William Shatner's Toupe
Thank you very much, I appreciate it. Your stuff is fantastic! Love the Kolchak (photos no less-now that's attention to detail)
I always research every build prior to mixing the paint. Hell my 13 yr old niece was kind enough to critique my original Sammy (1 of three attempts, you've seen the final version) with respect to the base skin tone. She was the one that pointed out Sammy's slightly goldier tone with the rosy cheeks & nose, where as Dean is a little more pale & slightly more pink overall, with the slight redness around the eyes. All I do is break it down to color as opposed to complete subject, just look at it as a collection of colors & where.
Nearly everything I did was airbrushed, prior to the brain surgery in June. The tremors I now get in the dominant hand disallow me to do the detail work with the airbrush any more, so the Wichester were done with airbrush base coats then followed up with chalk pastels.
I hate to say it but one of the most overlooked parts of a build is the hair. I figured why the hell don't I try to chalk up the hair, why is it just the skin tones? I mean, looking at my builds, the skin tones were fine but the hair just didn't seem right. So, gave it a shot on Simon Pegg from Shaun of the Dead & it turned out better than I thought.
Also, purely by accident, it seemed like th common practice with chalk pastels is apply, clear coat, apply next color, clear coat repeat. So,.. on a custom I was doing for a collector I had 2 days to complete the build & had 2 identical heads, so decided to give this a shot: base coat, clear coat then begin first layer of chalk. Instead of clear coating, proceed to one shade darker in the chalk, follow up by the rosy tones on the chin, adams apple, around the nostrils & then the ears as well as a little under the eye.
What really works beautifully on a vinyl head is to wash, clear coat then begin the chalk pastel process. Don't strip the head, sometimes it will discolor. At least it has for me. Which reminds me, it would turn out amazing if Chris were able to cast the heads in a flesh colored soft resin or vinyl ala Hot Toys or Medicom
I'll do up a full tutorial, where on the site would you suggest I post it?
