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| Subject: | Re: Cloth texture? |  |
| Date: | May 21, 2002 |
| From: | Steve Frost | |
Roy,
After further review......."texture" was the wrong way to explain it.
Sometimes the clothing on figures just doesn't "look" right to me, resin
plastic or otherwise, despite the best of construction and painting
efforts. Nothing against those that manufacture the figures and molds or
those who build and paint them (believe me, my figures look like
pie-eyed ghosts from Little Orphan Annie comics...); it's simply a
limitation due to technology. Clothing on figures just looks as if it's
molded to the body, and well, it is, but it shouldn't be, unless it's a
scuba-diving suit or some such. And the clothes are either on or off;
much conversion and surgery is needed to make something different. Some
people like that in the hobby, but I'm an inept and skill-less basic
schmo builder who just can't get the hang of such skills. The only
decent bedroll or knapsack I'll ever "make" is if I take a 1/1 item and
shrink it.
Maybe "workable" is a better way to say it, to borrow from the l-to-l
track link vernacular. A modeler gets a figure and gets "something
magical" that allows for clothes to be, as examples:
- worn, properly or "free-style", like turning a hat backwards like us
Yanks do on occasion; or
- carried like a coat over a shoulder; or
- simply just not on the body as in a topcoat hanging from a tree, or
placed on the hood of a truck (bonnet for the Brits in the crowd), or
boots taken off after a long march, with socks stuffed inside of them.
I know there's all sorts of lead foils and putty and drills et al, but
my skills with these items is horrendous, and it gets expensive and time
consuming to try and make all this from scratch. There's also pre-made
and pre-formed resin accessories, I know, but I'm talking something that
isn't pre-formed. You can change it as you see fit depending on the
situation/diorama/vinette/personal taste.
Like I said futurama stuff.
This make any sense?
Steve
reply-to: sofrost@mindspring.com
roy chow wrote:
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> Hi Steve:
> I'd rather not see cloth texture on 1/35 scale figures -- I think it'd be out of scale. My eyes don't see any texture on someone 35 feet away from me (unless they're wearing a fur coat!! LOL). I think even the roughest cloth or canvas would barely show in 1/35 scale. My opinion. Your thoughts? |
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