My First Conversion ... Mantis

Well it had to happen sooner or later ... after seeing Danno, John, Saul and all the other incredible artists do conversions, I thought I would give it a shot.

SO ... here is my first attempt:

First, take 1 Generic Girl MB (available from CB's House of Resin)


Add in 2 Talisman arms (which I just had laying around)


Carefully drimel off the cuffs off the arms


Chop off the head of the Generic Girl (sorry CB), and reattach it at a more pleasing angle and add pins for the arms


Attach arms to the bust


I'm going to have to drimel the neck some more, but most of it will be covered with hair when the piece is closer to being done.

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I just realized that I can't add the some of the costume elements if the right arm was in place, so off it comes and start to fill in the gaps with Aves 2 part Epoxy Sculpt.

Also smoothed out the neck muscles with a drimel.


Gotta fix that hand too.

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Adding this it should be a sure fire give away as to who it is.



I need to go to Lowe's to get wire to set the hair now.

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Add wire for the hair ... I know it looks silly.



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Another update, I'm really having fun with this, it's just like drawing, but in 3D instead of 2D. I want the piece to look like it has motion to it, so I thought of the the character as if she had just turned around quickly into a fighting stance, so her hair is whipping around.

I probably should have drawn the idea out on paper, but since this is my first time doing this, I just wanted to see if I could just transfer what was in my head into the clay.









I'm going to try to do the detailing and work on the costume aspects today, between loads of laundry.

je suis toujours épaté par ce que vous êtes capables de faire et même la pour une première ça a l'air plus que bien parti.

superbe début , à voir peint, mais la statue qu'on aperçois au fond, serait-ce gamora des gardiens du pouvoir, si c'est ça, le peu qu'on en vois m'a l'air d'enfer

Started adding the costume elements





I wanna take a second to give MAJOR amounts of thanks to Jim Maddox for all the sculpting and material tips that he's helped me with. I probably wouldn't be anywhere near as happy with the progression of this piece if it wasn't for his guidance.

I added the costume, but I have to stop and let the epoxy dry because I'm starting to over lap myself and smudge areas of the epoxy that are still not solid.

Here are the final set of pictures for tonight.







I might try to at least work on the gauntlet to the right arm.

Good job Jesse, she will be great

Nice job

Congrats

Hey, very good start

you have a gift for that Jesse