Comments on: Ah! Kagura san!

By: The Geek

The Geek — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:23:56 +0000

Another trick you can use to bend tube is insert a length of copper wire to almost fill the inside of the tube. To help thing along you can also heat the tube before bending.

By: Cody

Cody — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 02:34:38 +0000

Looks like I can add a bunch of little gadgets on the base to detail it up, and let the base go single rail. Yay.

By: Cody

Cody — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 06:29:54 +0000

Thanks David, that makes total sense! I gave it a quick try, but I probably used sand that’s perhaps too fine, so it didn’t offer enough support. I imagine coarse and tightly packed sand should do the trick.

By: David

David — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 02:14:58 +0000

Another nice figure!
On the bending of aluminum (and copper) tube, the old aircraft machinest trick is to pour sand into the tube and cap both ends with tape or clay. Bend your tube slowly so the metal on the outside radius stretches at the same time that the inside radius shrinks. The lack of support is what causes the folding/deformation of the tube.
Great job, my next project is soaking in CSC now! 😀
David

By: Cody

Cody — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:15:52 +0000

Hmmm the flipping didn’t work as well as I thought 😕 One of the rails always gets in the way of one of her legs, and it defocuses the figure I think. I wonder if it’d be worth just taking away one of the rails? The scene looks a bit bare though (but may be it’s just one of those dominant first impression thing). ARrrgghhhh

By: Masa

Masa — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 01:47:20 +0000

A plausible excuse would be “Kagura-chan was stretching and loosening up some sore muscles AFTER her swim” Goes with the plan to have her wet too. After seeing the actual base though… it does seem a shame to have the detailed portion hidden from the main view. I’d flip her around the other way for sure 😉

By: Cody

Cody — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:50:57 +0000

Thanks! 😛

The blue tint is in the plan, but I’ll try to experiment with whether I can do a better job of showing the waves. The thing that troubles the me most however is what to do with the rather “bare” back of the base. If I had posed her as you said Masa that problem could also be solved… ugh.

By: Masa

Masa — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:36:56 +0000

Kagura-chan looks great. I’d tint the bottom of the lower acrylic disc with some clear blue… just to get the “water” look happening. I almost wish she could be turned around the other direction, so the viewer’s attention goes to all the hard work you did on the “other side”. But then that would kinda conflict with the action of the figure – who appears to be stretching and warming up before taking a dip Awesome work (as usual) 😉

By: Kaitlin Hess

Kaitlin Hess — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:27:58 +0000

You are the MASTER! I love your creativity with the bases for your figures! It REALLY adds something special to an already AMAZING figure!