DalaGStanator's Customs, Mods and Experiments

According to an official style guide:

Many artists draw Roger shoulder-high or chest-high to an adult human. He actually is about three feet high, and the top of his head reaches the hips of an adult human.

With that in mind, I traced one of the FFs and drew a potential design for him next to the silhouette before trying to sculpt him to get an idea of his proper height (and see whether it was feasible for me at this scale). In case it would be too hard to trace via 3D pen - which it was - I made sure to prepare a slightly bigger alternative.



For the other option, I put together a sheet with his head, one hand and half of the torso for 3D penning like I did for the Ecto-1's roof rack sections. While no longer in scale, I knew the more accurate head would look better than how the first option turned out. The arms and legs were planned to be made of paper tubes, wires or unheated filament snippets, hence why they weren't on the sheet. Even then, I still didn't like any of the results and gave up trying to 3D pen him after several attempts.




Ultimately, I cut out the new head and traced it on cardboard, adding layers to it like how BumBin made the faces for their Thomas characters. Only the hands don't look right and I should've painted his overalls in acrylic before adding the arms. Another advantage is it makes his ears bendable to an extent, which wouldn't be possible in PLA. Unlike Noddy before him, he has proper sitting legs that can actually be seen from above.



Eddie's body was 3D penned to look more "natural" since he's live action, with some paper layers to make his coat a little more pronounced. The sleeves were sanded before painting, and he can actually fit next to Roger while still looking (nearly) realistic. The head and hat are tiny lumps of paper with cardboard for the brim, but they obviously won't be there much longer. Apart from the size/shape of his hands, the current head is the worst detail on him. It's my first try at 3D penning a custom figure, so there will be a long way to go. For some reason, the "Add Sticker" feature ignored Roger and Jessica on the film poster and took Eddie and Benny without them.



About 13 years ago, I (unwisely) repainted this realistic farmer to make a Fat Controller thinking his fedora - not a straw hat - looked sufficiently similar to a top hat. Despite being larger in scale, his head seems to be the right size to make Eddie look better tenfold. Problem is, I really don't want to cut it off and would much rather cast it to avoid doing so. I did the opposite of what I used to do with hot glue and clay, but the cast crumbled as soon as I tried to release it (though it did fill the mould properly).