Yakfinities #39 - Darth Daddy's IKTOTCHI MERCENARY

Mirialan Recruit by Dan of the Dead

Yakfinities #39 kicked off on January 1st, and entries will be accepted until 11:59 PM CST Monday, February 28.




IKTOTCHI MERCENARY

Created by Darth Daddy

To view all the entries click the link below:

http://www.yakfaceforums.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=102&t=5961

Wraithnine has been ADDED TO "CUSTOMS I WISH I OWNED"

Wraithnine is a 40 year old customizer that lives on the southeast coast of Essex, UK with his wife, 3 boys and his cat Meg. He has been customizing Star Wars figures and vehicles for about 3 1/2 years now. He mainly creates Astromechs and Clones. He also reviews Star Wars products on Youtube. Before he customized Star Wars action figures, he was an avid collector/painter of Warhammer40K. Wraithnine is currently a moderator on www.imperialshipyards.net and has been a die hard Star Wars fan since '77 .

Wraithnine

You can see more custom action figures from Wraithnine here on Imperial Shipyards:
http://www.imperialshipyards.net/SMF/index.php?topic=768.0


Wraithnine has a channel on Youtube under the name of Rasputin37 that you can find here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/rasputin37


He posts as Wraithnine on Rebelscum.com here:
http://threads.rebelscum.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=4418696&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=93&fpart=1#4418696

Video is also posted on the homepage of Imperial Shipyards.

DAD's YOJIMBO BARNES custom action figure featured on the homepage of IMPERIAL SHIPYARDS today!!

Dad's customs have been featured 5 times in the last few months on Star Wars fan sites. I couldn't be any prouder of him. Dad says that you can discover new things about yourself, great things, all through the experience of parenthood and the magic your children bring.
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Another Fan Fiction Custom from Dad

When Dad grabbed the Nicanas Tassu head from the fodder bag, he knew instantly that he wanted to paint the head to make the action figure resemble Pai Mei known for his appearances in Shaw Brothers movie classics Executioners from Shaolin, Clan of the White Lotus, as well as Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill series to give the figure the "White Brow" look. Dad's a huge kung fu fanatic and I think he tries to slip in his influences whenever he can when he makes me a new custom. He said that when he made this action figure he was also influenced by a lone Ronin samurai that you'd find in an Akira Kurosawa movie or Kihachi Okamoto's The Sword of Doom. He was also greatly inspired by Jeff Bridges' character Rooster Cogburn in the Coen brothers new western True Grit. He said the whole time he made this custom he kept thinking about what true grit really means over and over like a mantra.

Every bounty hunter had a mentor. Yojimbo Barnes was Embo's. Barnes found the orphaned Kyuzo on his travels through Phatrong and raised him as a son. Barnes says Embo survived his training that he affectionately refers to as his baptism by fire. Yojimbo can still be found collecting bounties well into his old age. Regardless of the fact that he has a worthy successor. I guess that's what it means to have true grit.

YOJIMBO BARNES

Dad loves his old man belly from the Wilrow Hood action figure.

You should hear the tales about Embo's training. If you thought "Lone Wolf and Cub" was good....






ALSO INSPIRED BY RUSTYCUSTOMS
Order 66 Jedi Master Survivor

Dad saw this custom action figure by RustyCustoms and loved the way he used the head of Nicanas Tassu.



See the post for his figure here:
http://rustyscustoms.blogspot.com/2010/12/order-66-jedi-master-survivor.html

Mungo Baobab has been added to ADDED TO "CUSTOMS I WISH I OWNED"

Chip Currin, who is known to many by the name Mungo Baobab, is a 36 year old from Nashville, TN. He has not been customizing very long, but he has put together a nice collection of custom action figures which focuses on Jedi. Mungo actively posts his work at Yakface and the Imperial Shipyards.

Mungo Baobab

You can see Mungo Baobab's custom Jedi action figures at these two links:

http://www.yakfaceforums.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=5621

http://www.imperialshipyards.net/SMF/index.php?topic=5144.0