"It's a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle."

Hey look!
I finished him, and can't stop giggling at ridiculous he looks.

More Guybrush progress

I've spent about 8 hours on him today - sculpting and sanding and the like.

His hair *could* be higher in the front - but it's already sanded so it's not going to be. :p

Guybrush Progress

The last couple of nights have been spent on this.

Dismantled, sketched-on Munny

After this step I heated the head in near boiling water for five minutes, so the vinyl was soft. I cut the eye-sockets out and glued them back in backwards - so that I'd have a concave area on the face to place the eyes as far back as this character needs. (I, of course, forgot to take a photo of it.)

Blocking in.

Just regular ol' Super-Sculpey here (and by "ol'", I mean old; this clay was an unbaked, reject squashed sculpt from at least three years ago. I cut off the grubby clay...).
I've used some liquid clay as insurance - I've read that poly-clay bonds well to vinyl, but wanted to make sure of it.

After first baking.

I was quite impressed with how firmly "stuck on" the poly-clay is after baking.
And I've started scraping it down. I want a smooth surface - so once he's painted it will be hard to tell which bits are hand-done.
There are some irregular parts around his brow - and the cheek on the left needs to be filled out a little by the nose. I'll be filling in a bit tomorrow - then more scraping, then I'll tackle the hair.
Which will need scraped and filled and scraped again - then the whole thing will need sanded.

I hate sanding...

Now I'm going to bed.
I'd promised myself an early night, but instead have stayed up 'til almost half Eleven working on this thing.

Oh well. Sleep in tomorrow!

Guybrush Threepwood Design for 7" Munny

I've been totally stumped for *what* to customize the 7" Munny I won from Spanky Stokes as.

So I asked my husband, and he suggested this:

How appropriate - you fight like a cow!

(excuse my mock-up)
He'll need a stand for those spindly legs though. And I may have to attempt some structural surgery to the face...

I plan to start him on the weekend tonight.

I shall take photos!

Message Friends

Guess who couldn't pass up the $5 vinyl toys at the local cheap-stuff-store?

 It ended up being a very pleasant way to spend a couple of afternoons with my little Hurricane - and she did an amazing job on hers!
(I'm told that it still needs some hair though...)

RAWR!!!

The aforementioned thing I won:

From a twitter-based comp run by Spanky Stokes.

I never win NOTHING, so this was awesome!
That Munny is taunting me and is my current motivation for clearing up old projects - so that I can start on him!

(soooo many stickers too! - The Sprog nicked one of each - and tried to steal the wee Dunny too. Horrible child.)