elhonez

BHM FTW!

You are a gentleman and a scholar. If Wheel of Fortune had teams, I'd want you on mine.

BIG FISH, SMALL POND

...but what does that mean? Abstractly, sure, D-listers with big aspirations generally qualify, but there's also a bit here that's on the proverbial nose. I guess I don't really need to be coy since all of these are updates, like the first batch, but I'm standing on ceremony. 

Pictures in about 3 days, I need to do some painting to finish up 

We have reached Peak Vowel!

Guessed: Q, U, T, K, O, A, E, S, i

Revealed:  

__  I  __    __  I  S  __,    S  __  A  __  __    __  O  __  __

HM:

Happy Thanksgiving! BHM with the save!

Guessed: Q, U, T, K, O, A, E, S

Revealed:  

__  __  __    __  __  S  __,    S  __  A  __  __    __  O  __  __

HM:

We're running out of vowels!

Guessed: Q, U, T, K, O, A, E

Revealed:  

__  __  __    __  __  __  __,    __  __  A  __  __    __  O  __  __

HM:

Check.

Guessed: Q, U, T, K, O, A

Revealed:  

__  __  __    __  __  __  __,    __  __  A  __  __    __  O  __  __

HM:

Stay of execution!

Guessed: Q, U, T, K, O

Revealed:  

__  __  __    __  __  __  __,    __  __  __  __  __    __  O  __  __

HM:

Somebody save this guy!

Guessed: Q, U, T, K

Revealed:  

__  __  __    __  __  __  __,    __  __  __  __  __    __  __  __  __

HM:

Guessed: Q, U, T

Revealed:  

__  __  __    __  __  __  __,    __  __  __  __  __    __  __  __  __

HM:

Guessed: Q, U

Revealed:  

__  __  __    __  __  __  __,    __  __  __  __  __    __  __  __  __

HM:

1 hour ago, cylonchaney said:

Q

Throwin' down with a big swing, right off the bat. I like your style cylonchaney. But HangMate is coldly indifferent...

Guessed: Q

It'll be some time before it's ready, but Wave 2 has a loose, somewhat abstract theme:

__  __  __    __  __  __  __,    __  __  __  __  __    __  __  __  __

Looking good, says this guy

2 hours ago, cylonchaney said:

You have a real talent for Minimate customizing.

I like how you've captured the DST promo photo style as well.

Thank you! I'm excited to do more with this format. There should be at least 6 more PMIF-themed "waves" before I'm done with that group.

I decided to go back and fix up / meddle with / otherwise improve some of my very first quick-ish customs. Some got more TLC than others, but all are now more comic-accurate. No "HangMate" this time, since this wave name was already out there in the very first post.

Cheshire Cat is basically all-new, since I had the color wrong the first go-round. I added some Janine Melnitz glasses to complete the look.

I remember these being somewhat timely in that I made them after the Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes episode aired that featured a bunch of c-listers (including Spear and the Mangler), but before Netflix's Luke Cage aired, which of course heightened Shades' and Comanche's profiles. 

Fun Fact that I only recently learned: Shades is the father of the second Power Man, Victor Alvarez. (well, technically 3rd if you include Erik Josten's early alias).

21 hours ago, DSTZach said:

Great customs! I read about them in the Marvel Handbook, but never any of their stories.

Never let it be said that I don't dig deep for some of these.

Over the next few waves, I'm sure there will be more than one character whose sum comic appearances could be counted on a single hand. 

Lookin at you, xxxxxxx!

It would be fun to see a franchise-wide line pop up, with some "greatest hits" and new stuff mixed. And an Ecto-1?

On 11/14/2023 at 7:50 AM, luke314pi said:

It is set at 300dpi. I wish I could help with the Gimp, but I don't use it. 

I got it sorted out -- thanks to everyone who chimed in on this one. It takes a village.

Turns out it was extreme user error -- I had pushed the margins of 8.5 x 11 so much that even disregarding the borders during printing wasn't enough, so I ended up reshuffling the layout of the decals on the page.

A potboiler of sorts -- I shared these years ago, but recently touched them up and thought it would be fun to photograph them like a box set from the days of yore.

Thanks Luke, that helps! I'm going to give it another shot tonight. 

These are great! Thanks for sharing -- that Baron Blood idea is truly inspired.

Quick update: I was able to wheel and deal for everything but the War Machine part, so if you "know a guy who knows a guy," HMU.

I'm also curious if anyone here has swapped the shins of 'mates?

I'm thinking there's something wrong with the image resolution, but not the image size. 

Does anyone know at which default resolution Luke's template should be set? If I knew that, I could probably reverse-engineer the change I need to make to get my decals back to the right size.

Thanks! I tried "ignore page margins" but I'm still getting the same final size. I may need to resort to math to scale up the layers by a fixed%. 

Anyone else using Gimp who's run into this issue?

You mentioned the approach I'd take -- glue it on, and make a second swappable visor-less head.

I recently was banging my head trying to get glasses super-glued to a hairpiece, but the connection points were just too small. I ended up glueing the glasses straight to the face, and it worked like a charm.

Nice! I like Bev's hair.