The Imperial Shipyards
Imperial Creative Engineering => Custom Figures => Topic started by: halnarthax87 on June 02, 2011, 07:57:45 AM
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The Jedi Knight series is still my favorite Star Wars video game series after all these newcomers, battlefront, KOTOR, TFU, etc. And of course about the best part of Jedi Academy is creating your own character... whose name will be Jaden Korr regardless but oh well. Here are two incarnations of Jaden, based on outfits from the game.
Their looks are based off Jadens from the game, but in my little world they're based on my girlfriend's and my Star Wars alter egos. :D
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Nicely done! :D
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And of course Tavion, Desann and Kyle.
Just a little repaint on Kyle, and the other two are more or less made from spare parts. Tavion doesn't look too terribly game accurate, lacking the face paint and other details.
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LOOKS COOL!
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Interesting takes on Jaden Korr; I'm always up for a good use of the Kyle Katarn fig torso.
Welcome to the Yards!
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From left to right: Mara Jade (Emperor's Hand), Sate Pestage (Grand Vizier), Palpatine (Emperor of the Universe), Grand Admiral Thrawn, Grand Admiral Ishin-Il-Raz, Grand Admiral Miltin Takel. Oh and, Mas Amedda, Darth Vader and the guards are in there, but they're not customized.
I didn't like the paint job on the new Mara Jade figure, so I altered it a bit. Sate Pestage was the result of having too many variations on Tarkin.
As for Palpatine... we still haven't gotten the perfect Palpatine figure... they keep coming CLOSE but f***ing it up in some minor way. The grey skinned target exclusive figure and the force unleashed editions came closest... but his hood looked awful. Then they gave us another variation on that same figure, but it looked like the now obsolete composite Emperor from the original Empire. And the vintage Sidious, while cool, still didn't give us the classic emperor look. I've made a few customized Emperors but this is probably my best version, with the old Power of the Force Palpatine's head on the new figure's body.
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From left to right: Mara Jade (Emperor's Hand), Sate Pestage (Grand Vizier), Palpatine (Emperor of the Universe), Grand Admiral Thrawn, Grand Admiral Ishin-Il-Raz, Grand Admiral Miltin Takel. Oh and, Mas Amedda, Darth Vader and the guards are in there, but they're not customized.
I didn't like the paint job on the new Mara Jade figure, so I altered it a bit. Sate Pestage was the result of having too many variations on Tarkin.
As for Palpatine... we still haven't gotten the perfect Palpatine figure... they keep coming CLOSE but f***ing it up in some minor way. The grey skinned target exclusive figure and the force unleashed editions came closest... but his hood looked awful. Then they gave us another variation on that same figure, but it looked like the now obsolete composite Emperor from the original Empire. And the vintage Sidious, while cool, still didn't give us the classic emperor look. I've made a few customized Emperors but this is probably my best version, with the old Power of the Force Palpatine's head on the new figure's body.
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Nicely done!
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Just some random old customs I found in my library.
Liberating Coruscant, rebel snipers, female rebel fleet trooper, imperial harassment.
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Great stuff all around man! I love the alien you have created and the Rebels raising the flag is super cool! Welcome to the yards!
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Hasbro has made some great strides with Leia figures recently. The latest version of her in her Hoth gear looked just about dead on... except she was too pale and her hair was too dark, but the sculpt was just about perfect (I may have to repaint that one). And then there was that figure of her at the end of ESB, which also looked great and the coloring was perfect as well. Still... not satisfied. We haven't gotten an updated Leia in her classic clothes... well actually we did, but without the classic buns, so I took the ESB figure and attached the head of the power of the force Leia, which still holds up well today. So here she is posing with John Williams touching "Comically Long Gun Theme" playing... in my mind. :P
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I have a little too much fun with the Imps. I wanted to just have enough to line up as seen in ROTJ, so I ended up getting several of those Luke Skyalker and Deena Shan packs. After swapping a few heads I realized there were too many with the same face which clashed with the others... so I end up with several, several different officers, and enough females for an Imperial Womens Corps. Right now they're all basically generic (cept Daala there), I'll go through and name them someday, unless anyone else has any ideas. Shout em out.
I actually wish there could have been one or two female imperial baddies in the films, I know the Empire is supposed to be male chauvinist but a strong, cold, confident villainess is more intimidating than a dude. Even in the prequels we kind of missed out, we saw Aurra Sing for all of two seconds, and she made a hell of a villainess in the EU. Oh well, and I always thought the uniform was kinda sexy. :D
Like the Naziesque Imperial banners?
And while it was a valid concern mentioned on the front page of the site (to any toy collector I'm sure...) the cost wasn't as great as one might think. I was quite careful in acquiring these in an economic way. I got the first few at Targets, but most of them I got for real cheap on Ebay and at a local owned store in my city. Fortunately these aren't too popular amongst the kiddies, so I get em for a few bucks a pop. :D
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Wow, that group of Imperial Officers is most impressive.
Back on the front page.
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Yikes, that is alot of officers...now you'll need legions of Stormtroopers for them to lead around. :D
Well done!
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Oh crap you're right... there should be more stormtroopers than officers...
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I picked up a few of those comic packs myself, as well as juno when I was doing my Sirian Navy kick a couple years back.
I never got over how huge LUke's hat was, :)
Looking good man, looking good.
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Ah, a man after my own heart! Awesome female officers! I love female characters and wish they'd release some more! Female troopers, rebels, etc. In the mean time we can always make 'em ourselves! Great job! What'd you use for the flags?
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I got the idea for that flag from a 501st flag I saw (the costume group), can't remember where, then I designed it myself on gimp and just printed them off. I think I'll do them in red next time.
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OOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! WOW!!! I'm diggin your stuff. They could be recruitimg posters but I don't know if I would join the Rebels for the ideals or the Empire for the officer corps.
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fantastic work
you have an impressive imperial army in your collection
welcome aboard
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The biggest problem with Palpatines in recent years have been the cowls which don't look like the film in the least. These can be trimmed to look somewhat right, but I decided to sew my own on. It's slightly sloppy but decent with all my knowledge of middle school home economics. He's also repainted to look a little more pale and red around the face.
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Nicely done! :D
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Your army building skills are off the hook. Welcome to the Yards!
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Looking Good!!
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When you cannibalize and customize as many figures as this, you end up with some spare parts. A lot of spare parts. However, I often have more fun with using spare parts to be creative than I do with my original intended creations. Here are but a few, including a Mandalore warrior based on Mr. 47 from the Hitman games, he's got the bald head, cold face, black attire and dual silver pistols. With him is a member of the Mandalore aristocracy... who I actually made while thinking about Mozart's Queen of the Night from Die Zauberflötte (Believe it or not I'm an opera singer when not doing this). And at the bottom is an exiled member of the Chiss Ascendency turned pirate in the Rise of the Empire era. Hope you all like. ;D
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Those look pretty cool.
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These latest ones are very well done! :D
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I love that Black Mando!
The Thrawn one is cool too. Back on the front page.
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wow, cool figures, love that Chiss and your influence coming from Mozart!!
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Narthax began as a running joke in college as the most badass man in the galaxy, who was really nothing more than a drunk, violent, f*** up. But I liked the name so much I applied it to my very flawed hero in the Star Wars universe. During the early rebellion days he's a drifter, doesn't talk much, dry-humored and somewhat mysterious. He carries a lightsaber that he isn't very adept with using, but is talented with force mind tricks, despite this he claims to have no past affiliation with the Jedi Order. In secret he masquerades as a cloaked vigilante (claiming to be a jedi ghost), assassinating imperial officials and creating fear in the chain of command. He teams up with a young woman named Kirri Starwind, a former imperial army officer who lead an uprising of Wookiee slaves, and an adventurous Jawa inventor named Tiku.
