hack and slash

Okay, one of the essential parts to pay attention to when working on something like the metal slug gashapon set is the figures. You can paint up the vehicles all nice and all but the figures also need that sort of attention.

That being said, it's pretty hard to paint them up right when they're one solid piece of PVC (or rather several parts firmly held together by glue).

If I wanted to paint the figures entirely, meaning ALL the little crevices and gaps, I can't accomplish that by just painting them as-is, or rather you can but it'll be way to difficult and nerve-wracking for your hands.

What could you do?

that's a dirty desk!

New project! No the head wasn't sculpted by me, I tried using a gashapon head for this one, though I gotta admit the look grows on me. But still I'm on the hunt for a tad smaller headsculpt for it. 

I also went router crazy on the upper torso and arms, the stock smooth look just didn't cut it for me and I like this look better. 

I've also been looking for a couple of new heads for the clear bodies I have, and so far these are the ones I've chosen:

overall reception on the 4 heads was good, though I may add a bit more and tweak the current ones to my liking. A lot of things are in the works as this year closes, and it's still only November. I can't wait for 2013

Microlady Slim type.

Okay, so this started out while I was taking an afternoon to work on some commissions. I had bought an Asuka figurine to use the head on the Microlady one I had until I realized that normal dress Asuka has the same hinged hairpiece as the plugsuit one.

 Since normal clothes Asuka ended up as Ibuki, and the hair was used to fix Plugsuit Asuka, that left me with the Figurine, and a spare P2 colors Sakura body (that used to hold the Ibuki head).

While I was checking out some Japanese Microman blogs, I came across a lot of  PVC figurines converted into articulated figures using microman parts. that did get me thinking, and came up with this while working:

"ANOREXIA!"

Granted I only used like... 20% of the original figurine, it's still pretty neat as another body type. There was lots of sanding done to make the abdomen match up with the chest, a ball jointed neck, some minor drilling on the shoulder joints so they'd hold. I'm still considering sanding down the arm by the swivel joint above the elbow to make her look thinner.

Overall i'm not exactly sure what I'll do with this, maybe turn it into a generic civilian body with plain tee and shorts or skirt, and use other heads on it. Man, if I had a fuckton of Microman Materialforce bodies I'd do more of these kinds of mods. 

finally!

I first saw the modification here a few months back. And I really liked it. so after I did the thigh mods for chun-li I immediately began looking for replacement gashapon heads to use. Came across a few, didn't like most. Finally, today I was able to track down a set of Capcom Gals Collection series 2 at a local toy store,and with the help of a friend I bought it (and now owe him something around 20 bucks but hell I don't care, ALTERNATE HEADS!).

seriously I love this new head for the figure. just the right size, sharper features, sure the expression seems generic, and she could use her trademark eyeshadow but overall i'm happy.also the original statue came with this effect part:

i need more effect parts.

just as well, I did a mod for sakura too, using the other statue of her in the set:

not as enthusiastic about it, but hey it has character!

unexpectedly I also ended up with a lilith figure, (albeit a scoolgirl one)

can you say microcephaly?

man I need to find a smaller body for dat lilith.