President of the Assembly, Planet of the Apes

[Meule]

Here are some Halloween photos from Friday's parade at school. I was really afraid that the latex would not have dried thoroughly by then even if I had blow-dried the heck out of it the day before, so I turned the mask inside out overnight. This made a weird ding on the left eye, which was a last-minute problem that we just had to live with. I have since fixed that by forcing it back into shape with a clothespin for a few hours. At least Ashton said that the mask did not smell anymore inside. I was really shocked at how sweaty his hair got--guess cause latex does not breathe like foam latex does. If only I had an oven large enough, I would have made it out of foam latex.
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Look how little Ashton is! Even if he is now 6 years old he can still wear size 4 toddler clothes.

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This is my favorite photo, because you can see what mask Ashton could have ended with if I didn't put any effort into his costume. At least I learned how to make a slush latex mask. I'll have to see what kind of masks the kids will want to wear for next Halloween so I can plan for it!

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This is Ethan wearing the Finn's outfit from Adventure Time, which I sewed for him the night before. I was really stressed out even if it was only a simple outfit.

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Action shot. I hate digital camera lag.
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Congrats Jess, Ashton's suit looks so much better than the other one

[jessica]

Renegade--with Pink House Studio's Reducit II.

[alex]

as always great stuff, the costumes are very cool!!

[jessica]

I just finished this chonmage for a headsculpt that could pass for a samurai. I will have to figure out how to cure the sculpey and not mess up the little plastic peg that holds the headsculpt onto the figure...or maybe just pluck that peg and bake it. Yeah. Maybe I'll do that.

[Meule]

Wow, beautiful as always, Jess

[jessica]

Time to get back to this guy. I will try Mego scale so I won't have to worry about shrinking it.

[jessica]

OMG she's so cute and awesome! I need to fix the back of her hair, but she's almost done, and ready for an official portrait. Yay! FYI, I plucked off the hieroglyph from the Sideshow Cornelius outfit and glued it onto her outfit. After trimming it's perfect scale for Megos!! And yes, I'm a sucker for packaging. I saw the chimp's face on the chocolate bar and had to buy it.



Here she is next to the Sideshow Zira:



Eh..spoke too soon. I decided her hair was too poufy, so I have dremelled it off and I will build it back up again:


Here's how she is before painting up, on a Mego body for sizing.

[jessica]

I decided to go ahead and make another samurai so that I could photograph some sword battles. I have to work with what I got, and this was the most samurai-looking headsculpt I currently had in the coffers:


This is after the makeover:


The operation that was necessary to accomplish this:

[Meule]

I decided to go ahead and make another samurai so that I could photograph some sword battles. I have to work with what I got, and this was the most samurai-looking headsculpt I currently had in the coffers:

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This is after the makeover:
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The operation that was necessary to accomplish this:
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Looks like a samurai to me

[ironman1188]

The operation that was necessary to accomplish this:

You cut out his brain you bloody baboon!

Looks great Jess. If you need samurai heads PLMK. I have a few that I don't think I'll ever wind up using. You're more than welcome to them.

[jessica]

Hey IM! THat would be great if you can spare one samurai looking head. I can't really tell how this guy will look while he remains unpainted. If you have a headsculpt that looks more samurai, I will turn this latest guy into a Chinese swordsman instead. I love those costumes, too!

[ironman1188]

Not a problem. I'll dig them out and you can have them all.

[jessica]

Mego scale Toshiro Mifune is in the works. Burke is there for sizing purposes, to make sure that I stay in scale. I was so tempted to take a mold of Burke and rework him into Mifune because I can see Mifune in his sculpt already.




I also added chimp feet to my Mego scale zira. I'm going to add leggings to create a boot effect, but I haven't found the perfect fabric for that yet.

Darn it! My sculpt got too big before I realized it...but this is how he looked before I chopped off portions of his hair and the sides of his face:


I'll capture him eventually. If at first you don't succeed, try and try again!

[Chris]

Is the head too big for a Zica body? It looks excellent.

[ironman1188]

Hey Chris!
How goes your project? Any larger pix of that avatar photo?