CloneSniper78 HAS BEEN ADDED TO "CUSTOMS I WISH I OWNED"

32 year old Tom Christensen is a Star Wars and G.I. Joe customizer from Phoenix, Arizona (USA). He is better known as CloneSniper78 on the Imperialshipyards.net website, and as AZMarineSniper on youtube.com. He has been a Star Wars fan since the early 1980's when he was a young boy.

CloneSniper78

You can visit his Youtube link here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/AZMarineSniper?feature=mhum


You can read his Imperial Shipyard posts here:
http://www.imperialshipyards.net/SMF/index.php?topic=3548.0

DAD's TODO-360 with WHEEL MODIFICATION

As promised, here's Dad's TODO-360 with wheel. All you need is a sharp knife and some krazy glue and you can make him too. I don't remember seeing this droid with wheels in any of the recent Clone Wars episodes, but when Dad saw the picture below, he wanted to take a crack at it. He used an Exacto knife to cut TODO-360 at the hips and at the feet. He glued the two feet together to get the wheel and then glued the legs to the center of the wheels. He finished the action figure by gluing the top of the legs back to the hips on an angle.

Image Dad found on the internet that inspired the custom action figure.

"TODO-360
with WHEEL MODIFICATION"
created by Darth Daddy

Dad glued the wheel to the lid of the food container that held our Wonton Soup and then trimmed the lid into a small circle so TODO-360 could stand.



SKILL LEVEL: BEGINNER

Hangarbay94 aka julianmaurice ADDED TO "CUSTOMS I WISH I OWNED"

Julian AKA Hangarbay94 is an avid Star Wars fan who has made a name for himself by customising vehicles and creating photo novels.

His work is featured on Yakface and Imperial Shipyards where he is also one of the moderators. His latest project a graphic novelization of the classic PC game X-Wing Alliance features a mixture of his custom figures, dioramas and vehicles as well as creative artwork produced using Adobe Photoshop. Julian is self taught and admits to being heavily influenced by Yak Chewie and other contemporary photo novelists.

Amongst his more notable custom projects Julian specialises in making flat pack and easy to store dioramas, including a large scale (fold away), LED lit Endor Landing Platform a huge flat pack Death Star Hangar and a Calamari Cruiser Hangar bay.

Julian has also produced a movie novel called Darkchild, which he admits to being a little more than he could chew and sadly the project remains unfinished at chapter 3.

Every time I see his work, Dad and I just sit there and wonder how he finds time to do it all and to the levels that he accomplishes. He's just phenomenal and raises the bar for the whole customizing community. You just have to watch this video.

Hangarbay94

NEW SOUNDTRACK ADDED BY HANGARBAY94

You'll find Julian's X-Wing graphic novel at www.xwa-webcomic.com and his Darkchild series on his Youtube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/hangarbay94?feature=mhum

"NEW" IMPERIAL SHIPYARDS CUSTOM CONTEST

Once again, courtesy of Luke Sprywalker and IMPERIAL SHIPYARDS is a great project to start while you are waiting for new skippy from Toy Fair. Hot off the Press, we announce the Kit Bash a Figure Contest. Take any figure, from any line, tear it apart and put it back together how you see fit. Feel free to see the full rules and the prize awarded by hitting the Contest Link above.

DAD's AURRA SING MAKES THE FRONT PAGE of IMPERIAL SHIPYARDS