Will add better photos once better photos exist. Screw you, lighting D:

Who wouldn't want to have an amiibo of their own character? Or some figurine to begin with? Well, honestly it has always been some sort of dream of mine, had to make it reality at some point.

So why not try to remodel one Inkling Girl amiibo, after all Melon doesn't look to different, no?


I had a blast doing this one, seriously. I've never been good at making figurines myself, but remodelling/making a custom amiibo sounded definitely more reasonable to me. I bought some acrylic paint earlier, and the Inkling Girl amiibo started popping up at the stores again - so I finally put the plan into action (after buying some clay, pink acrylic paint and transparent glossy paint )

First off: making a custom amiibo can be quite frustrating at times. There were a lot of areas I had a hard time repainting, for examples the T-Shirt and the small details on the shoes, either because they're hard to reach or because they're simply too small. I was also scared of taking the amiibo apart for repainting, so yeah... good luck not painting unwanted areas and keeping such damage on a minimal level :'D I tried my best and still spilled paint on the skin at some parts, though it's not too easy to spot - luckily.

But altogether it has been a fun experience, and I'm so happy to have finished this one decently (in my opinion). Of course I had to change some things about Melon's design to make things work out. For instance I didn't change the T-Shirt into a tank top, and it doesn't have the Melon Print on it either. No stripes on the hat, and also no longer back "hair" - and I didn't change her weapon into a charger, nor did I change the weapon's ink color as I didn't want to break open the transparent ink tank for recoloring purpose. I also changes her tentacle pattern to make it look more like the official ones. Let's call this one "Nintendo-styled Melon"

From now on this will be my precious haha

http://chibi-nuffie.deviantart.com/art/Custom-Melon-amiibo-567336052