Hello!

I just wanted to hear how others assemble figures, specially PVC and vinyls. Here's my way of doing things:

1.) Buy the figure
2.) Take it home, wash it up with water)
3.) Cut the parts from the sprues, runners and snip of extra mouldings.
4.) Paint the parts separately
5.) Glue the parts together and add some touches

DONE!

So, how do you do things??

Hi lonewolf,
From reading a couple of your other posts, I'm guessing that you're fairly new to figure modeling. That's great! Welcome to the club! I've been doing figures for 7 or 8 years and they've taken over from the armor I used to do ( but not completely! .
Your method is a great start to building your figures. As you progress, you may find that you want to make a few changes to your methods. Here's how I build mine:
1: Buy the figure (very important!)
2: Take it home (and hide yet another kit from the wife).
3: Clean up the figure. This includes either removal from the sprue for injection molded kits or removal of the casting plugs for resin, white metal and vinyl kits. Also, remove any mold seams from the pieces.
4: Study the figure and decide which parts can or need to be preassembled. I usually try to assemble as much of the figure as possible. Figuring this out correctly takes lots of time, patience and experience (read: mistakes).
5: Wash the figure to remove your bodily fluids .
6: Prime the figure and look for all the flaws you missed . Fix them and reprime. Repeat as necessary.
7: Begin the actual painting (finally!).
Cheers,

H There,

That's about it but for pvc/vinyl figures I like to fill with plaster because I found that there are usually some pretty big gaps that I have to fill with putty and having the hollow parts filled with plaster gives the putty something to stick to. It also adds weight to the figure keeping it from easily falling over.

Ray

Hola!

I do exact the same thing as Craig does, and it works like a charm!

Well, I do the same as you do

Yeah, that's the first step.


Single figures fit nicely in cargo pockets. To be honest,however, I rarely wash models before painting. Some are well over 20 years old with no problems with paint adhesion.

:-)