Astra's actionfigures in Action

I got this wonderful idea to make shopping bags from clothes labels from our dollhouse group. Just the other day I had bought some clothes so I went to work today. I even added some bottoms and sides with paper to make them bigger.

Look at the dark grey Rabe label, it even brought its own "foldable bottom" with it!

Even the black drawstring for the handle is re-used from the label. Nothing gets thrown away!

Check out Sanny's original entry: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1675907215955924/permalink/2535279476685356/

My little Ed was bored so I made him the Bolodon disks game. I hope he teaches me the rules so we can play together!
Made with Shrinky Dink, a plastic straw and some small beads.





Click the cut to see all detailed pictures how I made the game!

( Click the cut for more detailed pictures )

And this is the original (screenshot)

I took a Spike body & Wesley head and made my own Ed Mercer action figure.



A lot of stuff had to be cut away. It's a nice figure and I was sorry to destroy it but I really wanted an Ed.





I needed to cut a lot at the backside, they had this so the coat would flow but the jacket needed to be tighter.





I smoothed out all the crinkles in the sleeves and pants with Milliput. I also later added the collar and details like the comm at the sleeve. And I cut a little triangle into the t-shirt at the neck.





I also changed the hands with wide-spread fingers to more closed fists.





Originally I had just wanted to paint him blue but the paint I wanted to use had dried up and I did not want to wait till tomorrow to buy new one. So I found this cloth that was given to me back in 1989 for waving at a Socialist demonstration. I already used the yellow version for my customized Captain Kirk and now the blue cloth will fit Ed. It was a bit too dark though so I painted it with water color that is also from my childhood. I love how it gives the uniform a bit of texture. Not shown: I also had to alter the hairline of the original head plus make the blue eyes brown.





Messy desk!

Alfred gave away his old jacket that he didn't need anymore.



I cut away a bit of the sleeves to make shirt sleeves appear under them.



My desk:



The end result:

Looks like I never showed off how I made my paneled wall even though I already had it as background in many figure pictures.

These are long stripes of cardboard, shorter stripes of cardboard and then many little small stripes of cardboard put in between. Fiddly work! But if you had go one stripe over the other the cross section would have looked odd.

At first it looked awful when I painted it with acrylic paint, then I got spray paint and it looks so much better (although a bit darker than I originally had intended)

I have the bestest co-worker ever! Today he brought me this - apparently it is leftover from pieces for a puzzle game for his little son. It's already folded and stands like that, looking like a room-divider. I don't even need to paint it as it already has a kind of wood design.

All I need to do is glue some paper behind, as at the moment the holes are see-through. I just can't decide whether to use simple white paper or to go for something more fancy and colorful. What do you think?

7 Inch figures for size reference.

Some months ago we watched the "Shaun the Sheep" movie with my mother and she commented on how she loved the spider and wants one. We often jokingly say things like that, but I made her one for Christmas!
I used an old cellulose ball from a stash that my grandfather had given me back in my East Germany childhood like 30 years ago. Some wire I had left from making the Gotham police precinct railing, and the rest is Milliput.











Got even a reply from Aardman!



Here's the original:

So for my scene with Alfred smashing the record player I needed broken records.

I used FIMO and one original plastic record to imprint the lines into them. Then just added some green paper in the middle. That pen tip is for making the hole.

The funny part is, I should have baked them properly to harden the FIMO but was impatient so just used hot water, thinking it would be enough. Turned out that they stiffened but still easily broke by themselves when I was picking them up. But since that was what I wanted anyway I didn't complain ;)

I feel nostalgic so here's the first make I ever did for my Stargate SG-1 action figures. I wanted a stretcher and figured it's just a cloth between two wooden sticks. I rarely ever sew, but here you saw me sewing ;) Quite simple but it did exactly what it was supposed to do.

There is a whole story behind this, one day I might post it. I didn't have LJ at the time yet.

I built this Star Trek TOS biobed. I scanned, resized and printed the original red-brown-golden cloth from the Star Trek Continues sickbay pillow. The switch are two small beads. The rest is just cardboard and styrofoam. And spray paint, a lot of spray paint! Can’t wait to set up proper scenes. Please click the cut to see more pictures of how I built it!

( Step by step of how I built it )










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