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3 hours ago, Trekker 42 said:

As I always vote on these based on how hard I yell “I NEED IIIIIT” I gotta give this to Punisher/Daredevil. Amazing pair of Minimates that I want so badly to be real. 

For me it was Catwoman.

I hated Michelle Pfeiffer in the role. Like worst thing in the movie for me. Didn't like the costume or her performance.

But this custom is an awesome likeness and really struck me.

And again, well done to all the contestants!

Well done to all the entrants!

So much Adam Baldwin love for one contest. LOL

3 hours ago, hellpop said:

I'd do this again. We should all go to Luke's house and sleep in the Toy Store. 😄

Holy fox in the hen house Batman!  That would be like Andy Garcia inviting Clooney and friends to spend the night in his hotel.

In my continuing quest for a clean Bishiop, I bought a cheap drawing tablet and basically tried to trace over a photo of "Soiled Bishop". It actually came out not too bad considering it was the very first thing I tried after unboxing the tablet. Still too ugly to post a pic though. Also, he's got kind of a surprised expression. "I don' remember having an Alien tail poking though my chest yesterday. Hmm."   I think with a little more experience, I should be able to make something half decent looking.

However, my offer is still open and I'm open to negotiations. Anything in my 3d printed collection is potentially on the table and I've got a decent MIB collection as well. I'm not going to inventory but I've got all Trek and BSG mates in package, and a bunch of older Marvel stuff. I would have thought a 1:1 scale mate-like 3d printed block figure would have been of more interest.  But anything for that Bishop face. 😆

Thanks for the feedback guys.

The one on the left is the most show accurate colour scheme. The one on the right is inspired by the Mego Starfighter and I think I'm going to go with that one for myself. I'm working on stickers to make it more Mego-ish. If it wasnt' for that I'd probably go for the middle one. I think toys look good with lots of contrast. I printed most of my Viper canopies in that colour as well though white would have been more show accurate.

I'm currently printing what I hope is the final version. It is again that point where none of you would probably notice the difference from the previous version. LOL That's always the sign that I'm close. When I feel like no one will even see the revisions I'm compelled to make, it's about time to stop.

I think I'm going to do a Marauder next. Then I'll have two sets of enemy fighters. It full of all kinds of weird angles. Might be fun or might be a nightmare. We'll see. I've got a good colour plastic to use and I need to get some Olive PLA for the dropship anyway (and design it).

What do you think? Silver canopy or white? The starfighter is getting close to done. I was so disheartened for a bit there on the first round but I really like it now.

Take note Zaxh,

We seem to be building an army here of army builder fans who would like to build an army of army builders. 

I ended up making my own canopy after all. It was a bit of a pain but the one I was trying to borrow was coming out with such thin walls that it was super-fragile. Now I can tweak the dimensions all I want and control the thickness. I've just finished up another revision I'm rather happy with and will start to print another prototype. I've fixed everything I can think of that needs fixing. I may have another go at the rear engine pods. Trying to keep it compact but I think they'd look better a little longer and thinner. Anyway, getting close to done.

22 hours ago, luke314pi said:

Well shit I thought if I made it a bit vague, someone wouldn't guess it right away. 😂

There is some serious comic book knowledge on this board.

Balanced off by the likes of me. LOL

2 hours ago, dj87 said:

Hi @DSTZach, is it fair to assume we're not getting anything else in this line? At least for the foreseeable future.

I don't think his job allows him to answer such questions realistically Is Rocky 3 even officially cancelled? Ghost Rider? I think you'll have to read between the lines until it becomes extremely obvious, or new product is solicited.

Nothing against Zach. It's the nature of a marketing guy's job to never admit a line is dead. Not that I'm saying this one is. Just that, it it is, Zach is maybe not the guy to tell you.

I"m not a big fan, being more from the Adventure Team generation. I have yet to buy an Joe mates.

Cobra army builders would change that. I probably won't buy a mate from this line until one side can have CC, Destro, and an army to back them up. 2/3rds of the way there DST. Come on.

Of all the lines we've had, if this one does not scream ARMY BUILDERS!, nothing does.

Any of our talented Multiverse artists interested in developing a face decal that resembles Lance Henriksen? If you provide me with one, I will in return send you this 3d printed Minimate-like (but not a Minimate) block figure Bishop custom, completed. He's not bad except the hair piece. Too hard to do anything but the most basic with the tool I use. Minimate hair should fit though.

9 minutes ago, DSTZach said:

Well, my product request just got cancelled, which means the warehouse is well and good fully sold out of this set. Thank you everyone for making it a success. It was mostly sold out before Hasbro even expressed interest, but they finished it off. Hopefully the Villains set does even better!

Maybe they're not sold out but they just can't see them.

A bit more work and it's starting to shape up now.

I'm not that much of a comics guy but this has got me thinking I'd like a Lone Ranger custom.

My favorite show as a little kid.

And once again, great work!

I printed a Buck Rogers starfighter. It looks pretty much like the render a couple of pages back. But I'm not happy with it. I think this one is going to see the most change from prototype to release so far. I would describe the Starfighter as long and sleek. Mine is short and stubby. It resembles a Starfighter but is not a Starfigher.

I think I'm going to finish this off and maybe do the Marauder for it to dogfight with before completing the dropship. I'm still picking up new skills and techniques along the way as well as starting to develop a bit of a style. The dropship will be my most ambitious project yet and I'd like to  be at my peak when I make it.

Wow! Those look great!

I'm liking where this is going somewhat. But the first attempt came out brutal. However, I did also find some Lee Majors images for a 6 Million Dollar Man custom I've been using to test some techniques. It looks too crap to post a photo. But it's a better likeness than the generic face I was using before.I can see that ideally you'd capture just the eyes lips and a hint of cheekbone if appropriate. Much more detail than that becomes too busy. I think I'm going to try some more with my original plan which was to just  take basically eyes and lips and hope it's enough to capture the essence of the character.  I need to find a way to make the eyes bigger too.

It's been kind of fun. And I'm really just a monkey throwing bananas. Maybe there's already a way to train it to make a minimate face and I just don't know. But I bet it won't be long before you can throw it a few minimate faces and then say make me a Steve Buscemi face and bam out comes this simple noseless thing that somehow looks like Steve Buscemi.

1 hour ago, DSTZach said:

I do not discriminate! If you ask for a promo, I give you a promo. Adult or kid.

There may have been a time I was more strict about daily allotments, but that was when we handed them out willy-nilly. And I don't like when people come up and ask for "that thing we give out every year." We get less of those now, but if they can't say "Minimate", I don't give it to them. 

I just had this vision of the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld with huge sideburns. No Minimates for you! Next!  LOL

I don't know the source material but that looks awesome!

It's just an experiment. I started trying to get it to draw me a minimate style face but I can't even get it to cut off the noses. So then I started working towards can I get it to create simple monochrome designs that look like the person. I've done a couple now. In some cases taking the eyes from one and the mouth from another, etc.

The blur on the second one is partly from scaling it in different dimensions and partly because the source art had some faint shading. I'm hoping it will look OK at minimate scale. I'm going to print both of them and see how they look. It's been so hard not to test already but I want to get a full sticker sheet of stuff planned before printing.

Can you think of any artists I might reference whose style will be easy to "Minimatize"? Nexxt time I"m messing around I'll try Luke's name. I wonder what I'll get. LOL

Also if anyone has experience with this stuff and knows how I could get it to not draw the nose, please do share.

Well quite obviously it's  Bid Stubs, the team that fights crime at auctions. Pretty obscure. 😆

PS Don't count that as a real guess.

How about this one?