#3dsculpted

Just some quick crappy photos of my repainted Leon. I managed to damage the irises twice already, and once again I'll have to redo the left one. I am terrible when it comes to doming the irises. It's a pain in the gut, and at the same time the part of the repaint I "love" the most, on head sculpts with painted eyes. I feel they breathe so much life onto the sculpt. However, I suck at it! I had given him cleaner eye paint apps, but I managed to ruin both irises the first time I domed them. Then I redid them, and the paint apps turned out like sh1t. I had to redo a whole lot of the left eye, not just the iris, so it looks super sh1tty now. Still, i love the way my Leon is looking, so I wanted to keep trying and now I once again ruined the freaking left iris and already peeled the gloss off, so I know for sure it is ruined!

Because I am not an obsessive nut job, I repainted my 1:6 scale 3D artist resin-cast Leon S. Kennedy head sculpt for the millionth time! Here’s how he’s looking so far. I thought I was done, after a few hours of work over the weekend (3-day-for-a-few-hours-each, to be precise). He still needs to be sealed with a few layers of MSC matte and a single one of gloss in between, then have his eyes glossed and “domed.” 

I felt like I was happy with how he looked while I was working on him. I tried really hard to match him to his DAMtoys LSK2R body, which is grey-toned, as are all 1:6 action figure bodies. But his rubbery upper torso is painted to be sunburned-red, so that was a challenge. Mentally more than anything, I kept wanting to make him golden tanned, because that’s what Leon appears to be (or might just be me), in OGRE4. However, that’s not even remotely close to the body’s coloring. >_>;; I might tone down the reds on his cheeks, just so he doesn’t look like he’s flushed or wearing blush, my worst nightmare! DX The reds are not so harsh IRl, but until I become a master photographer, I have to attempt not making my toys look like they might be wearing make up (I am not a fan of the look).

I am not planning on displaying him nude, so there’s no reason to actually match him to the body. Yet, I have no clue when I’ll get to sew his default (OG) RE4 5.11 tactical shirt for him. So, I’ll probably be taking photos of him shirtless for a whole while longer, and that’ll mean that he’ll look crappier with crap paint apps and worse off, not matching his “default” body. Until I decide to get another floating DAMtoys nude body, and see if I like the coloring better. I am tempted to steal my current repainted Ken’s body, because that’s a bit less of an eyestrain (fake) tanned color -- at least, he doesn’t appear to be heavily sunburned. I don’t know how 1:6 action figure developers decide on painting flesh tones on their grey-toned plastic bodies, but the ones I own so far, are questionable at best. DX

I gave my 3D artist sculpted resin cast head, based on Leon S. Kennedy from (OG) Resident Evil 4, “real” hair. It was always my desire to have him with actual fiber hair. I politely asked the artists if he would be willing to create a sculpt for me, without the sculpted hair, bald, without any hair. He said he would, so I happily jointed the group order, and even advertised the group order on a few places. Bringing a few more people on board. Then, once I had already paid and the head sculpt was more than halfway done, he said he wouldn’t make a head for me, without the sculpted hair. T___T;;;

I didn’t want to be an a-h0le, so I just agreed to keep the sculpt. There were so many other issues along the way, but I love (RE4) Leon so much, I was willing to let it all go. I wasn’t happy with how large the head was sculpted. What is the point of loving Japanese video game characters, and wanting (custom) figures based on them, if the proportions and likenesses won’t be like in the games (when you’re actually paing for a custom)? At least, as an obsessive fangirl, that’s how I feel about certain characters. It was always a dream of mine owning an accurate LSK RE4 figure (IMHO, HT’s one is pretty bad), that actually looked like he does in (the original) RE4. Of course, I was lucky to get GT Sephy, they get their proportions more or less, accurate, even if Sephy’s paint apps were night and day compared to the prototype’s. At least his head is tiny, and he is pretty tall.

I made a wig for a custom Leon I was working on many years ago (maybe a decade ago?). I was using a HT’s actor sculpt, whose name always escapes me. I made a terrible wig for that head, with handmade sewn wefts and a stretchy cap. I am not super thrilled about having to make tiny wigs; I loathe making sewn wefts more than anything. I can’t control the hair bulk as much as with glued wefts, the latter are so easy, anyone can literally make them. However, glued wigs are not my favorite, but because they are easy and I can kind of control the bulk, I prefer them now. Regardless, I decided to dissect that old wig I made for my first 1:6 custom Leon S. Kennedy figure, in order to give this figure hair.

I wasn’t sure it would look good, since this one does have sculpted hair and a huge notch on top of the head were the front bangs are meant to be glued in. That’s why I went with sacrificing a wig, I will no longer use, than to make something new just to go to waste. I feel like I am pretty happy with the outcome. I didn’t need to sand the sculpted hair, although it does add a bit of bulk, I feel like the shape of the hair now is a lot closer to Leon’s hair in the game. I jus wish the fiber wasn’t as strawberry blond, and was a bit more ash-blond (dirty-blond), like Leon’s hair appears to be in the OG RE4 game. I may or may not try again, if I find the right fiber, in the right color. 

I am happy for now, I took so many repetitive photos, because this head makes DamToys RE2R Leon’s body look like a narrow shoulder HT body. It’s so huge, the neck looks super slim, as narrow as a person who’s not healthy or aging poorly. My fav... I have a very dark, dry, sarcastic sense of humor. I probably rub some people the wrong way, my favorite is self-deprecating humor. I would insult myself first, before ever attempting to do so to anyone else, and I would probably not even try -- I have zero energy left, as a forty-one (thousand) year old fart, I prefer preserving energy towards things I enjoy. I like to collect toys I find appealing, and some physical features are not appealing to me; as a short, bony old-person who doesn’t suffer from super thin neck (yet), I prefer wider necks on my “healthy” athletic looking male figures/dolls. That’s not going to be possible, with his head, unless I am willing to have him on a massively large body, I won’t find appealing for him. (: