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[DavAnthony]

I posted pictures of my Picard and Riker a few months back but I wasn't thrilled with the pictures and I also was still really unhappy with the Picard face sculpt. Something seemed off about it. After looking at it for awhile it seemed to me that his chin was too large and his nose drew your attention immediately to it.
I marked with a pencil where I felt his chin should end and where I thought his nose whould be "tapered".

I then went about repainting the face (again) and changing his eyebrows, the shapes of his eyes and also adding some detail to his hair and giving him the brown patch of hair he had on the back of his head for the first few seasons.

[DavAnthony]

Commander William Riker

With Riker I added the folds to the side of his uniform and also added his belt which was missing from the figure. I slimmed down his face a bit and added some more hair to the top of his head. By adding the folds to the side of his waist it helped to reduce the "large head" the figure seemed to have. Lastly I gave him Worf's legs which seemed to really suit the pose and look of the figure. Also helped me to get Riker's stance displayed accurately I'm pretty happy with this version.

[The_Donster]

Nice work DavAnthony, I'm always impressed with folks that have the talent and patience to sit down and do this kind of work myself. I hope you don't mind, but I've moved this over to the custom section of the forum. I will try and leave a redirect for members to find it

[FHC]

Dave,

Can I use some of your photos over at http://www.trekfigures.com ?

[DavAnthony]

Donster-that's no problem. I wasn't sure I'm noticed sometimes people post custom stuff in regular chat but it's all good. Thanks for the complimetns as well.

FHC-No I don't mind at all. Thanks

[hemble]

Mate very nice looking customs you've improved them 100% better well done.

Ron

[DavAnthony]

Hemble,
Thanks you I'm glad you like them. I don't know what it is about that Picard headculpt but it still doesn't look like it does in person. The long angle of Picard and Riker standing togeather is closer to how the figures head actually looks now. To be honest, I think the massive nose on the face distorts the camera lens

Dave

[skeletor]

WOW DavAnthony,

That Picard is very nice! I was unhappy with DST version of Picard, why the heck did they give him thin brown eyebrows?! lol

Why are these toy companies selling toys, when it's obvious the people here can do a much finer job I think.

[knightone]

Paint application makes all the difference in the world. The sculpt seems great, but it's obvious that painting the figures on an assembly line doesn't allow the sculpt to really come through.

Great job, DavAnthony.

[DavAnthony]

Thanks guys, It's funny I've noticed that eyebrows can make or break a figure's accuracy. If you take the 12" Aragorn from Sideshow. If he lower and change his eyebrows it really make a difference.

In regards to the Picard figure the two biggest problems I felt the figure had were his nose and his chin. They were both too big. Stewart has a somewhat wide nose but it doesn't come down and dip over his lip like in this sculpt, plus although he has a broad chin it's not nearly as broad and big as DST sculpted it. So by shaving down his chin and trimming some of the hook off the nose, along with the repainted eyes and eyebrows it really helped to bring out a better likeness.

I'm still not completely happy with it and I plan on going back and doing more work on it. I was even considering resculpting his nose, but I need to get my casting supplies before I do that.

Thanks again for the comments
Dave

[skeletor]

That's amazing, I'd love to be able to do something like that.

I have some paint ware on some of my figures, any suggestions on what kind of paint i could use to touch it up?

[DavAnthony]

That's amazing, I'd love to be able to do something like that.

I have some paint ware on some of my figures, any suggestions on what kind of paint i could use to touch it up?

skeletor,
I'd recomend Testors' model master acrylics. I think walmart carries them as does a few hobby shops. Don't confuse them with the enamels though since those would end up being a nightmare and making your figures way too sticky.