The maker 
Hi, I'm "The maker", better known as "Astro" on Crazy Bone's collectors online communities. I've been collecting Jojo's (Bouncin Boneheads) for ages now.
Hi, I'm "The maker", better known as "Astro" on Crazy Bone's collectors online communities. I've been collecting Jojo's (Bouncin Boneheads) for ages now.
The Unregistered Boneheads series is a fan-made series of six Crazy Bones like characters made to tickle your inner child nostalgia.
The idea of this project started in late 2021. As a crafting hobby I was making epoxy replicas of some Jojo's Bouncin Bonheads, trying to create original finishes that were never made into real figures. Very quickly, fellow collectors were interested, new content in the Jojo's collecting community was not very common, and as imperfect my casting were, I often found myself adding some in my trading packages as cool freebies.
Custom figures are cool and all, but half of the nostalgia we feel is heavily reliant on the unboxing experience. The infinite excitement of our kid brains about to open a mystery bag containing few little colorful plastic toys. The logical next step was then to create little paper bags to hide my replicas. First paper, then cardboards, I iterated quite a bit on my packages to give collectors a great experience.
Fast forwarding in mid 2024, a friend casually asked me "Ok, but why not make your own designs?". That felt like a very obvious thing to ear, yet I never dared to give it a real thought. Until that moment anyway.
I bought some fimo modeling clay and went to work. Guess what, you can't really improvise sculpting skills, even less at a Crazy Bones scale. So I turned around and went to a more beginner-friendly tool that I knew: my computer. Using the awesome Blender software, I gave myself the challenge to complete a series of (at least) five characters.
Every character design went through a lot of phases and iterations. At some point, Blaze did not even have hairs!
I also took advantage of my fdm 3D printer, a Anycubic Kobra 2, to quickly prototype until both the design and in hand feeling were "right".
I ended up with 7 final designs. One of them (hidden somewhere on this site) didn't make it to the final round. It was too goofy and the shape was too different from the other six.
Once finished, I commissioned a local print shop to make some batches of the figures at a 30 micrometer resolution in 3D resin printing. This step was necessary to provide me with pieces clean enough to allow me to make a silicon mold and epoxy replicas.
After some sanding and hole filling, I made two little holes underneath that would serve two purposes: by inserting a piece of plastic tube in each, I will have two stilts that will center the figure in the silicon mold, and once removed will serve me as holes in which to pour the epoxy resin.
Silicon is then poured around the figures to create a mold that will allow me to duplicate as will my Unregistered Bonehead.
It then goes into a pressure pot to remove (compress) air bubbles and cure. Once hardened end emptied, the silicon mold can be filled up with epoxy resin.
Rince and repeat until you have a great variety of colors and are happy of the results.
Credits This website is inspired by the indie web as we knew it. Geo/Neocities, personal pages, the old web as a whole. That's why it's best seen on a 800x600 screen, 4:3 aspect ratio. Does not use javascript nor fancy css styling.
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Unregistered Boneheads drawing artworks (website, packagings) nailed by artist Mamako
Big thanks to MarioJoe11 who endured my private teasers and became accomplice despite himself.