Figure Modeling Part 4 - Puttying and Priming

I combined the post for puttying and priming, because usually you putty all that you can see, prime it, and then notice a whole slew of pinholes that you couldn’t see earlier so that you have to go through the whole process again.
Incidentally, if you’re anything like me, this is also the part that will make you want to take your model and chuck it out of the window.

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Figure Modeling Part 3 - Pinning

While most parts have some sort of nook or bump on them to guide you as to how they fit together, these tiny little things aren’t going to do much to actually keep them together. To alleviate that problem, you have to pin them.

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Figure Modeling Part 2 - Flash Removal and Cleaning

Prior to starting all of the puttying and priming and painting, you need to fix the model up a little by removing some obvious, nasty things and cleaning it.

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Figure Modeling Part 1 - Supplies

About two years ago, I was very, very close to getting into resin kit modeling as a hobby. What stopped me was the horrible, horrible overload of girls in suggestive poses and the near lack of male model kits. I’m a girl, so stuff like this, for instance, just doesn’t appeal to me. I mean, I’d want some female models - Deedo or the girls from Rayearth or Wedding Peach would be neat - but it’s just that having to dig through tons and tons of scantily clad, big bosomed, alluringly and often anatomically impossibly posing girls to find perfectly normal ones can get sort of tiring.

As I said, there’s a near lack of male models, so I found one that I wanted. The real issue that then kept me from making this into a hobby was time - during the school year, studying keeps me from being able to do much more than keep up with fansubs, read for fun, and maybe play a video game every now and then. I simply just never got around to working on it.

That has changed, when the desire to at least finish this thing that I payed money for has surfaced, and I jumped into the whole process with vigor. I have about a week to do it before the new semester starts. I will record my progress in a series of posts and maybe even quasi tutorials, if anyone else cares. Read on for information on the basic tools I bought, which took much longer than I thought it would.

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