DARTH DADDY's CUSTOMIZING CORNER: RESIN CASTS, 3D PRINTED ACCESSORIES & PLAYSETS

Darth Daddy's Customizing Corner featured RESIN CASTS, 3D PRINTED ACCESSORIES & PLAYSETS in his latest post over at The Star Wars Underworld.

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Customizing action figures can be quite expensive.  Especially if you have to buy a $15 action figure and the only piece that you need is the head.  To avoid breaking the bank, advanced customizers will sometimes make a mold of the piece that they need, and then reproduce the required part with plastic cast resin. I have made a few casts of my own over the years creating things like: extra Clone Wars Chancellor Palpatine heads, Weequay pirate heads, and the lightsaber hilts for my General Pong Krell custom action figure.  Creating casts can be both cost effective and a huge time saver.  

Several customizing artists have begun to sell their cast pieces to the public and their offerings are just awesome.  Over the years, I have bought cast pieces from many of these artists.  

This week, I thought I'd share with you some of the artists that I have purchased from to provide you with a resource that can help you enhance your own collections and give you the ability to acquire some of these pieces for your own. From assorted head casts to accessories and full blown playsets, these guys offer it all.  Below are pictures with samples of each artists work as well as their names and links to the online stores.  I figured with tax returns coming in, I'd offer you all the opportunity to acquire some of these great items. Happy shopping!

SithHappens

Quality head casts.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/sithhappens/m.html?item=170871972374&rt=nc&_trksid=p4340.l2562&rmvSB=true

StarWarsGeek 

Quality head casts.

http://starwarsgeek.ecrater.com/

Parintachin73 

Quality head casts.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/boogiebear23/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=

 Riff Valley Designs aka I-AM-BOBA-FETT

Unique Star Wars head casts from a talented Star Wars customizer.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i-am-boba-fett/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=

Production Platform 3

Unique start up with dynamic offerings.  Product is continuously in development. They carry head casts, accessories and small diorama pieces.

http://productionplatform3.ecrater.com/

ASIS FILM MODELS

Limited edition 3D printed, cast model sets and dioramas.

http://asisfilmmodels.com/shop/star-wars/

Clonehead

One of the only artists who has replacements for missiles.

http://www.ebay.com/usr/clint1130cat?_trksid=p2047675.l2559

Hole in the Ground Productions 

Very cool cast store for Star Wars fans! Cast diorama pieces for 3 3/4" and 6" scale figures.

http://www.holeinthegroundpro.com/dioramas.html

 Twelfth Parsec

Beautiful 3D printed diorama playsets!!

http://twelfthparsec.miiduu.com/

CUSTOMIZER SPOTLIGHT #33: SITHHAPPENS

This action figure is one of my favorite custom Mandalorian action figures.  I love the weathering and color scheme on this one, but I think my favorite part is the head once the helmet comes off.  Although the modifications are very simple, it shows that with just a little tweaking, a great figure can be made.  

SithHappens is usually known on eBay for selling his numerous resin head casts, but if you're lucky, you can find one of his cool custom action figures too.  Keep an eye out and check his eBay page often.  You may just find an awesome score like this on your next visit.

"MANDALORIAN"

created by SITHHAPPENS

SithHappens blog of Star Wars customs is located at:

 http://sanitariumcustoms.blogspot.com.

SithHappens eBay page:

http://myworld.ebay.com/sithhappens

SithHappens' Mandalorian was featured on the front page of Imperial Shipyards.

"Customs for the Kid" Display at "Star Wars Spectacular"

On Sunday, April 7, 2013, Customs for the Kid brought their traveling museum of Star Wars custom action figures to the Star Wars Spectacular event in Woodbridge, NJ. Attendees were treated to an exhibition of Star Wars custom action figures created by talented customizing artists such as: Stronox, Sillof, Luke Sprywalker, Chewie, Wraithnine, Hangarbay94, Peakob1, SithHappens, Omar Rivera, Incom aka Mr. Black's Customs, Lucasclones, Stocos28, JACKOFTRADZE, Darth Daddy, Elias, and more.  Also on display were video tutorials that are featured on our blog as well as the entertaining Youtube cult classic show Kessel Run Review.

The display table stayed pretty packed throughout the day and brought attention to the blog's online museum of Star Wars custom action figures and the featured artists. We were really impressed with the crowd turnout, and loved the reaction of all the attendees to what we had on display. It was even cooler when our table recieved visits from Star Wars customizers darthstreams and Dave Castle aka StarWarsGeek.   StarWarsGeek even brought us a bag of his casted heads that he sells from his online store.  Hopefully we will get to take the show on the road again sometime soon.

Everything set up at our table.

Dad had his "Customs I Wish I Owned" videos playing throughout the day.

All the figures were on display with white tags displaying the names of the artists who created each figure.

Getting everything together the night before.

Setting up the display cases at home while we create all the display tags on the printer.  The "Mando" was created by Luke Sprywalker, the "Star Wars - 1942: Chuck Backer" was created by Sillof, and the "Nar Shaddaa Interceptor Patrol Vehicle" was created by Hangarbay94.  We later added Incom's "Weeguay Speeder Bike" to the display case.  We almost didn't bring it because Dad was afraid it would get damaged in transit.  I was right and it made it there and back just fine.

The "Nightsister" figures created by Darth Daddy, Peakob1, and Elias.

 

Orgainizing the figures we would have on display for our "Customizer Spotlight" display cases at SWS.  The "Clone Troopers" were made by Lucasclones, the "Mandalorian" was made by SithHappens, "Kelos" and the "Utai" were created by Chewie, "Vilmarh Grahrk" was created by Stronox, and “Arleil Schous” was created by JACKOFTRADZE.

We had a display case featuring "Hondo Ohnaka's Weequay Pirate Gang" created by Peakob1 and Darth Daddy.

"Shadows of the Empire" and "Clone Wars" action figures created by Peakob1.  "Mandalorian Bounty Hunter - Kel Sha'rak" and astromechs by Wraithnine.  The "Thisspiasian Jedi" was created by Omar Rivera.  The "Death Troopers" were created by Mikeys customs, Darth Daddy, Stocos28 & darthjohnboystoys.

"Dark Times K'Kruk" created by Omar Rivera.

A mix of figures on display from Darth Daddy and Elias of Customs for the Kid along with "Ziro's Droid" created by Wraithnine.

 Information was available on the "Smuggler's Gambit" Custom Action Figure Contest that we are promoting with RebelForce Radio.

Darth Daddy's "Smuggler Ship with Pop the Ewok"

 Customs for the Kid was interviewed about the blog by local media that attended the event.

I spy Star Wars customizer darthstreams on hand at the event located in the upper right hand corner of the photo.

Our Star Wars Spectacular video was featured on the front page of Imperial Shipyards.

"SMUGGLER'S GAMBIT" CUSTOM ACTION FIGURE CONTEST