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Friday, December 17, 2010

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



Tuesday, December 14, 2010

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!