Completed 6/3/2019
Kid Icarus is now teamed up with the Mega Man and Captain N figures I made previously.
Alternate head, arms and leg
The client requested that I use a Good Smile Nendoroid figure as the base again, which made complete sense to me as it would be in scale with his Mega Man.
I chose Okanehira mainly because of his hair. Kid Icarus has a head full of unkempt hair and I figured it would be easy to transition over. That was not the case at all, especially the back half of the hair.
This is a great looking figure in itself. The details and accessories are top notch, and again, I thought the body would transition well to K.I.
If you're not familiar with Good Smile Nendoroids, they can break down easily to change out the many different parts.
One final look at this base before we go to work.
A copious amount of dremel work was done to sand away the details. Used Smooth-on Free Form Sculpt to fill in the sanded areas and also to build up the feet.
Inserted some braided wire armature for the wings.
Also a good look at the back half of the hair that was not going to work for the Kid's hairstyle.
Another essential element was, of course, his bow. This figure came with a straight right arm that was perfect for the bow-arm. So I used a piece of wire and sculpted the bow directly into his hand. I had to cut and re-position a left arm to hold that arrow release pose. Worked out well.
Intense sculpt work on everything!
Chopped off a lot of original hair details and blended in sculpted hair to match. This was actually a lot harder than i originally imagined.
Good shot of the two part hair system, which added difficulty to this project. THANKS GOOD SMILE!!
I needed the back of his hair to match up with the front, of course, and I ended up sculpting over almost all of the original back half.
I had a hard time visualizing the wings in 3D while still maintaining the look of the animation, so it was a lot of trial and error until it looked right. Then, once everything was done how I liked it . . . I discovered that the stand-peg would not fit into the hole in his back. So it was time to drill, re-fit, then repaint the area around the hole. Good times.
