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HamHock

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Nice Robin, Dearth.

( does anyone like the new avatar?)
 

Telly

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Dearth - What kind of paint do you use on your customs?
 

Dearth

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I work in several different media of paint. It really depends on what is the best method for each custom. Some, like Naked Robin, will only have a hand-mixed brush-on acrylic.

Others, like Disco Link, might require three different types of paint to get the results I want.

Link utilized two different spray-paints for the shirt and pants. It just so happened that both of them were available from Krylon, but I would have used whatever brand had the color that I needed.

http://threads.rebelscum.com/imagep...hp?file=168745&imagewidth=756&imageheight=542
The shirt was a gloss Peekaboo Blue and the jeans were a satin Oxford Blue.

The shoes were another color of spray-paint; I want to say it was the same Krylon semi-gloss white that I'd used for my reproduction white tux Rowlf.

http://threads.rebelscum.com/imagep...hp?file=164720&imagewidth=294&imageheight=493
(The scarf/cravat/ascot was sculpted separately in a white Bend-and-Bake version of Sculpey, and required no painting. It would be glued back on after all the painting was done.)

Then his chest, forearms, and belt were all brushed-on acrylic. The fleshtones were right out of the bottle (FolkArt 949 Skintone is a great match for Link and Strangepork) but the belt was hand-mixed.

Then his belt buckle and his bracelet were painted using metallic Testors model kit paints, which are more like an oil-based paint. A completely different animal from the water-soluble acrylics. Even cleaning the brushes is a whole other technique for those, requiring a more noisome solvent.

And Link was pretty straight-forward. I didn't use any painting effect techniques for him, but I generally like to do a faint drybrush in a lighter color to make the sculpts 'pop' better, as illustrated in this photo of my custom Kermit as Alan Grant figure (left):
http://threads.rebelscum.com/imagep...hp?file=137714&imagewidth=569&imageheight=586

So, the complicated answer is... I use lots of types of paints and lots of methods.

The simple answer is... whatever works!

DN
 

muppetguy

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Dearth, I LOOOOOVVVVEEEE your Link custom. You know I'm a fan of your work. Great stuff, as always!:wink:
 

Dearth

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not a custom or a diorama, but enjoy it anyway

Hi gang,

I know I've been quiet on the customizing front lately, but maybe this will make up for it.

I've finally begun uploading stuff to YouTube!

Here's something I made last night... the best snippets of the Jim Henson's Fantastic World podcast!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgF37J3S5Sg

Enjoy!

Dearth
aka Alex
 

hoopless

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Hi gang,

I know I've been quiet on the customizing front lately, but maybe this will make up for it.

I've finally begun uploading stuff to YouTube!

Here's something I made last night... the best snippets of the Jim Henson's Fantastic World podcast!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgF37J3S5Sg

Enjoy!

Dearth
aka Alex
Thank you for sharing this. Finally I get to see a bit of the exhibit that chances are I'll not get to see in the flesh over here.
 

HamHock

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Aw, shucks! Thanks, muppetguy! Yours is fab too.

Thanks for posting this, Dearth. Im most likely never to see this over here so its nice to hear about it.
 
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