Kamakura

past nastification · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

For my 450th custom, here's Kamakura in ARAH format. The character's been done in every other format by Hasbro, including 1:12 and 1:6, so it was time for this.

DarkJedi · **Posted:** Sat Jan 07, 2023 4:25 pm

Oh, that's nice...

DanOfTheDead · **Posted:** Sat Jan 07, 2023 4:57 pm

How do your rivet sculpt overs hold up over time? It's a really nice finish to the sculpting you're doing, just curious if it ever interferes with mobility or starts to crack?

Very cool final results.

kowalski · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

Great stuff! The sculpted details look amazing!

2DARK2C · **Joined:** Mon Oct 07, 2013 3:59 pm **Location:** MS

love your no fear approach here! the end result looks perfect!

past nastification · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

DarkJedi wrote:

Oh, that's nice...

Thanks!

past nastification · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

DanOfTheDead wrote:

How do your rivet sculpt overs hold up over time? It's a really nice finish to the sculpting you're doing, just curious if it ever interferes with mobility or starts to crack?

Very cool final results.

Thanks!

It's Aves epoxy. No issues ever on the thigh screw insets, and surprisingly the elbow rivets. The shoulder rivets can be problems, especially on the larger ones on the NS figures with the softer plastic. That said, I pose them a few times for photographing, and then to put on a shelf. Not sure how well the epoxy would do with repeated movement.

Also, it doesn't discolor down the road or make the paint on it sticky, something I ran into when I used plumber's epoxy before discovering Aves.

past nastification · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

kowalski wrote:

Great stuff! The sculpted details look amazing!

Thanks!

I couldn't get the padding to look uniform, even though I used a surface (the edge of a water bottle lid) to make it uniform. The metallic wash is disguising a lot of the imperfections in the sculpt.

past nastification · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

2DARK2C wrote:

love your no fear approach here! the end result looks perfect!

Thanks!

And there was some fear- I didn't squeeze the Marauder Uzi into the hands because it felt like the thumbs would snap off!

sgcaper · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2023 6:49 pm

This is awesome. If you hadn't included the WIP I would have never guessed the parts

past nastification · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

Thanks!

The recipe isn't too different than other ones people did 20 years ago. My contribution is the use of the Bazooka arms.

Rambo · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2023 11:50 am

What a cool custom! what Aves do you use?

corpscommandercody · **Joined:** Sun Aug 22, 2021 11:36 pm

Man, that’s incredible. Great sculpting on all of this- it really helps tremendously!

past nastification · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

Rambo wrote:

What a cool custom! what Aves do you use?

Thanks!

It is "Aves Epoxie Sculpt Modeling Compound". It's a two part epoxy of two clay-like components that get mixed together.

past nastification · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

corpscommandercody wrote:

Man, that’s incredible. Great sculpting on all of this- it really helps tremendously!

Thanks.

As far as the sculpting, I couldn't get the forearm and shin guards to look like what I had imagined. But the sculpting on the mask, hiding the mouth that was still visible through Firefly's mask, was probably the best use of epoxy.

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