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My Custom Samus Aran Action FigureResin casted - unpainted
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Hey did you make the joints by yourself? I'm starting to think about my own action figure, but where I live none of the hobby shops sell joints and I don't wanna take them away from my other figures. Is there any way of making them yourself?
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is this action figure made out of plastic or ceramic?
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Samus is working for the Empire? damn rebels are fucked...
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Oh wow freaking huge! Dude you seriously need to start your own line of toys cause this is absolutely incredible!!!!
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Go to post #46. There is a brief description on how I made them.
[link] 
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Wait, I read the part about using hat pegs, but I don't quite get how ya got them to work? Is the peg just set in one piece and then you formed the clay around the ball end to make the joint? If that's right then you can't take it apart afterwards or did you make some parts 2 pieces so that it closed sround the ball joint? Sorry, just trying to understand so that I can try it myself, I'm dunb. LOL! XD
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Ok. Well let me tell you this. I don't recommend you making your own joints. I only did so because I didn't know about my other options. You can buy ball socket joints online. If I knew about this earlier, I would have just done it that way. Making your own joints is a long and difficult process. It's very difficult to get perfectly round/smooth, and to get them to fit together perfectly. Plus resin will never be as strong as commercially made plastic joints.
You can find them here: [link]
Do a search on that site for "ball joint" and you will see all of your options.
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Aww man! I hadn't check my DA page and went out and bought a bunch of stuff today, even the hat peg things! LOL! I'll just return those though so no big deal. 
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Um... I think Roma has sulfur in it and will react to the OOMOO. You might want to double check that cause the molds will not come our correctly and ruin both the mold and piece.
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Aww man, yeah it has sulfur, I didn't know that would be a problem! AAHHHH! Man, so good thing I haven't started yet. I was going to lay out all my dimensions and stuff on paper before I got started. Dude, I've got to drive back to Philly now to exchange em, that sucks. 
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Well did you check with the OOMOO tech data? It should say what works and what doesn't.
I'm just going to regular community college right now. It just has an awesome facility and instructors though. I'm very fortunate to find out about it.
Yeah moving sucks. But thanks
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Honestly, no I didn't I didn't think of their being any reason why I wouldn't be able to use them together, my bad on that one.
I'm going to order those joints too, thnx so much for the info on that, I appreciate every bit of help you've given me as well. You rock dude!
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No problem man. I try to help anyone that asks nicely
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Well, I'm glad I'm a pretty nice guy and asked nicely! LOL! XD
Maybe you could give me a hint on another quandry? I want to not just cast the hard plastic pasts of the figure, but I'm thinking of doing flexible clothes that can be changed on the figure. What do you recommend? I'm not finding any actual products intended for this purpose, btu I was thinking of using either Smooth-on 25 (actually ment for molding.) or 407 Latex Casting Resin (I think it's ment for making molds too.) I was thinking of using other products cuz I don't know what would happen if I poured Oomoo into Oomoo, even with mold release. probably end up with a solid block! LOL! XD I need to be able to paint it too. I have no clue what to use.
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Theoretically you can cast OOMOO into OOMOO if you spray the mold release. I've cast other rubbers in rubber molds (ecoflex 0030 in ecoflex 0030). It does stick a little, but comes out no problem. One thing to mention though, rubber in rubber has to be the same kind (tin cure/platinum cure). I had to find out the hard way. First time I tried casting Ecoflex in OOMOO, all I got was a gooey mess. Called smooth-on and they said that was a big no-no. One was tin cure and the other platinum... they would never work no matter how much mold release you put.
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Good looking buddy, I wouldn't have known about the tin and platinum cure stuff, thnx! 
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wow this samus rocks personally id like to see dark samus can you tell me how u made this one
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Thanks!
I made it from scratch. Sculpted all the parts with clay (Castilene, www.sculpt.com), made silicone molds, and casted in resin. All molding and casting products that I used came from Smooth-On.
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hmm...if you left the helm white and just colored the Arm Canon, she could be a newer version of the Storm Troopers lol
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After seeing it all white, I really wanted to make the Light Suit. I'm working on the designs right now.
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sweet. i personally think the Light Suit is the best Suit.
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Haha, either the Light Suit or the Phazon Suit! XD 👍: 0 ⏩: 1
If you do make the Light Suit, you jave to find a way to stick LED's in the chest piece at least!
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Sorry... I've already made all and sold all five. I will make different suits though... so maybe then.
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Well... I sold the 5 on Ebay and the average price was $500. Can't say how much they will go for in the future.
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how much are you selling for? Please don't be much.. I have NO JOB!!! WAAAHHHHH!!! (lol)
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This looks very good man. Articulation is very difficult to pull off. Great job.
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Thanks. The finished shots are in my gallery. Details are on this entry:
[link]
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