Originally Posted by
SpaceGhost2K
Don't worry. I'll move all this stuff over to my customs thread. Later.
Let's discuss, shall we?
First of all, thanks for making me accountable for getting some of this stuff done. I didn't do all I wanted, but if I didn't set a high goal, all I'd hit was a low one. As it was, from the master list on the OP, I got a lot more done than I thought I would. Still pissed that I didn't get those other two KOTOR boxes done, but they're SUCH a pain in the ass. And in the time it would have taken to do one, I could have done three plates - and did.
Ghost in the Shell: I just didn't have time to figure out how I wanted to attach the figure. She needed her two pain support tubes glued in. For now, it's only a pet project, so I let it slide in favor of plates people were buying, or plates that were more simple.
The table of despair here... all of these WOULD have been done. Honest. Problem was that I didn't want to start doing the blood on one until I had all of them ready for that step. And getting them ready took more time than I thought. I ended up not doing the blood until a couple of hours ago and that glossy stuff takes forever to dry. I am PRAYING that they dry enough overnight that I can get all of them sealed and reassembled so they can go out by noon. I only have about three hours tomorrow morning to get these all ready.
Unca Bill. I was looking for stencils the other day and found that, so I had to do it. Apparently, there is a widespread system failure happening to Playstation 3's. It's a problem with the Blu-Ray drive, and it manifests itself as Error #80010514. It's too early to tell, but all the laughing Sony's done with the 3RRoD, JUST might come back to bite them in the ass. Unca Bill is enjoying a well deserved laugh at their expense. :)
Ditto for the Clockwork Orange, where I saw the stencil and made a plate out of it. It won't do anything for most people, but I expect a small number of people to lose their minds over it. I don't think Unca Bill amuses anyone but me. (Neither of these plates have a home either, by the way - hint, hint - but I think ghostrider wants first shot at the GITS plate when it's done.)
Boba was a commission. He originally just wanted the Mythosaurus (who writes this chit?) skull and white box on a green faceplate. We talked, and he ended up with a battle damaged and weathered Mandalorian plate. The plate has physical damage done to it with a drill. I dammed on latex rubber in spots before painting it, then rolled the rubber off with my thumb to make it look like paint damage. On most of my battle damage stuff, I make it look like there is a black primer between bare metal and the top coat of paint. On Boba's armor, if you look at the original stills, it looks like his armor had originally been yellow, and then painted over with the green. Anywhere there was metal exposed, there was a yellow feathering around the edges, so that's what I did. I also put the stripes from his helmet across the top of the plate. Finally, I sponged the plate randomly 3-4 times with a rust wash, so it's brown and dingy, not "factory paint" clean. It looks really good.
The Punisher was an idea I had after the Nightmare Before Christmas plate got so popular. Ali decided he'd go for it, but he wanted a specific logo, which I used, and he wanted the pistol and the smoke from the Godfather plate. This is the only toy pistol I have, so that's what I used. So this is Ali's plate.
Lastly but not leastly is a little surprise... mostly to me, but probably for you, too. I figured if I was going to Seattle to an Xbox event where everybody is going to have a controller, I better do something to mine so I can keep track of it. I don't think anyone is going to be able to sneak off with this one accidentally. I haven't tried it since I put it back together. I also painted a battery back but I was rushing it and screwed it up. It still works (I assume - I didn't scre up the contacts), but it's as ugly as Carrot Top.