Well...my family finally got into our new home and finished renovating what we needed to, so...a chance to get some new customs out there! I've got quite a few WIP's, including a version of Wyl Tarson (double agent - Rebellion comic series), Starkiller (Corellian Flight Suit), a clone bounty hunter, and a smuggler/part-time soldier during the time of the rebellion. I'll be posting WIP pics of the clone bounty hunter in the next few days...
But first, here's a fig I'm really happy with how he turned out. I wanted to blend my vision of what I have been reading with some of the artistic elements from the TOR smuggler character (chest belts). Ever since seeing Luke in his Bespin fatigues in TESB, I've always liked thinking of the Jedi not in some simple brown/tan robe, but instead wearing clothing more like that of the typical citizen (albeit with some minor additions of armor, etc.) and using alternative weaponry along with their lightsabers. That's why I've always been fascinated by the descriptions of the members of the Jedi Order during the NJO novels, wearing the gear and clothing that I always envisioned since 1980:
Jayce Rellin (New Republic Jedi)
- Rellin was once a member of a police force on a small backwater planet in the outer rim, but that was before galactic hero Luke Skywalker established his Jedi Academy following the Galactic Civil War. Skywalker followed up on reports of individuals performing strange or extraordinary acts and tested them for force sensitivity. Skywalker traveled to meet Rellin after word reached him of a law officer who, while in pursuit of a gang of local thugs who had attempted to rob a bacta processing center, single-handedly---and with no seemingly available weapons or tools---"grabbed hold of the air surrounding a building" that had been detonated by the thugs to slow his pursuit, slowly lowering it without allowing it to harm innocents who were inside. After rescuing all inside, Rellin supposedly tracked the thugs in the hours after they scattered and, one by one, apprehended them following only the "scent of their fear". His fellow officers were amazed and this tale was leaked to outside authorities, where it somehow was passed along to Master Skywalker.
Skywalker's tests found Rellin to possess above-average force sensitivity and he offered Jayce an opportunity to join the Jedi Order. Rellin, without hesitation, accepted. He became a Jedi Knight within 2 years of joining the order and is currently stationed along the Perlemian Trade Route, tracking pirates and assisting local planetary governments in economic and political disputes. Recently, word has reached him that an invasion fleet of bio-organic make has breached known space and is heading toward his area of operations...
