Totally Togruta!!

Customizer Tokiravensky recently posted a Togruta Jedi on the Yakface forums. I love Togrutas and when Dad saw the action figure, he noticed that we had all the pieces available to make one for me too. Dad made a few changes to his figure though. Instead of making the Togruta a Jedi, he made him just an ordinary everyday citizen. Dad also added some white Togruta markings to the chest and then to top it all off, he made me an extra male and a female Togruta too.

TOGRUTA

Togruta by Darth Daddy



Togruta male #1 by Darth Daddy

Togruta male #1 by Darth Daddy




Togruta male #2 by Darth Daddy

Togruta male #2 by Darth Daddy

Togruta female by Darth Daddy




Togruta female by Darth Daddy

Togruta Jedi created by Tokiravensky

Togruta Jedi created by Tokiravensky




Check out more from Tokiravensky at the link below:
http://www.yakfaceforums.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=5706&start=75

Yakfinities #39 - Darth Daddy's IKTOTCHI MERCENARY

Mirialan Recruit by Dan of the Dead

Yakfinities #39 kicked off on January 1st, and entries will be accepted until 11:59 PM CST Monday, February 28.




IKTOTCHI MERCENARY

Created by Darth Daddy

To view all the entries click the link below:

http://www.yakfaceforums.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=102&t=5961

Wraithnine has been ADDED TO "CUSTOMS I WISH I OWNED"

Wraithnine is a 40 year old customizer that lives on the southeast coast of Essex, UK with his wife, 3 boys and his cat Meg. He has been customizing Star Wars figures and vehicles for about 3 1/2 years now. He mainly creates Astromechs and Clones. He also reviews Star Wars products on Youtube. Before he customized Star Wars action figures, he was an avid collector/painter of Warhammer40K. Wraithnine is currently a moderator on www.imperialshipyards.net and has been a die hard Star Wars fan since '77 .

Wraithnine

You can see more custom action figures from Wraithnine here on Imperial Shipyards:
http://www.imperialshipyards.net/SMF/index.php?topic=768.0


Wraithnine has a channel on Youtube under the name of Rasputin37 that you can find here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/rasputin37


He posts as Wraithnine on Rebelscum.com here:
http://threads.rebelscum.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=4418696&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=93&fpart=1#4418696

Video is also posted on the homepage of Imperial Shipyards.

DAD's YOJIMBO BARNES custom action figure featured on the homepage of IMPERIAL SHIPYARDS today!!

Dad's customs have been featured 5 times in the last few months on Star Wars fan sites. I couldn't be any prouder of him. Dad says that you can discover new things about yourself, great things, all through the experience of parenthood and the magic your children bring.
(click image to enlarge)

Another Fan Fiction Custom from Dad

When Dad grabbed the Nicanas Tassu head from the fodder bag, he knew instantly that he wanted to paint the head to make the action figure resemble Pai Mei known for his appearances in Shaw Brothers movie classics Executioners from Shaolin, Clan of the White Lotus, as well as Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill series to give the figure the "White Brow" look. Dad's a huge kung fu fanatic and I think he tries to slip in his influences whenever he can when he makes me a new custom. He said that when he made this action figure he was also influenced by a lone Ronin samurai that you'd find in an Akira Kurosawa movie or Kihachi Okamoto's The Sword of Doom. He was also greatly inspired by Jeff Bridges' character Rooster Cogburn in the Coen brothers new western True Grit. He said the whole time he made this custom he kept thinking about what true grit really means over and over like a mantra.

Every bounty hunter had a mentor. Yojimbo Barnes was Embo's. Barnes found the orphaned Kyuzo on his travels through Phatrong and raised him as a son. Barnes says Embo survived his training that he affectionately refers to as his baptism by fire. Yojimbo can still be found collecting bounties well into his old age. Regardless of the fact that he has a worthy successor. I guess that's what it means to have true grit.

YOJIMBO BARNES

Dad loves his old man belly from the Wilrow Hood action figure.

You should hear the tales about Embo's training. If you thought "Lone Wolf and Cub" was good....






ALSO INSPIRED BY RUSTYCUSTOMS
Order 66 Jedi Master Survivor

Dad saw this custom action figure by RustyCustoms and loved the way he used the head of Nicanas Tassu.



See the post for his figure here:
http://rustyscustoms.blogspot.com/2010/12/order-66-jedi-master-survivor.html

Mungo Baobab has been added to ADDED TO "CUSTOMS I WISH I OWNED"

Chip Currin, who is known to many by the name Mungo Baobab, is a 36 year old from Nashville, TN. He has not been customizing very long, but he has put together a nice collection of custom action figures which focuses on Jedi. Mungo actively posts his work at Yakface and the Imperial Shipyards.

