Heartless Teddy?

[alemon]

Has anyone tried cutting the heart out of teddy? I'd like to try it out for one in my dreamer crew, but I'm very inexperienced and I don't know any of the risks of trying it.

[GreenRiveter]

Do you mean hollowing out the mini? You would need a dremel, a vice, and a scribing bit for that I think. If you want to cover over the heart, just green stuff fur over it.

[AntiZombie]

i dont think cutting it off will work too well. You can probably do one of two things:

1: use a fortum to sand it off
2: just greenstuff over it and make the transition smooth. even if you do option 1 you will still have to greenstuff over the sanded area. so i would recomend this option. There are a ton of tutorials online for doing fur and i think its the easiest thing to sculpt onto a miniature.

hope that helps

[kbdrand]

Oh, that gives me a good idea. Hollow out the heart area, green stuff in a small realistic heart and ribs without the sternum so the heart can be seen hanging in the cavity, all by itself.

[Fivepipe]

Hmm. I like your idea. I may have to tweak it and build a teddy with a goldfish bowl for a stomach...

Nicely done, alemon. The risks would be minimal if you had the right tools and committed to the idea before hollowing him out. You could start small by drilling a hole in the middle and dremel your way out until you had a doubt. Always stop dremeling when you have a doubt.

I'll paint a "-alemon" under the goldfish to give credit where it's due...

[bjorkgnu]

Oh, that gives me a good idea. Hollow out the heart area, green stuff in a small realistic heart and ribs without the sternum so the heart can be seen hanging in the cavity, all by itself.

If I wasn't already doing the care bear theme for my Teddies, I would so steal this idea. I may anyway. Pure win!

[the imp]

The safest way to go about this would be to scratch sculpt a new figure from putty or, given Teddy's size, Sculpy. Carving away metal is dangerous, every injury I've ever experienced in this hobby was related to cutting a metal figure.

[alemon]

Thanks everyone for the feedback, and good luck with your fishbowl Fivepipe :D


I did mean to hollow the heart out, so that I could see through teddy. I see there a lot of risks...but I'm stubborn. There will be some a'ponderin' before I continue.

[The Madman]

I'm with Five-
wrap it in some foam or cloth and lock it in a vice

saftey goggles on
Dremmel out a hole... with the cutting/boring bit, then use the angled grinder bit and hollow it out...

not to tuff...




I personally wouldn't cause it's a Frakkin' $16 piece!:crazy:

[Lorenz]

yeah but if you have the money for all those tools required what is 16 bucks anyway