Customs for the Kid

Saturday, August 23, 2014

Whiskeytango Added to "Customs I Wish I Owned"

Whiskeytango started customizing in 2009 after finding the excellent work of some of the greats on thefwoosh.com. He toiled away on comic book figures, ignoring his true love, Star Wars, until his dream of 6" figures was realized with the release of the Black Series.

Now he spends his time working on custom versions of characters who get official releases announced right after he finishes, which doesn't make him angry at all. Not a bit. Not... not even a little bit.

We figured it was time we show off some of the talented artists working in the 6" scale since we haven't dove into the larger custom action figures that are currently being produced just yet. Whiskeytango has been making some amazing figures in the new action figure scale and after seeing what he's accomplished, we're eager to see what else he produces in the future.

Whiskeytango

Figurerealm gallery:

http://www.figurerealm.com/viewcustomfigures.php?op=4&id=6001

Fwoosh gallery:

http://thefwoosh.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=63960

Whiskeytango on Facebook:

https://m.facebook.com/whiskeytangos.customs?ref=bookmark

Thursday, August 21, 2014

DARTH DADDY's CUSTOMIZING CORNER: BugSkirt Customs

Darth Daddy's Customizing Corner featured Star Wars customizer BugSkirt Customs in his latest post over at The Star Wars Underworld.

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I have been a longtime fan of Star Wars customizer BugSkirt ever since I first started to scour the forums to see what people were making. I followed his blog ever since I started our own, and I can tell you his customs are nothing short of amazing. BugSkirt kills his audience with creativity showing them action figures you just don't see anywhere else. We're still trying to figure out what he used for some of his heads.

BugSkirt, or John as most folks know him, has been a Star Wars fan since the summer of 1977. The Florida sun and his cousins wiped out his original Kenner toys, but he began figure collecting again with the arrival of the POTF2 toys. He started tinkering with custom figures around 2005 and the hobby has increasingly become a focus of his limited spare time.

To contact BugSkirt by email:

bugskirt@gmail.com

To see BugSkirt's Picasa Webalbum click:

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/myphotos

To view BugSkirt's blog click:

http://bugskirtsworkshop.blogspot.com

Feel free to comment or visit him on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/people/Bugskirt-Customs/100001635747932

Thursday, August 14, 2014

DARTH DADDY's CUSTOMIZING CORNER: YakFace

Darth Daddy's Customizing Corner featured Star Wars customizer YakFace in his latest post over at The Star Wars Underworld.

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Brent Gothold aka YakFace just graduated from film school (F.I.R.S.T Institute of Recording Sound and Technology) and has been working as a freelance FX artist specializing in building miniatures. He was living and working in Los Angeles, but moved to Florida 8 months ago and just started work for Universal Studios Orlando doing FX makeup for Halloween Horror Nights. He has a new website that features the professional work that he's been doing for the film industry. His career goal is to open up his own FX studio that will be a full service FX company that blends traditional FX techniques like scale models, practical makeup, and props with cutting edge computer graphics. He's currently learning as much as he can about the traditional techniques and plans to advance his skills with CGI over the next year.

He posted his first custom Star Wars diorama of the Sarlaac Pit at age 15 and is currently posting custom figures over at the Imperial Shipyards. Brent mostly creates characters from the original Star Wars trilogy but is working on making some original characters that will fit nicely among the characters from a galaxy far far away. YakFace is a talented sculptor and painter who transforms "toys" into art pieces.