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Fat Valentino

Member Since 25 Apr 2010
Offline Last Active Sep 15 2014 03:06 AM
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In Topic: Let's make some 4.5" Scale Starship Playsets!

03 September 2014 - 01:43 AM

I have a silicone mold made in this scale, and I probably could do one last expansion just for the hell of it. It would need a lot of clean up with putty & bondo. I'm torn. Playmates would have produced a dinky little one just like this...


In Topic: Let's make some 4.5" Scale Starship Playsets!

03 September 2014 - 01:32 AM

Here you go. At 12" or so it's criminally undersized, by the same amount as the TOS shuttlecraft and DS9 Runabout vehicles...

 

So, right around the scale Playmates would have produced a Delta Flyer in the late 1990's!

 

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In Topic: Let's make some 4.5" Scale Starship Playsets!

03 September 2014 - 12:44 AM

That's a 12" Delta Flyer. Let me snap a pic...


In Topic: Let's make some 4.5" Scale Starship Playsets!

02 September 2014 - 09:30 PM

To the best of my knowledge, 3-D printers are very limited by size. Nothing too much bigger than 8" or so was what someone told me. Pepekura paper modeling under Rondo (Bondo + Extra Bondo Resin to make it smoother) is what many artists use to make Stormtrooper helmets and such. I have some paper shuttlecraft models I'm going to play around with see if it works for something 24" or larger.

 


In Topic: Other action figure lines that are compatable with Playmates?

02 September 2014 - 03:21 PM

I've also used the legs from those cheap generic figures to make molded customs. It's not too hard. You sculpt your custom character on top of the generic figure, then make a silicone mold, and when you fill the mold with resin and pop out the finished piece, it's a perfect fit. 

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