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Re: Customjedi's Figures (Lando - Smuggler & Danz Borin)
« Reply #195 on: July 06, 2015, 05:39:51 PM »
 a fantastic upgrade to danz Great job !! 

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Re: Customjedi's Figures (Lando - Smuggler & Danz Borin)
« Reply #196 on: July 06, 2015, 05:52:41 PM »
Good update to Danz. Your Rieekan turned out really fabulous, the modifications are a great update to the figure.

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Re: Customjedi's Figures (Lando - Smuggler & Danz Borin)
« Reply #197 on: July 07, 2015, 07:32:01 AM »
Great work on that conversion. It is so nice to see better movement in custom action figures.

Off to share.

Tamer, thanks for the front page!

JDeck, ghostskull18, mr.Jedi1977 & Starchaser, thanks so much for your comments. I really appreciate it!
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Re: Customjedi's Figures (Lando - Smuggler & Danz Borin)
« Reply #198 on: July 13, 2015, 06:36:34 AM »
All my Instagram friends decided they wanted to see Hammerhead updated, so I've started on making some articulation additions.




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Re: Customjedi's Figures (Danz Borin & WIP - Hammerhead)
« Reply #199 on: July 13, 2015, 07:42:51 AM »
That's awesome, and ironic.....as I'm currently working on a Del Moomo (also a Ithorian)  that is 100% inspired by the works of Sith_fire30.

I'll be posting WiP shots soon myself.  Glad to see someone else also working on a ithorian.  You don't see many of those around.

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Re: Customjedi's Figures (Danz Borin & WIP - Hammerhead)
« Reply #200 on: July 13, 2015, 04:02:22 PM »

I'll be posting WiP shots soon myself.  Glad to see someone else also working on a ithorian.  You don't see many of those around.

Can't wait to see what you do with your Ithorian, Bronxstalker!

I've always been fond of Hasbro's paint job on their last version of Momaw Nadon, so I'm trying to preserve the skin tones in so far as is possible by using a number of grey and tan washes to mask the new joints.



The clothing will need to be completely repainted to color match the added soft goods.
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Re: Customjedi's Figures (Danz Borin & WIP - Hammerhead)
« Reply #201 on: July 17, 2015, 12:22:40 PM »
Looks great AJ, i used your hollowing out method on that custom luke i posted on Instagram. I think I'm going to redo my ROTJ luke the same way. Thanks for the inspiration, your figs and dios are AWESOME!!! Keep up the great work man
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Re: Customjedi's Figures (Danz Borin & WIP - Hammerhead)
« Reply #202 on: July 18, 2015, 05:29:56 AM »
Looks great AJ, i used your hollowing out method on that custom luke i posted on Instagram. I think I'm going to redo my ROTJ luke the same way.

So glad that technique helped you out. Your new Hoth Luke looks great btw!
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Re: Customjedi's Figures (Danz Borin & WIP - Hammerhead)
« Reply #203 on: July 18, 2015, 07:02:47 AM »
Wow, looks great. Read more comments on the front page.

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Re: Customjedi's Figures (Danz Borin & WIP - Hammerhead)
« Reply #204 on: July 18, 2015, 03:52:35 PM »
Thats looking fantastic ! I may have to try your technique, on my version !

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Re: Customjedi's Figures (Danz Borin & WIP - Hammerhead)
« Reply #205 on: July 18, 2015, 06:33:58 PM »
Nice work AJ.  All those TACs deserve an upgrade like this.
What figure did you cannabilize for the joints?
Will you be ball jointing the shoulders?
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Re: Customjedi's Figures (Danz Borin & WIP - Hammerhead)
« Reply #206 on: July 18, 2015, 07:56:31 PM »
Nice!  I'm particularly impressed with your articulation on Rieken.  Looking forward to updates on Momaw Nadon.

Re: Danz Borin--if anyone is interested in costume references on some of these old prop spacesuits,  this blog does a nice job tracking them through different movies.  If it's the same helmet, it's pretty altered by the time it hits "Laverne and Shirley ", but there are nice shots from "The Forbidden Planet" that are fairly convincing.  Suit was likely the same as the Duro space suit, with some footage in one of the Planet of the Apes movies.
http://sayhellospaceman.blogspot.com/2013_03_01_archive.html?m=1

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Re: Customjedi's Figures (Danz Borin & WIP - Hammerhead)
« Reply #207 on: July 19, 2015, 05:44:27 AM »
Wow, looks great. Read more comments on the front page.
  Thanks for that, Tamer!

Thats looking fantastic ! I may have to try your technique, on my version !
Thank you, mr.Jedi1977!

Nice work AJ.  All those TACs deserve an upgrade like this. What figure did you cannabilize for the joints? Will you be ball jointing the shoulders?
Medical Frigate Luke elbows were used for the elbows and the shoulder joints were used for the knees. That's the only additional jointing I opted for on this one.

Nice!  I'm particularly impressed with your articulation on Rieken.  Looking forward to updates on Momaw Nadon.
Thanks, Jaeger45! I learned a lot working the joints into Rieekan which made all the difference approaching this. It was a bit of a bonus that the parts I used  were all leftovers from what went into making Rieekan. And thanks for posting the spacesuit blog. SO informative. I'm going to go back and update the paint apps on Danz Borin ASAP!

I was able to complete Momaw Nadon yesterday. Much of the skin tone is Hasbro's original paint work. I just blended my tans and greys in with it to hide the new elbows and knees. The clothing was completely repainted to match the added soft goods. I was smart enough to save the fabric I removed from Zuckuss when I replaced his skirt last year. I don't need all of  my cantina patrons to have super-articulation. I just want them to be able to sit.



Just for fun, here's a class photo of my updated patrons thus far.


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Re: Customjedi's Figures (Hammerhead - Done)
« Reply #208 on: July 19, 2015, 05:53:22 AM »
So awesome. Off to share again. I love the movement. Just great and you actually want your figures to sit? For shame!

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Re: Customjedi's Figures (Hammerhead - Done)
« Reply #209 on: July 19, 2015, 08:32:08 AM »
Outstanding work , after seeing this i think you just inspired me to redo my version over again !!  Well done