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Post by FireflyFlanatic on Sept 21, 2005 0:08:08 GMT -5
Came across this picture while surfing the net and was amazed at the second picture and how much it looks like AH/Willow. The sculpt seems the same just not as stretched out (which makes me believe even more that the original sculpt looked more like this middle picture and somehow the prototype got stretched out). Anyway, do any of you customizers know if it is possible to somehow heat up the figures head to soften it and then squish it down to more resemble this? As a test to see if it is indeed the same face stretched out width wise I went into my "Paint" program and shortened the real Willow figures face that way and, accept for the coloring, it looked just like this middle photo.  I've come to accept my Willow but coming across this picture made me even more aware of how great she could've looked. |
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Post by willowswarlok on Sept 21, 2005 1:38:31 GMT -5
wow, that is a difference. my figure have never squished when i boiled and cut then with force, but i suppose, if you boiled it and then put it in between a vice, then maybe it can be squished. so this could be one of the first figures made then? and comparing the last 2 pics, the last one does look like its stretch out. o there has got to be a way to fix this
as you can see, her face look stretched, long and thinner, with a huge pointed chin, whereas the nicer one has a plump, small face with a flat wide chin
ok, i have a willow head, granted she doesnt have any hair, but ill give it a go with the squishing in a vice method, and let you know
wayne
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Post by thezepposideman on Sept 21, 2005 1:42:03 GMT -5
OMFG i love it! did that person actually customise it to look like that? You should ask if he/she does it for ppl! If i knew wllow could look like that, id get it!
it also makes the other willow hideous lol
WOW i love it. man i wish sidehsow did stuff that one up...
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Post by willowswarlok on Sept 21, 2005 1:43:17 GMT -5
i dont think its a custom, the colours are exact, which is hard to do
wayne
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Post by sueworld2003 on Sept 21, 2005 4:24:20 GMT -5
I could have been altered using Photoshop. Infact didn't someone here do just that shortly after 'Willow was released?
As I said on another forum the only way you are going to get this to look like Willow is to put a bag over her head and write 'Willow' on the front.
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Post by buffyfannumerouno on Sept 21, 2005 5:26:08 GMT -5
I'm just hoping that Sideshow plans on releasing another Willow from another Season and that it actually resembles. I wouldn't mind if they redid Willow and Faith before we get Cordelia and Giles as long as she resembles Alyson a lot more than this crappy figure.
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Post by DanMan on Sept 21, 2005 12:06:16 GMT -5
I really wonder where that second picture came from... it must be edited, because there was never a good version put in packaging as far as I know. I don't see the Damon likeness... though that is pretty funny.
Seeing the packaging picture reminds me of how many complained about the likeness when this figure was first announced... and now people would kill for that. She does look pretty spectacular there.
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Post by FireflyFlanatic on Sept 21, 2005 12:12:29 GMT -5
I don't think there ever was a version like the second picture - I think whoever did that just photoshopped it to look like that. I used my microsoft paint program and did practically the same thing with the final picture to see how it looked shortened lengthwise and except for the touchups of the eye color it looked almost exactly the same as the second picture. That's why I was wondering if there was a way to mush the head because it seems like the intent was supposed to be something like the second picture but somewhere between the sculpt and the molding process the head became stretched out lengthwise.
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Post by deannaB on Sept 23, 2005 6:07:15 GMT -5
That's most definitely 100% Photoshopped. Compare the sweaters. Stitch for stitch is exactly the same, and the shadows and highlights on her nose and in the background are exactly the same. It's the same photo, only squashed and touched up to show how it SHOULD have looked.
Of course, the question remains, can anyone get the plastic to squoosh and stay squooshed the same way it is in that manip? Or should someone post a pattern for cutting out and pasting together your own 1/6th scale brown paper bag for putting over Willow's head?
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Post by slayerverse98 on Sept 25, 2005 9:03:35 GMT -5
That Willow looks better but it just looks like it's been edited by someone. I'm happy the way my Willow is anyway
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