The three of them take on the Empire on the outer rim world of Aureole under imperial subjection. Despite its low status in the galaxy, the planet is host to a bounty of resources the Empire took interest in. The human aristocracy have sold out the world in exchange for political power in the Empire, enslaving the diverse alien population and exploiting lower class humans as well. Despite their imperial connections they are still extremely corrupt and have firm ties to the criminal underworld, including the Chiss pirate Wolf'garur'ordona (Wolf). Narthax, Kirri and Tiku work underground to unite the people to rise up against their oppressors, even convincing the pirates to fight for them in the end, considering they are mostly alien they come to realize once they outlive their usefulness they will be betrayed.
ALAS... last night I discovered a new Star Wars fan film known as "A Light in the Darkness" that has almost the exact same plot... f my life (vigilante lightsaber-wielding guy trying to unite the exploited people of some backwater world against the Empire). I can't stay mad at them though, the film they put together is truly impressive, very well filmed, edited and acted, not just by fan film standards either, it looks very professional. It's an entree in this year's fan film challenge, I highly recommend you check it out.
So... here are the figures I've made from this little story. Narthax's team, his alter ego, and the corrupt aristocrats, imperials and their criminal affiliates.
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what a great bunch!!! cool figures and story. top!!
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Thank you all for your kind words. There's a lot of talent on these forums, and I'm just glad to be one small part of it. ;D
I have a lot to more get up, just trying to spread it out a little.
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This is my little slam on Twilight. I've taken what the heroes are in that series, and made them as they should be. Villains.
A cult of dark jedi who are all jealous of the jedi. They're a cult of sociopaths, sadists, comprised mostly of spoiled, pretentious, whiny, sullen, mopey teenagers, all deadly with a lightsaber and the darkside but aren't nearly as powerful as they boast.
Okay, they're mostly based on the Reborn and Disciples of Ragnos cults, but after being dragged to two Twilight movies I came to see that the "heroes" of those films make fascinating villains.
Sadly the day is rapidly approaching when I can't make fun of Twilight anymore. Soon it will be completely culturally irrelevant. A shame, it was just too damn easy to mock. ;D
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Good, Good. My hate and distaste for everything twilight runs deep. You portray those (dare i say "characters"?) exactly how they should be in a SW universe. The only good thing about twilight was that it made the AotC love story a tad bit more bearable...
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Hahaha, thanks, we must all come to terms with the AOTC love story in our own way... I've come to accept it, soppy and melodramatic and slightly flawed as it was. As clunky as it was, it actually had some decent subtle foreshadowing for what was to come... it's just hard to notice when facepalming every time they speak. vadsab
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AHAHAHAHAHA LOL ;D
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Good lord. You know you're a fan when you watch AotC in the theaters and feel embarrassed for the people that are just there to see a movie. The problem with those scenes (I know there's a billion) but one major one is that the lines suck. Whoever wrote the newer films lost all the tongue in cheek humor, the swashbuckling, the snarkiness of the OT writing. Instead you've got stiff overacting that sucks all the air out of the room and makes you cringe. Add in a huge pile of CGI and make everything--droids, starships, aliens, a bit too shiny to be the past and you've got a very top heavy visually appealing but content-lacking lead balloon of a film. I happen to enjoy the stories the new movies spawned in books, comics, video games etc. But absolutely am a hard core OT fan. Have you ever played "count the sneers and scowls?" I think everyone but the droids and starships sneers/scowls in those movies. They really do the "looking up through your eyebrows leer" waaaaaay too much.
I've been angry with Lucas for a long while now for creating a technologically clunky, albeit awesome Empire that basically ran on old 1970s technology and Star Trek computers with flashing lights in the background was supposed to evolve from a past that had the internet and everything was clean and shiny and new. It's like the internet was the past and now we have the fax machine here in the future. Silly Lucas.
Ok enough ranting...
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Good lord. You know you're a fan when you watch AotC in the theaters and feel embarrassed for the people that are just there to see a movie. The problem with those scenes (I know there's a billion) but one major one is that the lines suck. Whoever wrote the newer films lost all the tongue in cheek humor, the swashbuckling, the snarkiness of the OT writing. Instead you've got stiff overacting that sucks all the air out of the room and makes you cringe. Add in a huge pile of CGI and make everything--droids, starships, aliens, a bit too shiny to be the past and you've got a very top heavy visually appealing but content-lacking lead balloon of a film. I happen to enjoy the stories the new movies spawned in books, comics, video games etc. But absolutely am a hard core OT fan. Have you ever played "count the sneers and scowls?" I think everyone but the droids and starships sneers/scowls in those movies. They really do the "looking up through your eyebrows leer" waaaaaay too much.
I've been angry with Lucas for a long while now for creating a technologically clunky, albeit awesome Empire that basically ran on old 1970s technology and Star Trek computers with flashing lights in the background was supposed to evolve from a past that had the internet and everything was clean and shiny and new. It's like the internet was the past and now we have the fax machine here in the future. Silly Lucas.
Ok enough ranting...
You bring up some legit points, but allow me to provide a little perspective. Yes it's true that the Empire's technology was clunkier than the Old Republic. The prequels were set in a gilded age, when the glory and pomp of the Republic was at its peak, everything was shiny and new which covered up the corruption eating away within, whereas the old trilogy had more of a post-apocalyptic setting with a clear distinction between the haves and have nots.
As to Lucas himself... I've come to forgive him for his writing devolving from lines like "Never tell me the odds" to "Are you an angel?" Why? Because his own story matches Anakin/Vader's story soooo eerily well. He was a young artist who wanted independence from the hollywood system, and he was a hero in those days for risking everything to not only become a great director but re-energizing the hollywood system itself and ultimately changing film for the better. However, his motivation was the control he wanted over his art... much like Anakin's motives for control. As a result Lucas who wanted nothing to do with the corporations ended up becoming head of a corporation himself, thus becoming the very thing he swore to destroy ;). Thus... the prequels were sub par because by that time he was more of a businessman than an artist.
The irony is just too great for me to stay mad at the guy. And since his story is Darth Vader's, there is good in him, we can save him we can turn him back to the good side. ;)
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Good use for TWILIGHT those people how do they get the idea of that movie although i never watched it and I DON'T WANNA
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Great idea!
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Great idea!
One of the funniest ideas I've seen on here. ;D ;D ;D
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It's that seductive sassy sith squeeze Tavion Axmis. She made a good human villainess in the Jedi Knight series. She first appeared as the cold yet sultry assistant to the Dark Jedi Desann, and a supremely confident braggart as well. She proves herself to be a worthy adversary but then reveals herself to be a sniveling coward when Kyle Katarn defeats her, subsequently saving herself from Kyle's wrath. After Desann's defeat she rallies his former followers and creates a new cult dedicated to resurrecting the ancient sith lord Marka Ragnos. She's just as arrogant and self-serving as before, but now she's hell bent on revenge and fearless.
I made a figure of her before to go along with my Marka Ragnos figure, but never truly finished it. now I've repainted it and given it Tavion's face and body paint.
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I wanted to include in my fan fiction a sort of "Most Dangerous Game" scenario involving trandoshans... and then Clone Wars did it. But that didn't stop me from making a crew of trandoshan badasses. I should be giving partial credit as someone else on the forum added the skull belt to a trandoshan... but alas I've forgotten who that was. If you're looking, give a shout out. While the belt of skulls is awesome, the Grievous cape, red spacesuit, and severed head they're parading around were all my doing. They make some formidable adversaries. 0/
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Nice pic of the Trandos!
Gotta feel a bit sorry for Juno/Deena/whoever's head is on that stick! :o
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Yeah... with all those custom fem officers I made, I had a few spare Juno heads... she got the short end of the stick.
