Topic: Doc's Datapad

[DocOutlands]

Are they close to SW size?  I'm gettin some ideas...
 

[Clonehead]

Yes they are. I figured that you would.

[narceron]

they are neat and with a coat of paint, you'd never know they were cartoony


Spuda,

as far as the bat for mando head, I suggest looking for the older ARAH head or the spytroops one, its huge, a little more curved, but still

and if you want it a little bigger you could always hydrospan the mold.

I need about 5 more of the old arah heads, if you do cast them,

[Clonehead]

they are neat and with a coat of paint, you'd never know they were cartoony


Spuda,

as far as the bat for mando head, I suggest looking for the older ARAH head or the spytroops one, its huge, a little more curved, but still

and if you want it a little bigger you could always hydrospan the mold.

I need about 5 more of the old arah heads, if you do cast them,

Hydrospan? Please explain.

[narceron]

I will, but before I do. . .are you really wanting to go down this road?

it will  open avenues in casting that are much wider.

but then again, if you master it, so much the better, then I never have to learn to cast,

hydrospan is a different type of mold making compound

depend on what you want you shrink or enlarge the target cat by, I've hear 100%


Its most often used, in my limited experience, in making 6 inch figure stuff shrink down to 4 inch scale.

I'll try to find a tutorial,

http://sculpt.com/catalog_98/CastingMaterials/HydroSpan.htm

here is the product... I'm not sure which kind you use to get it exactly right, but JFAK(if you see him around) actually had an online store where he sold nothing but diminished parts.

[DocOutlands]

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinteresting.....

and what is an "arah" head?

[Clonehead]

Now that is just crazy. Tamer, this is the costly secret that could lead to a correctly scaled walker. you would have to reassemble the pieces but. Imagine the custom 12 inch clones that I could make with this.

[Tamer]

Yepper that does sound interesting. I imagine one could probably make a killing producing walkers fo that size! I can imagine the molds cost and then the amont of material for a pour. Still, I would be interested if it seems the molding would do ok.

[DocOutlands]

If only you could get the hydrospan in a smaller-than-THREE-GALLON option...

[narceron]

I feel that way about all the molding stuff.

ARAH is joe speak for a real american hero, its the 80's joe figures.

[Clonehead]

Have you ever heard of anyone using that hydrospan stuff, Simon?

[DocOutlands]

Confused by acronyms or "smaller than 3 gallons"?   

Thanks for the clarification!

[masterfett]

I thought I saw a Wall-E droid set like that at TRU when I was there.
I've heard of some people shrinking certain figure heads down to 3 3/4 size but it loses some detail. Over at GTG there are a couple people who do this.

[Clonehead]

Take a look at this, Doc. This is a cadet McCoy Star Trek fig that included an office chair, a control panel from the bridge, a seperate belt, and a tricorder, a data pad, and a phaser. All that and a crappy fig for $4 in the clearance isle.

I know that one or two of those componants might interest you.

[DocOutlands]

...at least!
 

These backwoods stores don't know how to put stuff on clearance.  Plus, I've only seen the ST figs at TRU, 60+ miles away.