Outpost 206

No fancy intro here, I just found a Snake Eyes movie Storm Shadow figure on clearance for less than $4, saw that it came with a bow and arrows, and thought it would be fun to turn into a cyberpunk version of Robin Hood. Before diving in, I set a few boundaries for myself on this project and for the most part, I stuck to them. They were: No joint sanding, dye the figure using Rit synthetic green dye. Most of the oversculpting work would be on the head, with minimal additions to anything else. Let the green dye undercoat do most of the work for everything else aside from the head, relying primarily on washes and dry brushing. This project also served as the proving ground for a couple of new materials and techniques, which I’ll elaborate on later. But before that, I would need to disassemble the figure using the tried and true boil-and-pop method. And here it is (mostly) disassembled. I couldn’t get the upper arms out of the torso no matter how hot I boiled the water and ho

So it’s been a while since my last update, but I’ve been working a lot of overtime and haven’t had much time or energy for heavy crafting. What crafting I have done has been smaller scale projects like these since none of my big projects have been going particularly well (maybe I’ll do a Shop Log about it or just start the major project articles again once I work through the issues I’m having, I don’t know). In any event, I did manage to pump out some customized miniatures over the past month or so since I last posted here and I’m about to take you through my process. I’m a big fan of the youtube channel Miniature Mashup , and even though I don’t play any tabletop games, I'm not exaggerating when I say that could watch him convert Heroclix miniatures into different creatures for hours on end. In fact, I often have. So much so that I thought it would be fun to kitbash some Heroclix of my own, since they’re incredibly cheap, make great raw materials for custom minis, and I have a b