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Like my Twilight Dark Jedi, cept these ones are a bit more h-core.
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Nice ;D
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I'm diggin your dark story lines and figures.
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Made from several parts, mostly a magnaguard.
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My favorite Star Wars comic series was the Empire series, which then segwayed into the equally great Rebellion series. We met some interesting new characters in that arc, rebel agent Wyl Tarson, the lovely f*** up Deena Shan (who eventually comes through), and of course the infamous "Tank," mentioned by Luke in ANH. As it turned out Tank was an up and coming imperial officer, who for all his doubts about the Empire's brutality and needless cruelty is convinced he's on the right side, though he somewhat redeems himself by saving Leia's life. We also got some interesting minor characters too, like Basso, the bald-headed guy from Raltir who despite his no-nonsense merciless nature towards the imperials is a staunch freedom fighter. Then there's Mouse, a Duros rebel who had a very minor part and sacrificed himself for his mission, but was actually a pretty amusing and funny guy while he lasted. Most interesting of these characters was "Able," a clone trooper who never got word that the Clone Wars ended, who after being attacked by the Empire was persuaded to join the rebels. None of these characters (cept the ones who died) got any closure, so I do hope they return someday...
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great figures!!
especially love the robot, he looks like 100% pure scifi to me :) do you have more pics of him online somewhere, in different poses?
he is really cool.
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Sweet customs!
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great figures!!
especially love the robot, he looks like 100% pure scifi to me :) do you have more pics of him online somewhere, in different poses?
he is really cool.
Thank you! Alas not... yet, I'll probably have more pics of him eventually but this is the first and only shot of him. As for poses... his legs don't bend, but I'll try a few more poses in future.
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The new droid looks awesome; very unique as I haven't see those parts used before. Nice job!
I love the group pic of the stealth commandos from the Rebellion comic series. It's nice when simple headswaps can result in a cool-looking pic!
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Thanks! I do love the marine uniform. Though I think I may need to do a repaint on Deena Shan's chest... that's a wicked tanline.
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GREAT JOB 8)
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Chance anyone here hasn't seen pictures floating around the web, America's Next Top Model winner Adrianne Curry is big enough a Star Wars fan to go to conventions in a sexed up version of an imperial uniform (when she's not busy being a slave leia). As my tribute to every fanboy's hero, here's my figure of her.
:o :o :o
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I can't say I was surprised to read on Wookieepedia that Panaka was made an imperial moff.
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those all look really cool. that droid looks like he would fit right in.
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great job!
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I must say I like your droid better than the original magna guard. Wow, great update. On the front page.
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People seemed to like this guy, so here's some more of him. I think I shall call him... RADA-412. He will be an assistant and creation of Tiku the Jawa engineer. He resents his creators, but not the point of hatred, rather simple frustration and dry sarcasm. Despite his somewhat retro appearance he is superbly strong and can withstand heavy damage.
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I LOVE THIS DROID!!
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A lotta custom Jedi... and some not.
I've already shown the Solo kids, but now included is mommy Leia, and Luke and Mara's son Ben stands behind them. The Kyle Katarn is slightly repainted... and behind the front row is just a ton of made up jedi.
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I've shown my Queen of the Night before, but not in action. Joining her is what I originally intended to be Winter, Leia's aide and the wife of Tycho Celchu. I suppose she still could be, but now to me they're the physical incarnations of light and dark sides of the force.
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More of my vanity character, Hal Narthax. I've given him a few looks over the years.
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Awesome!
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Sweet smuggler. I like it.
On the front page along with the update.
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Very cool.
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Great rendition! I like the use of the Mandalore the Ultimate chest shield; nice conversion into the armor for your 'alter-ego' in figure form!
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This might be cheating.
Why? This isn't made from any figure parts, it's not even plastic. I could never find a Max Rebo figure, and I really liked the guy, so I made him out of putty and painted him. Hope you like it. 0//
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very cool spot on ;D
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wow, very cool!!
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very creative and very well done!
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Nice sculpting! :D
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Great customs on this page. I'd hardly call the Max Rebo a cheat. Sculpting a figure is way harder than using existing pieces. Awesome job on the Rebo!!
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Cool stuff.
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It's been a while, been busy and stuff. Anyway, here are some Jedi.
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And some more. Featuring the naughtiest attire a Jedi can find (seriously, looks more like Space Mutiny [mst3k] than Star Wars). And of course I've further tweaked Mr. Narthax to look more like Jaden Korr from JA.
And the other pic is a tangent of my fanfic universe in which Narthax goes bad and takes up the reigns of the Imperial Remnant and unifies several warring imperial warlords against the Republic. Unlike other self-righteous imperial baddies, Narthax has gone completely mad and knows full well what he's doing isn't about stabilizing and bringing order, he simply wants to do evil for fun. Could explain why now he has an abnormally large lightsaber.
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nice-looking group of Jedi - some even look disreputable to be smugglers! I really like the girl in the first pic, with the girl in the third pic a close second.
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Jedi, Jedi, Jedi! Can't have enough Jedi. Like the Black Jedi!
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I'm glad I found this thread :D like your customs a lot.hope you put up more,but I wish you had closer detailed pictures of them.may the force be with you.
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Cool works!
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Our chief weapons are surprise. Surprise and fear are *two* weapons are surprise and fear and ruthless efficiency... oh you know the rest. The Imperial Inquisitors pop up now and then in EU material, outranking even the Emperor's Hands as force sensitive agents of Palpatine, under the direct control of Vader however. Palpatine's ultimate goal was to replace all heads of state, anyone in high command with them (Surely not Thrawn?? NO!). They're job is essentially hunting down Jedi and converting them into dark side adepts.
Some of my own inquisitors... a few altered from before, and this lovely statue of Palpatine.
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And here are the adepts they made, by conversion or torturing surviving young Jedi into submission.
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Continued.
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wow,great sith customs.close ups on some of them,PLEASE!!!especially the blue sith in the back,I think i've seen him before on jackoftradze customs,but i'd love to see yours.awesome!
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Hehe, yep, he's the one I more or less stole the design from. The finer details of my Ragnos aren't quite as... fine as his. I just had the lego horns so I figured, why not give it a shot? Hmm, doesn't make me a plagiarist I hope. ;D
I'll be sure to get some closer ups for you.
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Great stuff there Narthax! Huge Monty Python fan myself so this was a double stuffed awesomeness post! Also kudos on yet again sneaking in some lego chains ;)
P.S. JMT: If you click on Narthax's pictures they pop out and enlarge for a closer view :)
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Cool customs man!
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Very Cool! ;D
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Nice customs.
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very nice work
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no it doesnt make you a plagerist.good job because it looks a lot like his,hell,I'd give it a shot if I had the parts list.feel free to jot those down on here if you can remeber what you used to create him.
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Let's see...
Darth Sidious (Vintage Collection)
Darth Vader cape
Lego chains
Lego dinosaur horns
Paint and putty
That's what I used. I didn't have the medallion.
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Very nice Sith army.
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A Sith Army oh man! That's awesome! Torturing the jedi to submission, classic!
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Okay, it's not much of a custom, basically just Darth Krayt with a cape, a black lightsaber, armor painted darker with a starkiller head, I like the way the mouth piece goes with his helmet. Hmm, okay, so I like it enough. Looks a tad like Sauron...
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My crack team of rebel commandoes.
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Very simple, but very effective on the high priest. Very nice.
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It's been a while. So here's some stuff from little old me.
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Cool stuff!
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Awesome!
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Good to see you back. Time to go to the fp.
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To the Narthaxmobile!! 0/
Plus I switched up Narthax himself a little, no longer bearing any resemblance to Starkiller but Kir Kanos minus his scar.
