JTA moderator Sjefke has made an unbelievable custom of Cane Adiss. It's a figure that Hasbro said they would like to make one day, but sadly that may never pan out. Sjefke didn't want to wait around, so he developed his own. Click through to see how he did it. It feels like it's worthy of some sort of award, no?
UPDATE: Congratulations Sjefke! His entry of Cane Adiss was the Grand Prize winner of Yakfinities #50!
I started with Marvel Universe Juggernaut, Collosus and a couple of other random hinge joints I had in a box. I completely deconstructed Juggy, I exposed his neck, lengthened his waist and reattached his hips at a 80 degree angle and cut the swivel joints off his legs to shorten them. I replaced Juggy's gorilla arms with Thor Movie Destroyer arms. Then, I kept layering on 2 component sculpting clay on him.
I wanted really flexible arms so used GI Joe legs as a base and figured, what the Heck? Let's give him articulated fingers too. I took some packing wire, rolled some 2 component material as thinly as possible and when cured, I cut 90 degree pieces out of the palm side. I glued the fingers onto the feet of the GI Joe leg, shaped them and covered them with white nitrile using a flexible fabric glue. Nitrile is the material that hospital gloves are made of. Nitrile is a great soft goods, because it takes color from a Sharpie marker and still flexes without the colors chipping or wearing off.
The necks are 180 degrees flexible, but they're not made of wire. The necks are also covered in nitrile, but I'm not going to reveal what's on the interior or how I achieved the wrinkled look, but it took me 6 hours alone. A chef needs to keep some things secret. ;-)
The tail was not such a success. I used yellow silicon molding material and etched the texture in with leather templates that I made from various Star Wars creatures, like the Dewback and the Reek. I laid it onto the same flexion material as the necks and sealed the whole thing up. For the record people, silicon does not take color. Sharpie marker ink will stick, but not well, but I eventually got some good pattern into the contours.
Once he was all together, I smeared on very thin layers of Aves Fixit Sculpt and pressed on leathery texture with the hide templates. I sprayed on one of those paints that sticks to plastic onto the body and legs, then put on various washes and dry brushings to highlight his detail.
So here's his features:
27 points of articulation in the body alone. I count double ball joints as 2 POAs.
Heads/Necks: double ball joints MU's Collossus shoulders.
Necks: 180 degree flexion in any direction.
FORE ARMS
Shoulder: ball jointed
forearms: improvised swivel joint with a small nailhead. elbows double hinge joint.
wrists: ball joint.
FORE LEG
shouder: swivel joint from MU Thor movie Destroyer shoulder.
elbow: ball joint.
ankle: Swivel joint from The Corp soldier's knee.
WAIST: Double ball jointed waist from MU Juggernaut. (adapted to
increase range of motion)
REAR LEGS
Hips: ball pegs from Juggy.
Knees: double hinged knees.
Ankles: ball joints.
HANDS: 14 points of wire articulation in each.
TAIL: About 30 degrees of flexion in the tail. The silicon material
is a lot stiffer than I anticipated.
Blue glass eyes.
Human hair (Thank you, Geekette)
Sjefke
