Here is my latest figure. It was inspired for my love of Batman and Knight Models came out with such a cool comic 70 mm Joker I just had to have a go at it! The figure and the HaHa!'s are stock and everything else is scratch built. I had originally started sculpting my own HaHa!'s but found these and said these look cool!
I took this to this past Atlanta show and was very surprised and pleased to have won a gold and Best Superhero/Villain award.
Everything was painted with my usual Vallejo’s acrylics.
Oh, wow another beautiful job Joe! Fantastic work on the scratchbuilding on the stage and curtains too, and very cool newspapers I assume you created and printed off.
I can see why you won, that’s just awesome all around!
Excellent piece! If you’re up this way in May, we’d love to see you bring this to the MFCA show, or in August, to JerseyFest.
Did you sculpt the curtains? I have a similar piece in the works, a curtained backdrop for an awards ceremony. I haven’t started it yet, but my plan is to use Sculpey.
Guys, sorry for my delay. I’ve been busy with trying to get a few new things ready for the FS articles. I really and truly thank you all for the kind words. I’m sorry I won’t be at MFCA but hopefully one day I’ll make it back and the other question is the leg is Harlequins, Jokers girlfriend.
Here are some pictures of the backdrop. I sculpted it using both Sculpey and AVES. The leg of Harlequin was sculpted with all AVES. I used a piece of styrene to sculpt it on. Well, here’s a lesson to be learned. First Sculpey has to be baked and thus the styrene will melt/warp. Next, Sculpey will shrink and last it’s very brittle. So when I went to glue it it cracked and was hard to sand and correct so I WILL never use it again!! I was using it because it gave more time to work with but I would have been better off with just doing smaller sections with the AVES.
Thanks for letting us ‘behind the curtain’ as it were on how you do your magic! I’ve tried using Sculpty too but that whole baking it does make it kinda annoying as you can’t use it with styrene.
Funny, I didn’t even notice Harley’s leg till now!
How is it that you haven’t used the “Air Dry” sculpy?? I’m not a big fan of the oven dry stuff, but my kids love it.
The over dry stuff is okay for building a base, but I would think you’d have been using the air dry if you were using styrene instead of the oven dry which works well with a traditional wire frame.
I’ve seen more than a few examples of entire figures being sculpted from the air dry stuff with amazing results. I still haven’t gotten my hands on any though.
Like usual, Joe, you’re presentation is amazing. Good to see someone with your talent level writing up the articles here. You’re first class, mate.
Thanks guys for the kind words. I did have lots of fun with this guy and have another Joker (Heath Ledger) version I might have a go at in the future.
Mr Brindos, Thanks for the extremely kind words and to answer your question…I had never heard of it! [:$] I will look into seeing if I can find it and will try it out.