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Some really nice looking pieces!! :)
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Looks good to me, back on the fp.
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I wish I could take credit for all of them, but the only custom is front and center; we have Palpatine's right-hand man and Grand Vizier Sate Pestage.
vadsab
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Thats a really nice set of senate and guards you got there.
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Dark Knight Rises at last came out and lived up to my expectations mostly. Always loved Bane, combining brains and brawn to the extreme, and the movie's portrayal did not disappoint. I wanted to call this guy Darth Bane but... that's taken. I thought he looked enough like Bane.
My other repaints today are a few wuvable ewoks. I finally found the new versions of Logray and Wicket, so it's repaints for the other guys! Only one is meant to look like an actual character, the little scamp Paploo who stole the speeder bike. Enjoy.
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Great sith!
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Great update, back on the front page.
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It's been a while since that plethora of female imperial officers. Over time like all my customs, they've evolved, so here's some of them nowadays.
Also, I seem to have turned Captain Picard into an imperial officer. Always thought Patrick Stewart would make a badass Moff.
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Right, as I was saying, Moff Picard.
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"THE LINE MUST BE DRAWN HERE! NO FURTHER" yells Moff Picard. Awesome. I love genre mash-ups!
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I could see him being Admiral Pellaeon or vise versa in some ways.
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Ooh, thanks for reminding me, I do have one who is more or less Pellaeon. The later years, minus the whole Grand Admiral thing.
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Righto, Admiral Daala, everyone's least favorite psycho b**ch.
Also included are a touched up Narthax and his alter ego, as well as several denizens of my little universe.
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Great new custom's! ;D
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Wow, you are back with a vengeance! Back to the front page. That Picard is awesome!
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Thank you! I had a few extra Tarkin figures so I tried to see if I could shave his hair off and mold his head a little bit and... somehow it came out looking rather Patrick Stewart.
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So here we have Darth Not Bane and his apprentice Darth Hottie (or something).
Also we have my new ranks of imperial inquisitors.
Third... I dunno, Darth Terminator?
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...and a gang of Sith Hoodies.
As well as a pair of shipyard mechanics.
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Great sithisis! Love these man! LOL! ;D
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Nice Sith Update. I am so behind on my fp custom postings due to working on C6 coverage, but I did see this and like them! On the fp.
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Nice job :)
Love the group shot!
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That's a cool bunch figures .... great update
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Love these sith, especially the sith elder with the beard. Great work.
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Good ol' Ysanne "Iceheart" Isard, the constant thorn in Rogue Squadron's ass, but the reason they acquired Soontir Fel. Props to you for being that horrible a person, Ysanne, turning the Empire's greatest hero into a rebel.
But anyway, I finally obtained the Fel Isard Comic pack. Overall, excellent I say... but as always I have nitpicks and won't stand for little mistakes on figures. Excellent paint application on the face, eyes mismatched and everything, almost a perfect figure.
First problem, the rank bars. As the body is basically another Juno Eclipse repaint that means the rank bars are quite inaccurate. Isard always had a sort of upside down admiral insignia. So, I painted them blue and added my own row of red bars underneath.
Second problem, the hands. She's got Juno Eclipse gloves, with the open backsides. Just no. And furthermore, I don't think I recalled Isard ever once wearing gloves. So we fixed that.
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Nice officer! :D
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Sometimes is the smallest tweaks that make a figure shine. Nice job!
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Cool customs man
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As pleased as I was with how he looked in the first place, I thought I could make him look a little closer to Tom Hardy's Bane. I returned the original head to the figure, and created a face mask somewhat closer to the film.
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Really good job!!! ;D
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Leia's stalwart aide Winter Celchu, that lovely badass.
And the other? I wanted to do Aurra Sing gone Sith (bound to happen eventually), and she came out looking like Voldemort.
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OK, I have missed a few updates so I am just catching up. Holy Sith! That is an awesome group from the dark side. Nice tweaks on Ysanne, she looks perfect now. Love the Winter custom, I too want a figure for her. That Volde...oh wait Aurra pic is funny. Nice positioning of the wand, I mean saber.
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Aurrasith is AWESOME! ;)
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Thrawn's assassins, and later Leia's bodyguards. Made from a Spider-man The Lizard figure.
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SWEET! :D
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Well, that's how he's credited on Wookieepedia. Perhaps he's secretly a Cerean?
And some tweaked rebel troopers.
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Love the rebels! He may be! ;D
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Love the Noghri! I wish there were more images of them, I'd love to craft some myself. I loved their role in the Hand of Thrawn trilogy!
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That's a great Noghri ! Btw i loved the lord voldemort pic sorry i didn't see that one sooner i got a good chuckle
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nice job on the noghri....personal favs of the eu...
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Always good to see an update in here. I too really like the Noghri.
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Like the Noghri and the Tom Hardy-inspired Sith!
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Love the Noghri! You don't ever see those done! Verys cool you brought him to your collection.
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If Indiana Jones can warrant a young chronicles, why not Narthax? What do you mean he's not remotely famous?
Here we see the outcast youth Narthax, who after escaping Order 66 hid amongst the Jawas in the deserts of Tatooine where he has all sorts of crazy adventures.
Also included is a different perspective of the Noghri I posted a while ago, and a better quality photo.
And since I just don't do nearly enough imperial officers, here are some more! One of which is meant to look like Blackadder.
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Imperial procurator of justice, the dark jedi trained by Vader, Lord Hethrir, the true leader of the Empire Reborn faction superior to Jerrec, Desann and Tavion. A shame he never even got a mention in the Jedi Knight series... well, I'm sure he was retconned as their leader later on.
You know, it's amazing just how many apprentices Vader actually had in the EU...
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I'd hate to look a Vornskr in the teeth again...
Myrkr's top predator, the force sensitive canines that menaced Mara and Luke, and are kept as pets by Talon Karrde.
He's a warg from the Hobbit figure line, as soon as I saw him all I could think was how could I put a Vornskr tail on him? I ended up wrapping wires in rubber bands and painting it. It's fully articulated, quite fun, it looks kinda meh but I think from far enough away it looks convincing.
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Nice job!
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Gandalf and Bilbo as Jedi, and now Bilbo's sword doesn't just glow blue when orcs are close!
Oh, and Emperor Gollum. He does kinda look like the 80s version of the Emperor... or E.T.
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I always thought a Jedi Gandalf would be cool. Off to the front page with more comments.
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Ha, that gollum as the emperor is priceless.
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Gandalf as a Jedi looks like something from TOR or even further back.
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wow awesome crossovers
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The heroes and villains of my work in progress.
Kyrsta Starwind witnessed the destruction of her homeworld Alderaan, and unlike Leia Organa she pursued a violent and self-destructive vendetta, killing any imperials she could get her hands on. She and started a pirate crew who attacked imperial military targets, but her relentless attacks often destroyed innocent lives as well. After the rebel victory at Endor she continued her personal war until she was discovered by the New Jedi Order who recognized her enormous potential for the force, and also the dangerous path she trod.
She was tempted to the dark side by Kuar Covan, a force vampire (draining the living force from his victims), and his army of dark jedi. Recognizing Kyrsta's desire for revenge and unchecked anger he drew her into his faction, hiding the truth from her that he and his disciples were still fanatically devoted to Palpatine and dedicated to wiping out the New Republic and finding a way to once again resurrect Palpatine...
After nearly falling to the dark side she at last came to grips with her past thanks to the help of her friends in the Jedi Order and became a strict practitioner of the light side, specializing in the rare and dangerous technique of sever force. Vowing never to kill again, she instead defeated Covan by severing his connection to the force permanently.
Oh, and Narthax figures into her story there somewhere.
