1/8 Eternal Sailor Moon Thai Horror WIP *56k X

[seraph_phoenix]

I got a good bit of progress done on the head. I rounded her nose a little, it was a bit pointy. I also cleaned a lot of the flash from between her hair layers and face, evened out the back of her head a bit and leveled her ears.

While looking at her head, face-forward, I thought it looked funny. After a minute, I noticed her ears were too long, or too far down the side of her face. I shortened them up a lot, her left ear, being the right one if you face her, is nearly perfect but the other ear is a bit of a problem. The problem was the right side of her face, left if you face her. The edge of her face was too far from the edge of the eye. I had to saw off part of the side of her face to even it out, so now the ear on that side looks like it's set way off to the side. I'm still in the process of evening it out to match the other, no doubt I will have to putty it a little to match it.

Here are some progress images ^___^





Here you can see by looking at the small, triangular part of her ear lobe, that it is very unlevel from the side of her face. This is where the side of her face was before I sawed it back to match.



Another example of where the side of the face existed before I evened it out.



The red lines show where I will saw off that section of her bangs, in order to make the curled ones like Cosmos has.









The shaded red areas show what I will have to remove, the red area outlined past the edge of the head is where I will have to add putty to build up that side of her head to make it symmetrical.



More evenly matched ears. Now she doesn't have monkey ears ^__^





This is the ear I am still working on, as well as the side of the face that had to be sawed back to be even.


More soon ^___^

[seraph_phoenix]

Dismemberment

So with my decision to convert ESM into Sailor Cosmos, I have to a bit of dismemberment to her so I can reposition her joints. In the original model, the left arm is locked, held outward. In the Cosmos pic, her arm is by her side, pulling her cape. Since my kit will have wings instead of a cape, I am modding her arm to just fall naturally by her side. Thus, I had to cut off her hand. I got to use epoxy glue today, very neat stuff. I feel like the joints will be much better held together with this than super glue (CA glue). Now I also had to cut off her right leg below the knee. In the Cosmos picture, she has a very “crossed-legs” stance, like she was crossing her legs like a model as she walked. So by using myself as a model, I noted the back leg would need to be bent at the knees slightly; the foot may also need to be changed so the front of her foot touches the floor flat, otherwise it might look stiff. I have pinned the arm and the lower part of her leg, after they set, I will be able to attach the other have of her limb back to it. Once the glue on that end has set, I’ll be able to putty up the gap and make her joint like new and onlookers will be non-the-wiser ^__^





I also threw away my mighty putty; I thought that crap was going to kill me…and I was wearing a mask. I’ve decided to try out my Marblex self-hardening clay and my oven-bake Fimo. Now I can see a few problems…the Marblex will be a little hard to work with and will probably be hard to sand and get a smooth surface on; the Fimo on the other hand, will be very easy to shape and work with. Depending on the outcome, I will use it as the skirt. Unfortunately, with my repositioning of the knee joint, I may need to reposition her hip too, as to not have her leaning forward, so she will stand up-right. So, I will not be able to make the skirt appropriately until I have made sure the hips are where they need to be. I sanded down the shoulder tops so they’re about where they should sit and sanded a flat spot onto the joint side of the arms so I know how to position them later. Another thing about her legs…they will be touching at her knees rather than her upper thigh like the original kit had. So I will need to fill in the ridge they cut for her other thigh to rest, and make a new one at her knee; can’t really get this done til I get the hacked up leg reassembled.





So unless I manage to pull something else off today being high on the glue fumes…that will be all for the day ^____^

[seraph_phoenix]

1-7-09
The base of the skirt has been sculpted. I tried the Marblex, but it wasn't happening with that stuff. Then I tried the Fimo, much easier to work with. I basically pressed the Fimo up into the original Eternal Sailor Moon skirt, so it would have the basic shape. I then touched it up with some more Fimo around the edges. Baked it and waited 24 hours before I carved on it. I got it sanded and carved down to a skirt that is nearly form-fitting.

Next up is using epoxy putty to form the pleats around the skirt. If the epoxy putty doesn't seem like it will stick well or the Fimo feels too weak, I'll have to postpone this WIP until I can get some silicon and resin to make a mold and cast the skirt. We'll see how it goes tomorrow.


1-13-09
Sorry I took a break from this, I had to ponder a bit as to exactly how I wanted to go about the skirt, making pleats isn't really all that easy. So I've gotten the base for the skirt completed and have bondo all over it. Unfortunately, some of it cured fully while I was working on it, and it became too hard for me to make the pleats with the exacto knife. I'll have to wait until tomorrow so I can use the dremel and some files to even it all out.

