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Friday, May 6, 2011

Custom Action Figure News - A podcast by Lucasclones and Tamer : EPISODE #7

Another great episode of the podcast Custom Action Figure News with hosts Lucasclones and Tamer from Imperial Shipyards!! Their special guest this week is none other than customizer Hangarbay94 who just released the trailer for his latest project entitled Star Wars: Apocalypse.



Custom Action Figure News- A podcast by Lucasclones and Tamer: Episode 7
(click the link above to listen to the podcast!)






"Star Wars: Apocalypse" Trailer



Created by Hangarbay94 & Phatty



Thursday, May 5, 2011

BOTWT ADDED TO "CUSTOMS I WISH I OWNED"



Our latest customizer hails from Grand Island, NY. BOTWT says he is still trying to figure out this collecting and converting thing, but he says he does okay for a neurologically damaged oaf. He credits his great wife of 8 years who allows him to spend loads of cash on his hobbies and to act like an over sized child of 40 years…but he's sure that fills her need to mother something. BOTWT was only 7 years old when Star Wars came out and became an instant fan, he had been out of the collecting game for quite some time and has only recently started back up with a few of the Clone Wars figures. He said he thinks he likes them because the "cartoony-ness" of the figures reminds him of the original figures he collected when he was a kid. He recently started a blog of his custom action figures and he hopes his blog encourages you in your collecting and customizing of Star Wars figures.


BOTWT




To see more custom action figures by BOTWT, check out his blog:
http://botwtswfigures.wordpress.com/


Head over to his ebay page where he has some great customs for sale right now:
http://myworld.ebay.com/wskr14/?_trksid=p4340.l2559

Monday, May 2, 2011

TWO QUICK CUSTOM ACTION FIGURES MADE FROM SPARE PARTS

Here are two very easy action figures made from some spare parts that we had laying around the house. These two figures are ideal first custom action figures for a beginner customizer. The first is a simple head swap with a Padawan braid and pony tail glued onto the head and then finished off with only a quick paint application for the hair. It was made with a Zett Jukassa body and the carded Clone Wars Boba Fett head. I think the braid and ponytail came from an AOTC Anakin Skywalker head we had floating around, but we're not sure which one it was. With all the custom Jedi action figures we have made so far, we figured it would be cool to have an extra Padawan or two to keep them company.


JEDI PADAWAN




The articulation is pretty terrible, but he is a great background piece.





The second custom action figure required hardly any paint at all. We just used an Clone Wars Embo body and a Greedo head and hands to make this Rodian Crime Boss. We cut and glued the Greedo head peg to the Embo body and Dad made a gauntlet out of a holster we had in our fodder with some plastic detailing glued to it for his left arm. Then Dad painted the gauntlets silver to match one another. A simple 3 minute paint job and you get a brand new figure. We pretend the Rodian Crime Boss is even more powerful than Jabba the Hutt and use him whenever we want to have turf wars between rival organized crime rings on Tatooine. Both action figures should take less than a half hour to make and can really diversify your collection.



RODIAN CRIME BOSS