Mad Bodgin’ Mage (Amiibo SMASH) Log: Little Markiplier

Excuse me!

Hi there, I’m an Amiibo for a fun new family game

It’s called Super Smash Brothers!

That sounds nice, before we play,

First I’m gonna warp you into a world of blades and more:



Where you’ll join everyone whose been lopped and bodged before!



I don’t think you wanna do that…

Oh come on, it’ll be a bash.

Now prep for a little rendin’, ’cause it is time for us to

MOTHERF**KING (amiibo) SMASH!

<ahem>

Yeah… I really like that song. Anyhoo! On to the log!

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Initially, I wasn’t going to bother trying to get the Little Mac Amiibo. Every time I saw it online, it was way too expensive. I decided to keep an eye on the Internet in case he turned up at a reasonable price, however, because he is my brother’s favorite fighter.

He didn’t.

In the meantime, I worked on various Warmachine, Over da’ Boards, and Amiibo projects, usually listening to/watching YouTube. Now, one of my favorite YouTubers is Markiplier. It’s great having his voice in the room while I’m working:



One day, an idea popped into my head that I absolutely HAD to make happen, Unicorn or not.

So… here we go.

The first thing I wanted to do was change his pose a little, so his face was more visible, and to make it celebratory, or something. So we dipped him…



…into a boiling pot…



…to soften him up so he can be re-posed. I used a combination of hot water and cold water to tweak the pose until I was satisfied with the final pose.

There’s no picture of that, however, ’cause the little git went back to his original form overnight.



What worked for a dragon wasn’t going to work here, as it turns out. Lesson learned.

There was an up-side, however: his arm and legs were easy to remove now (hence the Peach with the beefy legs above),

so I decided to tackle one of the two parts that I thought would be trouble…

…The Warfstache!!!



I printed ‘Staches of various sizes on a sheet of paper, to compare to Mac’s face:



After choosing the desired size, I then put tape over it and sculpted greenstuff over it:



Once it cured, I would be able to lift off the tape to dislodge the greenstuff, and we would have our tiny moustache! 😀

That was applied while I was home for Easter. Everyone else turned in, but I wasn’t tired yet. I WAS a bit drunk though, but meh. It’s as good a time to bodge as any.



At this point I was still half cut, and hadn’t actually cut myself yet…so attempt to make a tiny pair of glasses? SURE!



The frame is made out of a staple, and the lens out of plastic packaging. I used a needle to apply the glue, and tweezers to place the lens…there was much cursing involved. I kept losing the second lens whenever I tried moving it.

There were many, MANY second lenses, but eventually it got done.

Then I got home and accidentally broke em anyway.

…

So, while I waited for my eye to stop twitching, I got the moustache, and eyes painted:





And added the Minecraft M





At this point I thought I could repair the glasses, and it would be pretty close to done. On closer inspection, however:



I said, “Nah. Hair needs more “floof.”, and with that comes the point of no return:



Looking at the green tinge inside Little Mac’s head, his Final Smash makes more sense now:



The next step was covering up that green stuff with more greenstuff:



While we were at it, we made some modifications to the arm and body…



…and painted it up:



Now, before Little Markiplier could be called done, there was one more addition that we needed to make:



His Little Biscuit!



And now, they are ready…











and with that,



…and they are gunna SMASH!!! 😀

T’was a Bodgin’

