Nice Utility Box

Found a particularly nice utility/storage box at Target. It's made by Stanley, and the extremely useful feature that sets this apart from other utility boxes is that all the compartments inside are removable, making it easy to pluck the desired bin out and fiddle through it or dump its contents onto your work area. I plan on using it to store action figure body parts and accessories.

Pictures are here and here.

A Few More General Customizing Tip Sites

http://projectcustom.com/main.htm

http://www.miskatonic.freeserve.co.uk/nicks.html

Possible Source For Green Doll Hair

For Willow?

http://www.clothdollsupply.com/hair5.html

Painting Tips From Reaper

Just stumbled across some great articles in the "The Craft" section of Reaper's site (they're one of the big acrylic model paint people.)

There are articles on paint thinning and transparency, a great two-part List of Tools For The Beginning Painter (one, two) that has some INVALUABLE tips and sources, and more!

Can't say enough about that tools post. Great, great ideas that go on and on.

GOLDMINE! The GI Joe Wiki

There's an entire wiki devoted to customizing the 1:12 GI Joe figures! That'll be mighty helpful for Project Musa. There are interviews with a number of customizers who give tips and details on their methods, a FAQ, tutorials on EVERYTHING. A must-see. The main site is great too, with an active forum, pix of members' creations, etc.

There's a whole page of links on customizing.

This page on casting parts has some interesting suggestions for both flexible and rigid casting plastics.

Sculpting On A Small Scale

Here's another great tutorial, this one focussed on small-scale sculpting for wargame miniatures. Very complete, with tips on puttys and clays, proportions, armature, folds in fabric, and small accessories like little bags, books, and gems, as well as textures like chain mail, wood, feathers, and even fur!

Wrestling Figure Information

Two good sources for wrestling figure info. There's forums, a database, and an amazingly complete site of sales.

http://wrestlingfigs.com/
http://www.ringsidecollectibles.com

And another cheap figure source:
http://wrestlingsuperstore.com/wwejakksactionfiguresfor5.aspx

Miniature Sculpting Tips

Excellent tutorials on sculpting in miniature (lead figure size) here and here. Oo! And here.

Found by Jeff via Paul Overton and Dudecraft.