Liney

Does anyone know a way of tightening joints? Mainly the neck? My Marrina has become a bobble head.

Another nice set. I like the updated Dr Strange, still going to be a bit of a pain to get hold of in the UK I fear.

Aside from the facial expression and my incorrect coloring of his cape/wings(?) on Morbius its pretty close to my design I did earlier this year.

I have an inkjet printer so want to avoid having to seal/coat my decals, do you guys think this would work as an alternative?

Clear Sticker Paper

Thanks, that does look pretty good, will scour the internet to see if I can find one for cheap.

How tall are sentinels in relation to people anyway?

Does anyone have any suggestions for some sentinels that looks good with minimates?

As good as the official ones are, I am trying to find something taller and more imposing.

The ML is huge, and pretty costly, but came across the Super Hero Squad one, does anyone have a picture of him with any mates?

Have there been any other sentinel figures that anyone knows of?

No idea what everyone else wants, but I would gladly take a Machine Man and Jocasta pack

Does anyone else see Emma's cape, or something of a similar design, working for Storm?

Thanks guys, you've both been a great help.

The Marvel Handbook is always my first port of call but it seems to be quite outdated now sadly.

Heyho peeps!

I was just wondering where do people find their reference images for stuff?

I do a lot of minimate designs but am struggling to find pictures to look at when doing them. For example, The Wizard or Alkhema. I can't seem to find many decent images of either of them, let along things like a image showing their backs.

Any help in regards to those two characters, or just in general, would be most appreciated.

Over and out.

I'm quite surprised to see how many of the older minimates I still prefer, such as Jean/Phoenix and Hulk.

Others, such as Bullseye, clearly have gotten better over time though.

Been working on various designs inbetween work, this is the only one I managed to get finished, sort of...
Line art for a Frightful Four Medusa, without the hair as you can see, will be drawing it seperately so as to not cover most the minimate design.



I think this one is much better than my initial attempt on the first page. Though I would like to point out I did suggest back then the same solution to her hair as the new Nova mate...

As always coloured version to follow, and her hair too.

I really want to like that Storm, but the puffy hair and elbow killing cape are killing it for me right now. Though this shot is pretty awesome!

I used Liney's kick ass Jocosta art work to make some decals. I didnt try them yet but I think the res held up during resizing. For the head piece I think Val from the Defenders set would be a good base. I was going to take on Plastic Man too but you guys did such a great job, I'll just use one of yours.

Thank you so much sir!

I'm not experienced at making decals, but can do the line art for some if anyone wants.

Also a few people mentioned they would like to turn a few of my design into decals, which I'm not against if anyone would be kind enough, especially these two

Im sorry if I have put this in the wrong place.

Question: do the new cape pieces for Storm limit her arm articulation? Just curious.

They do prevent the elbow joint from bending.

I was worried about that too, I would just try and cut off the band at her wrist. That way she can bend her arms, plus her cape isn't always attached to her wrists anyway.

On a side note, I think her hair, especially her widows peak is too puffy. Otherwise she looks great to me!

I love how you modded her cape!

My two cents worth is keep the Witchblade hair, its look better and makes it clear that she isn't Jean, even though she sort of is...

Sweet time travel that Kang looks sweet!

Whose red hair is it?

I want to say its Mystique's from the First Class mates, which is the same mold as Ultimate Thor, yes?

I love it, a very simple mod but it make her look so much more in keeping with the newer mates.

If you want to go further, maybe add a repainted skirt piece from the new Elektra?

I thought so because they were designed for John Connor who I remember being shorter than his mom. I should probably check though.

Are you thinking of Luke's custom? He shortened John Connor's legs if I recall correctly.

I was thinking the exact same thing, I saw a thread asking about the sneaker mold in other post somewhere and thought they would suit Shulkie just fine.

I never thought I would see WWE minimates!

They've both come out pretty well, can I suggest lightening Austin's eyebrows?

Thank you Hellpop, I agree, the original looks so scrawny compared to the current mates, plus he had that wierd one lip thing going on. Hopefully the face on mine in an improvement, I wanted him to be showing some teeth, but I cheaped out.

Another piece of control art completed: Luke Cage/Power Man.

I tried to be more economic with this design and re-use the old Power Man pieces and try to bulk him up with a Professor Hulk chest piece, as I thought the design was close enough to work. When drawing it I realised too much chest was on show, so I modified it to work better.

I have doubts whether the chain belt and chest piece will work together, so if anyone has all these pieces and would like to see how it would look,fel free to share

As always feedback is appreciated.

As always I went with Jocatsa, all she needs is a new hair piece made for her... and Machine Man...