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I modified my 3D artist OG-RE4 Leon S. Kennedy head sculpt. I also repainted him, for the gazillionth time, if that wasn't obvious. I have to say, modifying a tiny eyelid was pretty easy to do with the Vallejo Plastic Putty, the only issue is, it doesn't seem to sand all that well. It started to crumble when I tried to sand it. I let it cure for longer than 4-hours, when is supposed to take only one to two hours, according to Vallejo's own website. I had read mixed reviews about it sanding well, or not. I guess it doesn't? Kind of weird, considering it is meant to be filler for models, and then it goes without saying, meant to be sanded afterward for a perfectly smooth finish...?

Regardless, I feel it works well enough for me, for tiny modding projects. I am definitely going to use it again for my Leon, whom I feel happier about right now, but I still know that he's not accurate enough. He'll never be, because he wasn't sculpted accurately enough, and that's pretty sad. However, the only thing I can do is try to make mine as accurate as I can without having to pay someone else to 3D sculpt another one for me. I could try myself, but I live in the middle of nowhere and I don't want to have an adventure trying to figure out how to create a 3D sculp/mesh/file to then have it 3D printed somewhere. I haven't (3D) modeled anything in more than a decade. I feel like my old dusty 3D Max and Maya, are probably not it, for 3D printing and that's all I know. Since those were the programs, we were allowed to use in college, back in the dark ages. When I learned how to 3D model. I believe blender is the popular choice for 3D printing nowadays, but that wasn't allowed so I didn't even bother trying it. Of course, I am not going to be 3D modeling a head at this stage. I much rather mod this boulder of a 1:6 head sculpt. It's a huge head for what it is, and not accurate, but it's all I got! DX

I am happy that I found something that is less wasteful than a tiny .25 oz container of Aves Apoxie, and less expensive as well. I am probably going to try modding my Myou Bettina next, since I wanted to give him smaller eyes, but still don't want to waste money on Aves' clay, when I know I won't get even halfway through the tiny container. Now, I can actually try, without fear of wasting clay, money and possibly sanity. Modifying (relatively) tiny heads is a huge pain in the gut, but I still want my Leon to be more accurate, but not enough to pay anyone again for another failed likeness. I also want my Bettina to have much smaller eyes. He looks too baby faced for my taste. I do love my Leon so far, I feel he makes a gorgeous looking figure. However, I want my OG-RE4 Leon to be accurate and this is not it. I sanded his upper lid a lot, the 3D sculptor gave him te droopiest lids ever, I also sanded his jaw quite a bit -- Leon has a very roundish head. Not sure what the artist was thinking. I added an actual upper eyelid with the Vallejo putty, because the 3D-sculptor didn't give him any. Certainly not even close of an eye-shape as Leons, but I feel like I'm doing good progress. I wanted to see what the putty was like, before doing heavier eye mods. Now I kind of know, so I am comfortable moving on. I will try first on m Bettina, however, because that is an even larger head, with huger eyes to try plenty of times, without worrying too much about heavy damage (I hope!).

I got even more Leon photos to share! I finally felt it was time to dress him up, in his OG RE4 outfit. I was waiting until I felt like I had gotten him looking as accurate to his video game self, as possible by my terrible (shaky) hands. I thought this was the right time. Sadly, or rather as it was expected, I f-ed-up the irises. I was trying so hard to fix every tiny flaw I saw that I ended up doing what I feared the most, which was to screw the irises. Which took me so long to get “right.” Or at least at a semi decent point where I thought they were “okay.” Not to change them any further, and yet, here we are. I messed them up badly! Beyond saving, I am afraid. All thanks to what I dread doing the most at this tiny scale -- glossing the eyes!

Oh well, I’ll have to attempt partially removing the gloss from the irises alone, and hope it works well enough, that I can keep the rest of the eye area repaint intact. I at least hope I don’t mess anything else even more, or worse to start from zero once again. I have repainted this head sculpt so much already; it’s just irritating me, that I suck at tiny miniature work, more than it frustrates me now. I am very angry at myself, to say the least. T___T;;;

I don’t own any of his tactical gear from the game, because I thought the Hot Toys version of the figure wasn’t good looking enough for me to justify his cost at the time of release (in every sense of the meaning). I did regret my decision after he was sold out, but I do feel it is not a good-looking figure now, nor then. More than anything, I thought it did (OG) RE4 Leon no justice. I do still regret not getting it then, so I could at least own all the accessories, weapons and tactical stuff, which is going to be a pain in the gut-hole, finding or making myself. I got this outfit as a set, with the shirt (I didn’t recall if it had one), but it is not the 5.11 tactical shirt Leon wears in the game, nor the (not accurate) one HT RE4 Leon came with, so I am going to have to attempt making that was well, someday... I had already tried with other(s) custom 1:6 Leon(s) I was working on, and it was dreadful to say the least. 

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