Custom figures and dioramas

[Dearth]

Another good suggestion. Here's a quick framegrab from a copy of the Nureyev episode which someone posted to YouTube.

http://threads.rebelscum.com/imagep...p?file=199734&imagewidth=1000&imageheight=741

Looks pretty blurry. I ought to capture it from my own DVD, hopefully it will be a bit crisper.

Alex

 

[Muppetaz]

My recreation of Muppet Labs

Gorilla Detector
http://threads.rebelscum.com/imagep...p?file=199741&imagewidth=1024&imageheight=768

and
Magnetic Carrots
http://threads.rebelscum.com/imagep...p?file=199740&imagewidth=1024&imageheight=768

 

[Dearth]

Haha! I recognize that backdrop. That one was uploaded before I figured out who to use the 'clone brush' tool, so I was never happy with a part of the blue backdrop where I painted out Bunsen Honeydew's head.

Glad to see other folks are still enjoying those flat printouts for their own figure displays.

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Now, here are some teaser pics for what will eventually be a much more intricately-realised 'breakfast table' diorama from Muppets from Space...

http://threads.rebelscum.com/imagepopup.php?imagename=http:%2F%2Fthreads.rebelscum.com%2Fphotogallery%2Fwatermark.php?file=199452&imagewidth=518&imageheight=507

I got the artwork for the Kap'n Alphabet box from Bill King, the propmaker who did the artwork and made the prop boxes for the film.

He was kind enough to share a specially-reduced version of the file with me on the proviso that it was for my own personal private diorama use. (Sorry, I can't share it, sell it, or even give away printed boxes, per my agreement with him.)

http://threads.rebelscum.com/imagepopup.php?imagename=http:%2F%2Fthreads.rebelscum.com%2Fphotogallery%2Fwatermark.php?file=199453&imagewidth=816&imageheight=444

The milk jug and cereal bowl are Japanese-style 'puzzle erasers'. I bought them on impulse at Books-A-Million, months before stumbling across Mr. King totally by accient.

http://threads.rebelscum.com/imagepopup.php?imagename=http:%2F%2Fthreads.rebelscum.com%2Fphotogallery%2Fwatermark.php?file=199455&imagewidth=845&imageheight=487

The blurb on the back of the box is just barely legible on the reduced-size file he sent, but it's hilarious to read. It's the ad for the 'spyglass' cereal premium: "The fun never stops when you spy into the neighbors' window after dark; you never know what you will see!" LOL

Alex

 

[Muppetaz]

it looks awesome!

 

[Muppetaz]

Hey dearth, do you think you could make an arch diorama form the theme song?

 

[Dearth]

Hey dearth, do you think you could make an arch diorama form the theme song?

Just a flat backdrop? I've thought of doing that before... take some on-set reference photos and just clone-brush them into a big empty stack of arches.

Then, of course, I realized that it doesn't exactly work for the Palisades figures, for one simple reason. They have legs!

The split-screen effect used in the opening theme song hides the puppeteers but conveniently ignores the fact that the puppets are only represented from the waist up. I could never figure that out.

Is each level of arches supposed to be slightly in front of the one behind?

I think it would be more effective as a fully-dimensional diorama. Arches with working lightbulbs, columns like they use on wedding cakes, etc.

Which would make it huge, I know.

But it might work as a wall-mounted shelf unit to display one's collection. Hmmm... I think I may have seen someone do that already, I just don't recall where.

Alex

 

[Muppetaz]

I was thinking just a single row of arches, you could use the ones the monsters enter through in the begining

 

[Muppetaz]

also, i've been thinking about getting a sal custom, i tryed making one myself, but it looks terrible, if anyone has one already i would Love to see a picture. and sometime I could buy one and figure out the price. however I am goning to buy the backstage playset before anything eles.

 

[Muppetaz]

and maybe a bean bunny.

 

[Dearth]

Hey Taz,

Have you seen this vinyl Bean Bunny?

http://threads.rebelscum.com/imagepopup.php?imagename=http:%2F%2Fthreads.rebelscum.com%2Fphotogallery%2Fwatermark.php?file=191468&imagewidth=858&imageheight=643

He comes in the set of five pictured, which was available only at the Disney Parks. I got mine off eBay and I'm very happy with them.

He's pre-posed in that position (holding a powder puff since he's the makeup artist). But maybe you could buy two sets and customize them, use the extra pieces to re-position Bean's arms?

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In other news, I just received a loose silver variant Lips in the mail that I bought off eBay last week. The seller had packaged him really well, and he was in great condition... arguably better condition than my carded white-shirt Lips that I paid three times as much for, just a couple years back.

The one drawback was that his left elbow was painted shut with that silver glitter paint that Palisades used. The previous owner had left it alone rather than try to fix it, but it seemed a shame to me that the one point of articulation that was inoperative on this Lips was the very one necessary to raise his trumpet to his... well... lips.

http://threads.rebelscum.com/imagep...hp?file=201946&imagewidth=803&imageheight=530

Anyway, I used a hair-dryer to warm up the plastic at the mid-bicep swivel, detached the entire forearm, and then applied some more heat and gentle pressure-- with hands that have logged a lot of hours working with these toys-- to the stuck elbow. Slowly, I got the paint to tear away from itself, until it was looking like a mirror image of the working right elbow.

Then I just had to re-heat the left bicep to accept the peg of the forearm, and voila! A totally functional Silver Lips!

http://threads.rebelscum.com/imagep...hp?file=201947&imagewidth=669&imageheight=619

Yaaay!

Alex