IMPERIAL SHIPYARDS LAUNCHES THEIR LATEST CUSTOM CHALLENGE

This time out you have your choice between two themes: create yourself as a Star Wars Custom Figure or scratch build a Star Wars Vehicle. The particulars you can find here. Special thanks goes to TS Hobbies who has been kind enough to donate the prizes for this one. Get to building!

Rykrof Enloe Returns in Catastrophe

Chewie's adventures of Rykrof Enloe returns to the Yakface Forums, as the former Clone Wars hero finds himself mixed up in his first major battle of the Galactic Civil War. Head on over to the Yakface forums for the full chapter; The 8th Trial: Catastrophe after the jump!

CUSTOMIZER SPOTLIGHT #41: Boutros77 - Ben's House & Yoda's Hut

Early in the week, I found some really beautiful Star Wars dioramas up for auction on eBay.  When Elias saw them he asked me to bid on them for him and he would reimburse me with the money he had been saving from some commissions that he did.  When he won both auctions, he screamed praises to the gods above for his victory.  Quite excessively and at great length to my surprise. A low bellow from deep within.  

After winning the auction, I inquired and asked the seller who the artist was that made these incredible dioramas for 3 3/4" action figures.  I was informed that they were created by artist Carl BouMansour who goes by the handle of Boutros77.  His talent has caught the eye of Star Wars blogger/historian Tim Veekhoven who tweeted the artist's work and Boutros77 has even been interviewed by From 4-LOM to Zuckuss.com.  

His Cantina and Jabba's Palace dioramas have gotten some serious attention too. I advise checking out his Flickr page.  Drool worthy!

"Ben's House"

created by Boutros77

"Yoda's Hutt"

created by Boutros77

Commissions welcome:
http://carlboumansour.co.uk/boutros77.htm

Flickr Page:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/boutros77/albums

"POWER DROID" created by Darth Daddy

Dad repainted the 2012 Droid Set Vintage Collection GNK Droid with a paint application that was inspired by the 1978 Power Droid from the Vintage Star Wars collection.  The sculpts on the figures were completely different, so Dad just tried to repaint the more modern figure with the old blue/orange paint scheme from the earlier figure.  I really liked how Dad's figure came out!

Notable power droid models included the EG-6 power droid produced by Veril Line Systems, the EG-4 found in Echo Base on Hoth, and the GNK power droid manufactured by Industrial Automaton.    

"POWER DROID" 

created by Darth Daddy

 Repainted figure next to the figure that was used for inspiration.

 Repainted figure next to the base figure.

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ACCOLADES

CUSTOMS FOR THE KID RECIEVED OVER 20,000 VISITS FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL

After about a year of dancing at the 10,000+ mark month after month, a featured showcase at Star Wars Celebration almost doubled Customs for the Kid's monthly audience.  We can't thank you all enough for your visits.  Hope all our new visitors keep coming back for more!

"Customs for the Kid" has been read in more than 120 countries throughout the world. CFTK really enjoys our visits from: Tunisia, Jordan, Ethiopia, Costa Rica, Egypt, China, Czechia, South Africa, Austria, United Kingdom, Slovakia, Qatar, Luxembourg, Russia, Guatemala, Bulgaria, India, Israel, Portugal, Netherlands, Isle of Man, Canada, Belgium, Mauritius, South Korea, Kuwait, Brazil, Finland, Latvia, Mexico, Ukraine, Italy, Colombia, New Caledonia, Malaysia, Zimbabwe, New Zealand, Germany, Indonesia, Honduras, Czech Republic, France, Taiwan, Gabon, Serbia, Nigeria, Venezuela, Australia, Chile, Denmark, Spain, Thailand, Croatia, Mozambique, Japan, Hungary, Peru, Guam, Iran, Philippines, Norway, Ecuador, Saudi Arabia, Macau, Brunei, Romania, Lebanon, Iceland, Argentina, Poland, Puerto Rico, Macedonia, Pakistan, Georgia, Belize, Ireland, Algeria, Moldova, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Panama, Syria, Malta, Uruguay, Lithuania, United Arab Emirates, Bolivia, Greece, Jamaica, Turkey, Belarus, Cuba, Sweden, Kazakhstan, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Dominican Republic, Slovenia, Afghanistan, Cameroon, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Guernsey, Bangladesh, El Salvador, Myanmar [Burma], Vietnam, Aruba, Nepal, Kyrgyzstan, Singapore, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad, Tobago, Azerbaijan, Côte d’Ivoire, Montenegro, Nicaragua, Armenia, Morocco, French Polynesia, Cape Verde, Cyprus and here in the United States.  We apologize if we left anyone out. If you'd like, you can let us now you were here by leaving a message in our comment section.