You saw the previous hand-made engagement ring box based on Tangled, I posted it a few days ago here on Steemit and a few years ago on http://themodelmaker.net The previous tower model brought a lot of Disney fans to my website. People were searching for other Rapunzel themed engagement ring boxes. One person wanted the Pascal chameleon and I also wanted to make this character so I agreed to make him. I know it is not the typical box, it is rather ring holder. It can also double as a cake topper, cosplay prop or just the figurine.
I could not find any existing toy I could just cut and modify to make this ring box, so I had to start from scratch.
I sculpted it in Super Sculpey in the scale roughly 1:1 to fit on top of the hand. I started with the head. The eyes are made of plastic beads, I made them removable in case if I will decide to make them articulate in future. The basic shape was simple and quite easy to model but then I spent countless hours creating the texture of the skin punching little dots with round brass tubes in 4 sizes. I tried to make it look like one of the high quality reference photo I found online. The process was very time consuming and quite boring so I watched netflix in the background.
I was happy with the sculpt and wanted to keep it for myself so I made silicone molds in case if I would like to make another version and save time on texturing again. It adds few days to production, all the mold making but I often regret if I don't do that like I did with Hellboy ring box I showed you here a few months ago.
The first cast went very well . There was some work in cleaning it and filling few holes caused by air bubble caught in the details and additional sculpting on the joints of the parts. The painting is great fun because the texture helps to bring it to life using 2 of my favorite painting techniques: dry brushing and washes.
If you don't know it, here is the process. You take an old brush, dip it in the paint. Then clean it on a piece of paper until it is almost dry. Now brush the surface, it will leave the paint only on the top of the details. It is great for highlights on the texture like here. Washes are the opposite. You dilute the paint with water and paint will flow inside the grooves. As you can see this figure have lots of bumps and groves and mixing this 2 techniques allow me to paint it with a soft gradient between few shades of green and yellow.
I hope you enjoyed the short description of this model. I wish I had more photos of the process to share it with you, but I was very bad in documenting my projects. I am planning to improve it. I am currently working on a figure exclusive for Steemit and crypto community. I take photos of each step and will release it in next few days only on Steemit and full post about this Pascal project can be seen here: https://themodelmaker.net/rapunzels-pascal-engagement-ring-holder/
What would you say about the giveaway? If you want to own something made by me, watch this space. The cool things are coming :) Thank you for all the upvotes on my previous posts, it gave me a huge boost of confidence, that maybe one day, I will be able to make figures and write about it full time! The excitement is as big as when I first started sculpting and YOU contributed to that. Thank you!