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Very Cool Stuff!!! I dig the backstory.
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I really like her in her full robes.
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Wow, now this is what I call a nice welcome back. On the front page.
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Well, here's some more.
Starwind the white knight and Narthax the black knight. Yin and Yang, and one killer team.
And of course they've a few other Jedi friends here as well. On rather samurai looking one, and a slightly Buddhist monk one and... wow, didn't realize how eastern I was going here. Must have been the Chinese I've been having for lunch for days... ;D
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Aaaaand now it's official, I'm a grown man playing with dolls.
Ladies of Alderaan. Going by the movie's logic apparently they all wear a lot of white.
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Ladies of Alderaan! Very cool and well executed.
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Great looking figures abd the soft good work is just perfect!
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This little guy is based off one of my cute little creations from "Droidworks." Those were the days.
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Okay, redid him.
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love the lord of the rings characters as jedis! they look great!
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Dark Jedi remade.
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Hey very nice Dark Jedi. Time to go share on our pages.
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Whew. Well. While customizing figures of course you're left with a lot of leftover parts. And from those shards come some of your best creativity... or these!
In order:
Kyrsta and her father Torc. The two had a falling out after she left Alderaan for the imperial academy. After her disillusion with the Empire she returned home only to see her home world destroyed, believing him dead. In fact he spoke out against the Emperor and was forced to abandon his old life and become a pirate.
Most of Torc Starwind's pirate crew.
Imperial nobility and gentry.
Aaaand you've seen most of these before but hey, here they are again.
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Continued...
Narthax's true father, a Jedi who survived the purge and hid on Myrkr where he tried to resurrect the Jedi Order but grew consumed with revenge and molded his son into a tool of revenge.
And here he is as an older guy. When Narthax refused to follow his father's plans of terrorism (colliding imperial capital ships with Coruscant), his father wiped his memory and doomed him to wander the galaxy with no knowledge of his prior life.
A mysterious figure who follows Narthax and seems to be attempting to restore his memory. A friend or foe from his past? Yes. Yes it is.
Kyrsta's new look. Thank you new Mara Jade figure.
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Kyrsta in her imperial uniform and as a pirate/rebel.
Admiral Daala.
Imperial agent/assassin/Emperor's Hand. Daniel Craig? Kinda.
And this one is the Mara Jade head with her hair wig removed and the fantastic 4 wig attached. I kinda like it. Don't worry, I obtained 2 of those Mara Jade figures before they reached absurdly high prices online. One is still intact. Until I improve it... man does that head bother me.
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Wow, perhaps that Mara Jade head has some hope after all. Looks pretty good with the hairdo you put on it. Off to share.
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Hmm, yes... perhaps with a repaint of red gold she'd be the Mara we all wanted. Dunno, kinda like her as a blonde.
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Great bunch of customs! Good job!
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Your figures look great and the cloth capes look perfect well done indeed.
Ron
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Very nice and large group of customs!
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Scotsman Jedi and Rasta Jedi!
After attaching new hair to Mara Jade, the question remained what to do with that big poofy red wig? Put it on a guy and make him a Highland Jedi Warrior of course!
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Well that hair sure looks better on him that it did Mara Jade! Off to share.
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Great work again.
Ron
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… and he's also ugly.
First off after making a few other figures that involved hair transplants, I realized this one looked a bit like Jaina Solo. So she became Jaina Solo.
And then there's Palpy, in a newly sewn hood since hasbro just won't make a proper one. His hands are taken from the vintage Darth Sidious and repainted. The head was tricky, I thought the sculpt on the saga collection version was probably one of the best sculpts and paint jobs on an Emperor figure, so I hollowed out his head and put it on a better body.
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Really nice work
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Great update and loving that Emperor!
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Great update and loving that Emperor!
I couldn't have said it better. Off to share.
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wow excellent work !!! really like the emperor !!!
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Great work mate.
Ron
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What with the stir the new Mara Jade figure has caused, I figured she could use a new head.
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Nice, what head is that off of? Off to share.
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nicely done i too want to know what head you used for mara!
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Nice use of that GI Joe "Desert Ambush Scarlett" head for your custom Mara Jade!
She looks great!!
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Haha, yes, as I-am-Boba-Fett stated, the head is from Scarlett from the GI Joe Rise of Cobra series. You can still snag them on ebay for around $20 depending on the seller. I got several of them years ago seeing their Mara/Daala potential.
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The biggestest badestest roughest toughest… oh whatever. A mishmash of spare parts I thought turned out kinda cool. Made from Bossk and Bolg.
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I like it. On the front page.
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Scotsman Jedi and Rasta Jedi!
What figure did you get the Rasta hair from?
That would work perfectly for Star Wars Legacy's Syn character.
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Thank you all. :D
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Scotsman Jedi and Rasta Jedi!
What figure did you get the Rasta hair from?
That would work perfectly for Star Wars Legacy's Syn character.
Rasta Jedi is Quinlan Vos' head painted darker. He's in blackface I guess.
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See Hasbro? It's not that hard. Sign me up, I'm ready.
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That big hair sure does look better on the face you used here.
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A living breathing non-ghost Marka Ragnos… and one I haven't named yet.
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I like it. Off to share.
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I know that skull!
Wicked-looking custom. That crown is terrifying.
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What with all the well dressed figures I've been turning out I figured they'd do best on Coruscant. I found this Palpatine model kit at a thrift store and thought I would make an excellent monument.
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Oh yeah, looks great. Off to share.
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Cool.
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Great Galloping Guns! Where did you acquire that Palpatine statue?!
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I found it at a thrift store as I was just passing through. They had a whole bunch of power of the force figures, but also that still in its box.
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I'm about 99.99% sure that Ahsoka will be featured in Star Wars Rebels in some capacity. Same writers, she's alive, it's pretty inevitable. I'm just hoping it's a cool story. My personal hope is that we'll meet her early on but we won't know it's her... we'll get a few subtle clues and maybe a season or two in we'll get a shocking revelation. If you're a fan of Marble Hornets, I'm hoping Ahsoka we'll be a bit like the Hoody character, basically a cryptic, somewhat threatening but also strangely helpful masked figure who is later revealed to be an old friend.
TO THAT END... here is Ahsoka's disguise in my little fan fix in progress, in which she'll team up with Rex, who now knows Fives was telling the truth about the inhibitor chips and removed his and went awol (the way his character arc was heading anyway I'm pretty sure), and of course Lux as a little team trying to investigate how Order 66 was orchestrated. And of course she's aged since Clone Wars so I tried to make her look like the vision in the Mortis arc as an adult. Thank you Shaak Ti for donating your lekku.
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I sure hope you are right! Good looking custom on the front page.
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I do hope you're right about Ahsoka, as well as Rex. I would love it if he were alive. Great looking figure. Love the mask.
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And continuing with my little post Clone Wars tale, Rex never could shake the harrowing final moments of his brother in arms Fives. After Order 66 and the attack on the Jedi Temple, for which Rex was present, he realized Fives had been right. Ashamed at his actions he removed his inhibitor chip and set out to find the one Jedi he knew was still alive...
His new getup is based on his look in the Onderon Rebels arc.
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We've seen imperial ladies in the EU, but they tend to be rather high ranking which is surprising given the Empire's sexism. You'd think they'd more often be low level functionaries like this.
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We've seen imperial ladies in the EU, but they tend to be rather high ranking which is surprising given the Empire's sexism. You'd think they'd more often be low level functionaries like this.
While not nearly as common I can see it more in the EU as authors tend to be a bit more "against the grain" then the major holywood producers making movies for general audiences.. I wish we had an Admiral Daala figure and other prominent Imperial women in their prime of course.
