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STEP 001 > I finally decided to make my first ever CUSTOM Jedi Chairs to go in my Phase 2 Jedi Council Diorama
This first page shows you how I sculpted the Style "A" Chair. Blueprints will also be made available soon - Check out the SPEED INDEX page link (Tutorials pull down menu) to see when it becomes available.
Using Super Sculpey, I started with a basic box shape. 5cm x 4.5cm at the base. Arm rests are 4cm high. Front is 1.5cm high and rear 3cm high. I made it hollow for a special reason you will see on page 2 picture 011 🙂
Remember to BAKE or HEAT your Super Sculpey after you make this box so that it will be hardened and you can add more Super Sculpey pieces onto it without crushing your core shape.
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- STEP 002 > I added a 1.5cm thick slab of Super Sculpey to one of the side arms of the chair. This thick chunk will allow us to carve the fancy angled hole that decorates both sides of the chair.
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- STEP 003 > First cut off a 45 degree angle from the top arm rest to about halfway down the side. You can see the free blueprint to get a more precise idea, understanding of where to cut.
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STEP 004 > Toss away the excess from your 45' cut, and then you will need to cut off another angle chunk.
From the armrest top outside edge, measure down 1cm, this is your START. Then make a line to the very bottom right corner. With a steady slow hand, slice that away.
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STEP 005 > I will admit that this part was a lot harder then I thought it would be. I examined the movie book pictures for 15 minutes and still had trouble understanding where to cut. But I figured it out as you can see - heh heh - Just angle cut 3 lines into the original chair shape. See the free blueprint to help you understand the exact spacing. Then lightly smooth out the Super Sculpey as if you had sanded the sharp edges of a piece of cut wood.
I found a trick for this today, if you dip your tool in water, the Super Sculpey will smooth itself like a knife through butter 🙂
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- STEP 006 > Here you can see a better angle of where to cut and how much of the original side angle cut thickness needs to remain. Free Blueprint will again help you with these measurements. There is a sight slope to the top line. The bottom cut is parallel to the base.
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STEP 007 > After 15 minutes in the oven, or paint stripper gun, your piece is strong enough to manipulate some more with your hands without damaging, warping the right side you worked so hard to make look good.
Now repeat what you did on the right side for the Left side. Add a nice chunk of Super Sculpey and carve it out.
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- STEP 008 > Here is a front view of the carved finished sides. when you are satisfied with the simitry, back in the oven for another 15 minutes.
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- STEP 009 > Now it's time to do a clean, smooth out the front. Flatten a .5cm thick piece of Super Sculpey like you do with pizza dough and apply it to the front surface of the chair like you would put a pie crust on top of your pie including on the front of the arms. Mmmm all this talk of food references made me hungry 🙂 Now carefully cut along the edges as a guide with a sharp X-acto blade and trim off the edges.
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- STEP 010 > Now before baking, look at the free blueprint to get your precise bottom hole measurements and carve out the center all the way through so that your action figure can STAND through the chair and into the raised diorama floor and allow you to not have to cut your Jedi in half 🙂 Of course, if you are really into customs and If you don't mind altering your figures that way, then you could just avoid the hole and create a FULL pillow instead of a "illusion" pillow that I created (1cm high x 1.5cm deep piece of Super Sculpey) that stops just at the edge of the secret hole. Now bake 15 minutes to harden your current progress
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- STEP 011 > Remember that hole in the chair from Step 001? Well this is why I am sculpting the chair this way. My version 2 design has a hole in the chair. The Jedi Council diorama is built with a raised platform, with cut holes on the floor.This way when I put the chair on the main surface, your figure does not need to be deformed or ripped apart. Just attach the fake legs to the chair itself and the illusion of the jedi sitting will be complete. Now please don't panic, these are just test legs for scale 🙂 Cool Idea eh?
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- STEP 012 > So this is where we are so far after about 2 days of work. If only Hasbro put full articulation in ALL their figures 🙂 The back support in the photo is a rough prototype, so pretend you don't see it - LOL. I will be making 2 versions of the chair. A full version that you can place your figures on by doing your own custom job like bending knees and capes and the one with the holes. It's up to you which one you want to make yourself.
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- STEP 013 > Now it's time for the back pillow. Roll out and flatten a piece of Super Sculpey into a pizza pancake like shape of 1.5cm thick.
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STEP 014 > Then use the blueprint to trace your shape or if you want a super precise piece, place it flat against your chairs back, trace and cut your lines. The shape will still resemble mine.
The grooves "armpits" in this shape is where the armrests will support the pillow.
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- STEP 015 > Don't rub your eyes the picture is a little fuzzy 🙂 This is how the pillow should fit once it is placed on the chair. Now cut the excess pillow edges of both sides using the angle of the chairs side for proper length. Look at the free blueprint to see the precise angle I am talking about
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- STEP 016 > This is what the back of the chair looks like with the pillow on. Just add a small amount of Super Sculpey in the cracks, and use your water dipped tools to smooth out all the joints.
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- STEP 017 > Once everything is smooth, using your watered tools, make some creases, indentations to simulate the pillow resting, pressing on the chair. You can even add little pleats in the corners where the material would fold.
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- STEP 018 > Now repeat the same thing for the front. Round out the pillows corners and add small folds and pleats details making sure to keep the Super Sculpey smooth.
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- STEP 019 > Bake your chair to make it solid and hard as a rock and our "STYLE A" chair is ready to be molded if you desire to make extra resin copies. Looks like not only Jedi's find this chair comfy 🙂
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- STEP 020 > The chair was molded and a resin copy was made and I painted it using basic latex art paints and the visual guides as reference for the color paterns. Now all we need is to build "STYLE B" and start customizing our Jedi's.
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