#HeadSculptModification

[the-enzyme]

I promise I didn't ask myself, " can I make a hyper-cutesy-looking-doll, hyper-creepy-looking, or what!" Lol! I always wanted to try my hand at repainting one of the Lol OMG dolls, particularly the male ones. When I got my Rocker Boi back when the doll released a few years ago, I thought he would be perfect for me to try. I got two, so I could keep one in box (he comes with Punk Girl). Sadly, he is a plastic shade of sun-burned red IRL. So, I kept putting that repaint off. I did make a mockup, and even planned on replacing his default body with the Mattel BTS body (I own too many, and don't really need any of them now! Lol!). His default body is too tiny for my taste, I would rather have a taller broader version of it, but there's nothing of the sort, that I know of. I am not a fan of the BTS body either, but that's probably the palest mass-produced body I own too many of, that I don't have to import and already have a million of them. So, I'll be keeping this dude on that body for a while.

My mockup for this repaint/mod has tinier eyes, and chipmunk cheeks. I don't know why I did that with the cheeks, there's no way in hell I can do that to this sculpt. I do want him to have much smaller eyes though. But I had to fill in the sculpted eyes with my old rusty Aves Apoxie Sculpt a million years ago, when I got this doll, because the LoL OMG eyes are massive!! And they are literally sculpted to be deeply carved onto the head. I had a huge pain in the lower back sanding all of that as flat as possible, without making the sculpt completely flat or ruin it in the way. I still need to mod/flatten it a bit further (the eye area), but I didn't have to add any filler as I had feared. The first time I modified him, and repainted him, I feared I had done a sh1tty job because my Apoxie was so old. However, I lucky didn't had to do any additional, additive mods. Just needed to sand a million years more! And I'll probably need to sand even further to get the tiny eyes I want, next time!

That will be the next time I am feeling energetic! I layered the paint way too thin at first, to match the much paler BTS body, so I kind of shot myself on the foot doing that. I do appreciate texture on realistic HS, but not on hyper-sylized ones as much. At least, not bumpy texture. I don't mind painted/faux/pigmented on texture on stylized heads, but I kind of mind this kind of thick texture from too many layers of paint (love it on 1:6 realistic-ish heads, but not on melon-headed anime-ish ones). It was my mistake, however. The next time I'll probably try to get myself a can of white acrylic spray paint first, or go thicker on my initial paint layers, for the color matching aspect. He's a vampire, so I don't want texture of any kind of him, I just want him to look dead-pasty-white-kind-of-pale, and I'll probably rebody him by then. I quite like him for now, I wish there was no texture to speak of, but live and learn I always say! (;

[the-enzyme]

I finally modified my Leon! I knew it was just a matter of time before I actually did it. It probably doesn't even make that huge of a difference in my photos, because I suck so badly at taking photos. However, IRL (and in my head) it makes a huge difference. He's never going to be an accurate sculpt, but I am happier every time I get him closer to my ideal version of a Leon S. Kennedy 1:6 action figure! (:

I only reduced a tiny little bit of the dropping lid, probably less than a mm in height and less than 3mm in length. Just on the left eye, since that's the only one that's visible all the time. The other one doesn't have as much droppage, so I didn't bother. I'm super happy I didn't f-it up, because my old lady shaky hands, were shaking more than usual the day I decided to sand off some of the dropping. I still could shave a bit more off, but I feel like I want to keep him like this for a while longer. Who knows, I might improve painting miniatures so, so much I might not need to mod him to make him look perfect! (; Lol!

If only sewing as "easy" as modifying things for me. I would trade sandpaper for a needle anytime! I am terrible at sewing, and I never cared about it before. Now, at this scale, I want to punch the wall! DX

[the-enzyme]

More of my Leon's progress. I just cleaned the eyes a bit further, mostly made the sclera a bit lighter. I don't feel like they were that dark IRL, but they photographed super red and kind of dull, and that's not accurate, so I made them lighter. They seem a lot crappier in photos, than IRL. But, I'll leave them be for now. I can always redo his paint apps, a million more times if I need to! I am happier with him for now, so now I'll focus on his top, which is not going anywhere fast. T___T;;;

I am not a fan of how he looks w/his default sculpted hair, as that is really inaccurate and there's nothing, I can do about it, but I just added it to show how not good it looks. I suck at painting sculpted hair, so that's probably one reason why it looks bad. I'm still considering purchasing more hair to make a better partial wig, but I'm kind of torn about what hair color would work, and how to pick the right one through a computer screen.

I had the brilliant idea to attempt making the first try for his top, out of PVC fabric, which I knew was a huge mistake. Still, that's what I did! Now, I'll probably just try again without finishing that attempt, because I know it's going to be a nightmare putting it on the body. All the heaps of PVC fabric I own are non-stretch...>___>;;; I at least created a semi-useable pattern, so I can just attempt another top with different fabric. Problem is, I am not sure what to use, I hate to go with lycra, but that's probably what I'll have to do. I made one a million years ago, for my first custom RE4 1:6 Leon, but I didn't like how it looked nor photographed. It wasn't just my terrible sewing attempts, it's just not the right fabric. However, neoprene is out of the question since 1mm is the thinnest they make the fabric at, and that's way too bulky for a 1:6 action figure...DX