Customs for the Kid: July 2021

Wednesday, July 28, 2021

"CUSTOMS FOR THE KID" CELEBRATES 11 YEARS OF BLOGGING & A NEW STORE!

It’s so hard to believe that we’ve already been creating Star Wars content and getting involved with the fan community for 11 years now, but here we are!

We’ve continued featuring other artists, added their customs to the collection, and made many new custom figures of our own, but going forward, we wanted to do more than just that. Every year we continue to push ourselves to do more than we had the year before, so this year we’ve expanded our horizons to offering our custom sculpts to our fans. To do so, we are partnering with Rebel Kid Creations who is distributing resin casts of select action figure parts that were made from our customs to help you recreate some of our greatest hits at home!

The store includes Headcasts, Accessories, and Action Figure Kits. If you buy 4 or more items and use the promo code 798GT9 at checkout, you can get free shipping on your order!

Our Favorite "Rebel Kid Creations" Items:

CLONE WARS CHANCELLOR PALPATINE

"SIEGE OF MANDALORE" AHSOKA TANO

FINAL SEASON

HONDO OHNAKA GANG WEEQUAY PIRATE

General Leia

Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo

JEDI YOUNGLINGS

GREGOR

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Yoda Clone Wars Character Model #2

Ahsoka Tano "Walkabout"

Sunday, July 25, 2021

"OBI-WAN KENOBI in MAUL MANDO ARMOR" created by Elias

This is a 3.75” rendition of Obi-Wan in his Death Watch Disguise he stole from a Maul loyalist to rescue Duchess Satine Kryze from the custody of Darth Maul in The Lawless. This Obi-Wan was a commissioned piece I made for a client, so he unfortunately won’t be staying on our shelves, but making him was a pleasure nonetheless.

The majority of the figure was made with a Clone Wars Pre Vizsla action figure which I repainted to match the armor of the Maul Mandos. I was careful to replicate every detail as seen on screen, even down to the the silver chips in the armor and the maul markings on the helmet. I converted the Pre Vizsla helmet into an alternate head by filling it with hot glue and sticking it to the neck ball joint. I then waited for the glue to dry and gave the head a gentle twist which freed it, allowing for full range of movement. The lightsaber was simply an Obi-Wan lightsaber, and the jetpack was a repainted cast of the Clone Wars Aayla Secura action figure jetpack we got from Rebel Kid Creations. The peg on the jet pack surprisingly fit into the Pre Vizsla jet pack hole perfectly, so I didn’t have to modify the sculpt of the jet pack at all. The head is from a Clone Wars Season 4 Obi-Wan, and remained completely unmodified throughout the course of the project.

“OBI-WAN KENOBI in MAUL MANDO ARMOR”

created by Elias

SKILL LEVEL: BEGINNER

Monday, July 5, 2021

"STAR WARS REBELS" SEASON 3 - EZRA BRIDGER created by Elias

This action figure was a recent commission that I just completed. Yes, we officially take commission requests here at Customs for the Kid. Just send us an email over at customsforthekid@gmail.com and we can see about bringing the action figure of your choice to life. We don't scare easy so don't worry about strange requests.

To make this figure we took a massive shortcut by utilizing an already made 3-D printed resin cast of Ezra's head that was created by Watto's Scrapyard. We're big fans of Watto's custom heads and just placed another order with him yesterday for some more heads that he designed.

The rest of the figure was sculpted by hand with ProCreate onto the body of TVC Endor Luke Skywalker. The holster and gun were from the TVC Han Solo action figure.

We did a video tutorial for the making of this action figure so if you are interested in creating one yourself, then check out the YouTube video below and see how we did ours.

"STAR WARS REBELS"

SEASON 3 - EZRA BRIDGER

created by Elias