Thank you my friends!
It is a long project that I bring ahead in the pauses while doing other works, I dreamed it for ages, it started almost one year ago, but now is nearly finished!
Hopefully it will be completed with diorama and figures within next summer.
And yes
, I'll offer a complete special package with all the characters and accessories, and eventually also variuos combinations just with a part of them.
Concerning the proportions of figures... yes in some other scales it seem to be less important!
In some cases perhaps it's a matter of sculpting style, like in some wargames especially, where the figures are often very nice but with a caricature style, perhaps to enhance some features and make the painting easier...
I don't know, but in some other cases it seem that perhaps some parts like heads and hands are made bigger compared to the rest of the figure, to allow an easier detailing.
After all is not easy to sculpt right proportions, that's why we can find some skeleton dollies already made available... to sculpt the figures all over with putty etc.
Otherwise, since not anybody can sculpt a whole figure from zero and get perfect proportions (me included, very often...
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But any feature of a well proportioned figure can be "erased", on plastic and metal we can get only a rough well proportioned body shape, to be resculpted all over once again with putty... and that I believe is the way most figures are done.
But on some materials like resin is possible to do the same even "stripping undressed"
the figure, and carve direcly other shapes, or even the anatomy which is supposed to be under the clothes or under other features that have to be removed.
Is not so easy, resin is easy to work but quite fragile compared to plastic and metal, everything have pros and cons... but I used this different way!
I find some base figures, well proportioned and of the right size (the actually are old 17 mm astronauts I found in the old toy box!)
The proportions were right, but the space suite made the whole body much thicker all around, especially on the heads with helmets and on the backs-packs... which is perfect to be carved!
So I casted resin copies of these plastic figures, and carved directly the body, rather than mold sculpt with putty which I used only for small retouches.
First I removed the useless protruding parts and smoothed the body shape, then I tried to e muscles and joints shapes and heads etc.
So I get these 3 naked base bodies, and casted resin duplicates to put in the position needed and "dress again" in different clothes!