Making Pikmin 3 Figures

Well, my son is now well into the long-awaited Pikmin 3 game and has thoroughly researched the toys and figures from all 3 games online (thank you Google images)! He's always made little paper or cardboard drawn figures but is determined they need to be plastic and, as you'll know if you've looked they are a) virtually impossible to get and b) very expensive so we have turned to Shrink Plastic as a replacement. Have you ever tried it?

It's generally called Shrinkles these days and comes in a variety of colours and sizes. You can get blank and printed versions but unfortunately not a Pikmin version. I drew those. If you don't feel confident drawing, you could find someone who does and ask them.
I drew them in pencil EXACTLY as he wanted them (if you know Autism, you'll know how exact that can be) and had to have very clean hands as all dirt gets darker and smudgier when heated.

He coloured and I cut. We put them on a foil lined baking sheet and into the oven for about 3-5 minutes on Gas mark 3 or 130 degrees if your oven is electric. They curl like an animal and shrink 7 times smaller and the colours get 7 times more dense.

You can see how much smaller they get by comparing the first baking sheet pic with the third.
The finished articles are small, thick, rigid and duarable and the colours are fixed.

So he now has a little set comprising: Brittany, Preston (the Mayor), Charlie, Alph. Olimar's son, Louie, Olimar, Olimar's wife and his daughter. More to come...

Like Pikmin stuff? Checkout these other related blog pages:
http://socklet-world.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/let-them-eat-pikmin-cake.html
and http://socklet-world.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/pikmin-art-crowd-in-cardboard.html
or http://socklet-world.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/pikmin-in-needlefelt-and-sculpey.html
and  http://socklet-world.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/complete-set-of-pikmin-figures.html