The paint will come -- it's a slow process for me right now, though. I have been HUGELY busy for the past 6 months or so -- things are very, VERY busy at work, so I've had almost zero time for customizing.
That said, I did have time to slap the first base coat of satin white Krylon Fusion on the Captain Marvel custom:
After the automotive gray primer, I always spray on a good coat of white satin Krylon Fusion to serve as the base for my acrylics. As I did with my previous Captian Cold custom, the white Krylon Fusion here will serve as part of the FINAL paint -- specifically, for the cape. All I need to do on the cape (aside from sculpting the "rope" cord) is to paint the yellow trim border around the edges, bottom, and the collar.
Next will come the yellows for the boots, the button on his chest, the belt, cuffs, and lightning bolt emblem, along with the fleshtones for the neck and hands. The white under-coat will make it easier to apply the yellows and the fleshtones, and then applying the red to the rest of the costume should be a snap. Shouldn't take me more than another 6 to 9 months, at this rate . . .
That said, though, I HAVE managed to find time for some other sculpting-related activities -- like starting on my first scratch-built sculpt. I started out with a wire armature bulked-up with some plumber's epoxy and then wrapped in foil for further bulk . . .
Then applied liberal amounts of Super Sculpy to come up with the basic torso and legs:
This is about a 6-1/2" figure . . . it's not a JLU-related sculpt, and the end result will be neither a true sculpture nor will it be an action figure . . . there will be some neck articulation, but the rest will not be poseable, kind of like an
in-action figure.
I did take time to do little digital painting with PaintShop Pro while my 3-year-old slept in my lap over the weekend -- I hope the final product looks this good:
