Customizing: Feet for my Hamlet figure (formerly known as Doctor Who)

[dieastra]

Previously - Part 1: Changing The Doctor into Hamlet - the T-shirt

Another weekend, another try with Milliput. David Tennant as Hamlet was barefoot when running around stage. So I needed to change the chucks of the Tenth Doctor into bare feet. What a task!

This is what it looked like before:







Again, I used the help of some friend, this time an Angel figure which had exactly the kind of feet I aimed for:







So, I took my sharp knife again (the thumb has mostly healed, thank you). Oh boy, hope this will work:



I filled the spaces with Milliput and started to shape the toes and the heels. Problem was, whenever I was happy with the underside of the foot, the top side looked bad, and when I had formed that again, the underside started to slip. And this all in this really small scale.

The good thing about Milliput is, after an hour it starts to harden, so you have to come to an end, one way or the other. Otherwise I probably still would be sitting at that. So, there came the moment where I had to force myself to leave it, to not make it any worse. I'm not entirely happy, but this is what I managed:











Hope it will look better once it is painted. And to think I have to do it all again for the Hamlet in his black suit... Aw, man.


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On to the next part - shirt and jeans
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Comments

[lolmac]

Wow. That's quite the project!

Are you able to take a casting from the feet of the figure you like, and use that as a starting point for the 'new' feet?

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

But they still would be too big, then. I would not now how to make the casting smaller. The figure is a totally different size. No idea why they would not match the scales. Not even the Torchwood and the Doctor Who figures match, which drives fans crazy.

This is only the start, I have many more ideas for figures! That Milliput stuff is really useful. I also forgot to link to my previous entry, where I had added T-shirt-sleeves to Hamlet, did you see this as well?

http://dieastra.livejournal.com/24912.html

[lolmac]

Ah, I didn't realise the figures were different sizes!

Yes, I saw the link with the T-shirt sleeves. You can edit an LJ post to add things like that, if you like, eve if you aren't able to edit your own comments.

[sharp2799.livejournal.com]

You are so brave! I think it looks wonderful.

[shellyfromks.livejournal.com]

Very cool Astra! I think after all that work i would be making cloth clothing so you only had to change his body once! LOL He's looking great though! Thanks for sharing.

[fry-addict.livejournal.com]

Wow, das ist aber auch echt ne friemelige Aufgabe. Füße und Zehen zu Formen stell ich mir sauschwer vor. Insofern: Glückwunsch zu dem Erfolg - ich finde das sieht schon ziemlich gut aus - und wenn erst mal die Farbe drauf ist, wird das schon noch besser wirken :)

[beefie251.livejournal.com]

Looks like a lot of work. Curious about the end of the transformation *lol*

[pixiequeen10thk.livejournal.com]

Coming along nicely! That hour limit to working time is why I mostly stopped using apoxie. For some things that's just not enough time and I'm fussy as hell with the details. On the other hand, you're right that without a limit you can end up spending way too much time and not necessarily come up with something better in the long run. I'm working on a wizard McKay and a Once More With Feeling Tara at the moment. Rodney keeps pissing me off because the flexible rubber his current clothes are made out of keeps on making the sculpey crack. I might try the apoxie for a few touch up bits actually.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, the feet. I can imagine how these drove you crazy. They are really small, not to think of the toes - which are quite good looking now. Especially from the underside and the sides. And he's still able to stand, that's important! You could have refined them a bit with sand paper, if you're not entirely happy. An hour can be damn short at times ;).

[aker-ldh.livejournal.com]

Whoops, that post above has been me. I forgot to log in.

[phoenix-cry79.livejournal.com]

fun!

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Thanks, it was! Here's the complete figure btw.

(http://s137.photobucket.com/user/DieAstra/media/PPP%20Doctor%20Who/Hamlet/DavidHamletshirt600x450.jpg.html)

[phoenix-cry79.livejournal.com]

That is a lot of work!

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

I'm dedicated ;) Or obsessed? LOL

The jacket is some kind of gum, it is easy cut away. I also cut down the sleeves on the arms, to make naked arms, and added the t-shirt sleeves also with Milliput. Plus formed the t-shirt a bit better, as there was a hole where the jacket had been.

Here is another one I have done with him, from another theatre role (Benedic in "Much ado about nothing")



The Hamlet play pictures even made it into the Shakespeare Magazine!

http://issuu.com/shakespearemagazine/docs/shakespeare_magazine_02/c/subohxd

(there's a second page after this one, you can turn the page)