Hangarbay 94 releases his next chapter. The story strand takes place just as Lando leaves the Nebulon cruiser in search of Han Solo, and you will now get an insight into what the Rebel Alliance gets up to as events lead up the the Battle of Endor...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
X-Wing Alliance - Chapter 22: Rise of the Veiled Peril
Hangarbay 94 releases his next chapter. The story strand takes place just as Lando leaves the Nebulon cruiser in search of Han Solo, and you will now get an insight into what the Rebel Alliance gets up to as events lead up the the Battle of Endor...
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Saturday, June 9, 2012
Peakob1's video updated
Chad Peak (aka: Peakob1 or CAP) has been a Star Wars fan all his life. He makes customs for the love of the hobby and you won't find a more dedicated fan. He hopes one day that he can have an entire custom collection simply because it is personalized to him and he never seeks financial gain by doing his customs, although he has done a few commissions at reasonable prices. He started customizing in '95,but that's because he doesn't count some of the vintage Ewoks that he colored over with black and brown markers as a kid.
He refers to his style of customizing as "hard sculpting" opposed to using sculpy to mold his own figures. He uses bits of existing parts and dremels those down to make a new result. He believes that it makes for a much stronger figure because he's a little like Jar Jar, "hesa clumsy" and often drops figures. Usually they don't break if he builds them properly. He finds customizing very exciting and he has many projects on the horizon.
Since Peakob1 and Dad just finished working together on my Hondo Ohnaka Pirate Gang, it felt like a good time to show you the other action figures Peakob1 has created. This video is a great introduction if you are new to his work. We know you will enjoy his customs!
He displays his customs on Yakface, Droids and Ewoks, and Jedi Defender.
Peakob1
Friday, June 8, 2012
CAFN interviews Frank Diorio
Frank Diorio is a well known commodity as it comes to customizing and especially diorama building. His Niub Niub's Universe was a host for thousands of free printables that allowed many of us to build our own playsets for our figures, beasties, and vehicles. Frank is definitely back with a great new website called www.dioramaworkshop.com and he was kind enough to give CAFN a few minutes to talk about his upcoming Diorama Workshop he will be hosting at C6. Be sure to give this link a look please to see how you can help Frank make C6 even better!
Go here to listen to the Custom Action
Figure News podcast:
http://www.imperialshipyards.net/cafnpage.html
Figure News podcast:
http://www.imperialshipyards.net/cafnpage.html
If there is anything you would like them to feature on a future podcast be sure to let them know at:
CAFN Episode 29 - Diorama Building Roundtable
Custom Action Figure News just keeps getting better and better. We are loving this roundtable format. It's just awesome that they are alternating their podcasts between the interview and roundtable format, because we never want the interviews to stop, but this roundtable is equally cool. We had an absolute blast listening to Barry (R1bb1t) and Scott (Spooky Mufu) talk about the art of diorama making. There are just a ton of tips to starting your own dioramas and what you can do to make them awesome. They even had a very special guest, none other than legendary Frank D'iorio, who showed up at the end and shared his own thoughts about diorama making and gave everyone a special Celebration 6 Sneak Peek.
Go here to listen to the Custom Action
Figure News podcast:
http://www.imperialshipyards.net/cafnpage.html
Figure News podcast:
http://www.imperialshipyards.net/cafnpage.html
If there is anything you would like them to feature on a future podcast be sure to let them know at:
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