I used to, back when my aunt lived with me, nowadays I buy it, it's incredibly cheap anyways.
You can find the recipe online, but be warned, it gets messy.
If you are cheap like me you can use markers as dyes.
Not completely doomed but it won't be pretty, don't let the figures get wet, it's for the best.

I have one problem though, I can't make eyes, my best sculpting work ever was a bust of Model ZX from megaman zx, but since I could never get the eyes done I ended up canning it.
Thanks, it's one of those things that I enjoyed since childhood, I considered at times being a toy sculptor but I have no frigging clue how to get in that world.

I really need to continue working on them, I even have a half finished Gaim... I just can't find the drive to finish em...

It's made of glue and cornstach I believe, it's lile white Play-Doh that can be dyed and hardens, but water more or less destroys it, it's very common in latinamerica.

Thanks for the compliment , while I'm very proud of the results (especially marceline) the original prototypes had more articulation, it's just that the joints I designed are too weak at that scale.

I haven't even bought lights, I beat you at the cheapskate department.

I really like that setup, easy cheap and effective, I'll give it try one of these days.
Btw the size doesn't bother me since I like small figures anyways.

Dude, they are great! Way better than any of mine, I should be the one asking for tips.

The camera captures details very well, poses are fun and lightning is top notch (The first two Gaim pics had some weird shadows, but that's just the angle).
How did you make the lightbox?

Random tip, the subject you are going to photograph doesn't necessarily has to be centered, some people forget that.

I can't stand any sort of apple pc/laptop but I admit it's simply because I'm not used to it, iphones look cool, and I admit android has it's shortcomings, but I'm also curious about firefox OS.

I love you man, in the most brotherly way possible.

That's the spirit! Many of my pics are bad, but as long as there is fun to be had, who cares?
Sure!

Ohh... I just don't get apple, I'm perfectly happy with windows and android.

Let me tell you another secret, no matter what anybody tells you, it's never about the camera, it's about passion, trial and error and capturing the right moment.
We once went to an exposition which had amongs the photos one that was taken by a cellphone camera, an old cellphone, and nobody could tell until the guy told us, it was one of the best pics in the show.

There are tons of tutorials in the net, TFW, Tomopop amd OptimisticPenguin come to mind for having great tutorials if you ever want to know more.

Quick question, am i overbearing? I get the feeling that sometimes i type too much or get too excited, sorry.

Not really , but if you want to take toy photos you have to set it on macro, I learned that from Polenicus at TFW (he has a great tutorial about photocomics).

Lights are tricky because there are many ways to angle them and depending on the lights color changes as well, I'm too lazy forr them.
I haven't handled an Iphone, but check the settings to see if it has a macro mode, it's an inmediate improvement.

I'm on my phone right now and my pics are in my PC... sorry.

Set camara on macro, come up with a good pose, find a nice and clean background (or make your own with paper) and grab whatever i have at hand to support the camara because I have no tripod. I even have a "Behind the Scenes" on DA which according to KRX proves that I'm a doll.

Profesional cameras are slightly different but esoentially it's trial and error, there's an indicator on the top and you change settings (focal range and stuff) til it reaches 0, it's kinda overbearing so I usually write or act for projects. :P

And nope, all that I haven't shown you or uploaded to DA yet are photos we took for class, nothing to do with towns or the like.

Probably not, like I told you I haven't visisted many places, but I can get some online if you don't mind.