#originalresidentevil4

[the-enzyme]

More of my 3D-Artist resin cast 1:6 scale Leon Scott Kennedy head sculpt. I decided to "enhance" the eye area a bit further. I have extremely shaky hands, even with all the techniques that are helpful to keep hands steady when painting miniatures. My hands still shake. I can't do cleaner, sharper lines, as much as I am frustated. There's pretty much sh1t I can do about it. However, I am happier with him now. I am always complaining that his facial featuers are not as accurate, and one of the main reasons for that is because I suck at painting miniatures, but also because I am very picky when it's about accuracy of characters I love. HT version of OG RE4 Leon was so off, i didn't even considered ever owning him. Later, once he was completely sold out everywhere, I did regret it a bit. Now, I kind of don't. He's not accurate, doesn't even seem like they tried it to be.

This head is a beautiful sculpt, but not accurate and a lot of the featues are simplified so much, that it makes me wonder which original sources the aritst was referencing when 3D modeling the head.

Regardless, I am much happier with him now, that I added more detail to his eyes, and made the shape more OG RE4 Leon-esque. He has a very unique eye shape that just wasn't sculpted right. So, me, with my crappy old-person hands, have to try a thousand times harder, just to get the lines around the eye and the shading in tiny places in the eye, to look not as sloppy as I can manage, due to my shaky hands. T__T;;

The last repetitive extreme close ups were taken with my older-than-dust cellphone's camera, because it takes photos that look more accurate lighting and color wise. My newer cell's makes things look extremely pixelated and "glam" as my bff calls, them, like it makes him seem like he's wearing mascara, which is not what he looks like IRL, nor do I want him to look that way. Simply because it's not accurate, and accuracy is more important to me than anything and everything else. When it comes to characters I love and want to own figures of.

I placed the black basic T-shirt this RE4 clothing set came with. It's pretty old, so the jacket is starting to disintegrate. I never owned anything like it before, so it's way more frustrating than anything. The original RE4 Leon's jacket is probably one of the most nostalgic aspects of the game, for most anyone who has ever played the game and loves Leon. I'm sure I'll never be able to find anything close, so it's kind of highly disappointing. There's no way in h3ll I would ever be able to attempt sewing something like that. Finding the fabric was a nightmare when I was hopeful a million years ago, when I was still young and adventurous. Now that I'm a much-older-old-fart, I don't even contemplate it. I will be attempting his tactical 5.11 top, although neoprene in under 1mm is probably not a thing and I'll have to settle for whatever other material looks rubbery but not shiny like vinyl. DX

[the-enzyme]

I've been making more partial wigs for my Leon. I want to get more hair for them, but first I wanted to see if I liked any of the color choices, I already own. I don't have a lot of blonde colors, but I still have a bit left over from the DIM MNM Leon's wig I made, as well as what I used to make the sewn wig I repurposed and made this heads first partial wig out of. I also used some of the silver hair I had left from my DIM MNM Sephiroths' and Kadaj's wigs. I feel l want to give my Leon less brassy hair, which is what his OG DIM MNM wig was made from, very brassy-toned blonde hair. I want something less saturated, and leaning more towards dirty blonde. I might have already mentioned that somewhere. I would prefer my Leon with paler, less saturated blonde, hair. I know in the OG RE4 game he looks golden. Like he ha a golden tan going on, and his hair looks gold-blonde as well. However, I like the hi-res promos of his better, which make his hair in particular look more ash-blonde (dirty-blonde). So, that's what I want.

I feel like I would have been happy, if I could have made the lighter wig in the same shape and bulk of the brassy one... I suck at making wigs though, and these tiny partial ones are a huger pain in the lower back! DX

I didn't make these as neat, and clean as I would have liked, but it was a good learning experience. I still need to make much thinner wefts, and learn how to not over do the bulk. It's a pain in the gut hole, but I feel like I'm slowly getting there. I still need to get fabric for his tactical shirt, but first I want to make a few trial ones. Then, i might repaint him again, so that if I do get lighter hair for his "permanent" partial wig, he won't look as sun-burned (heavily-red-toned), and I might mod his eye area to be more accurate to OG-RE4 Leon. The artist made his eyes like this <--><-->, when they are supposed to be more like this OO. The droping top lid doesn't help...>__>;;;