Customs for the Kid

Friday, May 9, 2014

The prize winner for the STAR WARS: REBELS Customizing Challenge has been announced!

The winner for the joint STAR WARS: REBELS Customizing Challenge held by Imperialshipyards.net and Yakface.com has been announced. We feel it's a great thing to see fan sites come together, and see fans across the world take part in creating custom figures in these events. For their most recent customizing challenge, they had many entries - of those, ONE RANDOM WINNER was selected... but before we announce that, we'd like to recognize all the various customizers who took part: CHEWIE, darthcrassus, darth_sidous, Elias, I-am-Boba-Fett, mousedroidhoojib, OC47150, Scarrviper, THEMADJAWA, and ThrawnFan01. Click on through to see the winner!

Contest winner announcement.

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Hunter Knight Customs Added to "Customs I Wish I Owned"

Hunter Knight Customs began in 2008 when they made a car for the Hollywood movie "Sex Drive". After that they started a custom action figure division which became their main product line. HKC is owned by Chris "Hunter" Diaz, and since then they have made more than 1.000 figures for the commercial market, from Masters of the Universe, Marvel Legends, Marvel Universe, DC Universe Classics, and Star Wars. HKC has been featured on sites like MTV and He-man.org. Hunter Knight Customs main website http://www.hunterknightonline.com/ has a collection of videos dating to the very first figure that was made in 2008 to his latest releases... all featured in video format!

We have two action figures created by Hunter Knight Customs and we couldn't be happier with his figures.

HUNTER KNIGHT CUSTOMS

Facebook page:

facebook.com/hunter.knight.customs

Instagram:

instagram.com/offcialhkc

Online store:

vipcollector.com

Youtube channel:

youtube.com/hunterknight4

Check our weekly Ebay custom figure auctions:
http://tinyurl.com/hunterknight

Darth Daddy's Customizing Corner also featured Star Wars customizer Hunter Knight Customs in the latest Customizing Corner over at The Star Wars Underworld.

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The Realm Recap: Episode #13 - Episode VII - It's real and it's spectacular

Sunday, May 4, 2014

CUSTOMS FOR THE KID - THE STAR WARS DAY TOUR

Hello everyone, Happy Star Wars Day! Today we thought we'd do something really special to celebrate our love of Star Wars. A Star Wars party at our house. A behind the scenes look at where the blog is created.

We thought it would be cool if our audience saw how simple our facilities here are and that it doesn't take a fancy workshop to make something really cool.

We also threw together a video slideshow featuring a small selection of our work that includes super easy custom action figures that are great projects for a beginner customizer through to more complex sculpted figures for the advanced veterans.

The YouTube version of the slideshow is a bit muddier than the high definition Animoto version we posted below, but the behind the scenes footage is only available on the YouTube video. The YouTube video also features a quick thank you from Dad to Vanessa Marshall who will be voicing Hera Syndulla on Disney's Star Wars: Rebels this fall on Disney XD! She gave Dad's Bo Katan custom action figure a shout out on Twitter and it totally made Dad's weekend.

For a high definition version of our video slideshow PLAY THIS VIDEO.

BO KATAN

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

DARTH DADDY's CUSTOMIZING CORNER: Sith_fire30

Darth Daddy's Customizing Corner featured Star Wars customizer Sith_fire30 in the latest Customizing Corner over at The Star Wars Underworld.

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Now Dayton Allen aka Sith_fire30 is always the first name you will hear out of pretty much every customizer's mouth when you ask them who's the best Star Wars customizer out there today, and I will second that statement without any hesitation. Dayton has definitely influenced me more than any other artist I've come across since I became part of the community. If it weren't for Dayton, I don't think I ever would have started sculpting.

His sculpt work and his paint applications are downright phenomenal, and his talents have already earned him some serious recognition. Sith_fire30 is one of the few customizing artists to ever appear within the pages of Star Wars Insider (Issue 121). Sith_fire30 was also chosen as one of the customizers asked to host the first ever Star Wars Custom Action Figure Panel at Star Wars Celebration VI, alongside artists Sillof and Luke Sprywalker.

Sith_fire30 has taken the bar and raised it so high, I just can't see any artist surpassing what he has accomplished. He is constantly adding new techniques to his toolbox enhancing his art. Just take a look at the image of the Savage Opress below. The entire figure has little magnets inserted into the body at different points throughout the figure, all hidden, drilled into place, and sculpted over. He also sculpted magnets into Savage's armor so the it just clings to the body when it's brought near.

Genius!

Dayton creates the ultimate editions of our favorite characters complete with alternate head sculpts and armor with battle damage, consistently creating the most ideal figure for every situation. And the best part about Sith_fire30 is that he knows how to keep the action in the figure. He gives all of his action figures super-articulation. His figures have silenced even the harshest of critics. He has taken action figure art beyond where we ever dreamed it could go. It's just amazing how he fits in all the detail and articulation in a 3 3/4" scale action figure.

This talented customizer and diorama builder also writes a super informative blog that takes you step by step through his creative process while also providing great educational bits like his wonderful eye painting tutorial. Sith_fire30 has one of the best custom action figure blogs out there. His video tutorials on Youtube detailing how to do molding and casting were absolutely priceless when I began to teach myself those techniques at home. He hasn't been posting on his blog quite as often as he used to, but he is always updating his Facebook page with the latest progress on his current projects.

Unfortunately it has been a while since Dayton has created any new Star Wars offerings due to being tied up with his current projects, but if you are a fan of the Alien franchise, head to his Flickr page now. His latest work is even more mind-blowing than his older projects.