WIP masterpiece slipstream

[lancalot]

Wow that nice AJ ....perfect bro....

[Iriorne]

Looking at the MP-11 mould, the neck stem looks pretty much the same as MP-03, but the ball socket is entirely on the underside of the head. The shelf on the underside is also gone.

The arch the head passes through has quite a bit of plastic that can be ground out with a file or motor tool to increase the clearance, so that might give a little flexibility with sizing the head, too.

[AJ_Prime]

That's good to know, thanks again. I'll try to keep the head dimensions in line with the original to avoid any work that isn't necessary.

I hope to nail the the ball and socket joint but it's going to be interesting alright.

[AJ_Prime]

So here are some reference pics based on Iriorne's measurements. There are a couple of problems that I see:

1. With the head at this size, the ears are about 1.5 - 2mm too wide.
2. If I reduce the size of the head to accommodate the ears, the head looks too small for the model.

I might try reducing the "ear" size and making them a bit thinner, that way I don't have to reduce the head size too much.

I still have to reshape the back of the head to square it off for the ball socket section. Shouldn't be too much of a problem. I think I have an idea of how the ball socket is going to work, hopefully it comes out alright!

Any other thoughts or suggestions to make this work?

[Iriorne]

Hmmm... reducing the ears might be the easiest solution. If necessary, there's also about 2mm of space at the top that you can recover by dremelling out the head pass-through as well. Another option might just be to scale the head well and have it non-transformable? Just pop it off the ball when converting to jet.

If you want to get a feel for how the face scales, here's a front-on photo of the head:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...head_trans.png

Are you able to set it as a texture on the front of the block head and and post a front-on render?

Edit: I'd be wary of scaling the head too small as the MP-03 seeker head is proportionally quite small to begin with, particularly the width.

[lancalot]

yeah i agree , that you should reduce the ears as the head scale is small to begin with..

[AJ_Prime]

Cool, I'll give it a try. Back to the drawing board.

[UltraMarginal]

As awesome as it already looks, reducing the width of the ear may add to the femininity of the sculpt. just a thought.

brilliant work by the way.

[Iriorne]

Just had a thought: what if instead of just reducing the width, you adjusted the angle of the ears? Make them more swept back and streamlined?

[lancalot]

Just had a thought: what if instead of just reducing the width, you adjusted the angle of the ears? Make them more swept back and streamlined?

That would be interesting ....