{"id":2929,"date":"2013-02-08T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=2929"},"modified":"2015-07-15T13:29:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T17:29:17","slug":"recent-projects-spaghetti-and-peter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2013\/02\/08\/recent-projects-spaghetti-and-peter\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent projects: spaghetti and Peter"},"content":{"rendered":"

I made some 1:6 scale spaghetti this week. At first I coveted Rement’s Fun Meals #8, Spaghetti and Meatballs,<\/a> but it’s out of print and running at ridiculous prices on Ebay. I am not<\/em> paying $20.00 for a plate of plastic spaghetti! I don’t even pay that much for a plate of real spaghetti. <\/p>\n

Anyway, I decided to make my own. I mixed up some yellowish tan polymer clay and rolled it into a long thin string. The I swirled the string into a pile and cured it. After curing, I added sauce. The lumpy consistency of the acrylic paint worked in my favor, giving the appearance of tomato chunks and possibly pieces of ground beef.

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Yep, looks enough like spaghetti for me.<\/p>\n

I’ve also been working on Peter. When I got him<\/a> about three years ago, he looked like this:<\/p>\n

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After many iterations, he’s finally done. Really! For the most recent set of changes, I evened out his skin tone. Since I couldn’t match the dead reddish-brown he came with, he ended up dark brown, so now he’s a POC. I extended the new skin tone around his shoulders and up his forearms so that all visible parts of him match.<\/p>\n

I did a lot of work on his head. I repainted his eyes with magenta irises and heavy lids to counteract the O_O expression he was sculpted with. I used an X-acto and some 300 grit sandpaper to reduce the prominent brow ridges that gave him such an exaggeratedly worried look. I also ripped off his old mohawk and replaced it with a shorter, less sloppily done one. Finally, I replaced his red and blue sleeves with pink ones and redid his bracelets. Now he finally looks much more like the blithe, buoyant spirit I’ve always imagined him to be.<\/p>\n

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This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1460680.html<\/a>. You can comment here, but I’d prefer it if you’d comment on my DW<\/a> using OpenID.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I made some 1:6 scale spaghetti this week. At first I coveted Rement’s Fun Meals #8, Spaghetti and Meatballs, but it’s out of print and running at ridiculous prices on Ebay. I am not paying $20.00 for a plate of plastic spaghetti! I don’t even pay that much for a plate of real spaghetti. Anyway,… Continue reading Recent projects: spaghetti and Peter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[746,673,704],"class_list":["post-2929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-16-scale-stuff-i-made","tag-faceups","tag-sets-16-mine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5017,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions\/5017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}