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DEATH TROOPER by JOE HOGAN

A few months ago we did CUSTOMIZER SPOTLIGHT #11 on Star Wars action figure customizer darthjohnboystoys. In the photos we posted in the blog entry, Dad used Joe Hogan's "Death Trooper" picture as the background image. At the time Dad found the image on the internet, he did not know who the artist was, but a few weeks ago Dad discovered the blog of Star Wars artist Joe Hogan and reached out to let him know about the post we did and that we used his Death Trooper image. Dad even added links to Joe Hogan's other Star Wars projects by editing our original posts to direct you, our fans to another great Star Wars artist. Today Joe Hogan posted about Customs for the Kid and we wanted to return the favor just in case any of you missed his art the first time around. Be sure to subscribe while you're there so you don't miss out on his future projects!

You can read his Customs for the Kid article here:

http://iwillbeastarwarsartist.blogspot.com/2011/02/cool-feature.html

Background image created by Star Wars artist Joe Hogan. Death Trooper action figure created by darthjohnboystoys.







You can see more of Joe Hogan's great Star Wars art at his blog located at:

http://iwillbeastarwarsartist.blogspot.com/



and at Joe Hogan's webpage located here:

http://xjapanrox.deviantart.com/gallery/

and:

http://joehoganart.com/

SPUDAFETT ADDED TO "CUSTOMS I WISH I OWNED"

Devin, aka SPUDAFETT, has been part of the customizing community for more than 2 years. Primarily a Star Wars customizer SPUDAFETT has been known to dabble in other genres as well. Including Gi-Joe, Marvel, and DC. His primary scale of choice being 1:18th figures and vehicles. Many of his Star Wars customs are re-creations of his favorite characters using parts to make them super-articulated and thus more poseable and playable. This usually means adding new points of articulation to existing Star Wars figures or recreating the figure on a super-articualated GI Joe body.

SPUDAFETT

You can see more custom action figures created by SPUDAFETT at these three links:

http://spudafett.deviantart.com/gallery/

http://www.imperialshipyards.net/SMF/index.php?topic=720.msg11371#msg11371

http://www.imperialshipyards.net/SMF/index.php?topic=5089.0;topicseen

FLYING TODO-360

Dad had a great idea on how to make me a customized TODO-360 that looked like he was flying. We had two TODO-360 action figures, so with Dad's modification I could have one figure in flight and one figure that was the original release.

To make it happen, Dad used two of the three Yoda holograms that came with some of my Saga Legends action figures and used the section underneath Yoda's pedestal to create the blue fire from underneath TODO-360's feet. He used an Exacto knife to separate the pieces he needed and shaped them with his Dremel. Once he had the fire in the shape he wanted he krazy glued the fire to the bottom of TODO-360's feet.

"FLYING TODO-360"
created by Darth Daddy

Dad used the section underneath Yoda's pedestal to create the blue fire from underneath TODO-360's feet.



COMING SOON

Custom TODO-360 with Wheel

FAMILY MEMBER BECOMES JEDI ACTION FIGURE

There is nothing more fun than owning an action figure of someone that you know. When the new Vintage Rebel Commando was released into stores, we immediately ran out to try and get one to make a custom action figure that had a striking resemblance to my Uncle Chris. To make him, we took the head and neck of the Vintage Rebel Commando figure and glued it to an Legacy Obi Wan Kenobi action figure. Uncle Chris liked it so much that he made the photo of his action figure his Facebook profile picture. He then introduced the Star Wars movies to my cousin Ysabel who after watching the movies said that she believed that the Death Star should have been painted purple.

Uncle Chris

Darth Daddy's Rebel Bombay action figure featured on I {HEART} STAR WARS

Dad's Rebel Bombay custom action figure was featured on I{HEART} STAR WARS today.



Head over to I{HEART} STAR WARS and take a look:

http://starwarsvonfrost.blogspot.com/2011/01/rebel-bombay-customsforthekidblogspotco.html