Hey ISY. Sorry I haven't posted my Wam here yet, but I've been away with the Boy Scouts for 10 days.
I'm presenting Wam "Blam" Lufba. He's been my avatar over on JTA since I started blogging there. I've had the rough sculpt for almost a year and finally got around to finishing him.
The base figure was a Megablocks Halo Brute figure, which stands about two inches tall. The joints of those figures are all either very small hinge joints or ball peg joints. I cut off the knee and elbow hinges and extended them with coffee stirring rods reinforced with tooth picks, using Lightening Bond Glue and Fill. I sawed out two ball pegs from another figure glued them onto the legs to use as the ankles. I wanted ball peg joints on the wrists too and found that really good metal pins with rounded heads work great as ball pegs. I built up the limbs with Aves Apoxie Fixit Sculpt and then shaped them with a file and sand paper.
I scavenged the fur off a $1 Beanie Baby. It's glued to the body with Loctite Flexible Glue. I was careless
and killed the waist articulation with the glue. Otherwise he would have had 16 POAs. To get the right color, I added highlights with a fabric marker.
Wam has 15 points of articulation.Head: Original sculpt over a Brute head.
Antennae: Packing wire, cut to length and topped with a little GreenStuff for shape.
Neck: I sawed off the ball peg neck from the Brute and glued it lower on his chest.
Body: Brute body extended with about 8 mm with Aves.
Arms and legs: Stirring rods reinforced with tooth picks and glued to the hinge joints of the Brute with Lightening Bond cyanoacrylate glue.
Upper arm: Swivel joint made out of a flat pin head.
Wrist: Metal pin heads.
Hands: From Marvel Universe Longshot figure. The right hand was balled in a typical superhero fist, so I had to cut the thumb and fingers free and the sculpt on the distal finger tips and shape the nails.
Ankles: Ball pegs.
Feet: Original sculpt.
Czerka Arms U-84 Hunting Rifle:I tried to be as faithful to the gun's details as the few grainy reference photos allowed.
Stock: Carved from a popcicle stick,
Barrel: Plastic tooth pick.
Sights: Parts from a Saga Legends foot locker rifle and a metal pin.
Trigger and other details: Molded from other plastic rifles and weapons.
Strap: Nitrile glove material cut to 3 mm wide and 4 inches long.
The gun was a scratch build. The stock was carved from a popcicle stick. The barrel was mostly a plastic tooth pick with another rifle barrel glued to the end. The sight is part of another gun, and the long, narrow part is a part of a metal needle. The detail pieces are various odds and ends that I carved off of other old greebles. The strap is a strip of a nitrile glove colored black. It's attached to two metal staples that are bent into buckle shapes. One is glued to the stock. The other is wrapped around the barrel so it rotates freely. The detail is too small to see with my camera, unfortunately.
Now I have the largest and the smallest gunslingers in Jabba's Palace!
Chicks dig Yuzzums. It's the hair.
Thanks Yarders
