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[CrazyMobius]

Hi there,

I am wondering when figures such as Kinnikuman Keshi are sculpted are they sculpted at a larger scale and then shrunk or are they sculpted pretty much at 1:1 scale?

 

I know the Mattel figures are slightly larger than the Japanese ones and often I see sculpts for other figure lines that look pretty much the same as the regular figure but are much larger.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks.

[Ericnilla]

They were sculpted at actual size, there is only slight shrinkage from being molded and cast from the steel molds. So the originals would be slightly larger than the figures we have, but only barely.

There are larger figures since there were many different lines released in Japan, but they have their own sculpts, none were manipulated to be grown or Shrunk.

Plus the Mattel muscle releases are the exact same size as the bandai Kinkeshi release. If your kinkeshi is smaller then it is a bootleg.

[CrazyMobius]

Any idea of the materials used to sculpt these or other keshi lines?

[ironmask]

Generally these things are sculpted in wax.

[Ericnilla]

From what I've seen these were sculpted with Jewelers wax

[CrazyMobius]

Thanks a lot. I'm wanting to get into figure making and am looking at how to do it. Cheers.

[CrazyMobius]

How do 2ups work? I know Kenner did this a lot. (Sculpting a figure at twice the size) Is the final figure resculpted by hand or is it done with some sort of mechanical process?

[Eddieinthecity]

Ive been looking into that myself. Found this material.

 

[Ericnilla]

I've used both and they are a pain in the ass. Haha

[PlasticSoul]

How do 2ups work? I know Kenner did this a lot. (Sculpting a figure at twice the size) Is the final figure resculpted by hand or is it done with some sort of mechanical process?

 

There are lots of ways to do that stuff when you are dealing with big companies. Last year I sculpted a figure at 3 inches tall in clay and a toy company digitally scanned it and actually enlarged it to 10 inches and 3D printed it at that size. Then they molded the printed version and used wax to cast it so they could add logos and dissect the piece into two parts rather then one. Then it was produced in vinyl at that 10 inch size. So there are ways to do almost anything if you are willing to spend the time and money for it. So many things are digitally sculpted these days that size means very little since you can print those sculpts the size of a grain of rice or several feet tall. 

 

Most of the Mcfarlane toys you see now have actually been made using scans of actors and models which is why that stuff looks so realistic. 

[sanjeev]

Just yesterday, I handled a couple Hydroshrinks of the Zullbeast and a couple of their other-headed variants. They looked pretty amazing--other than a couple tiny bubbles here and there on the pointiest bits, they were pretty much perfect.