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dieastra in tennant_love

Customized Hamlet action figures

Mar 07, 2011 00:02

I would like to introduce the project I have been working on during the past weeks. I changed two Doctor Who figures into David as Hamlet - one in the icon t-shirt and the other one in the dashing black suit. Here are lots of pictures of the steps of my work, the details I had to change or add, and of the finished products of course:

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stage: hamlet, fanworks: fanart

Comments 5

t_eyla March 6 2011, 23:36:59 UTC

I admire your tenacity. And your modeling skills. Hamlet action figures ftw! :D

dieastra March 7 2011, 01:15:41 UTC

Thank you very much! When I want something very much, I can have a lot of patience. I also did learn a lot, even when something went wrong and I had to try a different approach.

Can't wait for the weekend when we will actually set up scenes from the Hamlet play with them - I might do another post then!

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dieastra March 7 2011, 01:13:34 UTC

Thank you! Those were cheap used figures I bought, of course I still own my original Doctors which I won't touch. Actually, the woman in the shop where I buy paint and things, thought it was a shame to change them, as "...it's such a nice suit!" so I had to reassure her as well.

So far I only had experience with putting (Stargate) heads onto different (Buffy) figures - this is easier and gets nice results as well, but I have no idea which figure line would work with Doctor Who, because the scales and joints are often different.

cymry_girl1 March 7 2011, 01:12:46 UTC

You're braver than I am to alter something like that.

Either that, or you've got waaaaaay too much time on your hands, LOL!

As for me, I'm not terribly crafty. I can knit a bit, and I do like to cross stitch (there's a David cross-stitch pattern around somewhere), but only "when the Spirit moves me," which is erratic at best. I did get the bee in my bonnet one summer to track down and make a simple Irish/Scottish leine out of an old bedsheet. I don't have a sewing machine, so I hand-sewed it. It looks like a big angel robe, but it's not too bad for a first attempt. Once I get inspired again, I hope to sketch out a Celtic design on the sleeves and the neck in pencil and embroider it. I've also got a length of plaid that can serve as an arisaid (female version of an ancient kilt).

dieastra March 7 2011, 01:25:46 UTC

Thank you very much! Oh, I know what you mean with the spirit! Sometimes I also start something and then it lays around for weeks till I am in the right mood again. As my other favourite actor Richard Dean Anderson says: "If it's not fun, it's not worth doing anymore." And it should be fun and not feel like hard work.

Here I did have a set date, though, as in a few weeks my friend will visit and then we will set up scenes from the play, so I needed to get finished in time, and so I used every weekend for the past four or five weeks.

I knew how to knit once, but it always went very slowly and I never really got the hang on it. I also never had an interest in sewing, I rather worked with a saw and wood or clay. I never was a typical girl ;)
Do you know the comm crafty_tardis ? Lots of great things in there - knitted Daleks or Tardises, plushy Doctors... people are so creative! I am always amazed about some ideas. I'm sure you also can find some cross-stitch patterns in there.