I noticed the bondo isn't wanting to stick to the baked fimo very well. I may try a tiny dab of epoxy glue to see if I can get the bondo parts to lay flush against the fimo, then once they skirt is fully done, cast it in resin.

I also applied putty to some of the grooves in her torso that were there for belt lines and the trim on her sailor collar. I've gotten all of that almost completed and wet-sanded, but one of her breasts was mishapen from oversanding prior to my getting her...I ended up not applying enough, so I'll have to put some more on later and even it all out.


1-14-08
Bad news, my dremel is sputtering and pausing so I think the motor is going out. Looks like I'm hand-sanding the skirt.


1-16-08
When I opened the box yesterday, I discovered one of the feathers had broken off one of the wings, so it looks like I will have to recast them. Oh well.




Here, you can see that I've re-attached the hand to her left arm and positioned it, as well as having cut her foot apart where it bends. It looked very unnatural just being straight, and bending it solved the problem. I haven't attached the thigh to that part of the leg yet since I had to also reposition the angel of her thighs from her hips, so I am waiting until the epoxy glue sets and I can position the hips correctly.



The skirt looks really rough so far, as I've only just rough-sanded it. One of the pleats came off, as the putty doesn't like sticking to the fimo. I used epoxy glue to put it back on the skirt, not sure if it will stick yet but I will find out today. I will be lengthening the skirt a little bit, it's a tad short right now.


















I will be attaching the skirt to the torso part after the skirt is completed, so it will be one piece. More to come soon ^___^

[seraph_phoenix]

Sorry for the lack of updates. My dremel isn't working but I'm still getting work done on the kit. I didn't want to update with some minuscule amount of puttying, but it's about time for an update.

After positioning the legs together to mimic the Cosmos pose, I decided to saw off the leg from her pelvic area and to also saw the leg at the knee and ankle. This way, I will be able to pin them and twist them at the angle I need them to get her in that pose. Going to try to use the dremel today to drill some pin holes.

I've also been wet sanding the parts to find any little imperfections I might need to fill in with putty. I've also reshaped her left breast, as it was malformed from over sanding prior to my purchase of the kit. I've also been working on adjusting the seams on her head and building up the shallow side, where her head should have been, and sculpting a new edge for her ears. I managed to sculpt some finger for her too by laying putty across her existing fingers with a toothpick. I covered over her knuckles since they were kind of flat, so I could build them back up. Also built up her right forearm since it was flat.

Sorry about the bad picture quality, we disassembled my light box to make room in the living room to use the fireplace since it's frigid out.


Puttied pinholes on the head. Also, the front two bangs have been cut so I can create the curled ones Cosmos has.


Added putty to the back of the head to build up the shallow area. Waiting until I get the head evened out before I fix the neck.


Puttied the hole in the ear lobe, also remade the tiny triangle shaped piece of her ear. Haven't sanded this to shape really yet.


Comparing the size of the reshaped breast to the correctly casted one. I haven't finely sanded this yet.








Newly dismembered leg. No pinholes yet, but I'll try to use my drill today without putting a hole in my hand.


The original leg I sawed apart. I repositioned her knee and part of her foot. The long groove in her thigh is where the other thigh pressed against it. Since I'm changing her pose, her legs will touch at the knee, so I will have to fill in that gap and carve a new one out of the knee joint once I putty it's gap. The small piece is the pelvic area that was attached to the leg. It had to be sawed off so I could change the angle of her legs.








Lots of puttying of pinholes ^___^


Aerial shot of the forearm I had to build up because it was flat.


Created fingers lol. I still have to put putty on the pinky and reshape it. This is just the rough carved version. I haven't built up the palm of her hand yet, so it looks thin right now. I also have not created the knuckles yet since I haven't puttied her pinky finger yet.










The other arm. This is the one I cut at the wrist to reposition her hand. The joint broke after pinning and puttying, so I had just repaired it before this was taken. Showing the reshaped fingers, still incomplete and not fine sanded.


I'll be adding a little tip to her thumb, it was a little short and stubby.


I haven't worked on the skirt really. The SAME pleat that fell off before came off again, so I reattached it with different glue. I have only really used a higher grit sandpaper to smooth it out a bit so I can check for other areas I need to putty. I have also carved out the inside of the skirt.








Hollowed inside of skirt.




More to come soon ^______^

[Kari]

Wow, so how far are you in that?

[seraph_phoenix]

I had to postpone her because I was working on a kit for a competition, but I didn't make the deadline. Right now, I'm getting a kit for my little sister's birthday in September out of the way, then I'll be working on Cosmos again. She's pretty much still where I left her from the last post.