Making of Boss figure

Greetings. I’m FunshiKakutei.
Let me introduce myself because you probably think “Who are you?”

I have a website “FunshiKakutei Junbikou” that summarized hints and tips of La-Mulana for myself. My website made a connection with NIGORO. When the game remade for Wii, I was asked to participate in writing the guidebooks of La-Mulana, and I wrote absurd stories for my own pleasure in Quiz of Ruins.

I think that it was about this time last year. Mr. PANDA, the president from Asterizm, took me a certain Maid Cafe in Akihabara by force, and asked me whether I was willing to share the same fate with NIGORO. I agreed without hesitation and said “Sure. Let’s have a meeting at this Maid Cafe next time.” Then, I have been to this date.

I usually take charge of exchange emails (mainly in English). Well, I am such a person, but this time, I send this article of making Boss figure. You may think why the person in charge of exchange emails makes a figure. To tell the truth, I am an old hand at it, I have experience of scratch building. Scratch building is the process of building a scale model from various raw materials.

“Boss” in the boss figure surely is Mr. Naramura, the director of La-Mulana. Those were given out at NIGORO’s booth at last TGS. Those are called garage kit in model industry. Although, I had in charge of adjustment of a pattern (original figure), moldmaking, replication, and painting. The original figure was made by Mr. Naramura. So, those figures are his work, and not mine.

I can’t say the details, the beginning of thing is a conversation with Mr. Naramura at PLAYISM 2nd anniversary party. I explained that I could duplicate a figure easily if I have a pattern. So, we would try to make figures someday. After a few months, I was ordered to mass-produce boss figures for TGS.

I got a pattern from Mr. Naramura and got work started in the beginning of August.

After adjustment of a pattern, buried it in oil-based clay and framed them. I poured silicone rubber into the forms and waited for 8 hours. While I was waiting, I slept.

I waked up about time silicone rubber set. I carefully removed oil-based clay in order not to come off a pattern from silicone rubber. Then, I poured silicone rubber into the other side. I waited for 8 hours again while I was sleeping. After silicone rubber set, moldmaking was finished.

I cast resin into silicone rubber molds. Resin becomes solid within a few minutes by mixing two kinds of liquids. Using this property, I cast mixed resins quickly into rubber molds to make arbitrary shaped figure. In this way, resinous boss figure was completed.

You can spread ordinary paints for plastic models on resin because resin is similar to plastic. However, resin has a difficult aspect to handle. Countless minute bubbles were generated when it hardens. In the ordinary way, those bubbles should be filled with putty and colored the whole body blue, a tongue red, and eyes and a mouth black. But if so, I would miss the deadline. Therefore, I omitted a process of filling bubbles with putty. I mixed blue color into resin at first for saving labor for coloring the whole body. All I need to do after that is to color eyes, a mouth, and a tongue.

Besides normal blue colored boss figures, I prepared a gold colored and a silver colored one according to my preference.

I put my effort in my own way. However, I have to apologize to people who got the figures, because the quality of paint is poor. On top of that, those are full of bubbles. Allow me to take this opportunity to apologize.

That concludes making of Boss figure. Now, I’m refining it. If there are any chances, I may show you it. I shut myself in my atelier by that time. See you.