Not sure how many of you who are reading this make custom action figures yourselves, but here at our house there are always a few projects that catch our eye and not in a good way. We are all our own worst critics, but sometimes the eyesores are irritating enough that action is required to make a figure "display worthy". Every figure here in this post fell victim to being produced under a tight deadline that resulted in compromises that pained us at a later date. While we had the figures done in time for one of our episodes of "Customizing The Clone Wars", they didn't always live up to our standards of a truly completed figure. Unfortunately, when this happens, it could take months or even years before we have the chance to revisit the figure to tighten things up. Yeah, not the best situation. That is why we were really happy that we revisited these three figures and gave them the attention that they deserved.
The first two updates for Jocasta Nu and Old Daka only required some minor sculptural changes to the faces for us to walk away from the projects and finally consider them complete. I tackled that quite easily with a small amount of ProCreate sculpting medium that I creatively applied and then coated with some fresh paint.
For the last action figure pictured, we went a completely different route . In the episode of "Customizing The Clone Wars" that Dad created the action figure for, he openly admitted that the head was still a work in progress and was more a placeholder until he was able to get the likeness where he wanted it. After that we just got caught up in our self-assigned duty of constant content creation, and favored forging ahead to new things over retreading the past. Not that the projects would have ever been abandoned, as evidenced here, but just that they would sit a long time before we would start work on them again.
That's why Dad was so happy when he saw the Prime Minister Almec head that was being sold by Watto's Scrapyard. Dad didn't have to take the time to sculpt a brand new head, he could just purchase it and paint it once it arrived in the mailbox. The sculpt was perfect and capped off the work that we had already done fantastically!
We can't begin to tell you how happy we were to get three figures updated in just under a month. The shelves in the Star Wars display room have never looked better!
We even made our latest Jocasta Nu headsculpt available to all of you as a 3.75" resin cast that can be purchased at the new Rebel Kid Creations store along with many of our other sculpts!
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