Custom PLAYSETS & DIORAMAS with your INDY TOYS!!

Goonie

New member
I jus got back from a nearby dollar store. They have these really cheap action figures for $3, but they come with a bunch of stuff including a section of stone wall with skulls molded into them. I'm thinking I might get a few of these and repaint them to the right color and try a custom Orellana's tomb from the cemetary scene in Crystal Skull.
 

Goonie

New member
First off, I know we aren't supposed to double post but I do have a question and nobody else posted to this thread in a while.

Does anybody know if there are any sites that have downloadable backgrounds for action figure dioramas?

I found this website skin on the official Indiana Jones website, but it is portrait:
ij4_skin-10Small.jpg

I might try adjusting it to landscape with Photoshop. I thought It would make a neat background for action figures when I saw it.

Does anybody know if there are any good temple/jungle backgrounds anywhere?
 

inky_skin

Active member
Okay, so my classroom / office diaroma is almost done - just the desk to go now...

<a href="http://s29.photobucket.com/albums/c273/inky_skin/?action=view&current=indy_class.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c273/inky_skin/indy_class.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

Then all I need is a Henry Jones Sr body and a Crystal Skull Indy head and I've got a Professor Jones Jr...

Any comments, suggestions, criticisms ?
 

RichardJones

New member
inky_skin said:
Okay, so my classroom / office diaroma is almost done - just the desk to go now...

<a href="http://s29.photobucket.com/albums/c273/inky_skin/?action=view&current=indy_class.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c273/inky_skin/indy_class.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

Then all I need is a Henry Jones Sr body and a Crystal Skull Indy head and I've got a Professor Jones Jr...

Any comments, suggestions, criticisms ?

Looks great so far.
 

Uki

Member
Great work on the classroom. How did you make that? Or did you already say and I missed a post...?
 

inky_skin

Active member
Billy Ray - nothing on the chalk board yet - I'm trying to get a better screen-cap of Indy's class from Raiders before I attempt that.

Uki- I haven't posted a tutorial yet. If anyone wants specific details I'd be happy to provide instructions. In the meantime, here are some close-up pics. Everything (with the exception of Indy's bag, hat, whip, the Crystal Skull, Grail Tablet, Fertility Idol, Necromicon and Temple Carving) is scratch-built from a combination of balsa wood, paper and wooden coffee stirrers :) I'm especially proud of the chair and Henry Sr's Grail Diary...

<a href="http://s29.photobucket.com/albums/c273/inky_skin/?action=view&current=back_elevation.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c273/inky_skin/back_elevation.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

<a href="http://s29.photobucket.com/albums/c273/inky_skin/?action=view&current=chair.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c273/inky_skin/chair.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

<a href="http://s29.photobucket.com/albums/c273/inky_skin/?action=view&current=chalkboard.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c273/inky_skin/chalkboard.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

<a href="http://s29.photobucket.com/albums/c273/inky_skin/?action=view&current=shelf.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c273/inky_skin/shelf.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

I'm keeping the dioramas small firstly because I have limited space, and secondly because I plan to make 4 the same size - the classroom and one for each of the original trilogy - which I can then place end-to-end. Next up: Peruvian Temple. Then Rope Bridge. Finally Castle Grunwald.

Oh...and I'll happily consider commissions :D
 

MaxPhactor23

New member
inky_skin said:
Okay, so my classroom / office diaroma is almost done - just the desk to go now...

<a href="http://s29.photobucket.com/albums/c273/inky_skin/?action=view&current=indy_class.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c273/inky_skin/indy_class.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

Then all I need is a Henry Jones Sr body and a Crystal Skull Indy head and I've got a Professor Jones Jr...

Any comments, suggestions, criticisms ?

Whoa dude! This takes the cake. It's amazing! Good job, I cannot wait to see it finished. Plus am I crazy or did you mess around with Indy’s head sculpt? Yours looks so much more like Harrison Ford there then any I’ve seen.

inky_skin said:
Oh...and I'll happily consider commissions :D

Are you kidding? Pssh! You're the man! I'd be very interested.
 
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inky_skin

Active member
Thanks MaxPhactor23. Good eye on the headsculpt. I haven't personally messed with it, but I think I really lucked-out on finding a couple of good deluxe heads to swap-out onto Crystal Skull bodies (dipping the neck post in clear varnish tightens the fit a treat). All I did was dry-brush the hats to pick out a little detail.

<a href="http://s29.photobucket.com/albums/c273/inky_skin/?action=view&current=indy_headswap.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c273/inky_skin/indy_headswap.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

I was thinking of turning out a couple of the shelves for eBay - figure people might want someplace to put all those little artefacts.
 

GiantThuggee

New member
Here's a possibility for a "Professor Indy" for your diorama.

professor.jpg


It's a KOTCS Indy head on a Henry Jones Sr. body with custom glasses. The head sits a little too high on the neck, so it should probably be dremeled out a bit.

It looks a little too "frumpy" to be Indy, but it's pretty close.
 

Billy Ray

Well-known member
Man, that LC Indy headsculpt looks awesome! Any chance you tried it on any other bodies? I'd like to pick up two and use on for kit-bashing. Does it have the large ball joint like the KOTCS and Deluxe Indys or the smaller one like the two Raiders Indys?
 

Billy Ray

Well-known member
The_Raiders said:
Are the LC figures out now? I've been dying for the Indy w/tie and Henry. (y)

Hmm...let me think...

...People are posting pictures of them...

...so...

yes, they are out;)

Check the recent acquistions thread. I just picked up half of them today myself.
 

Billy Ray

Well-known member
MightyMegs, saw those pics over at CTR/Rebelscum. Very nice! Which Ultimate Soldier figure did that hat come from? I've looked everywhere for the two officer figures pictured on the back of the cards. Seems all the WM in my area only have the two DAK guys. Did you repaint it at all? If not it matches the motorcycle German perfectly! I must have one!
 
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