Hey Yarders
A few weeks ago, I scored a POTF2 YakFace and showed off some improvements I had made to the head.
http://www.imperialshipyards.net/SMF/index.php?topic=8772.msg185715#msg185715I wanted to go further with the whole figure. As usual, it's a big mish-mash of parts. I'm coining the term "Franken-figure".
The body needed a complete makeover. The rubber cloak is ugly. He needs way more articulation, and the hands are oversized and cartoonish. Using just a
The Corps action figure and a few spare ball joints, I got him to 14 POA.
I put a ball joint onto the wrists. The original POTF2 hands are way oversized, so I sculpted new ones over
the Corps figure's hands.
There isn't much reference to go by for the lower half. Yakface is always featured from the waist up or standing behind other aliens, so I kept the custom as close to the POTF2 figure as possible using the original feet and leggings. The lower half is from the same
the Corps figure. I grafted spare ball joints onto the ankles.
I wanted a lot of fine detail in the head. As insurance against a mishap, I casted a copy of the head.
After painting the detail, I covered the neck with white nitrile and glued it to the base of the head. This covered that big joint gap, but allowed full range of motion. The nitrile takes color from Sharpie marker and even holds Vallejo paint, if you don't handle it too much.
Finally, I wanted that scraggly hair. I flayed up the nose and put some slow drying glue in the gap. Then I laid individual strands of really fine nylon thread in the gap and sealed it back up. There's also strands in the back of the head and ears too.
After final assembly, I put some soft goods on. The sleeves and pants are blue nitrile glued with Loctite Flexible glue. The sleeves are attached only to the torso and the pants are attached only to the ankles. This allows full range of motion but hides the joints nicely. The tunic is artificial fur from a cat toy.
Instead on a standard cloak pattern, I had to figure out how to make a teepee style wrap, because I liked how it laid n his shoulders. That took ten tries to get right.
If anyone is interested, I did trace the pattern before gluing it together. The squares are 1/4 inch. All the seams overlap by 1/8 inch which is more than enough to hold it tight. Liquid Stitch holds well within 15 seconds and after a day, you'll tear the fabric before you can separate the seams.
That's the build. I'll post the final pics tomorrow.
Thanks ISY
