Darth Daddy Custom Figure Design Class Offer

Customs for the Kid is offering a pledge incentive to help fund High Adventure's campaign to release their fifth album High Five. Darth Daddy from Customs For The Kid will give you a world-class hands-on tutorial in sculpting, painting, figure customization, and design. Walk away with your own one-of-a-kind creation! The class will be offered in the Customs for the Kid studio. PLUS you receive the album download and access to the exclusive updates. You'll even get a tour of the Customs for the Kid collection!

High Adventure is a Fan-Rock band, based out of Connecticut. Since 2008, "Hi-Ad" has gathered a worldwide following of fanboys and fangirls with their passionate music about comic books, movies, video games, loving life and fandom. The band has been featured on NPR, "The Force-Cast," "RebelForce Radio," "The Indy-Cast," "The Mac-Cast," "Fanboy's Guide To The Galaxy," "The Star Wars Report," "The Star Wars Talk Show," "TechnoRetro Dads" and have played such high profile shows as New York Comic Con, Star Wars Celebration, ComiCONN, Rhode Island Comic Con and Boston Super Mega Fest!  High Adventure's music has also been featured in the soundtrack to the Star Wars documentary The Force Within Us.

Action figures and album photo by Customs for the Kid

High Adventure is teaming up with PledgeMusic to make their fifth album entitled “High Five”. It will be the first album to feature the entire 8-piece band together in the studio. All 14 songs are written and demoed and ready to record. All they need is you! High Adventure has tons of cool exclusives and incentives that you can pledge on, so check it out, watch the video, and pledge your support. They can’t wait to share their amazing new music! 

Customs for the Kid is really honored to have been asked to contribute to the album art for the latest offering from High Adventure. Lead singer Glen Nelson just told us the characters he wanted photographed together making a "high five" pose and Customs for the Kid set up the shots.

http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/highadventure

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"HOTH REBEL TROOP TRANSPORT" created by Customs for the Kid

It's been a while since we created a custom vehicle, but when Hole in the Ground Productions released casts of their "Troop Transport" we knew it would be a great addition to our Star Wars collection.  First we weathered up the cast pieces.  Then, we used some decals that we purchased on eBay to accompany the stickers that were included with our original purchase to really personalize our vehicle once it was assembled.  One decal set we bought had some beautiful designs that were created by the talented graphic designer Viper Aviator.  We also used some reproduction decals that were from the Vintage Rebel Transport to give it the finishing touches we desired. We really love the way it turned out.  It looks awesome on Elias' Hoth display shelf!

"HOTH REBEL TROOP TRANSPORT"

created by Customs for the Kid

Aurebesh translation on Orange Sticker: "Caution, Dangerous Magnetic Field, Keep Away"

 Movie still from "Empire Strikes Back".

Aurebesh translation: "Wampa Squadron"

Aurebesh translation on Rebel Symbol: "Echo Base"

Aurebesh translation on blue designation sticker: "Wampa Squadron Transport 0079"

SKILL LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE

Hole in the Ground Productions 

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

Decals designed by Viper Aviator:

http://viperaviator.deviantart.com/gallery/26112649/Star-Wars?offset=48

Additional stickers that were added were Vintage "Rebel Transport" vehicle replacement decals purchased from jabbas_vintagetoy_hutt:

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

Nothing cooler than your latest custom getting favorited on Twitter by NECA, one of the coolest toy manufacturers in the business today.  We were really flattered when they became one of our followers.

 Our "Hoth Rebel Troop Transport" was featured on Imperial Shipyards front page.

 Our "Hoth Rebel Troop Transport" was featured on ISY's Facebook page.

MARK TELFER added to "CUSTOMS I WISH I OWNED"

Mark Telfer, is a 42 year old Star Wars customizer from Edinburgh, Scotland where he lives with his loving wife, and 7 year old daughter who likes to join in his painting activities. Although imaginative as a kid, he never knew what I wanted to be when I grew up, at 42 he can safely say that he still doesn’t. In fact if you could see his Star Wars collection you may argue that he has never really grown up. He originally started towards a career in football with a local Edinburgh club Hibernian, but unfortunately experienced several injuries, which still trouble him today, and had to forgo his dream. He later found himself working in banking, for 20 years now, which was more through necessity rather than by design. Mark hasn’t really complained, while not very satisfying, it afforded him a happy life with his family.

As a kid born in 1972, Mark spent a good portion of his life with Star Wars than without, something that many generations since thankfully also share. He attended each of the 6 films with much anticipation and was lucky enough to attend local 1st day releases for each. The arrival of his early bird mail away figures remains a happy memory. Today, he owns a massive 3 ¾" collection and blossomed into a new hobby… customizing. 

He’s collected 3 ¾” figures since childhood, from Episode IV to date, encompassing Vintage, POTF, Prequels, Clones, Rebels and most likely onwards. He’s managed to hold onto most of his collection, although he sold a near mint Vintage Blue Snaggletooth and carded Lando General when he needed some money. He admits a slight tinge of regret regarding the two figures sold. 

Balancing full-time work, raising a young family and coping with an illness, Mark wanted to find something to distract him that he could be passionate about. With his love for collecting Star Wars figures, Mark decided he could take on customizing action figures as his new past time. So for the past year, Mark has been visiting and reading websites dedicated to customizing. Through the many fantastic sites out there, Mark discovered a thriving community. 

Since then Mark has been gathering fodder, fabrics, epoxy putty, molding kits, paints and tools over the past year. Roughly one year into his new hobby, Mark ventured outside of just repainting figures and has worked his way into part swaps, and hard sculpting. Because Mark just got his start, he doesn't feel particularly good in any one discipline, but continues to persevere. He prefers to work with fodder from damaged figures, since he doesn’t have the heart to dismantle a perfectly good figure. 

He doesn’t plan his figures out too much, he just rakes through his fodder and uses his imagination. He always tries to look out for things around the home which can be re-cycled and repurposed for his new hobby. 

In March this year, Mark was invited along with Rebel Allegiance UK member Keith Armour, designs Clone Trooper armor, to Edinburgh local FM radio ‘CastleFM’ for a show dedicated to Star Wars movies and collecting. He’s currently in discussions to continue this program through podcasts, which should be fun.

Star Wars Custom Action Figures
created by Mark Telfer

Mark's website:
http://aberhibsfc.wix.com/tmark-customistation

Mark Telfer was also featured in this week's Darth Daddy's Customizing Corner over at The Star Wars Underworld.