"NECA" Styled Mutation Scene Base WIP!
 

Hey dudes & dudettes, here for your viewing pleasure is my first successful custom project! Its a little piece I like to call "The Shellackulate Conception"!
Jokes aside, I 'based' it on the bases that the good ol' NECA turtles came with. They got their own bases, why didn't their little turtle counterparts?

Materials used-

1. Model Magic
2. Cardboard
3. Paint

Tools of the trade-

1. Exacto knife
2. Paintbrush :)

I'm hoping to construct this into something a little bigger/better but for now its looking good, I think. This was about... maybe 3 hours of labor. I work slow. Comments/critiques are welcome!

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I tried to make it look as though the ooze canister had just hit the sewer water, hence the splashing effect. For the record, the little guy on top is a mini mutants (original series) Splinter. He'll later be replaced by a more suitable rat provided I can find one. I may just cut one off of a Rat King toy and re-paint it though it might be slightly out of scale... I also had the ooze running off of the 'curb' but the pieces were too thin & broke. I will be adding more ooze drips & all types of other stuff in the near future.

Thanks for looking!

Cool scene!!! Nice pretty work ! Congrats! I like it....maybe just comment if you even had the splash effect you could put some ooze over the little shells too...(more similar like the 2k3 cartoon scene...)

Wow Grats! Powder it's looking fantastic so far. I will be looking forward to seeing it when it is finished.

Nice work Powder! My own miniturtles are on a green rock accompanied with parts of vintage sewer-toy. Could you show better picture of that rat, altho you said it's going to be replaced...

This is really, really cool!

+1 very nice

This is awesome! Haha

pretty cool Powder

thats cool, good idea to make use of the lil turtles. (mabe you could add a sewer lid to the sidewalk part) :tgrin:

that is sick! me want one...

-ms

Looking good, now to find a nice backdrop or something to enhance it more..

Cool little diorama--I can't recall anybody ever doing this particular scene before, and it's high time somebody did! I think the puddle of ooze that the turtle are standing in would have looked more convincing if you had made it an irregular shape, which would convey the image of an amorphous fluid better, rather than a square shape. Kudos on the creativity!

That's pretty cool, man. I dig it! Them poor turtles don't know what's coming to em!

Sweet. Awesome work Powder! Are you working on more?

That's a really cool idea, man! Great job!

Thanks for all of the feedback, everyone! I'll soon be adding a sewer wall with pipes & a whole bunch of other things. I may end up turning this into a really big piece. I dunno yet, though. Again, thanks! :)

It is going to be amazing man!Looking forward to see it finished:D

cool would love to see that

Cant wait to see! :)

awesome idea, looks very cool

How about dripping hot glue on fishing line for the "Dripping ooze"? It should not break off that easily.

That looks great man, good attention to detail.

Thank ya! Your bump has reminded me this thing even existed. I've since made a wall for it with a projecting sewer pipe with nasty gunk flowing out of it. Pretty soon I'll get back to it and finish it up. I'll post pictures at that point.

I like it, its really cute, but I dont get what are those two wooden looking plank things on each side for? What are they meant to be? They are propped up against the curb, one on each side and have a bit of green paint on them! I wish I could make some of these little bases for my NM guys..

They're exactly what they look like, wooden planks. The green paint is smeared ooze. The black base of this is actually an electric pencil sharpener, right now I'm just making all the sections so that I can piece it together into a little diorama. There will be more sewer scraps, maybe an empty bottle or can, assorted garbage, broken glass, etc. This is far from the final arrangement.

Glad ya like it!

How come the planks are there? is that an original idea? or did you see it in a picture somewhere, I find it very interesting as to what their purpose could stand for :) i love looking into the finer miniscule details of things... PS. my only critique would be to make the platform/puddle of ooze aesymetrical, like a blob outline, and not a square, and also I wonder if they make a semi translucent type of sculpty thing, or if hot glue could have worked if it was mixed with some green tint or something so the ooze looks watery, but thats probably too hard in comparison to sculpty like u used here. Any other customs you got in the works?

It's a sewer, there's always debris like boards, metal shrapnel, etc. down there. The platform is square because this is a base, just a little display kinda thing. I'm sure I could come up with something crazy to make the ooze & such look more realistic, but this was just something I did for fun without spending money on. I used childrens clay, & cardboard.

The only other custom I have been toying with on & off is a cyborg Donatello based on his appearance in the Image comics. He's pretty much done aside from some more paint work.

love your new sig Powder :tlol: were you sick theses days ? get better :)
any news custom comin from u man ? I like your sewer playset a lot and look forward to see more.

Haha, I was sick actually. No other customs headed this way other then the aforementioned cyborg Don. Maybe I'll post a few progress pictures in the thread soon. I'd like to do another base when this one is finished, though.

cant wait to see your customs cyborg donnie!

Im jealous..actually Im probably more lazy than jealous :D

But thats great work, I like the splinter BTW !!!