Topic: www.Imperialshipyards.net 5th Birthday Celebration Contest!

[r1bb1t]

Chad, L.E. and Brian... You guys are laying it down like bosses! All are fantastic!
I'm eagerly awaiting more pix from everyone!
Happy Birthday ISY!!!!!

[benjani_1976]

My yayax squad is still a WIP,only about 50% finished so i guess i could start work again on finishing them all........and making a dio for them.

[Mando Assasin]

AMAZING guys... just AMAZING! Savage and nightolorians are looking awesome and Spry.. That looks WICKED! DD Epic i love them! Cannot wait to see all the entries! Still working on mine! Ordering fix-it tomorrow so i will be entering as soon as i get that and crack down! My squad is a elite squad of TOR Mandos! Am i aloud to post sketches of them?

[Mando Assasin]

Lucasclones are you going to make a Mando Talzin?

[Phatty]

Here's my prime custom group shot.  There are a lot of accessories and greeblies yet to add to some of them, so they're a bit incomplete, but here's my start....

Special Tactics and Recon group, or SPECTREs (Yes, I stole that from Mass Effect and don't care!) is a special sect of the United States Government so far in the dark, even official agencies such as the FBI, CIA, ATF, and Secret Service are unaware of their existence.  This is the group that gets sent in to do that which the rest of the World considers villainous and murderous, yet no one has ever seen (or lived to tell about it) them in action.  The World considers many of the happenings across the globe to be that of chance, circumstance, or accident.  However, more often than not, when a rebellion needs to be quelled, when a treacherous National leader needs to be removed, when Order needs to be restored to Chaos, The Council sends out the SPECTREs.  While incredibly little is known about the SPECTREs (Even S.H.I.E.L.D. has no clue of their existence.  Wolverine has suspicions of their activities as far back as the Civil War, but even he couldn't confirm it!), even less is known about them individually amongst themselves.  They accept their outfit for what it is; a group of enhanced super humans willing to do anything necessary to complete their assignments.


Pictured left to right are Takedown, Flashpoint, Lifestar, and Apparition


Close-up of Takedown and Flashpoint


Close-up of Lifestar and Apparition


Takedown:  Takedown has enhanced strength and durability with rapid healing capabilities, but little is known about the suit of armor he wears.  His skin and bones are known to have a density similar to hardened steel, but no one has ever seen him outside of his armor.  Fearless and arrogant, Takedown is that which goes bump in the night with his massive hammer or lethal kitana.



I've got quite a ways to go on his armor yet, though obviously the primary will be a matte black finish.  I'm planning on going with green and gold accents.

The body is from a Power Rangers Samurai figure and a head I bought awhile back from Slayer Design Studios.  Simple head swap, but I like where it went immediately.

Flashpoint:  Flashpoint has the ability to create and manipulate electrically charged flames in a variety of ways, from focusing into projectiles or flight.  Flight speeds are unconfirmed, but believed to be sub-light.  Temperatures of his flames have reached 26,000 kelvin.  The early onset of his powers resulted in horrible disfigurement of his hands and feet, which is why he wears mechanical constructs over them, helping him focus them at higher intensities without harm to himself.



Again, I've got a long ways to go with them.  Being a Black-Ops squad, I feel they need to have overly Black uniforms with individual accents of color.  Flashpoints will be orange and yellow.  The body is a MU Cyclops with Extremis Armor Iron Man hands and lower legs.  Head is a DC super hero (I can't place off the top of my head, Firestorm I think?) I had also gotten from Slayer Design Studios.

More to come!

[mr.Jedi1977]

Ok  i messed up before and posted my wip for the contest in the wrong spot but here it is in the right spot I think i will call them TF squad 1138 no back story as of yet or if there will be but again enjoy  more soon !!!!

[lucasclones]

Sorry all having a bad night i will get the wip pic up soon. My computer wont let me post the pic the right now

Fixed it for you buddy, you were only missing the end brackett so I just added it. You must have accidentally hit backspace or missed it when copying...

[Mando Assasin]

Love the supers Phat! Looking EPIC!

[r1bb1t]

I'm guessing, after seeing these beautiful pix, that Phatty works at/owns Gentle Giant or Sideshow.... Or maybe both. Phatty, you apparently know how to whip it, flip it and smack it on the bing bong when it comes to creating some great looking customs and writing a riveting backstory.
Please take it easy on the other competitors, Phatty. They are good people and mean you no harm.
Your customs make mine look as if they were created by a person who had suffered a very serious brain injury, and has hooks that are rusted and missing vital pieces for hands, and is blind in one eye and has a lot of grit in the other eye, and suffers from violent shaking and who, if viewed, looks like a person whose face was on fire, but thankfully the fire had been put out with an axe.
Just jivin'. Give 'em hell. The competition here is stiffer than  the test subjects at the Viagra Corporation.

[mr.Jedi1977]

Thank you lucasclones

[r1bb1t]

I really dig your TF trooper, mr jedi1977. Nice concept. I look forward to seeing the rest of your squad.

[Tamer]

Folks, after recieving numerous emails and pms about one point (allowing previously posted wips to be used) we are going to stipulate that any custom work in progress postings before September 16, 2012, 09:28:23 PM when the contest was unveiled will not be allowed for entry.

That is our normal policy for custom contests anyhow and I do apologize if this will inconvenience some, but we have gotten so many complaints about that one area that we are just going back to our original policy of new work not previously posted. And remember folks, this is just for fun. I hate to think of a custom contest where folks are actually stressing out about what can be submitted and what is fair or not fair or anything along those lines. We just wanted to give out prizes and celebrate our 5th birthday and allow the folks here to share in that.

[Apocalyptic Customs]

IM IN!!!   

[Clonehead]

Guys, from what I have seen, work wise, this could turn out to be one of the best custom contests yet. Thus far, everything is turning out great looking.
It's hard tO believe that it has been five years already.

[darthdaddy]

Folks, after recieving numerous emails and pms about one point (allowing previously posted wips to be used) we are going to stipulate that any custom work in progress postings before September 16, 2012, 09:28:23 PM when the contest was unveiled will not be allowed for entry.

That is our normal policy for custom contests anyhow and I do apologize if this will inconvenience some, but we have gotten so many complaints about that one area that we are just going back to our original policy of new work not previously posted. And remember folks, this is just for fun. I hate to think of a custom contest where folks are actually stressing out about what can be submitted and what is fair or not fair or anything along those lines. We just wanted to give out prizes and celebrate our 5th birthday and allow the folks here to share in that.

What a bummer I guess that means me, Mando Assassin, and Lucasclones are out.

Was really excited to participate.  Even shelled out an extra $20 yesterday just so I could enter and be a part of this.  I'm only home 3 days a week so I don't think I'll be participating in this one.  Don't have the time to pull it off.  Not a really big deal because I was going to make three of the figures anyway.  I'm just bummed that I can't give back to ISY after they have been so supportive of my work.  Good luck everybody