Help support the Mego Museum
Help support the Mego Museum

Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Time Traveller Under constuction

Collapse
X
 
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
  • Boris71
    GeekBot' For Life
    • May 13, 2007
    • 712

    Time Traveller Under constuction

    Hi I haven't done a custom for a while and the Micronaut Time Traveller has been on my mind for a while and when my local comic shop had some Khan figures cheap I decided it was time to have a bash at him! sorry for any bad pics they were taken with a camera phone

    once I split the body in half the first thing i did was build a jig to make marking him up easier for me



    I then marked the body out using masking tape for the width I would need to remove from the body, and the jig to mark the depth. I cut the front of the body with an exacto saw



    and the sides were cut by using a sharp modelling knife, I avoided a cutting wheel, as I have not done this to a EmCe toys body before and wasn't sure what would happen. The only problem I had with this was I had to cut through the pegs that align the body at the bottom of the torso which was a bit hard going, but nothing to major




    with the torso section removed I was now able to mak and cut the piecies that would be used to full in the section ready to make the removable chest piece




    these sections then needed to be sanded down to the contours of the body before I could move on to the chest piece.

    The back fill parts of the chest piece were nade from some strips of Styrene section glued togeather, and then these were once again sanded to the contours of the body tedious but worth it I think.



    Once the piece was shaped to the body I started to add some of the side strips to the chest piece, at this point I thought it would be a good idea to test fit the piece so I reassembled the body to check the fit before I heated up the strips to fit them to the body properly.



    and this is just to show the Time Traveller to the Mego torso



    Thats as far as I have gone for now, I hope to get a it more time on it later this week, to get the side strips fitted to the body and coverd with sheet styrene to finish the look, hope to get some more pics posted then

    Hope you like it so far any comments greatfully appreciated
    Last edited by Boris71; Aug 31, '10, 1:00 PM.
    Check out my Electronic Mag here Psycho Styrene Modeling Magazine
  • samurainoir
    Eloquent Member
    • Dec 26, 2006
    • 18758

    #2
    Cool! Can't wait to see how it turns out.

    It would be neato to do try this once some of the clear bodies like Phantom Limb or Invisible Man start appearing!
    My store in the MEGO MALL!

    BUY THE CAPTAIN CANUCK ACTION FIGURE HERE!

    Comment

    • Meule
      Verbose Member
      • Nov 14, 2004
      • 28720

      #3
      This is looking good, can't wait to see the progress
      "...The agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair..." - Edgar Allan Poe

      Comment

      • pmwasson
        Maker
        • Sep 12, 2007
        • 4881

        #4
        What head are you planning on using? I've been toying with making a TT myself, but wasn't sure what head to use. Of course, anybody with sideburns painted silver will probably look good!
        sigpic LaserMego

        Comment

        • Boris71
          GeekBot' For Life
          • May 13, 2007
          • 712

          #5
          Originally posted by pmwasson
          What head are you planning on using? I've been toying with making a TT myself, but wasn't sure what head to use. Of course, anybody with sideburns painted silver will probably look good!
          Thats one of the few problem I still have to solve, did toy with a EMCE kirk head and cast it and paint it silver, but will have to see what happens may be a head will pop out to me
          Check out my Electronic Mag here Psycho Styrene Modeling Magazine

          Comment

          • Boris71
            GeekBot' For Life
            • May 13, 2007
            • 712

            #6
            Originally posted by samurainoir
            Cool! Can't wait to see how it turns out.

            It would be neato to do try this once some of the clear bodies like Phantom Limb or Invisible Man start appearing!
            That would be cool I was thinking of casting the body and the chest piece and doing the original Microman solid colour ones, as thats the best I could do never had much luck wirh translucent castings:(
            Check out my Electronic Mag here Psycho Styrene Modeling Magazine

            Comment

            • Neutron X
              Persistent Member
              • Dec 22, 2007
              • 1803

              #7
              Looks great can't wait to see more! If you mold the head and chest piece out of resin, you can send the pieces out to be chromed.

