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Showing posts with label Peakob1. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 3, 2014

"CUSTOMIZER SPOTLIGHT" UPDATED: Peakob1 - "SUGI" Custom Action Figure

For the last few years, I have been working together with Star Wars customizer Peakob1, as well as a few others to create Elias an incredibly unique Clone Wars action figure collection. So far, his bookshelf currently features a lot of fan-favorite characters that were not released by Hasbro in their Clone Wars action figure line before it was discontinued last year.  Many fans were disappointed when the line ended and a lot of the characters we grew to love over the years were never released as action figures.  Even though we won't be seeing any future episodes or toys from the show, the Customs for the Kid blog will still be showing you all the coolest Clone Wars creations out there today as we add to the collection.

Peakob1's latest masterpiece is his Clone Wars "Sugi" action figure.  This beautifully sculpted work of art is complimented with a gorgeous paint application.  I own a lot of custom action figures by Peakob1 and this action figure is by far one of his all-time best creations.  

This is a bounty hunter action figure I think we all would have wanted in our collections, and I can easily see her being heavily requested on Fan's Choice lists for years to come.  If she ever does get a release by Hasbro, it needs to come with her ship!



"Sugi"
created by Peakob1








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Thursday, March 6, 2014

CUSTOMIZER SPOTLIGHT UPDATE: WRAITHNINE CUSTOMS & Peakob1

Less than a day left until "The Clone Wars - The Lost Missions".  We figured we'd post a few figures in my collection with a Clone Wars slant to get you all excited before the big reveal on Netflix tomorrow.  Wraithnine Customs and Peakob1 are two Star Wars customizers that epitomize Clone Wars cool and are our go to artists when we need our Clone Wars fix.  To celebrate tomorrow we'll be doing a Clone Wars custom action figure reveal of our own so be sure to bookmark the blog so you can visit again tomorrow.



"CLONE WARS
DROIDS"
created by Wraithine Customs






Tatooine droid RA-5P (on left.)





















Wraithnine Customs on Facebook:


You can see more custom action figures from Wraithnine here on Imperial Shipyards:


Wraithnine has a channel on Youtube under the name of Rasputin37 that you can find here:


He posts as Wraithnine on Rebelscum.com here:






For a bonus treat, check out Dad's latest feature on Wraithnine Customs 
over at The Star Wars Underworld:

http://www.starwarsunderworld.com/2014/03/darth-daddys-customizing-corner.html







"CLONE WARS 
WEEQUAY PIRATE PARSEL"
 created by Peakob1




Peakob1 on Facebook:








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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

CUSTOMIZER SPOTLIGHT UPDATE: Peakob1

So we do have a new figure and a new artist that we will be showing for our Customizer Spotlight, but due to some shipping issues, we don't think we will have a new artist to show until at least February.  We do have the figure in hand already, but the diorama that the figure was to be displayed with is currently missing in action.  So to hold you all over, we have a few more Star Wars custom action figures that we recently acquired to provide an ample distraction until all shipments have arrived.  These figures were created by Peakob1 Custom Creations.  We have more custom action figures made by this artist than any other customizer and for good reason too. Peakob1 (peek-O-B-One) figures are just plain awesome!

This time around we added his Clone Wars Trandoshan Hunter and Sai' Torr Kal Fas from the Mos Eisley Cantina scene.  I couldn't be happier with the new additions to my collection.



"TRANDOSHAN HUNTER"
created by Peakob1



"Sai' Torr Kal Fas"
created by Peakob1





Peakob1 on Facebook:





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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

DARTH DADDY's CUSTOMIZING CORNER: PeakOB1

Darth Daddy's Customizing Corner featured Star Wars artist Peakob1 in the latest Customizing Corner over at The Star Wars Underworld.

 

 

Knowing that there are a lot of Clone Wars fans that visit The Star Wars Underworld, I thought that our next featured artist would be a welcome addition for this week's showcase. PeakOB1 (peek-O-B-One) has been a Star Wars fan all his life. He makes customs for the love of the hobby and you won't find a more dedicated fan. He started customizing in '95, and as far as our collection at home goes, we have more Star Wars custom action figures made by PeakOB1 than by any other artist. So many that I've lost count.




While I have a few OTC, Shadows of the Empire and Droids custom figures that he made, the bulk of the figures I own by this artist are Clone Wars custom action figures.  He has created so many characters from the show that I wish had been released by Hasbro.  PeakOB1 has developed into one of my closest friends in the community, and for the last few years we have been working together to make an incredibly cool Clone Wars collection for my little guy. Peakob1 is also one of the few artists that I have collaborated with on a project.  The Clone Wars Hondo Ohnaka Pirate Gang we created together still gets honorable mention in customizing circles.  There are very few Clone Wars custom action figure artists in the community and this artist has released some of the most noteworthy additions to the line up.   If you are a fan of The Clone Wars then his action figures are a must see!



PeakOB1's earliest work is unique compared to most other customizers in that he uses his own style of making figures that he refers to as "hard sculpting"; gluing plastic pieces to a figure and then sanding them into a desired form as opposed to using sculpy to mold his own figures. He uses bits of existing parts and then Dremels them down to make a new result. He believes that it makes for a much stronger figure because he's a little like Jar Jar, "hesa clumsy" and often drops figures. Thankfully they don't break because he builds them properly.  Within the last year and a half, PeakOB1 has started to use Aves Fixit to create his figures and the results have been mind blowing!



