Shifftymkings WIP & Finished Custom Figures

Shiffty, that King Vegeta is super freakin cool. Just saiyan

Sorry that's the only closest picture of my gogeta that you can see his upper torso.

That is the apoxie sculpt I use. There is a lot of clay out there, different brant. There's tamiya putty, green stuff, brown stuff, apoxie fix it, and many more. I am not familiar on any of those except for the only one I use which is the apoxie sculpt. I have been using it since day 1 I started customizing. I heard about green stuff and brown that they are easy to work with on small details but I never really tried it.


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No not at all, I'm glad I can help. On your questions;
#1: that is the paint I use, I have never tried other paints. I heard from many people that testors model master acryl and games workshop are pretty good.
#2: I use my finger most of the times, x-acto knife and the pointy metal looking toothpick for making the muscle definition. Try the best you can to smooth the apoxie using your finger, wet your finger so you won't put any finger prints then use sand paper after the apoxie turns hard.
#3: as soon as you get the mixture of the apoxie you can start working with it (that's how I tought my self) maybe some people wait couple minutes till it turn a little hard enough, for them to work on the apoxie.
#4: the only way I can tell if it's a good mix is when u get uniform color (I don't know if that's the right word) for example my apoxie part A is white and part B is dark gray. When you mix both you should get light gray color. There's a tutorial that you have to mix for 2 minutes (ain't nobody got time for that) but seriously it doesn't have to be that long. Again just get that good mixture and proper color.

I am working on a different custom right now that doesn't require many upper body sculpting. But if and when I do, I will take picture step by step on how I do it. Just to give you some ideas.

I hope my answers make sense lol. Feel free to ask me questions anytime. There's a lot of good customizers here and from other forum that you can get advice and maybe they can give you an easier way of customizing. That's where I learned customizing from figurerealm on how to guide customizing and YouTube lol.

#1 No I do not own any airbrush, but I do want to invest one. Its just that I don't have a work place/table, I work on the floor.

#2 attach picture is the bran I use for the primer. That picture is a sealer but they have a primer. I rarely use primer on my figure, you just have to wash your figure with dish soap before painting.

#3 i really suck at painting, anyways I prefer using flat colors, I dont like the shiny look when using just regular color. So it all depends on what you think looks the best, if you like flat color or that shine color. i don't use any first base color, I just use the color paint I need. For example If i want to paint red, I use red. Thin layer dilute it with water to get thin consistency (milk consistency) It may takes me couple layers of paint but it doesn't come out thick.

I also use testors sealer in bottle, you just brush the sealer to the area you want it then apply the paint. But of course you have to wait till the sealer dry up. I use the water base sealer, there's oil base and you don't want oil base sealer on plastic figures. I use the bottle sealer on joints, since it's water base it only requires thin layer.

I use glue also to protect the paint, I only apply glue on any contact/ places where it rub to each other. For example the arm/shoulder rub on the body, so I apply thin layer of glue underneath so when the arm move it wouldn't scratch the paint. Then I use sealer in the end to remove the shine. I use flat sealer. Just be careful using glue, safety first. Also try not to put glue the joints.

Since your making gogeta you don't need to paint his arm you just have to mix the paint to get the matching skin tone to paint the chest, abs upper body. The only thing you have to worry is the joint on his knee because gogeta's pants will be white color. As you can see when you bend your figuarts the lower pants rub on the upper pants. What I do is dremel that part(pointy part) just enough to when you bend the knee the pants won't rub. The second picture is my only picture that i can give you as an example. look at the lower pants, normaly that part is pointy so I dremel it. I dont know if you can tell the difference from your figuarts. After you dremel, sand it to make it smooth then assemble/connect to the upper pants, paint then apply thin layer of glue. I use the brush glue btw. Hope this help. Also while your at it sand/dremel the knee joint. Hope this make all sense. But this is the stuff I use and work on my customs.



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Thanks again Gil Ur the best man. and I know what Ur talking about with those goku knees as both of my ss gokus get hung up on that over hang at the knee so I can only imagin how bad the paint rub would be if u painted it lol. Also i can see y u dont want to paint dbz figures with a gloss or shiny paint job as they didnt look like that in the anime. Hey buddy what exact tamiya paint colors did u use on gogetas skin and cloths?? I honestly thought u repainted the arms and face on urs because all the skin tones match so well u really nailed it.

I'm super excited I went to wallymart with my girl to get a few things and I saw where they had this dremel bit set on sale for $11.99 I think it was around $17 not on sell but I really needed these little diamond point burs. I can't wait to use the small one to shave down the joints on my king vegeta and bardock so I don't have to worry about the paint coming off the joints everytime I move them.

Thanks for showing that picture, I need to get one of that kit. I use flat flesh, little bit of flat red, and flat white. I think I added little bit of yellow I'm not sure. Try to experiment with flat flesh, flat red and flat white. Try to experiment the mixture then put a small dot on the figure using the brush to match the color. If its dark add lil white until you get the color. If its lighter color, add a little flat flesh. If you want to match the shading you can put lil more red. Just experiment and try the best you can to match the color.