Customs for the Kid

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

"THE LOST MISSIONS" FIVES (CORUSCANT CLUB DISGUISE) VERSION 2 created by Elias

This is the second version of Fives in his Coruscant Club disguise. We recently redid the action figure at the request of Corey Van Dyke from Kessel Run Transmissions. I had already made an Ahsoka Tano in her Seige of Mandalore armor and a Season 7 version of Obi-Wan Kenobi when this figure was added to the list. It was a quick and easy custom to make. I just used the body of a Phase II Clone Trooper action figure with a Clone headcast we made. A while back Dad made this enormous mold of every Clone Wars clone head ever produced. It always comes in handy for projects like these. After making the cast, I painted it so it had Fives head tattoo, scar and goatee. Then we painted a modified Imperial Officer cap from the Juno Eclipse action figure to finish the figure. You need to make a pizza wedge slice into the back of her cap and re-glue the edges back together to make it fit Fives head nice and tight. Before painting, feel free to sculpt a thin layer over the cut to hide it once the glue dries.

"THE LOST MISSIONS"

FIVES
(CORUSCANT CLUB DISGUISE)

VERSION 2

created by Elias

SKILL LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE

Sunday, March 29, 2020

Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Season 7 Ahsoka Tano (Jumpsuit) 3.75" Action Figure SHOWCASE and "Gone With A Trace" & "Deal No Deal" ROUNDTABLE

featuring Darth Daddy of "Customs for the Kid"

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"JEDI YOUNGLINGS" the 2nd SET

I made the action figures below on commission for one of our readers. I was able to improve upon two of the headsculpts since our last attempt at the characters. Dad was able to cut down some of the labor time for me by molding and casting a few of the original heads that we made which was great because it saved me having to re-sculpt all six heads. Ganodi and Katooni were the onlt two characters that I still had to hand sculpt, because we just didn't have the right tools and set-up to mold and cast them. I really liked the sculpt more on the second attempts. It was hard to mail them out the door.

Even now mass production from the molds we have is sketchy without a pressure chamber. Between Byph's eyes and Zatt's tentacles, getting a good cast is next to impossible. Gungi was the only cast that needed only minor fixes. We kept the recipes for the figures exactly the same as we did for our first set of Younglings. Click on the photo of our first set below for the full breakdown of how they were made.

"JEDI YOUNGLINGS"

created by Elias