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Today's Customizer Spotlight figure, Dad's latest custom action figure, and a repair being made on a custom figure that was destroyed in shipping.

Ben Kenobi "Crazy Hermit"

Ben Kenobi "Crazy Hermit"

Because it has the torso of an Empire Strikes Back - Luke Skywalker - Dagobah Training action figure, he has the four different interchangeable arms.

Dad made this action figure with the fodder box while I was at school.

SKILL LEVEL: BEGINNER

CUSTOMIZER SPOTLIGHT #6!! - jimjedi3002

Below are two custom action figures from my collection made by jimjedi3002. He is today's Customizer's Spotlight. The heads on these action figures are too loose for play, but they are both great for creating photo novels.

MARA JADE - THE EMPEROR'S HAND

A very simple custom, but a big payoff for the effort.

The Mara Jade is highly pose-able.

OZZIK STURN

Ozzik Sturn was a Human male Imperial captain and big game hunter. Using family connections, Sturn rose through the ranks of the military. When assigned to various worlds, he would spend time hunting native creatures, taking their heads as trophies. Sturn desperately wished for an opportunity to hunt a fugitive Jedi during the Great Jedi Purge. He did not get his wish, however, as he was installed as Chief Magistrate on the Mid Rim world Malastare.

No longer satisfied with hunting animals, Sturn had sentient prisoners released into a private hunting reserve, in which he would hunt them down. This outraged Malastare's native Dugs and Grans, so the captain was transferred to the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk and tasked with overseeing the construction of a large skyhook in orbit by Wookiee slaves. There, he would hunt the native Wookiees, going so far as to wear their pelts as part of his uniform. He even had a private trophy room to display the severed heads of animals he had killed.

In 2 BBY, Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan arrived on Kashyyyk as part of a trap set by Emperor Palpatine to prevent her father, Senator Bail Organa, from rebelling against the Empire. Should Senator Organa rebel, Sturn promised Leia that she would die in a Wookiee uprising. Jedi Master Rahm Kota, an ally of Senator Organa's who had led a brief rebellion against the Empire months earlier, learned of Leia's situation and tasked Galen Marek—"Starkiller," the secret apprentice of Darth Vader—with rescuing her from Kashyyyk. Leia then, in turn, tasked Marek with destroying the skyhook, and so Sturn finally saw his chance to hunt the man he assumed to be a Jedi. While Starkiller was busy removing the tractor pins that anchored the skyhook to the planet's surface, Sturn entered his personal AT-KT and attempted to kill him. Starkiller destroyed his AT-KT and killed the captain instead, just before destroying the skyhook itself.

Love the Wookie pelt.

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CHISS PIRATE #2

We won some action figure fodder on ebay not too long ago and Dad put this action figure together the other night. He used the legs and torso of a Han Solo, the head of an Episode II Anakin Skywalker, and arms and cape of an action figure still waiting to be identified. We received the silver paint with the fodder and it really made a difference when making this Chiss pirate. We know the gun is from a G.I. Joe Baroness. Outside of that all other accessories are up to speculation.

What we like best about this action figure is that he works well with the Clone Wars and Saga Legends line of action figures. He also like that he looks great with and without the cape.

CHISS PIRATE #2

This is a picture of the action figure while it was still in development just before the final paint and seal.



 

Commander Wolffe

Commander Wolffe (CC-3636) is one of Dad's favorite characters in the Clone Wars television series. We were both disappointed that Hasbro hasn't decided to make him as an action figure. To quell our disappointment, we borrowed a body from a CW Admiral Yularen action figure and used the leftover head from the Echo we used to make the Cad Bane in Clone Trooper disguise and now we have us a playable Commander Wolffe. Dad had to use some filler on the inside of the head to make it all fit and painted the neck to make the skin match better.

COMMANDER WOLFFE
created by Darth Daddy

SKILL LEVEL: BEGINNER

Commander Wolffe
with Cybernetic Eye
created by Darth Daddy

 

Commander Wolffe later had his original eye replaced with a cybernetic eye after Asajj Ventress struck him with her lightsaber.

Commander Wolffe
Season 4
created by Darth Daddy







For this figure Dad boiled and popped the legs off the two Wolffe figures we had and cut off the hands off of the new 2012 Wolffe. Dad then drilled two small holes in the end of the wrists of the figure. Then Dad popped the ball hinge wrists off the older Wolffe and inserted the pegs into the newly drilled holes.




Dad modified the pegs of the old Wolffe figure at the hip's hinge to make them small enough to snap into the hip of the new 2012 Clone Wars Wolffe and then used a black wash to weather the legs to match the rest of the figure.