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Erik,
Nice pics. My idea (which I haven't tried yet) involves painting a plain
black head and then carefully scraping off the paint to form eyes, eyebrows,
a mouth and other details as needed.
Love the "animal masks." Great use of pieces!
Dave
Erik Olson <olsone@spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:Fz988o.3p1@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.starwars, David Simmons writes:
> > To me, the best solution for now is still to get out the model paint and • do
> > it yourself!
>
> (DSM pics follow)
>
> Do it yourself: that's exactly what I did for "Juba", the character from • the
> movie Gladiator. Several Johnny Thunder minifigs became test subjects. I • made a
> pale one for Maximus. Thinking: it's dumb to leave Maximus yellow too, • side by
> side with Juba who is no longer yellow, because in that context it does • pose the
> question, what does yellow mean? Yellow loses its neutrality after that.
>
> The purely technical problems are mixing the proper tone and matching it • later,
> and adding facial features back in (haven't tried yet). I used • acrylic--hats can
> scratch it right off again. Juba was supposed to be bald but he was • scratched
> already so I put hair on to hide it.
>
> Juba could now pretend to be Lando, although real-life Djimon Hounsou is • not
> exactly Billy Dee Williams, but THIS minifig can't claim to accurately • depict
> anybody. (:
>
> http://www.ancient-theme.com/gladiator
> (just a temp page with pictures right now, bear with me)
>
> I don't care to fuel the debate by debating *here*, but, hey, I've gone • and used
> the paintbrush. Enjoy.
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