Figure Realm Comments and Questions

While I understand that the critiques---positive or otherwise---help us all to grow as customizers, don't let the lack of it convince you to stop posting your customs. Although it's really nice to hear from some of my favorite customizers, I realize they have lives and loved ones as well as I do, and they can't leave comments all the time. At the same time, if I see a work that really catches my eye I will definitely let that artist know what a great job I think they've done on it. It's just really too time consuming to leave comments for every piece. But don't let that prevent you from posting your work. Keep it coming.

The hobby is not fading..I feel ppl need to put more effort into their presentations when they post..meaning better pictures, posing ,backdrops,dioramas or trying to show and tell a story within these pictures like in movies and comics.that what toy photographers do in social media and believe me it draws a lot of attention. People love it. Gotta bring these customs figures to life to catch the eye of the public. Those days of posting customs like stiff puppets are fading away like the dinosaurs. We seen this many times and its repetitive. Offering better presentation bring something fresh and new to the table..that my opinion.

I think it's fine for people to use the Showcase however they want. Even if there aren't tons of comments flying around, posting your work in the Showcase still gets lots of eyeballs on it, and that translates into possible commissions. I think that's vital nowadays with how expensive toys are, you need a way to fund this hobby.

Also, keep in mind constructive feedback is rare. Not everyone is a wordsmith, or has the technical experience or time to give it. I'm still mediocre at customizing, but I try to comment any time I think it'll help the creators.

I already went on the emotional roller coaster regarding this hobby. I don't feel like writing in-depth toy reviews or articles like I used to, I'm just not that into it anymore. A big part of it is because there's no one local I can talk ...

I love both the like and critique option ideas.

Another idea could be to implement a rating system similar to the contest rates. This system could work either with or independently of the a like button. At the very least, it could give an idea of the quality of one's work as perceived by others.

You mean like coolminiornot.com? I don't know, I think encouraging critiques is better than arbitrary numbers. It's also why I don't like the current voting system for the contests, I'd rather people say why they think something is good or bad, not just throw a number out there.

I'm not crazy about the Like Button idea either, but it's benign enough and I think encourages customizers enough that I don't mind it.

You could probably cut it above the knee swivel, glue a few shims of plastic in there, then sculpt and sand it smooth again.

Apoxie sculpt is it! Thanks Doc!

Doesn't look like the Sculpey line has any 2-part clay products.

There are other clays that are 2-part products though, like kneadadite, apoxie sculpt, procreate, etc.

Also Model Masters have clear paints that can be applied with a brush.

It depends on what kind of effect you want. "Metallic", "Chrome", and "Pearl" all have very different finishes from each other.

To make a part look like colored metal, you would paint the part solid silver (a metallic) or chrome then use a transparent/clear/translucent color on top of it. People do it all the time for iron man customs.

Pearl isn't metallic (but it can look that way). The paint bottle in that picture is for a "pearl", it's not transparent. You can paint that over anything and it will be pearl green. Here's a figure painted with Pearl White http://www.figurerealm.com/customfigure ... w&id=77165 Note how it doesn't look like metal, it looks specifically like a pearl. And yeah, you can brush that Testors Pearl paint by hand, I used the same brand, it just takes a ton o ...

You can get Tamiya clear paint for brush application.

Yea, unfortunately there is no way for users to moderate the contests. Just let me know if you need something removed. I removed that duplicate.

Thanks, CC!

Thanks! I had no idea that they had made expendables figures.

A customizer once made a sgt apone that used an Expendables 2 Hale Caesar head and arms. Maybe this could work for yours as well.

Heres the link with pics:

http://www.mintconditioncustom.com/cust ... ner-style/

in specific figure pages, uploaded from iphone. for example, marvel select abomination.

Upload to where and from what device?

I did part of one, but my keyboard is broken. hard to type. I sent a link that might help

No, the checklists aren't dead. We still do updates constantly, but the new stuff is always the hard part to keep up with.

Absolutely, you can help The biggest help would be to let us know what's missing by sending us a CSV file of the missing figures. There's help on that here: http://www.figurerealm.com/help#3-74

Welp, I went ahead and mass posted (to customs I liked), then approved a few contests I'd like to see.