Here’s some quick Marvel pics from the Hasbro “Early Look” tonight.
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Hasbro is hosting an “Early Look” event before New York Comic Con opens tomorrow. To get you the pics you want as fast as I can, I’m hooking you into my Instagram feed. If you’re on Instagram, follow me at afpron – that’s for AFP Ron, not AF Pron :). Stay tuned for better pictures soon.
Here’s some quick G.I. JOE pics from the Hasbro “Early Look” tonight.
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Hasbro is hosting an “Early Look” event before New York Comic Con opens tomorrow. To get you the pics you want as fast as I can, I’m hooking you into my Instagram feed. If you’re on Instagram, follow me at afpron – that’s for AFP Ron, not AF Pron :). Stay tuned for better pictures soon.
Here’s my second attempt on Bucky Cap vs Arnim Zola. I’m just going to jot down a few thoughts as I’ve got to get out the door.
I think the angle of the shot helps sell the thought that they’re on a raised platform. I tried to accentuate that with light coming up from underneath the Hydra goons. Not sure that I’ll come back to this again, but if I do, I’ll give hawkinshand’s shot a try. It’ll be a few days anyways, because Bucky did his patriotic duty and sacrificed parts of himself for a custom.
As always, your feedback is welcome. Thanks for looking!
I am probably going to have to give this another try at some point – I only had a short while to set this up and snap some pictures, and when it came time to do some post work I didn’t much like the composition. As much as I miss having a Build-a-Figure in the third wave of (Return of) Marvel Legends, I do like the interconnecting bases. The idea for this shot was to use them as a raised platform, with Bucky fighting through the Hydra troopers towards Arnim Zola.
Right off the bat, I should switched Zola and Bucky around – eyes (at least in most Western cultures) will track from left to right, and so this shot would probably work better if the eye could follow Bucky’s shield from left to right. I think the idea that the platform is raised has been lost because of the angle of the shot. And then there’s this big empty spot in the middle of the shot. It’s not that I don’t believe in negative space – I just didn’t really think it through here and it seems off.
Any thoughts on how this shot could be improved?
If you’re a customizer, you’ve probably ended up with a custom with a wobbly or loose head. Maybe the existing socket on the head you’ve swapped in is too big, or you drilled out a hole in a resin head cast that’s wide enough to fit over the peg only to find it flops around like it’s on a bobble head. Because I’m a lazy customizer, I had around half a dozen “finished” customs that were like this. For some, the heads would flop around mercilessly. For others, if you knocked the shelf the heads would just fall off. Pretty bad – I know.
Faced with this situation, a pro customizer would use a two part compound like Apoxie Sculpt or Kneadatite, fill the socket part ways and attach the head – and before it was completely cured, would twist the head so it wouldn’t be stuck in one spot. (Or, as some of you will no doubt be thinking, a pro customizer would have drilled the right size socket to begin with…) But I’ve found a much easier way – with silicone sealant. This is the stuff people use for things like aquarium repairs (I think) and… ok, I’m not a hardware guy, so I have no idea what else it’s used for. All I know is that I use it to attach heads to action figures. It takes five minutes and is super easy.