Mungo Baobab

You can see Mungo Baobab's custom Jedi action figures at these two links:

http://www.yakfaceforums.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=5621

http://www.imperialshipyards.net/SMF/index.php?topic=5144.0

Dad Makes Me a Jan Ors

Happy New Year everybody!! For our first post of 2011, we are going to show a custom action figure Dad made of Jan Ors. A lot of other customizers have made her, and the reason why they have is because you can't really enjoy playing with the Hasbro versions of Kyle Katarn if you don't have a Jan Ors by his side.

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Jan Ors was an Alderaanian intelligence operative who began her work as an agent for the terrorist organization Justice Action Network. As the undercover agent Jan Strange, she then shifted to helping the Alliance to Restore the Republic, becoming one of their trusted operatives.

Ors was instrumental in recruiting Kyle Katarn to the Alliance and together they worked on many missions for the Alliance and later the New Republic. The two would later become romantically involved. Ors continued her work for the New Republic by joining Alpha Blue, a secret intelligence organization, that she eventually took over from Hiram Drayson. There she worked for the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances against the Yuuzhan Vong.

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When Dad made his Jan Ors, he didn't try to make her look exactly the way she did in the comics, replicating every detail and piece of clothing, but rather tried to capture the essence of who she was. Anyway, here she is.

Unfortunately, I can't account for every piece used in this action figure. I know the head is a Bultar Swan from the Comic pack, the legs are from a Han Solo action figure although I'm not sure which one, the weapon is a welding torch from a POTF Chewbacca, and the goggles I think came from a G.I. Joe action figure. The torso and arms we grabbed from our fodder bag, and it's actually my favorite piece of the action figure. Anyone who can identify it I'd really like to know who it's from, too.

JAN ORS

DARTH DEPRESSIS ADDED TO "CUSTOMS I WISH I OWNED"

Darth Depressis is a Star Wars customizer from The Woodlands, TX. He is known for his unique action figures and weapon creations. He was the creator of the Sequel Trilogy Photo-Novel series, creator of the Twelve Part Memoirs of a War Profiteer Series and was in charge of PNN - Photo-Novel News  from 2008 to 2009. Aside from continual photonovel work he is currently in the process of creating his own non-Star Wars related animated features. Enough talk check out his one of a kind custom action figures in the video below.

Darth Depressis

You can see other custom action figures made by Darth Depressis at these links below:

http://www.yakfaceforums.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=1116

You can view Darth Depressis' photonovels at these links:

http://www.thephotonovelalliance.com/pn/Memoirs_of_a_War_Profiteer.html

http://www.thephotonovelalliance.com/pn/Darth_Depressis_Sequel_Trilogy.html

Bith Smuggler

Another fast and easy custom by Dad. This action figure is made 100% from parts we found in our fodder box. We know the head is from a Cantina band action figure and the arms and vest look like they are from a Han Solo figure. All the rest, couldn't tell you. Boiled all the parts for about 5 minutes to get the pieces soft and pliable and then popped it all together. Dad painted the sweater, and the whole figure was finished in less than 30 minutes. Any kids out there, make sure you have parent supervision if you are going to be using the family stove top.

Bith Smuggler

CUSTOMIZER SPOTLIGHT #12: JUSTIN COOK aka CHEWIE

CUSTOMIZER SPOTLIGHT #12: JUSTIN COOK aka YAK_CHEWIE

Can't tell you how happy we are to present you with another edition of our Customizer Spotlight. Justin Cook, who is also known in the Yakface Forums as Yak_Chewie is by far one of the most talented and creative customizers out there. Anyone looking for inspiration for a custom action figure or an action figure recipe needs to look no further, Yak_Chewie has more recipes than a cookbook. His great body of work has already landed him a spot on our "Customs I Wish I Owned" page and if you watch the video we posted of his customs you'll immediately see that his body of work is something special.

Yak_Chewie is an administrator over at Yakface Forums and he oversees the custom creations part of the forum. He is also the creator of "The Enloe Chronicles" which is probably known to be one of the most famous Star Wars photonovels there is.

We recently mentioned on our blog that we participated this year in Yakface's Secret Santa and showed you the Zombie Jedi gift that we sent out to Mungo Baobab. Well, I can't express how happy we were when we received our yellow plastic bubble mailer and saw the name J. Cook in the upper left hand corner of the package. We were even more excited when we could feel not one but two action figures inside the package. Below is a quick video showing the joy a great customizing activity can bring when you participate in one of the community projects you can find located at a customizing forum.

SECRET SANTA GIFT ARRIVES

Yak_Chewie sent us these two incredibly awesome action figures for Christmas:

JEDI MASTER







We love the color scheme that was used on the sleeves and robes. It really brought out the potential for customizing the Starkiller action figure.








SKIFF GUARD

If you watch the video for Yak_Chewie in our "Customs I Wish I Owned" page, this figure you will find. Yes... I realize I just talked like Yoda.

