Enter The Shredder : Custom Cartoon Accurate Toon Shredder

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by TurtleManiac

I've always wondered that too, my guess is that since they also had the comics back at the time, they couldn't decide what universe to base the figures on

Which would suggest they might make a Shredder figure more like the Mirage Shredder. But he doesn't look anything like that, either. At all.

so they just went with something totally new and different?

Seems like it.

[TurtleManiac]

Originally Posted by Discogod

You can use a 50/50 blend, but as long as each part is equally mixed (as in 50/50 of Apoxie A & B) you can mix it in any quantity. More Apoxie and it's harder, easier to carve, more Kneadatite and it's slightly more flexible. Just use it as you would either compound on it's own - it'll be slightly stickier to start, but if you leave it 20-30 minutes it's a lot more workable. Working time's about the same, and it seems to hold detail a lot easier.

I use it for virtually everything - the armour & helmet on my recent Shredder was made using this blend.

Dang I wish I had known about that method before starting this project, probably would have worked well for the cape. Oh well, I'll use it for other projects. The cape was the biggest challenge in this, at first I was just gonna use the original cloth cape, and a cloth shirt with the original belt around it, but I decided not to use cloth in any of my future customs because I wanna be able to paint everything, and cloth can get faded, stained, torn etc. Here's a work in progress pic:


customshredderprepaint by TurtlesinTime, on Flickr

[TurtleManiac]

Update 4/11/13: Repainted the helmet and armor again with a slightly lighter shade of gray. Probably not very noticable in the pics, but I'm glad I decided to change the color now because I'm planning to make toon Foot Soldiers with the same color for the armor. It was previously Tamiya Sky Grey but I changed it to Model Masters Light Ghost Gray. I think it looks more cartoon accurate that way and I think I will use this Gray for all metallic parts I paint later on in cartoon style excluding weapons, certain weapons and/or accessories can be silver, and I will use the other Gray for something else. I have replaced all the old pics with new ones to avoid confusion. I also made a toon Foot Soldier to hangout with Shredder. They both use mostly the same colors.