Re: McHaleyArt's Custom STAR WARS Thread
General Grievous
I was originally going to use these 1/8" armature joints for Grievous' spine (as they are the correct shape) and pose his head/neck from there. I would have had to split his body in two to anchor it though, so I used them as the new neck joints instead. Using a piece of split tubing as his spine. The tubing is farther away form accurate, but I'm fine with it and it's easily adjustable when you pose the neck/head.
There's a screw going up into the neck joint with the head cut off, going back down into the body (drill small hole). When screwing it in, this just gets the base/ball joint of the neck into the hard plastic body...that isn't as flexible as the other sockets.
I covered the joints in Shrink Tubing.
At first, I had his neck and under-neck out a bit far...Gave him awesome hunch, but solid as the joints were, the figure looked less solid to me.
I took out a joint for the upper and lower necks, added a Y connecter for his head to connect to (removing part of the "Y").
This is what it looked like at first:
And now:
I also used Shrink Tubing to extend his Throat Tubes, etc. I'll revisit this at some time, replacing as much as I think looks better.
Again. 1st Try:
2nd Try:
