Every year we participate in Yakface.com's Secret Santa event. This year was no different. We saw our package was delivered on Christmas Eve so we figured we'd post what we sent as our gift. This year Star Wars customizer JediStyle was the recipient of this year's custom action figure from Customs for the Kid. Two years ago, we did a figure swap with JediStyle for the holiday outside of Yakface.com. so when we found out he was who we were assigned to, we tried to create a companion figure for the first one we sent him.
Since the last figure we created for JediStyle had a Steampunk feel, we tried to add a little of that flavor here as well. We decided on a fan fiction figure because we know this artist has created a plethora of his own Star Wars fan fiction figures over the years. We also wanted to maintain the desert vibe from the last figure so the new gift would look good posed with the older one. We really wanted to create a diorama stand that would have housed both figures, but the album cover for High Adventure's "High Five" release cut too deep into the time we had to devote to this project.
When making this figure we imagined him to be an individual on the run. Hiding on the fringes of the desert, behind a mask, rounding up criminals trying to disappear on the fringes of civilization. This was the first time we attempted doing wig work for an action figure. Adding in the thread was also daring to venture outside our normal process.
We included some pictures below of the previous Secret Santa action figure from 2 years ago that we mailed to JediStyle.
"Twi'lek Bounty Hunter"
created by Darth Daddy
FEMME MANDO
created by Darth Daddy
