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Thread: Diabolical Customs - Marvel 3.75
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Old 02-10-2014, 06:50 PM   #15
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I will do my best to critique these, however I feel the camera quality seems a bit shoddy for me to do so properly so I'll keep it to the point.

Vulcan appears to have some paint build-up on his right shoulder, could be bad picture quality however other than that, he seems solid.

Ghostrider.. I like the flaming bike, but I personally feel you went a bit glue gun happy. Too much of a good thing and all. Good application, just overboard.

Bamfing Nightcrawler, one question: Can he be removed? A+

Banshee looks good, the hair looks a bit brown, but good.

Moleoid.. I will let this one slide as I cannot complain. It's a moleoid.

Mary Jane, this one bothers me. I agree the eyes look odd, but I just don't see this figure as Mary Jane.

Black Knight, A+.

Keep it up!

The Custom Fig Critic.
Sweet criticisms man. Honesty is much appreciated. First let me say I'm no master customizer and I know it! My oldest customs have some pretty bad paint jobs because I hadn't learned to thin the paint. I always feel like I could have done one thing better or another.

Also in regards to the camera, its an 8.0 megapixel phone and captures flaws really well. I'll post a custom on ebay, go over it with their microscope tool and find flaws I didn't notice before. Also because the camera is very unforgiven the figures most of the time look way way better in hand The phone's white balancing is ok but not that great.

I work under some really ugly lights one being an ugly orange pink look to it so I've been using my magnifying lamp which seems to be better but makes some colors like orange and yellow look like dayglow. I could use flash photography but I personally think it's the worst choice for photographing figures.

So.. if there's shoddyness to the camera it's in it's ability to correct bad lighting.

Anyway on the the figures.

Vulcan - There is. The red I'm using bleeds so I brush on a dullcoat and I've recently learned that dullcoat likes to be thinned down as much as paint does. His head could be touched up better too.

Ghost Rider- I thought it was a great idea when I was doing it but came to the same conclusion as you. I definitely overdid it with the flames. Still.. it's grown on me and I've made a few other ones trying different variations with just flame tires and while I personally think they've looked better I like the overdone one the best.

Nightcrawler - Yes he is removable. I'd like to make some variations on it because I've made two so far and both with a similar pose. I'd like to do one where he's crunched more into a ball like how he used to be drawn.

Banshee - I have no good answer for this. I'll have to look at him in normal daylight. I think my rooms lighting might make it look browner while my lamp light makes it look too orange.

Moleoid - This is another one where the color varies quite a bit depending on the lighting. This is a custom that more than anything just requires some eyes slapped on it. As easy as that may sound, it gave me a lot of grief trying to get those eyes proportionate and also with the symmetry of the lines. I think I got to the point where I said this is close enough.

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