That said the custom is awesome. Can you say what body/head you used for it?
oh and hot women fighting for the empire at any rank is approved.
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Agreed.
The body is a slightly modified version of Irina Spalko and the head is Juno Eclipse.
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I am sorry it has taken me awhile to comment, I am just now starting to get caught up on the custom stuff here and really enjoyed this take on Rex. I really like your story too. What a great photo-novel this would make. Off to share to the front page.
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No those aren't their actual names, but I got some sculpey and after making some lekku and making humans into twi'leks I thought well, why not make some imperial officers fatter??
So I did.
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That is a great idea. They look pretty good if you ask me. Off to share.
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Pretty cool. He looks like Alfred Hitchcock.
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Ha! Now there's a better name... some variation of Hitchcock like... Citchhock... I'll work on that.
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So I love this sculpey stuff. I was able to make an improved version of Sate Pestage with it. Too bad he and every other EU character I've made may no longer exist...
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nice!
The imperial pair... if one is a jumbled hitchcock what would the rather curvey imperial female officers name be I wonder?...hmmm
As for the Sate Pestage ... thats awesome.. I am biased as the Rogue Squadron books were probably my fave next to the thrawn trilogy so seeing him in a good sculpt is awesome.
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LOL. at least he exists on the front page!
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Loving that Sate Pestage!
I might be remembering wrong, but I thought when they announced what the story group considered canon it included the novelizations of the films. Maybe he still exists.
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It's kind of complicated. What they did was separate all the Star Wars EU material into the categories "Canon" and "Legends." Canon is what has basically been stamped and approved by Lucas, and everything else in the Legends category is up in the air. They're sort of saying that they won't erase it from Star Wars history... but it may not have actually happened and is therefore more of a... well, legend.
Frankly, I'm not against them cleaning up the EU. We tend to forget that for every good novel or comic there has been a lot of sub-par, questionable, and occasionally flat out bad stuff put out there. Not gonna name names but FORCE UNLEASHED II... and I'm not so keen on the first one either. As long as the Rogue Squadron, Thrawn Trilogy, basically everything big up to the Yuuzhan Vong invasion I'm in favor of keeping... I have to say after the whole Vong thing started and they started killing off characters just for attention (Chewie, Anakin, Ackbar, Mara, Jacen, etc...) well I say I'm fine with all that being cut out.
We live in an Expanded Universe where Mara Jade dies, but Admiral Daala is still alive... not okay with me.
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As a lad of 9, I remember the thing that struck me most about Empire Strikes Back was... Yoda sounds just like Grover!
I give you Master Elmo.
I actually had a bizarre dream in which Vader demands entrance to some imperial prison cell, but the officers protest claiming the most annoying thing in the galaxy is detained within. Then a bizarre little red fuzzy humanoid bursts out and rampages through the base. And I thought huh... looked like Elmo. That'd be kinda funny if I made it into a figure.
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Haha awesome! I always knew Elmo was a master of the force! Love this idea, and it's not that far out, as Jim Henson was definitely instrumental in creating Star Wars.
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It's kind of complicated. What they did was separate all the Star Wars EU material into the categories "Canon" and "Legends." Canon is what has basically been stamped and approved by Lucas, and everything else in the Legends category is up in the air. They're sort of saying that they won't erase it from Star Wars history... but it may not have actually happened and is therefore more of a... well, legend.
Frankly, I'm not against them cleaning up the EU. We tend to forget that for every good novel or comic there has been a lot of sub-par, questionable, and occasionally flat out bad stuff put out there. Not gonna name names but FORCE UNLEASHED II... and I'm not so keen on the first one either. As long as the Rogue Squadron, Thrawn Trilogy, basically everything big up to the Yuuzhan Vong invasion I'm in favor of keeping... I have to say after the whole Vong thing started and they started killing off characters just for attention (Chewie, Anakin, Ackbar, Mara, Jacen, etc...) well I say I'm fine with all that being cut out.
We live in an Expanded Universe where Mara Jade dies, but Admiral Daala is still alive... not okay with me.
I can see your point,... but I was never a Mara Jade fan, while she was an ex-imperial agent I liked that she took that side but the neutralism that Tallon Kardde had kinda irritated me and it bled over to her character.
Admiral Daala wasn't award winningly written by KJA thats for sure, she dissapeared for years after turning over Imperial control to Paeleon, but returned later I think as an older woman... meh... Daala surviving isnt that big of a deal to me, I'd prefer seeing other women not turn from the empire as Juno Eclipse/Deena Shan did. Too often women in the empire were used as mere unique plot markers, like Isarde in the Rogue Squadron comics instead of showing the grit and will it would take for a woman to go through the ranks of the heavily sexist empire. Oh for that matter use that sexism for thier own advantage. *shrugs* I dunno, just thinking out loud.
One of these days someone needs to make the pilots from Otaking77077's 2 min star wars anime clip and give them backstories.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tBM2ZfncoU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tBM2ZfncoU)
The female bomber pilot looked kewl.
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The elmo made me laugh, I needed that thanks, btw awesome custom work!
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Great custom work! Master Elmo is just Awesome! ;D
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Master Elmo looks good on the front page. I can here his maniacal laugh already!
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Jedi Elmo has just made my day. My kids and I can't stop laughing.
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That fuzzy, red Jedi will cut off your arms and legs and then tickle you to death.
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Coming soon... Master Grover. Or as he would say Maaaast... ... ... ... er Grover!!
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I just love Master Grover.
Is he just made of pipe cleaners?
Freaking brilliant.
That fuzzy, red Jedi will cut off your arms and legs and then tickle you to death.
ROFL
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Pipe cleaners and a little bit of sculpey and paint and crazy glue. I think I'm gonna do a whole series of muppet Jedi... and Sith.
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I'm so glad you said that! I would love to see the same treatment that the Disney cartoons (Mickey, Goofy, etc.) received for their Star Wars incarnations, done with Sesame Street and the Muppets! Now, is Fozzie Bear Chewbacca? Or is it Rowlf, the dog?
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I don't know about you, but I was pretty stoked about the Inquisitor since he was first announced, and continue to be so as the character keeps receiving more good news. I know a lot of people cried, "Why can't we just have Vader?" or "There can only be two Sith!" or whatever else. I knew there were plenty of reasons Vader couldn't be the primary antagonist on Rebels. For starters, the main characters aren't important enough for Vader's attention, and if he did come after them it would be a very short series. Otherwise Vader would turn into a bumbling cartoon villain who gets foiled every week.
Second, the Inquisitors have been a part of the EU for a while and I think it's awesome that we get a Star Wars version of the Spanish Inquisition. My only hope is we get a "No one expects the Imperial Inquisition." at least once...
Plus, he's Jason Isaacs and looks like Voldemort. Could we ask for more from Vader's henchman?
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Your Inquisitor looks good! Off to share.
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Whew, I actually did it... I put together a Pong Krell. I didn't get a four armed figure, but rather hooked the upper torso of one GI Joe figure to another and it actually worked. He still needs a little detail work, the gauntlets mostly. Still I'm just so happy with how this turned out.
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Wow, that is just fantastic! Man way to go HN87!
I am all over this on the fp.
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There... slightly more finished. Still haven't figured out how to do his white armor gauntlets but at least I got the armbands and his tunic is the proper color now.
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Well, I finished the sculpey gauntlets and even added those tendril things coming off of his head. I think this could be my magnum opus. Wait no... his eyes need to be orange... curses.
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This is really looking fantastic. You have got to be really pleased with how this is coming together.
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Thank you, I sure am. Usually I just swap heads and paint mustaches on things, so this is an accomplishment for sure.
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Your work on this Krell figure is great. He looks fabulous.
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Any update on this? I really want to see this one finished!
