Less than One Week Left for Imperial Shipyards No Paint Kitbash Rally!

Dad has created some great kit-bashed Ewoks for me as part of our annual Christmas tradition here at home. These Ewok figures were used to decorate our Christmas tree.  Usually Dad does an improvised advent calendar event here at home where he puts a new Star Wars figure on the tree every day until we get to Christmas.  Usually the tree is mostly filled with Hasbro figures, but Dad put up a few customs this year as well.  My favorites were these No Paint Kitbashed Ewoks.

"No Paint Kitbashed Ewoks"

created by Darth Daddy

 

SKILL LEVEL: BEGINNER

Click on through to see the latest entries over at ISY's Rally and read the contest description so you can get your own Kit-Bash on for the New Year!

Dad's Ewoks were featured on the front page of Imperial Shipyards.

Blizz3000's Star Wars Dioramas

Blizz3000 normally sells his dioramas in local duty-free stores in Thailand's national airports. The dioramas he sells there are usually of traditional Thai temples. He has been a huge fan of Star Wars for many years, so one day he started to create Star Wars dioramas to sell them on Ebay. He hopes that in the near future, he can create more Star Wars dioramas if he can get more support and customers.  I don't know about you, but I'd love to get one of his dioramas.  They are just awesome! Be sure to check out his ebay page.

Be sure to visit his ebay page:

http://myworld.ebay.com/blizz3000/

Also give him a "Like" on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/messages/208139409268916

Darth Dusty added to "Customs I Wish I Owned"

Darth Dusty is an artist that has been drawing, painting, and sculpting for over twenty-five years, and customizing for over ten. He mainly enjoys customizing figures from the expanded universe of Star Wars, and creating characters of his own, but also indulges in other areas of Pop Culture. The goal is to give people something rare, and unique, and also to challenge himself to make customs of characters that may never see the light of day on a store shelf.

Creating figures for adult collectors, he loves the use of cloth goods, and hand sculpting new parts. Darth Dusty uses many materials, such as, Acrylic Paints, Apoxy Sculpt, Casting Resins, and even puffy paint, as key elements in each creation. Darth Dusty researches many of the figures he plans to build to get as much accuracy as possible without compromising the functionality of the action figure.

Fairly retired from doing commissioned figures, he loves hearing ideas on what figures to make. Darth Dusty keeps a list of characters on the back burner, so expect to see plenty more figures to come.

Although he was just featured in our Customizer Spotlight last month, we figured now would be the best time to feature the rest of his work while interest was high.  If you thought the Force Unleashed II Starkiller that Dad got me for Christmas was cool, you should see his other customs.  Check out the video and prepare to be entertained.

DARTH DUSTY

Take a look at Darth Dusty's Facebook page:

 http://www.facebook.com/DarthDustyCustoms

Also be sure to frequently check out his eBay page:

 thinkinink1972

CAFN: Episode 45 - Catching Up

CAFN: Episode 45


Join Lucasclones and Tamer as they have another chat about all things Star Wars related and the latest news from the customizing community.

Go here to listen to the Custom Action
Figure News podcast: 

 http://www.imperialshipyards.net/cafnpage.html

If there is anything you would like them to feature on a future podcast be sure to let them know at:

chad.cafnpodcast@yahoo.com

tamer@imperialshipyards.net

CUSTOMS FOR THE KID: THE 2012 RECAP

One of our favorite things to do at the end of the year is to look over all the figures that we created as things come to a close.  This year was unique, because we even created two vehicles on top of all the action figures we made.  Dad said he was really shocked when he realized that we made over 70 action figures in 2012.  He hadn't realized that we created so many.  Dad even fit in time for a collaboration project with customizer Peakob1 producing some of Hondo Ohnaka's pirate gang.

While we created some really easy figures to inspire beginning customizers to take a crack at the hobby, we also made a few completely original sculpted figures.  We were really happy with the way 2012 went and we hope the action figures we create in 2013 are as much fun to make as the figures were from this year.  Hope you enjoy the video of our 2012 creations.  All made with the teamwork of a nine year old boy and his father.  Every one of them made in just a day or two out of 26 weekends from this year.

You may need to raise the bar around the office Hasbro and think bigger.  If the two of us can do this at our kitchen table with so little time, think what could be done with all the resources you have at your disposal.

CUSTOMS FOR THE KID: 2012

Star Wars Custom Action Figures created by Elias & Darth Daddy 

Click the image above to go to our Action Figure Index 
to see the featured 2012 figures in greater detail.





This Year's Custom Collaboration with Customizer Peakob1:

 

 Our "2012 Recap Video" was featured on the front page of Imperial Shipyards.