Customizer Spotlight #14: Wraithnine

Wraithnine is a 40 year old customizer from the southeast coast of Essex, UK who has been customizing Star Wars figures and vehicles for about 3 1/2 years now. He mainly creates custom action figures of astromechs and clone troopers, but along with the astromech we purchased, we were able to obtain some awesome looking Mandalorians that he recently created too. Wraithnine not only spends his time customizing, he also reviews Star Wars products on Youtube under the name Rasputin37. Wraithnine is currently a moderator on www.imperialshipyards.net and has been a die hard Star Wars fan since '77 . When we saw these figures for sale on Imperial Shipyards, we knew we wanted to add them to our collection.

R7-A4

Wraithnine is well known for his custom astromechs and it isn't hard to see why.

We love Wraithnine's use of water slide decals to enhance his custom action figures. He did a great job using water slide decals on the head of this astromech.

R7-A4 was turned into a trading card by Kessel Run Imports.

FYNN ST'ANN

These Mandos are awesome. Great paint applications and again masterful use of the water slide decals.

DHUR' KAN

It's cool to see how Wraithnine used the Pre Vizsla action figure to create two totally unique action figures.

Mandalorian Bounty Hunter
Kel Sha'rak

See these action figures that we own in Episode 7 of the Kessel Run Review.

These next two droids were both created by Star Wars action figure customizer Wraithnine.  When Dad heard that Wraithnine was selling the R2-C2 that he created, Dad thought it would be cool if we gave him a home next to the Ziro the Hutt that he created.  Dad bought him right away as a birthday present for my ninth birthday back in October. 

What's even cooler was that Wraithnine sent me a R2-T8 astromech as a birthday gift from him.  Thanks so much Jay! That was very generous of you.  The droid is a shining example of why you are the astromech king! I love seeing Ziro and R2-C2 next to each other.  Your droids make my room seem magical.

 "Ziro's Droid R2-C2"

created by Wraithnine

"Ziro the Hutt" created by Darth Daddy

"R2-T8"

created by Wraithnine

D-SQUAD

created by Wraithnine 

So I have added D-Squad to my collection thanks to the "Astromech King". Yes, Star Wars customizer Wraithnine recently created the five-member droid squad formed by the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars, that consisted of QT-KT, U9-C4, R2-D2, M5-BZ, and Corporal WAC-47. Led by Colonel Meebur Gascon, D-Squad was sent to steal an encryption module from a Providence-class carrier/destroyer. This fun group appeared on Star Wars: The Clone Wars in the following episodes: "Secret Weapons", "A Sunny Day in the Void", "Missing in Action" and "Point of No Return". These episodes were a lot of fun to watch. These figures are really special to me because I was interviewed on the Voice of the Republic podcast with Dad the same night voice actor Ben Drisdin (WAC-47) was interviewed and I got to talk with Ben that night.  WAC-47 was my favorite character from those episodes and it's really cool that I was able to add this whole set of droids to my collection.

M5-BZ 

& Colonel Meebur Gascon

created by Wraithnine

WAC-47

created by Wraithnine

U9-C4

created by Wraithnine

QT-KT

created by Wraithnine

R2-D2

created by Wraithnine

Star Wars customizer Wraithnine's 501st troopers: (from left to right) Dogma, Hardcase, Jesse, Tup,  and Kix.

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

Kessel Run Review - Episode 11

Dad's "RUNDOWN" Video Featured on the Front Page of Imperial Shipyards

Dad's "RUNDOWN" Video Featured on the Front Page of Imperial Shipyards

Slayer Design Studio

Dad just found a really cool website where he bought 12 custom made action figure heads. The website sells unique parts for making custom action figures and dioramas. Dad was so impressed with the sculpts and casts that he wanted to pass the website on to our readers knowing that a large percentage of you are customizers as well. No sense keeping our tricks of the trade a secret when they make customizing more fun.

Jose, Ben, DW, and Dave, are all long time fans of the hobby of customizing. They all do custom work and all share a passion for the hobby, the art and the toys. So what better way to share their ideas and their remakes of classic characters then having a store that offers their wares. The team strives to bring the most detailed sculpts and cast work to the community at the best price they can. Slayer Design Studio always strives to make customizing more fun. Their goal is to make the coolest sculpts, both in parts and in full figure model kits. Their team gets bigger all the time with customizers who share their goal, and love what they do.

If this is your first time visiting the Slayer Design Studio website, you will need to know how things work.

Guideline on How the System Works:


-New Pre-Order's are given a number. The current PO-10 started on Monday March 21.

-The "Order Phase" will last 4 complete weeks.

-The "Production Phase" will start, this will take 3 complete weeks.

-The "Shipping Phase" then starts and can take up to 2 more weeks to finish. Orders are shipped in the order they were received.

-In the second week of production (Every 6 weeks) The next Pre-Order is listed and starts its "Order Phase".



Your items can take up to 9 weeks before they are in hand. Slayer Design Studio understands that it seems like a long time, but it's the only way they can run a fan based business with having other jobs and a family.

To visit Slayer Design Studio click the image below:

RUNDOWN ADDED TO "CUSTOMS I WISH I OWNED"

Rundown Customs....aka ric.sea.jedi....aka Sean....started on ebay buying and selling vintage Star Wars when he came across some custom Star Wars figures and became interested in what he saw. He watched many customizers for a long time and began his research. Finally, he picked up a paintbrush in 2007. Since then Sean has made over 300 custom action figures. More than 200 of which have been private commissions. Rundown says that he truly enjoys the hobby and enjoys requests as well duplicating characters not yet made in toy form.

RUNDOWN

To buy custom action figures created by Rundown visit his ebay page where you can also contact him about commission work.


To see more customs created by Rundown you can visit his forum thread over at Imperial Shipyards.