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| Author: | past nastification [ Mon Dec 26, 2022 10:46 pm ] | ||||
| Post subject: | Star Trek The Motion Picture customs | ||||
I did these years ago, but someone asked about them a few months ago, and I didn't see the post until tonight. My apologies. Sulu, Uhura, Chekov, Dr. Chapel, Rand, and even M'Ress (imagined as if she had appeared in the film).
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| Author: | sgartz [ Tue Dec 27, 2022 12:25 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Trek The Motion Picture customs |
There they are! These are beautiful: the paint jobs are really clean and smooth (especially on Rand and M'Ress; not sure how you got those to come out so well), and the color schemes you chose would fit in perfectly with the production figures. That movie M'Ress is fantastic. And Uhura is absolutely perfect. I would have been so excited to see these as a kid. Also, did you use a McCoy for the Sulu head? I did the same thing for a custom set I've been working on, and it worked better than I expected it to. |
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| Author: | kowalski [ Tue Dec 27, 2022 1:36 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Trek The Motion Picture customs |
These are perfect! Especially love M'Ress. Excellent work! |
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| Author: | pluv [ Wed Dec 28, 2022 11:21 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Trek The Motion Picture customs |
Nice. |
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| Author: | past nastification [ Wed Dec 28, 2022 1:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Trek The Motion Picture customs |
sgartz wrote: There they are! These are beautiful: the paint jobs are really clean and smooth (especially on Rand and M'Ress; not sure how you got those to come out so well), and the color schemes you chose would fit in perfectly with the production figures. That movie M'Ress is fantastic. And Uhura is absolutely perfect. I would have been so excited to see these as a kid. Also, did you use a McCoy for the Sulu head? I did the same thing for a custom set I've been working on, and it worked better than I expected it to. Thanks! I was tempted to paint the customs to match their movie uniforms, but opted to go with the (better for toys?) colors that Mego went with on its figures. That always the customs to display better with the Mego figures. If I were doing it over, I would have gone movie-accurate, and repainted Decker and the rest to match the film. To get the smooth paint, it took layers and layers of thin watery paint. Probably 6 or 7 coats on the yellows. Then a good few layers of clear coat on top of it. Yes, McCoy for Sulu and Kirk for Chekov. Aside from the sculpted hair, adding the eyebrow-adjacent mole on Sulu helped, and giving Chekov oversized eyes with bushy eyebrows helped. All of the female heads were Ilias, with sculpted hair. It's a nice starting point because it's already bald. |
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| Author: | past nastification [ Wed Dec 28, 2022 1:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Trek The Motion Picture customs |
kowalski wrote: These are perfect! Especially love M'Ress. Excellent work! Thanks! M'Ress is a Flash Gordon Lizard Woman (if that's the right name) figure. It seems like I mixed in Ilia arms so it would have some STTMP parts, but I can't remember and that hands might be different. |
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| Author: | past nastification [ Wed Dec 28, 2022 1:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Trek The Motion Picture customs |
pluv wrote: Nice. Thanks! |
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| Author: | DanOfTheDead [ Wed Dec 28, 2022 3:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Trek The Motion Picture customs |
Really cool lineup! |
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| Author: | past nastification [ Wed Dec 28, 2022 8:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Trek The Motion Picture customs |
Thanks. I made them a few years back, but they still hold up pretty well, I think. |
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| Author: | dropshipbob [ Fri Dec 30, 2022 11:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Trek The Motion Picture customs |
Love these! I had a MOC Kirk but stupidly sold him. 
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| Author: | Kwinn_Lives [ Sat Dec 31, 2022 6:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Trek The Motion Picture customs |
I love everything about there. TMP is underappreciated, and the character design was unusual, but these reflect it relly well. |
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| Author: | past nastification [ Mon Jan 02, 2023 1:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Trek The Motion Picture customs |
dropshipbob wrote: Love these! I had a MOC Kirk but stupidly sold him. Thanks! I saw the aliens carded about a year ago and passed on buying them, which I also regret. |
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| Author: | past nastification [ Mon Jan 02, 2023 1:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Trek The Motion Picture customs |
Kwinn_Lives wrote: I love everything about there. TMP is underappreciated, and the character design was unusual, but these reflect it relly well. Thanks! I bought an Avatar figure years ago to customize into the 3-armed alien who replaced Chekov in TAS, and re-imagine him in STTMP attire. Gotta get around to that... |
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