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Oh, uh, I think he was basically done. I did paint his eyes orange but that's barely noticeable, so yeah he's essentially finished unless I forgot some small detail.
In the meantime enjoy this Gamorrean juggernaut. I saw this Hulk figure and was reminded of a Star Wars Tales comic called "Three Against the Galaxy" which was about a rather deep gamorrean having an existential crisis who forms an unlikely friendship with a human girl and a jawa. He was also huge and ripped, so yeah. The body is 100% not customized, but I made that gamorrean head myself from sculpy.
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Nice. Wow, that is some great head sculpting. Off to share.
Sorry I thought your Krell wasn't done. Must have been having a senior moment.
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Well, I did mention his eyes weren't quite done so I believe I mislead people. How devious I can be.
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It appears we're going to have our share of goofy incompetent imperial officers on Rebels. And I wouldn't have it any other way. I am glad however we get a few more intimidating and serious imperial bad guys like Kallus to balance the equation. From what I've seen and heard, he's going to be a pretty intense villain. I thought I'd make a version of him... that crazy gun of his was tricky. I also improved upon my Inquisitor. Enjoy.
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Looks great. Man I like the realistic look so much better than the anime type version. I hope they make realistic versions of these characters down the road. Off to share.
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Oh I love the animated look they've come up with for this show... better than Clone Wars actually... the sharp angular features on peoples' faces always bothered me stylistically speaking. It wasn't bad just not my preference. I love this new Ralph Mcquarrie painting come to life look. In terms of FIGURES... yeah I agree. I love a lot of the Clone Wars figures but they clash with the more realistic ones, which is why I'm grateful for the vintage and black series giving us realistic looking Ahsoka and whatnot.
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I still think these are gonna be a bit too cartoony looking for most of em as far as what I like, but I might pick up a few like Chopper, probably a Stormy, definitely an AT-DP Driver, etc.
I still hope they make em in realistic style though, now for that I would be all in!
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Pardon the title. I cobbled together a more "realistic" Rex, complete with jetpack. He and Ahsoka will take on the galaxy together after the Clone Wars... after Ahsoka sings her personal rendition of "Let it Go."
DISNEY!
No seriously I think that song is rather befitting her departure from the Order...
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Fabulous job on the Rebels era figures! Looking forward to the new characters so it's great to see you produce them in realistic style.
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Remember my big bad trandoshan? I made him better.
Apart from the obvious armor, flamethrower, and the like, I made his feet more trandoshan and gave him those little feathery things ala Clone Wars
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Wow, I like! Off to share.
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I like this guy! Is that a Hulk body?
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Yes indeed it is! Pretty recognizable...
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Spoilers (kinda) ahead
So... if you've been keeping up with Rebels and remember my earlier hopes for Ahsoka's entry onto the show... looks like I may have gotten my wish. By now it's a pretty popular theory that Hera's mysterious informant is in fact Ahsoka, and the evidence is quite compelling. When pitched upward their voice sure sounds like Eckstein, that symbol is kinda like Ahsoka's forehead marking, and it just makes sense that Ahsoka would be a reclusive freedom fighter by this time. I said I had hoped she would appear incognito, friendly yet also threatening, and we'd have to wait a while for the reveal, ala Marble Hornets. And wow, if this Fulcrum person is Ahsoka, kudos to the writers on reading my mind/stealing my ideas again!
Anyway, here's adult Ahsoka in disguise with that symbol etched on her mask.
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Dear god I hope I'm the first one to make this thing...
I can't believe of all the crazy lightsabers no one ever thought to come up with a broadsword with a lightsaber hilt, awesome idea.
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You'll cut your arm off kid! Off to share.
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When standing amongst other officer figures, the vintage Tarkin figure always looked a little out of place with his dark green tunic. A little cutting and pasting on Captain Needa and we have one grand looking Moff Tarkin.
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I'm about 99.99% sure that Ahsoka will be featured in Star Wars Rebels in some capacity. Same writers, she's alive, it's pretty inevitable. I'm just hoping it's a cool story. My personal hope is that we'll meet her early on but we won't know it's her... we'll get a few subtle clues and maybe a season or two in we'll get a shocking revelation. If you're a fan of Marble Hornets, I'm hoping Ahsoka we'll be a bit like the Hoody character, basically a cryptic, somewhat threatening but also strangely helpful masked figure who is later revealed to be an old friend.
TO THAT END... here is Ahsoka's disguise in my little fan fix in progress, in which she'll team up with Rex, who now knows Fives was telling the truth about the inhibitor chips and removed his and went awol (the way his character arc was heading anyway I'm pretty sure), and of course Lux as a little team trying to investigate how Order 66 was orchestrated. And of course she's aged since Clone Wars so I tried to make her look like the vision in the Mortis arc as an adult. Thank you Shaak Ti for donating your lekku.
And I can't believe how close I was.
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Dude, that Tarkin looks great! I want one of those!
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Thanks! The recipe is just the vintage Tarkin, Captain Needa body which is trimmed down a bit in height, and the Power of the Force Tarkin for the rank bars and code cylinders. The only real tricky part was the collar which I swapped from the Tarkin body to the Needa body and did a little repaint, but that's optional I suppose. I just thought it looked right.
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I ran out of time yesterday morning to get this one posted, but I made sure I did today. Wow, does it look so much better than the vintage version with the awful soft goods!
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Simply bad ass! Well done! :)
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I loved that sadly short-lived Inquisitor. Such an eloquent and articulate villain. Sad that Hasbro hasn't made figures as articulate as of late. This is my first venture into adding more articulation to figures with only 5 points of articulation. Now he has knees, pivoting elbows and swivel wrists. For what I thought would be disastrous actually turned out decently. When I'm feeling more ambitiously confident I'll try to add ball joints to his shoulders... but that could ruin the figure so I may hold off.
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The inquisitor looks awesome !
Is that Admiral Konstantine in the 1st pic with him?
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Oh yeah, a great improvement. Off to share.
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The inquisitor looks awesome !
Is that Admiral Konstantine in the 1st pic with him?
Why yes. Yes it is. That tarkin figure I made earlier left me with a few spare parts so I made Konstantine. I just missed on the sideburns.
I'm hoping we see more of him in season 2, and with them introducing a growing rebel fleet I think we will. You don't create a character with a name like Kassius Konstantine and just have him be a background character for one season...
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Awesome work, I cant wait to buy my inquisitor
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I'll try to add ball joints to his shoulders... but that could ruin the figure so I may hold off.
Nice work. I plan on articulating Sabine if I ever find her.
Regarding the Inquisitor. Do you have a back up figure? That might help with the insecurity.
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Gotta say man that Tarkin is really nice, Good job.
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Wow!! That's great! Wish hasbro still kept the love for articulation. Amazingly executed!
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The inquisitor looks awesome !
Is that Admiral Konstantine in the 1st pic with him?
Why yes. Yes it is. That tarkin figure I made earlier left me with a few spare parts so I made Konstantine. I just missed on the sideburns.
I'm hoping we see more of him in season 2, and with them introducing a growing rebel fleet I think we will. You don't create a character with a name like Kassius Konstantine and just have him be a background character for one season...
My sentiments exactly.
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I'll try to add ball joints to his shoulders... but that could ruin the figure so I may hold off.
Nice work. I plan on articulating Sabine if I ever find her.
Regarding the Inquisitor. Do you have a back up figure? That might help with the insecurity.
I do, I do, I just don't want to ruin this one and have to start over.
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My hopes for Ahsoka were realized with Star Wars Rebels, a cryptic seemingly helpful but slightly dangerous entity turns out to be our wayward padawan. And then they were good enough to give us an action figure of her... sad figures aren't what they used to be in terms of articulation. I fixed that.
