"How Do You Remove A Pygmy's Loincloth?" Topic

Nothing kinky here . . . move along.

These are the pygmies in question (DA 13/6):
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I am not too crazy about the little frill around the top of their loincloths. I want to make them like plain loincloths.

Should I try to clip it off, sand it, or something else?

Thanks.

CC

Verrrry carefully

otherwise trim with an Xacto

Start with a nice candlelight dinner.

Allen

Somebody has just a little too much time on his hands! :)

Couldnt you sculot furs over the top? or did they go naked

Sorry sculpt

I dunno CC, thats pretty close to the action- you could end up destroying the smooth lines of the fig as a whole

This sounds very labor intensive, but you might want to take a jeweler's saw and cut thru the entire torso in 2 places- once just above the frill, and the other just below- pin them back together with a little bit of greenstuff and your back in business – that would work with some of the figs, but not all of them – CC, here's the real deal – you want to take advice from a more experienced modeler than me! ( good luck 2 you! )

I don't think it's so much a frill as the way the cloth bellows out from the wrapping. Not painting in that style (the excessively dark lines in the creases of the miniature) might help reduce the glaring obviousness of the folds. Go for more subtle shading.

Otherwise, greenstuff is your friend.

Dremel?

Doug

I wanted to be sure how to do it, so as not to damage the (to me) tiny figures. So I will appreciate any input.

Up to now, most of my conversion attempts with metal figures has involved adding to the figure. This is the first time that I have to actually take metal away (other than clipping off weapons and other easy stuff).

CC

for detail work there is nothing like a good sharp xacto! you will need to change the blades frequently and wear safety glasses as it's possible to break the tip of the blade and have it fly out into space.

That really sounds like more trouble than it's worth, IMO. Cutting stuff off that stands out is easy. Getting at broad, interior detail like that will require time-consuming grinding and probably burnt fingers from the figures heating up (I always burn mine, anyway, you're probably more careful). Only then can you get around to actually sculpting detail back. I've got enough other stuff to do that if you wanted it for more than just a few figures, I'd live with it.

Funny…I actually ADDED a bunch of those frills to some Foundry natives so they'd match…

Trying to remove them would be a serious pain. I use a dremel with a pretty small grinding head for similar tasks.

*squints*

Hmmm.. My best advice would likely be a dremel-type tool, with a small 'dental' grinding tip. I've actually got a smaller not-dremel tool that works very nicely for such fiddly work.

Heh.. got to love Foundry's descriptions.. 'Pygmy Archers in Silly Little Hats'.

First: Dinner, a Movie, and lots of Rumba dancing-

Next:

Definitelty the Dremel with small grinding tool. I've done quite a bit of 'removals', even re-carved a few faces.

It'll take a fig or two to get used to 'the pull' of the bit,
so expect to lose at least one:
makes a good casualty figure!!!

You'll catch on quickly after that: its easy!
WalMart has the right kind of bits, as does Sears-

The little bastards are harder to work with than I thought. I wish someone made nekked pygmies!

CC

Best you should pet him first or he might bite you.

Buy him a drink….

Sorry I couldn't resist.

Took some doing (I only have cutters, sand paper and x-acto knife at the hotel room), but the loincloth ruffles are off!!!

Now on to the hair and weapons. I will soon post photos of the finished product on our group site.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

CC
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My project is finally taking shape!
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CC

How? At yer own risk! They use poison arrows IIRC…>;D

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
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What do you think of the results?

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CC

Buy him a few drinks first, I suppose, then turn up the heat so a we're all stripping off our clothes. Then pop "Brokeback Zulu" into the DVD player and let nature take its course!

Our kitten removes flash and frills for us.

Of course,if her boss finds she's nibbled the wrong parts,we have to provide him with dinner,drinks,movies,dancing-and three new figures.

DONE!!!

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CC
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What are you using these for?

Duck Crusader: "What are you using these for?"

For prehistoric skirmishing gaming. In this particular case, for Floresiensis:

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CC

Not unless I'm a US senator.

Given a recent swashbuckling game, just chop off its legs.

The game had a final scene where a village of pygmies were guarding Sir Francis Drake's "extra insurance" treasure. Somehow, most of them got their legs sliced off in combat against the normal-sized interlopers…