Action figure: A how-to!

Step 4 Paint? Bubble it and wrap it

Paint?
Sometimes sculptures look cool even without paint. I many plastic models growing up and most of them I never wanted to paint. No paint job was better than a whacky one. Painting is a tough gig. It's up to your skill level and knowledge base. More advanced users will learn how to mix different colored polymer clays and not even need to paint the finished product.

Skin color is often tough to reproduce in paint. I reccomend David Fischer he has an excellent series on painting models. Fisher covers all aspect of painting and even covers some basic effects such as drool and wounds.

Bubbling and backing
All you need to do now is put your model into the bubble and glue the bubble to the cardboard backing. Hopefully you're backing has cool graphics with images related to your action figures. Check the highly flamable toys examples.

Well it's all done, wrap it up and impress your friends. Eventually you'll be able to sculpt exact likenesses to anyone you want. Which is what highly flammable toys does.

But creating you're own ideas is just as fun and rewarding!

I hope you enjoyed my second Instructable!

chris

Comments

[carsoncool]

Are these made for play? And what do you mean "burn your finger"?

[bdonovan4]

I think he meant the fingers on the figure

[carsoncool]

Oh, thanks.