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You can find my comments on our front pages.
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Ahsoka looks great! The added articulation improves the figure and is extremely well done.
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Well, it's been a while, but I do have a fair amount of customs I've been working on in that time. Here are just a few rebels to start off, more to come. One barabel and his human lady pal, a former imperial. Oh, and I finally figured out how to take decent quality photos.
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And since the ISB is all the rage these days thanks to Rebels and Rogue One, I made me an ISB agent. Also a field commander and a young Rae Sloane.
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Great update! I really like the figures. The Barabel looks great, would you be willing to share the recipe? Nice job on the ISB agent as well. Okay the truth is that they all look great.
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Thanks! He's a real mishmash of parts... let's see... his body is the mortal combat reptile, his head and tail are the Amazing Spider-man Lizard. I guess those are the only crucial parts and the rest of his armor and weapons you're free to fill in as you like.
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Great update, off to share.
Good to see you back. Lovely photos too!
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Your Barabel makes mine look like his scrawny little brother. What body did you use? I recognize the armor, but the weapons are crazy cool!
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A really nice update !
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Thanks! His body is the mortal kombat reptile and I originally made his blaster rifle for an Agent Kallus custom but I figured a barabel is bound to have beaten a lasat or two in combat. I'll have to check out your barabel.
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So wow, Rebels has introduced this new villain called "Grand Admiral Thrawn" this season. He's just kinda boring cuz he doesn't hav uh lightsaber or da force or nothin, I think the villain should be General Grievous with the force. Dis blue guy has sith eyes but he's boring.
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No, in all seriousness I screamed like an excited little schoolgirl when I first saw the trailer with Thrawn (as did most of you I'm sure). I gotta say, so far he's the best thing about the season. While the characterizations of our main cast this season has ranged from underused (Zeb) to out of character (Hera) to just kind of obnoxious (Ezra), to actually pretty good (Kanan, Sabine) the most intriguing aspects have been what's been going on with the Empire in the background. Thrawn, true to his novel counterpart is toying with the heroes in an attempt to gain as much knowledge about them and their psychological blindspots as possible. Makes me hopeful that things are about to get really bad for the heroes, since every tiny victory they've achieved has been purely because Thrawn has allowed them to win.
Sorry, we're here to talk about plastic. The moment I try to just write a short intro about what I've made, I get in depth about the character...
Anyway, the comic 2-pack Thrawn figure always bothered me for a number of reasons. For one, his uniform is inaccurate (I know it was drawn that way briefly in the comics) with the seam of his tunic going straight down the middle, and he was also just way too short for a guy who's supposed to also be physically imposing as well as an intellectual giant. I also really preferred the head sculpt from the Power of the Force line. So, here you go, the best of both worlds. I gave him the new canon epaulets BUT I patently refuse to give him pupils.
Seriously, I have to believe the crew behind Rebels were like, "Okay, we're giving the people what they want with Thrawn, but how can we mess with them in some small way... I know! Let's give him visible pupils!" I'm still holding out hope that somehow his eyes start glowing and his pupils disappear later in the season...
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Good to see you back and I am have been underwhelmed with the Rebels Thrawn. Good work and off to share.
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Hey folks, I've been um, locked away in imperial prison for my anti-imperial activity for some time. But now that I'm a free man again, why not customize some figures?
First up, Narthax's new look.
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Nice Narthax, glad to see you're still customizing! I wasn't around to see your Thrawn update so it was quite the surprise to come here and see it above your recent awesome additions hehe.
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Life's been busy, but it's good to be back. :)
And now, some inquisitors.
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Great to see you back. Off to share.
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Whaddaya do with spare parts as a customizer? Why, make Saw Gerrera's Partisans of course. Mostly.
The Lasat is a combo of Beast and the Ralph Macquarie Chewbacca. In my head canon he's the one who executed all of Agent Kallus' squad.
And of course bald Saw. Redlettermedia once suggested Forest Whitaker would have been a better choice to play a Jedi than Samuel L. Jackson. Well, I can safely say that Samuel L Jackson probably would have made a better Saw Gerrera than Forest Whitaker.
And yes... in my head canon, Saw Gerrera slices off imperial prisoners' heads with a buzz saw called Gerrera's saw. Because, you know, he's a terrorist.
I'm not sure why these photos are posting sideways and upside down... apologies.
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Its usually because of posting phone pics I have found out. Not sure why it does it, but it does. If you rotate your picture before you load it up it will fix it.
Off to share the latest.
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Up next, my own imperial mad scientist... who yes, looks an awful lot like Admiral Screed. Specializing in cybernetics he experiments on imperial prisoners turning them into obedient cyborg super soldiers. Oh, and the other guy. In the latest Marvel Star Wars issue Ashes of Jedha part 1, we're introduced to Commander Kanchar, who is this crazy sinister mash of Captain Hook, Tee-hee and I'd say... Ernest Hemingway? Well, anyway, he's pretty badass so I just had to make him.
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Kind of reminds me a bit of Trapjaw with that arm too. Nice all the way around. Off to share.
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Nice job on the Partisans - I particularly like the build on the Lasat.
I like the Admiral Screed character as well :) Great set of updates.
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*Pokes head out from under rock*
So uh… last time I posted was pre The Last Jedi…
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I liked it a lot. The fandom reaction sent me into a spiral of depression rivaling Luke’s… perhaps that’s why it spoke to me.
Ah well. Let’s see… my reactions to all things SW since 2017 are as follows…
The Last Jedi: Liked it a lot and it continues to grow on me. I think I almost love it now.
Solo A Star Wars Story: That was fun.
Star Wars Resistance: Oh yeah. That exists.
Clone Wars Season 7: Still crying. In a good way.
The Rise of Skywalker: I didn’t hate it.
The Mandalorian: What do you think… … … (It’s great)
The Bad Batch: Fun as hell.
Book of Boba Fett: … might be the definition of a guilty pleasure for me.
Kenobi: Ups and downs, but the ups far outweigh the downs for me.
Andor: The best Star Wars thing since 1977 and yes I’m counting ESB so DON’T ASK… heresy I know… but that show left me SHAKING
Anyway, that about brings us up to speed. Let’s see… I made my Commander Kanchar look slightly better.
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Nice to see you back! I like Kanchar a lot.
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Great to see you back with an update.
I like your take on a lot of the new stuff. Thanks for sharing.
Off to take that new custom to the front pags.
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*Pokes head out from under rock*
Haha that's nice! Welcome back! Your latest custom looks great! Keep them coming & thanks for sharing.
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Hi. I still customize stuff believe it or not 😅
Mandalorian season 3 gave us that cool little scene as a preview of what’s to come with all these imperial warlords, every one of them with their own customized uniforms and all clearly plotting to be the next emperor. I figured why not get a little creative.
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Nice, great to see you are still kicking too!
Off to share.
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Those are great! Some creativity is a wonderful thing.
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I should do this more often.
Post, I mean.
I still customize figures a lot, I just stopped feeling the need to share for some reason…
Anyway… (insert rank here) Gideon receives the darksaber after the Mandalore purge.
… and I guess he makes Vader angry (as you do as an officer of the Empire) and gets a throat hug… and in that moment makes it his life goal to become a force user.
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Seriously, I love the idea of a power mad non force user wanting to artificially make himself force sensitive… which they explored a bit in Mando season 3 but I just wish we’d have gotten more… … and while that death scene seemed pretty final I’m still not convinced we’ve seen the last of Gideon… they established he has a bunch of force sensitive clones of himself so it’s entirely possible that Din and Bo didn’t get ALL of them…
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That's brilliant! I think the Vader scene is really clever.
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So great to see you back. I hope you do show us what you have been creating. Great scene with the forcechoke.
Off to the front pages to share.