#3DHeadSculpt

[the-enzyme]

I modified my 3D artist OG-RE4 Leon S. Kennedy head sculpt. I also repainted him, for the gazillionth time, if that wasn't obvious. I have to say, modifying a tiny eyelid was pretty easy to do with the Vallejo Plastic Putty, the only issue is, it doesn't seem to sand all that well. It started to crumble when I tried to sand it. I let it cure for longer than 4-hours, when is supposed to take only one to two hours, according to Vallejo's own website. I had read mixed reviews about it sanding well, or not. I guess it doesn't? Kind of weird, considering it is meant to be filler for models, and then it goes without saying, meant to be sanded afterward for a perfectly smooth finish...?

Regardless, I feel it works well enough for me, for tiny modding projects. I am definitely going to use it again for my Leon, whom I feel happier about right now, but I still know that he's not accurate enough. He'll never be, because he wasn't sculpted accurately enough, and that's pretty sad. However, the only thing I can do is try to make mine as accurate as I can without having to pay someone else to 3D sculpt another one for me. I could try myself, but I live in the middle of nowhere and I don't want to have an adventure trying to figure out how to create a 3D sculp/mesh/file to then have it 3D printed somewhere. I haven't (3D) modeled anything in more than a decade. I feel like my old dusty 3D Max and Maya, are probably not it, for 3D printing and that's all I know. Since those were the programs, we were allowed to use in college, back in the dark ages. When I learned how to 3D model. I believe blender is the popular choice for 3D printing nowadays, but that wasn't allowed so I didn't even bother trying it. Of course, I am not going to be 3D modeling a head at this stage. I much rather mod this boulder of a 1:6 head sculpt. It's a huge head for what it is, and not accurate, but it's all I got! DX

I am happy that I found something that is less wasteful than a tiny .25 oz container of Aves Apoxie, and less expensive as well. I am probably going to try modding my Myou Bettina next, since I wanted to give him smaller eyes, but still don't want to waste money on Aves' clay, when I know I won't get even halfway through the tiny container. Now, I can actually try, without fear of wasting clay, money and possibly sanity. Modifying (relatively) tiny heads is a huge pain in the gut, but I still want my Leon to be more accurate, but not enough to pay anyone again for another failed likeness. I also want my Bettina to have much smaller eyes. He looks too baby faced for my taste. I do love my Leon so far, I feel he makes a gorgeous looking figure. However, I want my OG-RE4 Leon to be accurate and this is not it. I sanded his upper lid a lot, the 3D sculptor gave him te droopiest lids ever, I also sanded his jaw quite a bit -- Leon has a very roundish head. Not sure what the artist was thinking. I added an actual upper eyelid with the Vallejo putty, because the 3D-sculptor didn't give him any. Certainly not even close of an eye-shape as Leons, but I feel like I'm doing good progress. I wanted to see what the putty was like, before doing heavier eye mods. Now I kind of know, so I am comfortable moving on. I will try first on m Bettina, however, because that is an even larger head, with huger eyes to try plenty of times, without worrying too much about heavy damage (I hope!).

The 1st image and the last two were taken with my older than dust cellphone. I like the way those look, the "newer" phone adds a lot of noise/grain, for absolutely no reason, and also the colors are kind of gross, but they are all samsung phones, so I have no clue why the "newer" ones suck so badly -- I suck at taking photos as well, but I need all the help I can get. The "newer" phone, doesn't do me any favors. Sadly.

[the-enzyme]

More of my Leon S. Kennedy 1:6 head sculpt. I thought that I wanted to wipe this head’s paint apps and start all over again, whenever I felt like working on him again. However, my bff suggested me trying to add to it first, since I can just add acrylics to it, without using fixative of any sort, and then seal the work if I am happy or wipe it off if I am not liking the end results. Without much of a waste really, because I use literal drops of paint to do this head’s paint apps. I water down the acrylics so much, just a drop of each color is enough, and some blending mediums. 

So, I went and made the pigmented texture somewhat more subtle and also cleaned up his eyebrows further, and even dared to add eyelashes. LOL! I know I shouldn’t try, but it’s just something I need on my humanoid head sculpts. Even if I f-up all the time!

I am quite happy I decided to listen to my bff. I can honestly say, I am in love with this head now! I loved the idea of the head sculpt but didn’t love the things that weren’t right or could have been done differently to make it more accurate IRL, not just from some angles. If it were the younger me, I know I would have gone to town, with sandpaper in-hand and modified every little detail I found “wrong.” Which might have been a terrible idea, but I might have stuck with it to the end, and not minded back then. Now I can see that paint really does cover a world of hurt. DX 

It’s not the best work in the world, but I am not a pro-1:6-customizer, nor miniature painter, I am just a humble hobbyist, who enjoys customizing my own toys, to my liking. Maybe in the future, I will repaint him again from zero. But for now, I am okay with how he looks, and I’ve never been gladder that I own this head. Even if it was a pain in the gut hole, the whole thing. I am still not happy that he’s a giant-head, but there’s nothing I can do about that. I’ll just have to love the head for what it is and hope I can make him my dream version of an OG RE4 Leon S. Kennedy 1:6 action figure, before I kick the bucket! Lol! (:

I need to get tinier, pointier brushes, to attempt bottom eyelashes, the next time I repaint him! If only those were easy to find for a vegan person, in-store, so I can check for actual size. >___<;;; The last image is what he looks like now in the first photo, the middle photo is what I started with from my previous to this repaint, then the last is right before I painted lashes. The lighting is terrible in all, and very different, but you can still see the changes well enough (IMHO).