Customs for the Kid

Thursday, July 17, 2014

DARTH DADDY's CUSTOMIZING CORNER: D&D CUSTOMS

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

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I love nothing more than finding a customizing outfit that just blows my mind. I mean these figures are just off the charts! One look at the 6" creations of D&DCUSTOMS and you will jump at the chance to spend your money on the artistry to compliment your Hasbro 6" Black Series line. These figures are just amazing and are sold exclusively on eBay.

In 2008, D&DCUSTOMS mostly created Dungeons and Dragons, G.I. Joe and Marvel figures. Fortunately for Star Wars fans they have made some of our favorite characters too. These figures are perfect collectibles for adults who like articulation and poseability in their figures. Their Ahsoka's to die for. Run by their eBay store before these figures are all sold out!

D&DCUSTOMS sell their customs exclusively with the two eBay stores below:

LOTRTOYS

D-DTOYCUSTOMS

Sunday, July 13, 2014

Clone Wars "Unidentified Weequay Pirate 1 (Florrum)" created by Elias

This is an action figure that I created with two Shahan Alama action figures and some Clone Wars Quinlan Vos hands. First I modified the boots with some green stuff. Made them flap over at the top. I repainted the arms, legs, and torso. I also repainted the hat, cummerbund and the shoulder armor too. I used a scrap of dried flat green stuff, cut it into shape, and glued it below the ears to modify the Shahan Alama figure so he wore a bandana. I used the blue gloved forearm from two Shahan Alama figures to do his forearms. I couldn't use the Shahan Alama hand because he only had one regular hand to work with. The Clone Wars Quinlan Vos action figure supplied the perfect replacements. I didn't want to see the extra heads go to waste and this was a great way to give them some use. When I saw him on the show and I saw I had the parts to do it, I figured it was meant to be.

Around 20 BBY, this pirate informed Jiro that a ship's hyperdrive and main reactor were inactive. After that, when it turned out that Darth Maul and his brother Savage Opress were on the ship, this pirate along with Jiro and some of the other pirates joined them against Hondo Ohnaka. Later on, when the two Sith were overpowered by Obi-Wan Kenobi and Hondo, the remaining pirates joined Hondo again, and helped him to chase the brothers away from Florrum.

Clone Wars
"Unidentified Weequay Pirate 1 (Florrum)"

created by Elias

SKILL LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE

My Clone Wars Weequay Pirate was featured on the front page of Imperial Shipyards. Unfortunately, Dad got the credit for him. I guess I should be happy that someone thought my custom looked good enough to be one of his.

CLONE WARS WEEQUAY PIRATES FROM HONDO's GANG THAT WE HAVE CREATED:

http://customsforthekid.blogspot.com/2014/07/clone-wars-weequay-craggy-tooth-pirate.html

WEEQUAY CRAGGY TOOTH PIRATE A

http://customsforthekid.blogspot.com/2014/01/imperial-shipyards-no-paint-kitbash.html

Clone Wars Weequay Pirate

Clone Wars Weequay Pirate with Massiff

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

DARTH DADDY's CUSTOMIZING CORNER: SWK KUSTOMS

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

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Kevin Ferrier, aka SWK KUSTOMS / kr2700, created two very cool figures in our collection at home. A Jedi version of my son Elias that he sent as a gift for showcasing his work on our blog and a Vergere action figure that we bought on eBay way back when we first started collecting custom Star Wars action figures.

SWK Kustoms started making custom Star Wars figures in 2007. He said his wife Lynn bought him a Han Solo figure as a birthday gift. “You should always get at least one toy on your birthday,” she said.

His own collection started shortly after. He thought about making a battle mock up of 100-200 Jedi and Sith, a scene that he imagined would be in the Clone Wars! The prequels went down a different path however. Soon he had around 50 custom Jedi & 50 Sith (Jedi spray painted black). A few months later he began to get bored with just doing simple figures, so he started to experiment. He went through a phase where he made a lot of alien Jedi. He also did more interesting Sith Lords.

His wife then suggested that other people might be interested in his figures, so he put some on eBay and his new hobby started to generate some interest!

Now seven years later with more customs than you could count under his belt, SWK Kustoms is still at it, specializing in fully articulated figures. SWK Kustoms creates fully articulated and detailed custom 4” figures from Star Wars, Star Trek, DC, Marvel or anything you can think of. With SWK you can also become your favorite character as well: Jedi, Sith, Stormtrooper, Mandalorian and much more. Figures can be purchased upon request. Price is based on how hard the piece is to make, usually between $50-150. All figures come with specialized weapons or gear and name plate stands.

Check out his eBay page and add an SWK Kustoms action figure to your collection today!