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Friday, July 4, 2014

CLONE WARS "WEEQUAY CRAGGY TOOTH PIRATE A" created by Darth Daddy

Around 20 BBY, this pirate assisted Hondo Ohnaka and Gwarm in boarding the Crucible to steal the Jedi Lightsaber crystals. This pirate, along with a few others, located Professor Huyang, and four of the Jedi Younglings, Petro, Katooni, Gungi, and Byph. As a trick, Petro activated his incomplete lightsaber and then tossed it at this pirate. The pirate caught it and activated it, remarking that he always wanted one. Petro, however, had built the lightsaber incorrectly causing it to detonate and knock this pirate unconscious, allowing the younglings and Huyang to escape.

This pirate reawakened and followed the younglings and Huyang towards where Hondo and the other pirates were. Huyang sealed this pirate off from the others in order for he and the younglings to escape. While Ahsoka Tano held off the pirates, she ordered Zatt to activate the engines which would break the connecting bridge and cause a vacuum that would suck the pirates out into space. As this happened, this pirate was able to pry open the blast door, only to get sucked out of the Jedi ship. He managed to grab hold of an object in the connecting bridge along with several other pirates, leaving Ahsoka and Hondo to try to keep hold of the wall of the Jedi ship. Ahsoka used the Force and knocked an incoming pirate into Hondo and knock him into the bridge. This pirate managed to keep his grip on the object and grab Hondo at the same time as the bridge slipped away, taking Ahsoka and the pirates with it.  

After the pirates captured Ahsoka, they had a feast on Florrum. This pirate drank too much alcohol, and he was lying around drunk and sleeping. Meanwhile, the younglings came pretending to be parts of Preigo's Traveling World of Wonder, and rescued Ahsoka. The pirate later took part in the battle of Florrum, when General Grievous attacked Florrum. This pirate and a few of his companions cooperated with the Jedi younglings in order to escape.

Later in the year, along with Jiro, he and some other pirates joined Darth Maul and Savage Opress against their former leader Hondo Ohnaka. Later on, when the two Sith were overpowered by Obi-Wan Kenobi and Hondo, he and the remaining pirates re-joined Hondo again, and helped him to chase the Sith brothers away from Florrum. One of the pirates managed to shoot the ship with a rocket launcher, and Maul and Savage barely escaped in the ship's escape pod. The pirates, believing that the two were vaporized, started searching for what they left behind. This pirate found a Z-6 rotary blaster cannon
 

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As soon as I saw this pirate in "Revival", the premiere episode of the The Clone Wars  fifth season, I knew I wanted to make him.  I can't really explain it, but he immediately became my favorite pirate in Hondo's pirate gang.  Especially after his appearance in the Jedi youngling arc later in the year.  There was something about his look that really caught my eye.  I felt like he was exactly what I needed to diversify the look of our custom Pirate Gang collection and I wanted to take on the challenge.

When I looked at all the Star Wars figures that had been released over the years, I realized that I couldn't really find a decent base figure to make it happen.  I settled on a Marvel action figure of "Thing" from the Fantastic Four.  I say settled, because I feel like this action figure is a little too tall to be screen accurate.  When I weighed my options for reducing his height, I decided that I risked compromising articulation and the integrity of the figure if I really made a fuss and I decided to leave the figure as is.  From there I completely sanded and resculpted an entirely new figure on top of what was present and made an entirely new action figure.  

I really love the way he came out and I couldn't be happier with the overall results.  I'm not really sure how many more pirates I will do in the future, now that this one is finished.  I guess only time will tell.  Hope you all enjoy the holiday weekend and be safe out there!




CLONE WARS
"WEEQUAY CRAGGY TOOTH PIRATE A" 
created by Darth Daddy






















 Pictured with Hasbro's Hondo Ohnaka and Peakob1's Gwarm and Parsel.



 Pictured with Hasbro's Hondo Ohnaka, Elias' Weequay Pirate with Massiff and Peakob1's Gwarm and Parsel.



 Pictured with Hasbro's Hondo Ohnaka.



SKILL LEVEL: ADVANCED


Work in Progress 
PICTURES


Base figure


 First I completely sanded down the figure and did the head sculpt in Green Stuff.


 I switched the hands out for the hands of a Hulk action figure so he could grasp weapons.  I then started to sculpt the skeleton for his clothing.


The hardest part was sculpting the the chest armor so it would look symmetrical.


 Sculpt complete.  Time for paint.


Base coats applied.  Time for the fine detail paintwork.





The "Craggy Tooth Pirate A" was featured on the front page of Imperial Shipyards.





Thursday, July 3, 2014

Imperial Shipyards "Expanded Universe Custom Challenge" Contest








CUSTOM ACTION FIGURE NEWS #70: Peakob1 Custom Creations








Custom Action Figures News just debuted their new video format in their latest interview with customizer Chad Peak aka Peakob1 of Peakob1 Custom Creations.  Definitely take the time to watch Lucasclones and Tamer talk about Peakob1's artwork, and you may even learn a new customizing technique or two. Chad Peak has been a close friend of Customs for the Kid for many years.  We have over 34 Star Wars custom action figures of his in our collection, many of which were featured in this episode.  We wouldn't be surprised if that number continued to grow.  It's nice to hear how Peakob1 built all these masterpieces and get to see all his figures up on screen as they are being discussed.  We love the new format guys and we're sure you will to.









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SW CUSTOM CARDBACKS

A big thanks to Logan Cross of the Wolfpack Podcast !  He is one of the designers over at SW Custom Cardbacks and he sent me a card that he designed for my "Promotional Photo" Luke Skywalker custom action figure. His cardbacks are amazing!  We definitely recommend going to this artist if you are ever interested in giving one of your custom Star Wars action figures the royal treatment.  We loved the thickness of the card.  It's a bit thicker than the one used by Kenner or Hasbro which really helps to prevent it from ever being damaged.  We fully endorse the product this artist is putting out!



Front view.



Back view.



He also sent me this cardback as a bonus.  Once I get the parts, I may give this figure a try.





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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

DARTH DADDY's CUSTOMIZING CORNER: WookieBalls Customs



Darth Daddy's Customizing Corner featured Star Wars customizer WookieBalls Customs in the latest Customizing Corner over at The Star Wars Underworld.




Ray McDonald aka WookieBalls Customs started to post his Star Wars custom action figures on the web about a year after I started to customize.  When he started to post, I knew right away that he was going to be a customizer to be reckoned with.  He was definitely my favorite newcomer that year.  His art was always very welcoming to the eyes.  Years later and he is still at it and even more impressive than ever.  Customizing in a variety of scales and when not making something new, restoring some of his old Vintage toys, WookieBalls is always keeping busy.

When I saw he started a special Star Wars custom action figure sale a few hours ago on his Facebook page, I knew he was the artist I had to feature this week.  If you hurry over to his page, you may be a one of the lucky individuals able to procure one of his beautiful pieces of art.  Be sure to take a look at his offerings on the Facebook link below.  A lot of these customs are carded and look absolutely beautiful.  Hopefully, you get there before his figures are all sold out.