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/

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CUSTOMIZER SPOTLIGHT #40: ASIS FILM MODELS "ALDAR BEEDO" & "BOLES ROOR"

The next two podracers we have to share with you all were not only manufactured by ASIS FILM MODELS, but we now own the actual figures used in their advertising photos and can be found in the "Customs for the Kid" home collection. Both of these two figures were painted by ASIS FILM MODELS themselves.  ASIS FILM MODELS paint applications are impressive as their sculpting skills. These figures are just beautiful!   

ASIS FILM MODELS puts out a wonderful product for those of you that want to fill out their 3 3/4" collection.  No they don't have articulation but these cast figures bring the bang in every other department.  I always loved the character design of these podracers and ASIS FILM MODELS really brings these characters to life. If you feel like you don't have the ability to paint the figures quite as well as ASIS can, have them paint one for you.  Their paint applications are stunning! We couldn't be more thrilled to own these! 

"ALDAR BEEDO"

created by ASIS FILM MODELS

"BOLES ROOR"

created by ASIS FILM MODELS

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

Below are two other ASIS FILM MODELS creations that Elias painted.  These pieces paint up beautifully!

"WAN SANDAGE" 

painted by Elias

sculpt and cast created by ASIS FILM MODELS

"EBE ENDOCOTT"

painted by Elias

sculpt and cast created by ASIS FILM MODELS

"Customs for the Kid" podracer shelf.

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

DARTH DADDY's CUSTOMIZING CORNER: My Kind of Scum

Darth Daddy's Customizing Corner featured Star Wars customizer My Kind of Scum in his latest post over at The Star Wars Underworld.

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Loje Nella

My Kind of Scum (also known as Craig in other 'real world' circles) was born in Ohio and currently lives in Wyoming. He has been a fan of Star Wars since seeing A New Hope in theatres (meaning he's old). Over the years, his fandom has only grown through the Original Trilogy, the Prequels, releases by West End Games, and the enormous catalogue of the Expanded Universe/ Legends. The first customizing he ever did was when the POTF2 line was in its infancy. He would heat figure's joints to bend them into poses, and changed out figure heads, etc. 

Later, after seeing what other customizers were accomplishing he was fully drawn into the customizing world and has been seriously customizing ever since. Currently, he's trying to teach himself how to sculpt and to add articulation to figures so that he can take his customizing to the next level. He prefers to create his own characters and has been doing prep work for years on a photonovel series that he hopes to one day get off of the ground. He cites Star Wars customizer/photonovelist, Chewie as one of his greatest inspirations. 

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