Sure. I started with an aluminum foil ball. This is generally what I start with when sculpting a larger item with sculpey. It keeps it light, and uses less clay which helps keep the cost down. I made seperate pieces for the head and body. First pressing the foil balls onto flat surfaces to flatten out the planes, and then pressing them down again when the clay was places over the foil to again try and create a nice flat surface. I baked those pieces once I had sculpted them to my liking. The wheels are just balls of sculpey rolled and cut off to have flat circles facing out. The arms are wooden dowels cut down and sculpted clamps are for the hands. The yellow band over the top was cut from a bucket handle and painted, and the clear plastic helmet is cut from the packaging of a toy I found on clearance that was a decent shape. Everything was super glued together when the sculpting was done…and then all painted. The tracks with the letters and numbers were drawn up in photoshop and printing on lowgloss photopaper.
Wampar
Did you had certain dimensions planned out for the robot to make it in scale with the movie ? If you did , care to share them ?
And how do you make the body appear so smooth , and yet being able to join the red and blue colour together in such a straight natural way , along with the arrows on it’s torso ?
I’m sorry if I sound inexperienced and clue-less about sculpting 
Hey Wampar did you have to do anything to her hat to make it look more accurate, and how did u go at making shoes?
Thanks
I painted the center of the flower a more orangey color, and painted the hat band yellow. Then I stick some sculpey into the hat, baked and glued it in place so that the hat would have a peg and stay in place onto of the potato.
Wampar, in your experience, would Sculpey work to make a squeak-able Wheezy, or would it be too hard after drying? I’m considering making one, but I’m not sure which material to use…
I now Im not wampar, but im fairly certain that if he made of sculpy, he couldnt be squeezable.
That’s what I thought. Any idea on what will work?
just out of curiosity, what does baked sculpey feel like
Does anyone know if the toy story and beyond Wheezy is accurate? Here’s a link on eBay:
cgi.ebay.com.au/TOY-STORY-2-WHEE … 43a1c3e257
Thanks
its a nice toy but I think thats quite a bit under scale to what he should be.I really hate it when they have characters out there that are just no where near to scale.
It fairly hard, kind of like clay after its been fired. If i remember correctly, its very brittle
Thanks, crouchingwhitekid. I just wouldn’t want to have to wonder about that…scary…
Yeah, what Oreo said. After it has been baked it is hard. If it is thin it can be brittle…but if it is a nice thick shape it is usually pretty sturdy. Today I spent all day trying to make Stretch, with two different types of polymer clay, one Sculpey and one another brand. It didn’t go well at all. The tentacles kept breaking off… It got to the point that I realized I couldnt even THINK about sanding it smooth, so while I have a faceless Stretch, she looks kinda awful. I will give her a face tomorrow, and if she looks passable enough maybe post some pictures…but I shall remain hopeful that Thinkway makes a scale version.
With stretch wouldn’t you need some sort of wire armature?
Was this missed ?
So Sculpey’s not gonna work for making a squeaky Wheezy. Anyone know of a substance that will? If not, I might just make him with his mouth closed and ditch the squeaker. He won’t be totally screen accurate, but at least he’ll be closer than what I have now (a plush version).
Secondly, about how long should Mr. Shark be? I saw a base that might work yesterday, but I’m worried it’s too small.
I don’t know the first thing about armatures.
The reason everything was falling apart was a series of mistakes I made that ultimately led to it falling apart in process. But that is half of what is fun about all of this for me…learning as I go.
She’s done now…and while the form isn’t very clean because I couldn’t sand it down, and the glitter spray I used both hides and accentuates the imperfections at the same time, I am pretty happy with her. What it all comes down to is that I couldn’t afford to rebuy supplies and start over, so if I want to have a Stretch, my only choice was to make it work.
Today’s project is going to be Bookworm…him I WILL be able to sand, which I am very excited about…when he is done then I will post pics of Lotso’s full gang completed.
Sorry, TalkToMe…that was missed.
For the Robot I decided on how tall I wanted him to be, then I captured two screen grabs from the movie: one from the front and one from the side. I scaled them to the height I wanted him to be in photoshop and printed those two pages as a life sized reference to work from. I can’t remember the dimensions I decided on the time, but I believe I decided to make him seven inches tall from floor to the top of the handle on his head.
The body is one solid piece. I sculpted, baked, and then sanded it with good ole regular sand paper. The red and blue is just painted on. And the arrow was actually made in photoshop, printed on a low gloss photopaper, and glued onto the front.
Just a heads up because I know certain members on these boards are looking for this hard to find item:
A seller on ebay.com is listing the rare Japanese exclusive version of the Peas-in-a-Pod as a buy it now item here and here.
Looks like there are six available overall. I just bought mine: it should arrive from Hong Kong in a couple of weeks and I couldn’t be happier I found one. I urge you guys here to grab one while you can.
Looking at the pictures, this Japanese version seems to excel over the UK/USA Disney Store version of the Peas-in-a-Pod in every element, from the correct materials (hard shiny eyes) to the perfect expressions and more accurate scale and colour.
Ok, so the peas themselves are a bit cube-ish, but that’s nothing a small insertion and some cotton stuffing won’t fix if it’s not presently to your liking.
Hope those links are useful to a lot of you!
One thing more: does anyone have any specific information on this version of the Peas-in-a-Pod, as I can’t seem to find them anywhere else on the net. I know that member Rey posted various links to a Japanese version back on page 162 of this thread, but it does not correspond to the version I’ve linked above (note the less accurate sewn eyes on the Takaratomy version).
Just a tad off of what everyone’s talking about at the moment, but I’ve been looking at Rex’s, and I’ve noticed something. Anyone actually come to a conclusion on which Rex, TSC or Vinyl, is closer to scale? I’ve compared both to Buzz, referencing the first movie when Buzz is teaching Rex how to roar (rex stands up streight in that scene) and in my opinion the TSC honestly looks a bit oversized. In the clip when rex stands at a normal height, legs slightly bent, back at the right angle, the top of his snout should be only very slightly taller than Buzz’s helmet, but on the TSC Rex literally towers over him, while the non-TSC looks closer to about right.
The catch is that I don’t have the cash to buy either of them, so I’m judging by approximate, since Rex is more or less sitting in the packaging. Anyone come to a conclusion? I remember there was a discussion about it a few pages back. I’m kinda leaning toward the Vinyl non-TSC, I love that it’s got Wallace Shawn’s voice and all, but i’m really looking more to the “Toy Mode” versions of the main gang in TS3. Besides Potato Head, because I love Don Rickles’ portrayal of the character. Anyway, any thoughts? Would someone with a bigger collection mind a few tips or pics? Thanks so much guys.