Price/availability of Kara Sloan Reposing?

[Uratoh]

I've seen several people converting Kara Sloan so she's posing like her art, rifle in use, instead of standing with the rifle awkwardly one-handed...I'm wondering if there's anyone who 'does' this...I love Kara rule/fluffwise, but the model itself is just derp with that rifle...

[captainspud]

The conversion is very easy to do. I posted an explanation once, I'll quote it here:

The Kara conversion was very, very simple to do (you may disagree with the assessment depending on your comfort with modelling... as an (IMHO) advanced modeller, I found this a VERY easy conversion. Take from that what you will). I picked the model up on my way home from work and was done the majority of the work before dinner. Here's what I did:

1. Cut Kara into five pieces, as follows:

The cut between 1 and 2 is above the elbow. Between 3 and 5 was tricky and required some creative clipper positioning to avoid ruining detail-- if you're not comfortable with precision clipping, use a saw. You're going to discard a few shreds of metal from between 3 and 4. The fingers on 4 are also an entirely lost cause-- clip them off and leave only a handless forearm. Clean up the 4/5 joint on 5 as much as you can with a knife and file.

2. Get the Forces of Cygnar book and check out Kara's art pose-- that's exactly what you're going for, and the hand pose in 1 is PERFECT for it. That hand pose is the only reason this is a quick conversion and not a hugely difficult scratch-sculpting project.

3. Using the art as your guide, pin 2 and 3 to 5. 2 goes level to the shoulder, about 45-60 degrees forward as seen from overhead. 3 gets elevated a bit, then rotated backward about the same amount (kinda hard to describe... the art and my model pic should give you an idea, and I can take more ref shots if you're confused).

4. I glued 2 and 4 to the shoulder/upper arm pieces with no pins, and it wasn't an issue. They fit nicely and have held strong. If you're going to pin the joints, remember to leave room between 3 and 4 to sculpt an upper arm (though not much of one-- most of the upper arm is eaten up by the shoulder pad. The arm's only visible from underneath in the pose I used). You may need to play with the position of the pinned pieces to make everything line up (the art shows you where you want the left hand to "appear" under the gun)

5. Clean up with putty. The 1/2 and 2/5 joints will need some gap-filling (nothing complicated, just make sure the plate edges look good). 5/3/4, AKA the left upper arm, will need a putty snake sculpted into an upper arm from below. I sculpted plates to match the right side, but you can just leave it clean and smooth if you're not confident with putty work, as this isn't a very visible spot.

6. Sculpt the underslung left hand. I've previously made a visual hand-sculpting tutorial that you can reference here... don't feel intimidated, as a hand clutching an object is one of the easiest things to sculpt.

Done and done. Steps 1 through 4 took less than an hour, and 5 and 6 took maybe another half hour. All in all, I could probably assembly line this conversion in under an hour now that I know what to do.

Hope that helps.

[Estelioin]

I've never model anything... how do you do the cuts? which tool do you use?

[PG_Agamemnon]

There are several things you can use but this is one of the best.

[Uratoh]

What if we've got little confidence in our ability to pull this off and want to get it done as a present for ourselves for our birthday? >_>

[thomwill]

There are several things you can use but this is one of the best.

how wide of a kerf does that produce? i use a jewelers saw at present, which is fine for some things, but i'm curious to know if this is more precise.

[PG_Agamemnon]

It cuts thinner than be back of an exacto blade.

[thomwill]

wow. well, i'm sold.

[captainspud]

What if we've got little confidence in our ability to pull this off

"If you think you can't, then you're right."
-Someone

[PG_Agamemnon]

"If you think you can't, then you're right."
-Someone

"If you think you can, you will"
-little tain

[Uratoh]

well, I'll give it a try. she's only $9.99 or so.

I managed to pull this off >_>

[Autumn Stone]

Another popular solution for the left arm is to use haley's left arm to support the gun

http://store.privateerpress.com/epic...eyleftarm.aspx

You'll still need to do some of the other slicing that Spud suggests.

Cheers
A.S.

[Uratoh]

Well it seems I've done it...I have to resculpt her left arm due to carving it up a bit much, but she came out rather nicely overall...thanks for suggesting 'well maybe you can do it'.

[captainspud]

Well it seems I've done it...I have to resculpt her left arm due to carving it up a bit much, but she came out rather nicely overall...thanks for suggesting 'well maybe you can do it'.

1) WHOOO!
2) Post pictures when you're done.
3) Lemme know if you need any pointers with the sculpting. I also wrecked the left arm when I did mine, it's the only part that's hard to clip apart (due to the fatter shoulder pad).
4) I repeat: WHOOOOOOOOO!

[Uratoh]

no, wait, I'm dyslexic. I had to resculpt the right arm >_>. But of course I'll post pics when I'm done!

[Uratoh]

Ha-ha! It is DONE! I just had so much energy this thing kind of got pushed out quickly after she was assembled



Edit: Yeah, the lighting is kind of bad. I need to get my photography setup going up again...almost there!

[John Q.]

That looks great, a very cool silhouette. Nice work!

[captainspud]

Excellent work.

[Elteyr]

Call me weird, (ha ha, like you're not weird too.) but I actually like kara's pose. I know its not an action pose, like the ones that I usually do, but I like it.

[Borkas drinking buddy]

That's nice work. I'm not sure how many people here are familiar with Helsing the anime, but when I get my Kara, I'm going to cut her up and make her look like police girl. Her head is perfect and the gat she has is too. I just need to cut her body up and sculpt a mini skirt. It will be bad @$$.

[Elteyr]

That's nice work. I'm not sure how many people here are familiar with Helsing the anime, but when I get my Kara, I'm going to cut her up and make her look like police girl. Her head is perfect and the gat she has is too. I just need to cut her body up and sculpt a mini skirt. It will be bad @$$.

I've heard of Hellsing, never seen it, so I googled, "Hellsing Police girl" and they sniper chick that came up is wearing shorts dude.

[Phenious]

I just need to cut her body up and sculpt a mini skirt. It will be bad @$$.

Not to mention make a gun that is about three times that size. . . .

[jlav]

I've heard of Hellsing, never seen it, so I googled, "Hellsing Police girl" and they sniper chick that came up is wearing shorts dude.

Well, that's actually a skirt... just a very tight one... <shifty eyes>