              Comment

              • Boris71
                GeekBot' For Life
                • May 13, 2007
                • 712

                #8
                I did plan to cast them both and the torso to make building him easier and incase I wanted to do some of my own micronaut versions
                Check out my Electronic Mag here Psycho Styrene Modeling Magazine

                Comment

                • johnmiic
                  Adrift
                  • Sep 6, 2002
                  • 8427

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Boris71
                  Thats one of the few problem I still have to solve, did toy with a EMCE kirk head and cast it and paint it silver, but will have to see what happens may be a head will pop out to me
                  I would recommend contacting Georg/Mebifoschet. He reduced a Shatner/Kirk 12" Mego head from Star Trek - The Motion Picture. I think that head in 8" scale would be perfect if you ask him to cast it in a silvery/grey. The hairstyle is closer to the Time Traveller and you could build up some sideburns on the final one by adding sculpey.

                  Last edited by johnmiic; Aug 20, '10, 1:48 PM.

                  Comment

                  • samurainoir
                    Eloquent Member
                    • Dec 26, 2006
                    • 18758

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Boris71
                    I did plan to cast them both and the torso to make building him easier and incase I wanted to do some of my own micronaut versions
                    I'm sure folks around here would be interested in buying those from you to make their own micronauts!

                    Here is the Phantom Limb... I don't know if it's just the limbs or if the torso is clear as well. I guess we'll see when it comes out.


                    I remember seeing Boss' prototype body and thinking "Time Traveller!"


                    I'm hoping CastAWay makes their invisible man with a translucent body. That would be brilliant.
                    Last edited by samurainoir; Aug 20, '10, 10:18 PM.
                    My store in the MEGO MALL!

                    BUY THE CAPTAIN CANUCK ACTION FIGURE HERE!

                    Comment

                    • Boris71
                      GeekBot' For Life
                      • May 13, 2007
                      • 712

                      #11
                      That would be so cool to do a clear one:( sadly in the UK I'm a bit limited as to getiing mego style figures as they are expensive to purchase and get shipped here and a clear body like that would be fantastic
                      Check out my Electronic Mag here Psycho Styrene Modeling Magazine

                      Comment

                      • johnmiic
                        Adrift
                        • Sep 6, 2002
                        • 8427

                        #12
                        Couldn't you cast your custom torso in clear resin for your purposes?

                        Comment

                        • SeattleEd
                          SynthoRes Transmigrator
                          • Oct 24, 2007
                          • 4351

                          #13
                          I'm hoping the DM and CAWT will sell the clear bodies someday so I can make my army.
                          Here is one I put together with help from Bryan BOSSart and Austin:

                          Comment

                          • Boris71
                            GeekBot' For Life
                            • May 13, 2007
                            • 712

                            #14
                            Originally posted by johnmiic
                            Couldn't you cast your custom torso in clear resin for your purposes?
                            Well yes but getting clear resin that will set up nicely for a slush casting is a nightmare and to be honest it stinks to high heaven:( if I could get hold of some clear alumalite here I wouldn't mind, I'll have to give it a try at some point, but that will still leave me with solid arms and legs:(
                            Check out my Electronic Mag here Psycho Styrene Modeling Magazine

                            Comment

                            • Boris71
                              GeekBot' For Life
                              • May 13, 2007
                              • 712

                              #15
                              Originally posted by ealdrett
                              I'm hoping the DM and CAWT will sell the clear bodies someday so I can make my army.
                              Here is one I put together with help from Bryan BOSSart and Austin:

                              Love that body, oooh what army you going to build? if I could be so cheeky as to ask
                              Check out my Electronic Mag here Psycho Styrene Modeling Magazine

                              Comment

                              Working...
                              😀
                              🥰
                              🤢
                              😎
                              😡
                              👍
                              👎