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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Imperial Shipyards "Design Your Own Mini-Rig Contest"


There are some great ideas and entries coming in
-- Posted by Tamer

If you haven't looked at the Imperial Shipyards "Design your own Mini-Rig Contest" I would click away! There are some great designs happening.


Wednesday, March 9, 2011

VADER'S CLONES: COMPLETED

Here's Dad's action figures of Darth Vader's Clones which he has now finally completed. These two action figures were posted before as works in progress. Now Dad has added his finishing touches by sculpting embellishments on the Apprentice's clothing and painting him in variations of black. Vader's Clones are now ready for the unveiling.

BACKSTORY

Palpatine being the opportunist that he is, saw an opportunity to clone Anakin Skywalker when he was injured on Mustafar. Hoping that the power of the Chosen One was hidden somewhere in his DNA, Palpatine saw his chance to clone Skywalker as one not to be missed. Knowing that Skywalker's injury would prevent Vader from ever reaching his full potential as a Sith, Palpatine hoped that one day one of these clones would replace Lord Vader at his side as his new Sith apprentice once their training was complete. Due to several complications in the cloning process, only one clone was known to successfully complete the cloning process and be trained by Palpatine. The clone that was trained later destroyed the facility where Vader was being replicated knowing it would be his best chance for domination and survival, but not before he took a clone for himself to train as an apprentice. Ironically, the destruction of the cloning facility did not go as planned and both clones took heavy injuries in their escape. Both of their lungs were completely damaged and they, like Vader were forced to breath with the assistance of filtered air. Unlike Vader, they still had their limbs and thus had the ability to use Force lightening. When Palpatine and Darth Vader were killed over the moon of Endor, these clones survived in exile waiting to unleash the power of the Darkside once more.



VADER'S CLONES





DAD's "HEMBLE VIDEO" POSTED TO FRONT PAGE OF IMPERIAL SHIPYARDS

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Ron Hembling aka HemblesCreations ADDED TO "CUSTOMS I WISH I OWNED"

RON HEMBLING aka HEMBLE

Ron Hembling or as a lot of you know him by as Hemble is a name that almost every Star Wars and Indiana Jones customizer knows. He's talent in creating such life like diorama's are among the best out there, is paint applications also add to the realism of not just his diorama's but also his figure's.

Ron also does other custom figures and diorama's ranging from Super hero's to sci-fi, Ron also has a great reputation for helping others when asked and loves to help all customizers became the best they can.

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Dad Creates a Wookiee Padawan


Dad kept seeing Wookiee Jedi in many of the Star Wars customizing forums and really wanted to make one, but wanted to make a unique addition to the forums when he sat down to make one. Now that Dad is starting to sculpt his own pieces, he felt now was the best time to tackle to Wookiee Jedi. Dad broke out the Aves Apoxie Sculpt and sculpted a one of a kind head for his Wookiee Padawan. It took several hours to make, but Dad was really happy with the results.



WOOKIEE PADAWAN
created by Darth Daddy

















































This Jedi Padawan uses not one but two lightsabers in battle.











The Wookiee Padawan was created with the head, lower arms and legs of a Legacy Collection Chewbacca, and the torso and upper arms and legs of a Legacy Collection Obi Wan Kenobi.








Back view



Dad's Wookiee Padawan is still young and is shorter than his Master who is full grown.




The Wookiee Padawan was created by Darth Daddy. The Wookiee Jedi Master was created by JACKOFTRADZE.





Too see JACKOFTRADZE's Wookiee Jedi Master post go the the link below:
http://customsforthekid.blogspot.com/2010/08/blog-post.html
 


To order Apoxie Sculpt, visit here:
http://www.avesstudio.com/index.php?page=shop.browse&category_id=7&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1
(They ship to every country via USPS)






Dad's Wookiee Padawan was featured on the front page of Imperial Shipyards.
 
 
 
 

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

CLONEHEAD ADDED TO "CUSTOMS I WISH I OWNED"

Clint Conrad, known as Clonehead at imperialshipyards.net, has been a Star Wars custom maker for about 5-6 years now. He got into doing Star Wars customs when trying to promote his ebay store, he noticed how much hype and traffic that other seller's Star Wars custom figures and vehicles were getting. Being a lover of plastic modeling in his youth, especially of military armor models, clint figured that he could put his painting and building skills to the test and try to make a custom figure to sell on ebay. Well, the experiment worked and within a year he had made and sold at least 100 customs "some with dioramas" to buyers in at least 30 different countries. 4-5 years ago, a buyer directed clint to a star wars collecting and custom forum where he posted alot of work and met the admin of the future imperialshipyards where he was invited to form and moderate the customs and diorama boards when the site was created.

Sometime before the Imperial Shipyards site was born, Clint was having a hard time finding some of the parts from hard to find figures that he wanted to incorporate into his customs so, having a little knowledge of molding and casting from his military modeling days, Clint started making parts to use on his custom figures. It wasn't too long after that Clint decided to start selling his castings to the other custom makers and has ever since. You can find auctions for these parts in his ebay store and now at his resin parts for sale thread at imperialshipyards.net


CLONEHEAD




Clint has posted custom work at several sites but as moderator, considers himself at home at the shipyards where he has placed pics and wip commentary in his custom figures reloaded thread, his Clonehead's custom figures #2 thread, and in his Clonehead's dioramas thread, all at imperialshipyards.net.