Another year comes to a close. This year was a little quieter than previous years due to me wrapping up high school this Spring. Focus was more on school than the blog unfortunately. The silver lining was that for my Senior year, I did a Capstone Project exploring turning my custom action figure creative process into a full-blown business. I was also sure to include 3D design as part of my curriculum to add to my skillset. By the end of the school year, I had a few original digital designs under my belt and a fully functioning business model.
Senior Capstone Presentation (Audio quality could be better)
After graduating high school, I started to do commissions for full-time work and entered into business with Rebel Kid Creations the exclusive retailer for casts of my sculpts. It is mainly just a storefront full of resin casts and kits available to our readers so they can replicate some of our custom action figure projects for themselves in their own homes.
Click store logo to visit
To make it happen, most of the summer was spent molding our older sculpts for casting. To do so we added a pressure pot, air compressor, vacuum chamber and pump to our workshop. Thankfully we are now completely done with our mold making and going forward the store will be carrying all new never seen before designs.
As you can expect with such a heavy workload, making customs for the blog took a backseat, While we were still able to do a lot of fully sculpted figures this year, we also took the opportunity to introduce our readers to other Star Wars artists in the community who currently offer parts and kits to make your customizing projects a little easier and a lot less time consuming. The custom pieces we shared from these artists definitely helped us provide you all with new content every month without losing too much sleep making it happen. It was because of them, we were able to keep you all entertained and coming back for more.
That said, check out the video below for a slideshow of what we were able to add to our own collections as well as a few figures that we were commissioned to add to other people's collections. Here's to another year of Star Wars custom action figure art!
2021
STAR WARS
CUSTOMS
created by "Customs for the Kid"
Sadly, at the beginning of this year, we lost one of our most prolific customizers to the pandemic. Friends of Stanley Opiel II knew him to be an incredibly gifted Star Wars custom action figure artist who breathed so much life into the Star Wars customizing community. His steadfast determination to bring the definitive versions of all the unreleased characters to fruition was truly admirable. He will be truly missed by his friends and Stan will forever stand as an inspiration to us all.
Customizers gathered from all over the world to pay their respects.
Dad put together a video to commemorate Stan's contributions to the artform.
Customs for the Kid's
Last Custom for 2021
Duchess Satine Kryze
