Customs for the Kid

Saturday, July 30, 2022

3.75" "STAR WARS REBELS (SEASON 3 & 4)" KANAN JARRUS custom action figure created by Customs for the Kid

To celebrate 12 years of blogging, Darth Daddy picked up the sculpting tools and started a new figure after 2 years away from the hobby. Dad announced his retirement from the blog on our 10-year anniversary just before he had surgery performed on both of his eyes to treat a rare degenerative eye condition he developed. The surgery was successful but it took about a full year for his eyes to heal post surgery.

While Dad definitely expressed that he missed making custom figures, he spent the year after his recovery searching for a different job to facilitate some big changes he had been hoping to make. Well, Dad landed a more than satisfactory upgrade to his former employment and spent a little free time returning to one of his favorite pastimes.

Dad thought that making a 1/18 scale "Star Wars Rebels" Kanan Jarrus from Season 3 and 4 would be a fitting project to take on for our 12-year anniversary celebration. To make Kanan, Dad used TVC Young Han Solo from the "Solo: A Star Wars Story" film as his base for the figure. He removed the figures jacket, sanded down the original figure with a Dremel and then re-sculpted the figure to look like Kanan. I helped Dad a bit with the shoulder pads when his new job became a bit too time consuming. After the sculpt was completed, Dad laid down the first few coats of paint onto the figure and then I finished the figure up by doing all the fine detail paintwork so we could reach our anniversary deadline. It was really nice to work on a custom figure together again.

It is important to mention that we used three Kanan Jarrus heads produced by Watto's Scrapyard for our figure both to feature all Kanan's different looks over the course of the last two seasons of the show, and well, to save on time. All three heads painted up beautifully and definitely helped us finish the project faster than if we had to sculpt all three heads from scratch.

We love the final result and I am really excited to have a little help with the blog again now that Dad can make the occasional custom figure here and there.

We're curious to hear what you'd like to see Dad make as far as future projects go. Any requests?

"STAR WARS REBELS"

(SEASON 3 & 4)

KANAN JARRUS

created by Customs for the Kid

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SEASON 3 - EZRA BRIDGER

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MORAI

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Battle Damaged Darth Vader

Obi-Wan Kenobi

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12 YEARS of CUSTOMS

by "CUSTOMS FOR THE KID"

Monday, June 20, 2022

"DARK DISCIPLE" ASSAJ VENTRESS & QUINLAN VOS created by ELIAS of "CUSTOMS FOR THE KID"

This is one of the coolest commission requests an artist could ask for. We are huge Assaj Ventress fans here at Customs for the Kid. Getting to give her our version of a proper send off is a dream come true. Sure this Ventress figure was easily one of the most difficult paint applications we ever had to do on a custom action figure but the final results are more than we ever could have hoped for.

Both Assaj Ventress and Quinlan Vos are 100% sculpted and loaded with articulation. Ventress features a ball jointed head, ball jointed upper torso, ball jointed shoulders, ball jointed elbows, swivel forearms, ball jointed hips, swivel thighs, ball jointed knees and rocker ankles. Quinlan Vos has a ball jointed head, ball jointed shoulders, ball jointed elbows, swivel wrists, swivel waist, ball jointed hips, ball jointed knees and rocker ankles. Even his shoulder pads have the ability to move in place thanks to some genius engineering implemented to increase shoulder articulation.

The accessories we were able to include, while challenging to produce, really enhance the figures. The magnetically attached Nightsister bow was created in Blender and printed on our 3D printer with Tenacious resin for maximum durability. believe it or not, the goggles on Ventress were actually handsculpted and snap on and off with ease. The Ventress lightsaber was half of a Darth Maul lightsaber that was molded and casted in a dyed yellow resin then painted to bring out the details. For Vos the guns were molded and casted from a Hoth Han Solo action figure.

"DARK DISCIPLE"

ASSAJ VENTRESS & QUINLAN VOS

created by Elias