These are links to see more of Yak_Chewie's work:

Yakface Forums

viewtopic.php?f=14&t=80&start=1455

(great place to find action figure recipes)

The Custom Alliance

http://www.thecustomalliance.com/cook/default.asp

The Photonovel Alliance (The Enloe Chronicles)

http://www.thephotonovelalliance.com/pn ... icles.html

(for a good read...)

Customs I Wish I Owned

http://customsforthekid.blogspot.com/p/star-wars-customs-i-wish-i-owned.html




MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE!!


Click the link below to see other "Secret Santa" figures posted on the Yakface Forums this year:

http://www.yakfaceforums.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1101&start=345

Dad's "Vanessa" Still Shots

Dad's Custom Action Figures Get the Homepage Treatment on Yakface & Imperial Shipyards

Dad's Ithorian Smuggler showcased on Yakface

Vanessa's Video posted on Imperial Shipyards

Darth Daddy's "Vanessa" Action Figure - VIDEO POST

Usually posts for Dad's action figures are composed of a few pictures and a short write up about the figure being posted. This time we wanted to try a little something different. This action figure that Dad named "Vanessa" was created to resemble his cousin and started off as only a SNEAK PEAK posted earlier this week. We hope this follow up video illustrates how much the figure was worth the wait.

This video that we created highlights this new action figure from her "SNEAK PEAK" picture, through her early stages of production just before her torso reduction modification, all the way to ending photos showing her current look upon her completion. If you look at her waist you can see where the transition takes place from WIP to completion.

She was made from a dremeled Stass Allie head, the upper torso of Leia in Boush Disguise, the legs of a Clone Wars Aura Sing, and the arms of an unknown Jedi. The hair was made from a modified Pirates of the Caribbean Davey Jones hand.

DARTH DADDY's VANESSA


Please enjoy the music.

VON REINHARDT CUSTOMS ADDED TO "CUSTOMS I WISH I OWNED"

VON REINHARDT CUSTOMS

Von Reinhardt aka Darth Von Frost is a 41 year old customizer from Canada and has been a Star Wars fan since he can remember. He owned a ton of original toys back in the early 1990's but had to sell off that collection. In 2010 he was bit by the Star Wars bug after seeing a few of the new and amazingly detailed action figures and started to collect once again. But now he will only buy figures that he really wants or toys he could use as custom fodder.
He does not collect vehicles or ships because he feels they are expensive and take up way too much space.

After seeing some amazing customs from JACKOFTRADZE and buying an abundance of customs from him, he, like us, thought he'd try to create some of his own.

He then started his own blog, I {HEART} STAR WARS this month to showcase some of his own customs and also show some of the new figures that are coming out. He has been making his own customs since SEPT 2010. ...so he says he is still honing his painting skills.

VON REINHARDT CUSTOMS

You can see other custom action figures made by Von Reinhardt over at Imperial Shipyards at this link:

http://www.imperialshipyards.net/SMF/index.php?topic=5044.0

or at his blog:

http://bountyhunterreinhard.wordpress.com/


If you have a Star Wars blog, get in touch with him so you could trade links at his email address:

johnvon@hotmail.com

DARTH DADDY: SNEAK PEAK!

ECHO BASE CUSTOMIZING CONTEST #7: STAR TOURS DROIDS

ECHO BASE CUSTOMIZING CONTEST #7

STAR TOURS DROIDS

This contest will last until mid-December, so everyone has plenty of time to participate! Voting will end on Sunday, December 19, 2010.

P.S. The prizes will be pretty nice this time.

Link to contest here:

http://echobase.d2i.net/index.php?PHPSESSID=374278acd26c909764bd3bbd56353f00&topic=458.0

Imperial Shipyards: 2010-2011 New Year's Custom Contest

2010-2011 New Year's Custom Contest

Open to all members of Imperial Shipyards.

Theme: The Clone Wars

Build: handbuilt diorama with 1 custom figure or vehicle in the 3 3/4" action figure scale

RULES:

Open to any theme from the Clone Wars era movies, cartoons, comics or novels, No Fan Fiction. Must be scratch built items, no Photoshoped only items will be allowed. Photoshoped elements printed off and used as diorama supplies are allowed.
1 entry per person, all entires must be newly built and not shown anywhere but here until the contest is over.

Members can submit up to 5 pics of the entry. Pics should be taken on a neutral colored backdrop and show only the diorama and custom elements.

Members shall not post any WIP pics until the contest is over. Posting of WIP pics will render the entry invalid.

All pis shall be submitted via email to staff@imperialshipyards.net by January 31st

Voting will commence on Feb 15th and will be open for 1 week, in the event of a tie a run off vote among the 1st place entries will take place for 1 week.

Winner shall receive $50.00 via Paypal or via US Postal Money Order.

DARTH DADDY: SNEAK PEAK!