To celebrate 12 years of blogging, Darth Daddy picked up the sculpting tools and started a new figure after 2 years away from the hobby. Dad announced his retirement from the blog on our 10-year anniversary just before he had surgery performed on both of his eyes to treat a rare degenerative eye condition he developed. The surgery was successful but it took about a full year for his eyes to heal post surgery.
While Dad definitely expressed that he missed making custom figures, he spent the year after his recovery searching for a different job to facilitate some big changes he had been hoping to make. Well, Dad landed a more than satisfactory upgrade to his former employment and spent a little free time returning to one of his favorite pastimes.
Dad thought that making a 1/18 scale "Star Wars Rebels" Kanan Jarrus from Season 3 and 4 would be a fitting project to take on for our 12-year anniversary celebration. To make Kanan, Dad used TVC Young Han Solo from the "Solo: A Star Wars Story" film as his base for the figure. He removed the figures jacket, sanded down the original figure with a Dremel and then re-sculpted the figure to look like Kanan. I helped Dad a bit with the shoulder pads when his new job became a bit too time consuming. After the sculpt was completed, Dad laid down the first few coats of paint onto the figure and then I finished the figure up by doing all the fine detail paintwork so we could reach our anniversary deadline. It was really nice to work on a custom figure together again.
It is important to mention that we used three Kanan Jarrus heads produced by Watto's Scrapyard for our figure both to feature all Kanan's different looks over the course of the last two seasons of the show, and well, to save on time. All three heads painted up beautifully and definitely helped us finish the project faster than if we had to sculpt all three heads from scratch.
We love the final result and I am really excited to have a little help with the blog again now that Dad can make the occasional custom figure here and there.
We're curious to hear what you'd like to see Dad make as far as future projects go. Any requests?
"STAR WARS REBELS"
(SEASON 3 & 4)
KANAN JARRUS
created by Customs for the Kid
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"STAR WARS REBELS"
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GREGOR
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MORAI
Imperial Officer Battle Armor
Azmorigan
Cikatro Vizago's Droid
Battle Damaged Darth Vader
Obi-Wan Kenobi
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12 YEARS of CUSTOMS
by "CUSTOMS FOR THE KID"
