Happy Star Wars Day!
To celebrate the day we thought we would share our latest custom commission. This Admiral Trench action figure was 100% sculpted and painted by hand.
To begin the build, I used an AOTC Orn Free Taa action figure for my base figure, and then completely rebuilt the torso to accommodate three arms on each side of the body. The arms I borrowed from several Clone Wars Phase I Clone Troopers that I sanded the armor off of so I could utilize their joints and appendages for Trench.
Once I had a rough skeleton built out, I got to sculpting out all the necessary forms and later on, all the fine details with the help of some ProCreate. I made the head using a cast of my previous Trench’s head, and resculpting his left side with the same sculpting putty.
I recarved the feet with a hot knife and then made molds and several casts of the hands from the K'Kruhk action figure from the Build A Droid line to create the figure at a faster pace.
His accessory was designed on my laptop and then printed out on our 3D printer.
Once I felt like I achieved Trench's likeness, I set to painting the intricate patterning on his robe and tackled the challenge of continuing the pattern around to the back of the figure. This proved quite difficult because there is no reference of him from that angle. I did my best with the partial shots I was able to locate and inferred how these patterns would continue outside of the frame. Once I felt I acheived a satisfying conclusion to my efforts, I set to replicating the Trench symbol and Trade Federation insignia on the shoulders to complete the figure.
I am really happy with both the sculpt and the paintwork on this particular piece. He turned out even better than I had originally envisioned. This is just one of several pieces I will be making for this client.
We even got a second crack at making the Cyborg Trench pictured below. I sculpted the torso differently on our second version to make him a bit more hunched which allowed me to show off his cyborg neck collar some more. I was really happy with the results.
The last item was a finished head for a Clone Wars Old Daka. I have to find the photo of her finished head. So far I only found a photo I sent my dad on Instagram before I added the seeing thread to my sculpt. I remember my Dad asking me to take a photo of the finished Old Daka head before I shipped it, so I know when exists somewhere. I will post it here when I find it.
May the fourth be with you!
"THE CLONE WARS"
ADMIRAL TRENCH
created by Elias
SKILL LEVEL: ADVANCED
Cardback image created by @greedo_collection
Cardback image from @dutch_starwars_collector
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