{"id":3161,"date":"2013-06-09T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T01:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=3161"},"modified":"2013-06-09T21:35:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T01:35:00","slug":"poor-peter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2013\/06\/09\/poor-peter\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor Peter"},"content":{"rendered":"

He’s undergone so many permutations, none of which have satisfied me. Friday night I had the sad epiphany that he needed a resculpt. I’ve tried a bazillion times to work with the Sideshow The Dead Punk headsculpt, and it continues to fail me. <\/p>\n

I decided to try one last time, though, and strip the paint off his head, hands and torso. After untold hours and repeated applications of Pebeo, he was mostly paint-free. I then realized with dismay that the head’s built-in woeful expression will never accurately capture Peter, who is friendly, even-tempered and relatively content.<\/p>\n

Looked online briefly to find a bald male head with a neutral expression. Unfortunately, most male action figures look grim and<\/em> constipated [grim because <\/em>constipated?] and they have hair, so I could only find ones that were either bald\/constipated or hairy\/neutral, not bald\/neutral. I gave up.<\/p>\n

I looked through my drawer of extra bodies and heads. I procured a Triad Lola head, which I originally bought in 2009 for its "sarcastic expression,"<\/a> and plopped it on an Obitsu Slim Male body. I really like the sharp features here, as well as the deep-set, baggy eyes and the creases between the corners of the nose and lips.

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Then I used some Aves Apoxie Sculpt to bulk out the brow ridge, the jawline and the bridge of the nose. I tried for relative bilateral symmetry, but I figure that any asymmetry can be attributed to the bodily disintegration caused by spondis. When this rough sculpting dries, I will refine it and later add the bump on his nose and the ball of his chin, also filling in the rooting holes.<\/p>\n

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It’s a silly, messy, incomplete mockup below, but it does depict the way I want to paint his eyes and mouth. I may go with heavy, straight eyebrows too, just for something different from my usual curved ones. I am pleased to note that, even in rough draft, he looks nicer, as opposed to his original form, which always looked like he just realized he had the runs.<\/p>\n

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This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1523783.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":"

He’s undergone so many permutations, none of which have satisfied me. Friday night I had the sad epiphany that he needed a resculpt. I’ve tried a bazillion times to work with the Sideshow The Dead Punk headsculpt, and it continues to fail me. I decided to try one last time, though, and strip the paint… Continue reading Poor 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":[],"class_list":["post-3161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161","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=3161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}