow, and then my reduced and repainted version. Aside from the size and puffy cheeks, the sculpt is quite nice.
I also don't care for the Sideshow body too much and converted it over to Dragon. It was just too thin in the hip area, and a bit too tall. The jacket now doesn't seem too short. I modified the Dragon body by thinning it out, narrowing the shoulders, and adding ball socket ankles for better posing (thanks for the inspiration, John). The Sideshow hands were retained and used. Here you can see that the ball socket ankle joint allows for better articulation and posing. I also ditched the Sideshow boots in favor of these.
Additionally, I had to make a bunch of new belt studs as many of mine were loose in the box, and some on the belt were poorly attached. I made new ones that are set much better and all are perfectly round. Some of the Sideshow studs were mis-shapen.
Hope you like. Now I may take another look at Jedi Luke....
