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Author:  ungawa222 [ Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:12 pm ]
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Alright, y'all... help me out here. I sent a blank Yamobazooka to a garage kit-builder friend of mine, asking him to putty/texture-match only the neck and tail joints, leaving the arms poseable. He sent me this progress pic today, of the primed and puttied piece:

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As you can see, he misunderstood, and fixed the arm joints in place, too. His texture-matching job looks great all-around, and in any case I've decided I will be leaving the non-bazooka arm as-is... but I am trying to decide whether or not I want to ask him to crack off all the putty on the gun arm, reposition it, and re-putty (I've decided I would like it fixed-position, either way). Which of the two position options do you think would look better?
Author:  toothaction [ Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:31 pm ]
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Won't take my vote. Weird.

Raise that shooter, scooter!
Author:  Ultra999 [ Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:40 pm ]
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i say crack it — the texturing on the joint isn't matched all that well anyhow. unseamly, if you will. pew pew!
Author:  ShadowSpectre [ Tue Jul 17, 2012 6:09 pm ]
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Won't accept my vote either. :(
Author:  ungawa222 [ Tue Jul 17, 2012 6:56 pm ]
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:?
Weird... can't see anything amiss in the poll settings... one person was able to vote... hhmmmm...

Anyway, thanks for the input thus far, dudes!
Author:  Daimyo [ Tue Jul 17, 2012 7:04 pm ]
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Arm up, can't vote
Author:  TiredChildren [ Tue Jul 17, 2012 7:06 pm ]
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Dang, that's because of the updates to the board. Looking into a fix.

EDIT: Fixed. Vote your little hearts out!
Author:  ungawa222 [ Tue Jul 17, 2012 8:06 pm ]
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Thanks, James!
So far arm up seems to have it (as I kinda expected :) ).
What gives me pause is trying to picture how it will look with the paint-up... for me it's all about the interplay of the weaponized arm and the wound next to it. The wound will be painted like a dry, long-festering thing... lowered would make the arm's design/purpose less immediately apparent to the viewer... raised would make it more of an immediate focal point and quickly recognizable as a weapon, and then would come the realization that said weapon is likely the source of this wound (I know everything I'm saying here is stupid-obvious to all of us who have been looking at this sculpt for the last four years).

I'm leaning toward raised, I guess.
Author:  atom gray [ Wed Jul 18, 2012 6:38 am ]
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raised...

although my vote would have been 'poseable', for sure.
Author:  Rich [ Wed Jul 18, 2012 7:53 am ]
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I guess I'm the minority, I like it down better. Its less aggressive and I agree on how it will be approached by the viewer.

With a fixed stance its how it will look in the long run. I think weapon up is cool at first but over time it wont be as interesting. As by his side will always look classic and a bit stoic.
Author:  ---NT--- [ Wed Jul 18, 2012 7:57 am ]
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Rich wrote:
I guess I'm the minority, I like it down better.

Me too. But then I generally prefer toys in a neutral stance. My Skullbrains are the exception, but that's mostly because you can't stand them with their arms down.
Author:  sbbenhcs [ Wed Jul 18, 2012 7:59 am ]
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i'm actually in the "down" camp as well. i've usually only seen pic with his arm raised, and i never made the direct connection between
the weapon and the wound before. (i'd always assumed it was battle damage, just from a different source.) and as rich mentioned, the
classic, stoic pose seems more suitable for a "statuesque" figure.
Author:  Vombie [ Wed Jul 18, 2012 8:25 am ]
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down! looks interesting.
Author:  bbb [ Wed Jul 18, 2012 8:28 am ]
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i think i'm a little confused from the initial description, but if you're leaving both arms unjointed, I say for sure keep them both down.
Author:  brobles [ Wed Jul 18, 2012 9:33 am ]
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I'm also on the down group, Rich has a lot of good points and to add to that the symmetry of the figure is thrown off once you raise the arm.
Author:  ungawa222 [ Wed Jul 18, 2012 10:58 am ]
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Thanks for all the input, guys, I really appreciate it!

Bill: I don’t know, Sir- to my eye it looks good, maybe not perfect, but not jumping out and saying “SEAM!”, and certainly looks to be integrated well enough that paint will complete the blend in a more-than-satisfactory way.

Rich: Very nicely put… and, I think, pretty true. After sleeping on it, I came to the same kind of feeling… I’m now leaning towards leaving it down…

Chris: Interesting; yeah, for me, I always looked at that side wound as a slowly-spreading reaction to the heat or radiation from the bazooka arm, and that really added a richness to the sculpt for me- this amazing asset to survival in whatever post-nuke warrior wasteland he inhabits also being a long-term self-destructive detriment. I like to imagine that the empty eye socket once housed a complex cybernetic eye, too… long ago rotted off, rejected by his flesh.
Author:  ultrakaiju [ Wed Jul 18, 2012 11:31 am ]
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I am in the 'down' camp as well, if it is going to be fixed. I am all for poseable though, if we can convince you to go back to this option :) I don't mind non-poseable guys, but if you can't move them, better to have the arms straight down, or straight up, and ideally both the same. And I also agree the texturing on the seam that isn't there isn't that homogeneous with the rest of the sculpt.

So I am really curious though as to the purpose of this project. Are you rescaling the original figure? Making some kind of giant terrorizing statue to keep away those pesky kids?
Author:  ungawa222 [ Wed Jul 18, 2012 12:35 pm ]
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Ha- nope, nothing as fantastic as all that, Steve- this is just the beginning of a long-held plan of mine to have a Yamobazooka painted up by my friend Joe Dunaway (http://www.modelzone.com/). Joe is not the one doing the prep work- that, among a couple of other projects, is being done by another artist, as work offered in compensation for taking far, far too long (years) on a commission… but it should be ready to go to Joe soon. Will of course share the finished piece on sb once he’s done!
Author:  ungawa222 [ Thu Jul 19, 2012 9:20 am ]
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IT IS DECIDED; long live Jambi…er, sb!

Down it is... as-is.
Will post finished pics when I get ‘em… thanks again for the input, all! :D
Author:  Rich [ Thu Jul 19, 2012 9:46 am ]
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JD !!! I've wanted him to paint something for me ever since that KvP he did.

Excellent choice !!!
Author:  ungawa222 [ Thu Jul 19, 2012 10:04 am ]
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:D Yup, the super-talented JD- he is GREAT with handling reptilian skin textures, and the coloration patterns he comes up with are always mind-blowing. He’s actually been doing a bunch of work for Sideshow of late- many of the proto pics they use for their pre-orders are Dunaway-painted. I really can't wait to see what he does with this!
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