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Re: Customjedi's Figures
« Reply #105 on: August 01, 2014, 07:40:27 PM »
I concur. great update on this one.

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Re: Customjedi's Figures
« Reply #106 on: August 02, 2014, 04:59:52 AM »
Yep, great update and its on our front pages now.

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Re: Customjedi's Figures
« Reply #107 on: August 02, 2014, 07:08:07 AM »
Thank you, Starchaser, DarthSinister and Tamer!

Next up, a couple of simple headswaps (with some dremeling and gluing for good measure). Perhaps I should call these ongoing additions the "Hasbro Should've/Could've Series."




Lastly, an upgrade to the softgoods on Zuckuss...



« Last Edit: October 06, 2017, 04:04:08 PM by customjedi »
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Re: Customjedi's Figures
« Reply #108 on: August 02, 2014, 01:35:11 PM »
I posted an action figure trailer to my Facebook page

http://www.facebook.com/customjedi

but I couldn't figure out how to share it here.
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Re: Customjedi's Figures
« Reply #109 on: August 02, 2014, 09:15:00 PM »
Your custom Lukes and Zuckuss look excellent!

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Re: Customjedi's Figures
« Reply #110 on: August 03, 2014, 05:37:28 AM »
Your custom Lukes and Zuckuss look excellent!

I agree. that soft goods is especially good on Zuckuss. Off to share yet again on our main pages.

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Re: Customjedi's Figures
« Reply #111 on: August 03, 2014, 12:56:46 PM »
Awesome work on 4-LOM (I'm very old  ;D), a great nod to the Kenner figure.

The headswaps on the Luke figures look great too. Which head did you use?

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Re: Customjedi's Figures
« Reply #112 on: August 03, 2014, 01:56:06 PM »
What material did you use on Zuckus?
I like it.

I also like the Hasbro Shoulda/Coulda idea.  Simple fixes should be a separate thread on ISY with that title.

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Re: Customjedi's Figures
« Reply #113 on: August 03, 2014, 08:52:06 PM »
WANT that C-3PO. A lot of good stuff here.
The exploits of my life are less canonical than they are legendary.

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Re: Customjedi's Figures
« Reply #114 on: August 04, 2014, 05:45:24 AM »
Thanks I-am-Boba-Fett, Tamer, and halnarthax87!

Mr. Black, the Luke head is the Medical Frigate (bathrobe) figure.
 
The material on Zuckuss is a faux fashion leather, Sjefke. I think the color is "Nubuck."
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Re: Customjedi's Figures
« Reply #115 on: August 06, 2014, 05:33:22 PM »
I'm in the process of recreating Yerka Mig from the ground up to replace this outdated late-90's custom.



After completing the face paint, I think it's going to end up looking like Sam Jones (1980's Flash Gordon). I guess I'll live with that since I certainly don't want to have to paint a different head.
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« Reply #116 on: August 07, 2014, 08:03:51 AM »
Trying out a new finishing technique. I know a lot of people use Dull Coat but as I got back into customizing I wanted the pieces to fit in with my off the shelf figures (in so much as is possible). This time around I'm using a brush on matte varnish. Despite it being labeled as "matte," it's not really flat but not as shiny as a gloss finish. Interestingly, some parts of some figures were still slightly tacky feeling - which leads me to my new experimental finishing agent: talcum powder. Now I have a small ziplock bag of talc which a shake any tacky pieces in then brush off the excess. No sticky finish and my finished pieces now smell baby-fresh!
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Re: Customjedi's Figures
« Reply #117 on: August 07, 2014, 02:24:19 PM »
Decided to throw my action figure trailer on YouTube for the heck of it.
http://youtu.be/O7u2VdpNqpA
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Re: Customjedi's Figures
« Reply #118 on: August 07, 2014, 05:06:01 PM »
Awesome video, I have not time, but I had to get that on the front page.

I am so behind again. Real life rears its head again. Daggone real life!

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« Reply #119 on: August 09, 2014, 09:27:24 AM »
I am so behind again. Real life rears its head again. Daggone real life!

Don't you just hate it when real life interferes with the stuff you want to do? It's the primary reason it takes me so long to finish a custom.

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