"Werecat" from Michael Jackson THRILLER Video - In progress

[tylerh]

This creature was a huge part of my childhood - My favorite video, and an awesome creature design!!! I want to make him (it?) in MEGO scale!!!

Here is where I am at - I have some raw pieces (a body that needs to be restrung (had the cross leg CTVT issue), a shirt, jeans and shoes) and I digitally sculpted a head that I am going to paint and add hair onto!

Thats all for now - just waiting on the 3D print output for the head to see where I will go next. I also have a MEGO letterman jacket that I am going to take apart and reverse engineer to make the proper RED color... (I also have to learn how to use a sewing machine)

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[Starroid Raiders Dagon]

I love that head! It is a great monster and I cant wait to see more!

[cockyhoskins]

Can't wait to see this. I don't think I've ever seen a Mego-ite attempt him before.

[EMCE Hammer]

No joke, I was just thinking of doing some Thriller guys. Looking great so far.

[tylerh]

Got the 3D print of the head today! After work - If I can get some stuff to restring the body - Ill piece together a prototype!

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[pmwasson]

Wow, looks great!

[EMCE Hammer]

Wow, looks great!

What he said!

[apes3978]

This should be really cool looking when it's completed...

[tylerh]

Thanks everyone! This is a figure I have wanted for a long time, so its fun to finally "get it going."

[pmwasson]

The details on the head look really nice. What kind of material / printer did you use?

[tylerh]

The head is right out of the 3D printer - Its an industrial 3D printer, called an OBJET EDEN... Great machine - Not flawless, but very very good (The flawless machine is 4X as much per print ) At this scale it fine though!

[pmwasson]

Cool. Thanks for the info. My hobby printer isn't working at the moment and I was thinking of picking up a different one, but not an industrial one.

[Grimjohn]

Outstanding work on the head sculpt! Looking forward to seeing the finished figure.

[tylerh]

Cool. Thanks for the info. My hobby printer isn't working at the moment and I was thinking of picking up a different one, but not an industrial one.

Ya - this printer is HUGE - Like almost refrigerator huge, and I think in the $200K neighborhood! The Form-1 is supposed to be nice, and in the 4K neighborhood - If I was going to buy one for myself, it would be the Form-1 (Although Autodesk is building a nice one in the 6K range that is going to be amazing...)

[Starroid Raiders Dagon]

The head looks great! Beautiful job on the graphic rendition and happy to see the printout turned out so sharp!