What I appreciate about this artist is his signature paint technique.  As soon as you see one of his figures, you know he was the one who made it.  He is one of the few artists I have ever seen who uses the Ralph McQuarrie paint technique to really make his figures stand out.  I love the way he paints his figures with well placed highlights to really compliment his sculpts.  Definitely check out the rest of this artist's work.  Even his work outside of Clone Wars is super cool.  You're bound to be as impressed as I am.  Check out the video slide show compilation I made of  his figures.  It's a great introduction to his work.

































https://www.facebook.com/CloneWarsCustomActionFigures
His figures are also featured on the Clone Wars Custom Action Figure page on Facebook:



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Tuesday, January 7, 2014

CLONE WARS CUSTOM ACTION FIGURE PAGE



The first Star Wars movie I saw in the movie theater was The Clone Wars.  I was four years old and only a few months shy of my fifth birthday.  For the next five years I grew up with the Clone Wars television show.  It was a Saturday morning routine that I shared with Dad every week and we both looked forward to it. I was a kid who grew up in the Clone Wars generation of fans.  I was the first generation of kids to get Star Wars in episodic form on a seasonal basis.  It was absolute heaven.  I loved all the dynamic story lines and broad story arcs.  When Disney announced it was winding down The Clone Wars TV show, here at home we were one of the first people out there to sign the petition to keep the show going and to release all the content that they had completed so far.  Even the show's less critically accepted episodes were still extremely enjoyable.  

Dad admits he enjoyed the show even more than the movies and he envies the amount of Star Wars content I grew up with.  He had to wait three years between each release.  Dad was an Original Trilogy kid who saw Star Wars: A New Hope in the theaters when he was just three.

I bought pretty much every Clone Wars action figure that Hasbro ever put out.  Yet, for all the incredibly awesome figures that I am grateful to them for releasing, sadly there are always more characters from the show that you wish were made into action figure form. My desire to customize has been motivated by me wanting to the fill those holes in my collection.  For the last few years Customs for the Kid has received a lot of help from other Star Wars customizers to do just that.  Here at home, we have been hoping that when Toy Fair rolls around next month that Hasbro will be releasing two Battle Packs of unreleased Clone Wars characters to promote the release of the Clone Wars: Lost Missions bonus content we are all anxiously awaiting. I know long shot!

Anyhow, since I'm such a big fan of The Clone Wars custom action figures, I created a Facebook page to display all the cool Clone Wars custom action figure art that is out there.  If you like what you see, follow the page.  If you made some Clone Wars custom action figures yourself, send us your pics so we can give you, your own photo album.   It's a great page to follow if you loved the show as much as us and if like us you want to see the toys that could have been.




https://www.facebook.com/CloneWarsCustomActionFigures


Here's the link:




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Sunday, December 29, 2013

CUSTOMIZER SPOTLIGHT: HOLIDAY UPDATE - Peakob1, Marcus Starkiller, Wraithnine Customs, Mastercloner & Hunter Knight Customs

So I promised some close-up pictures of the Star Wars custom action figures that were under my tree this year.  All these artists are already featured on our Customizer Spotlight archive page.  So if you'd like to learn more about the artists being featured in this post, that's where to look.  We'll at least give you links for the artists here so you can explore more of their work if you'd like.  This is an awesome group of Star Wars custom action figures made by an amazing group of artists.  I hope you enjoy the latest additions to my collection this holiday season. 



"Derrown"
created by Peakob1



"Droogan"
created by Peakob1




"BANNAMU"
created by Peakob1




"Suu Lawquane"
created by Peakob1



A few years ago I featured a Cut Lawquane custom action figure created by Peakob1. The character was always our favorite clone trooper from the Clone Wars series.  When Peakob1 recently made a Suu Lawquane custom action figure, I knew I wanted to add it to my collection.




"REPROGRAMMED BATTLE DROID"
created by Peakob1




"MANDALORIAN SUPER COMMANDO"
created by Peakob1



"WAC-47"
created by Peakob1







I have two more figures made by Peakob1 that I will be adding tomorrow when I have a chance to photograph them.  We photographed as much as we could before we had to leave to visit family this weekend. 



Peakob1 on Facebook:

Peakob1 on Yakface.com:
http://www.yakfaceforums.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=5631

Peakob1 on Droids & Ewoks:
http://droidsandewoks.forumotion.com/customs-and-art-f13/

Peakob1 on Jedi Defender:
http://www.jedidefender.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=20796.0

To go to the ebay page of Peakob1 click below:
http://myworld.ebay.com/peakob1/?_trksid=p4340.l2559



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"CLONE COMMS OFFICER"
created by WRAITHNINE





Wraithnine Customs on Facebook:

You can see more custom action figures from Wraithnine here on Imperial Shipyards:


Wraithnine has a channel on Youtube under the name of Rasputin37 that you can find here:


He posts as Wraithnine on Rebelscum.com here:




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 "NIKTO REBEL GENERAL"
created by MARCUS STARKILLER





"JEDI"
created by Marcus Starkiller






"ROCKET BATTLE DROID"
created by MARCUS STARKILLER







 "CAMOUFLAGE BATTLE DROID"
created by MARCUS STARKILLER





To see more action figures created by Marcus Starkiller click here:

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v319/MarcusStarkiller/Custom%20figures/




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"ADMIRAL TRENCH"
created by MASTERCLONER


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"EMPEROR ROAN FEL"
created by Hunter Knight Customs













Hunter Knight Customs on YouTube

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