Sunday, January 30, 2011

GI Joe Major Bludd








This one is a gift to my buddy Tankster for a diorama he is currently working on...The only thing he asked of me was to make sure I incorporated elements of red mixed with classic Major Bludd colors. I am really happy with how he turned out, lemme know what you guys think!

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Star Wars Darth Revan










This is a commission piece I just completed. The idea was to improve the Darth Revan figure by giving him articulated knees and ankles, some cloth robes instead of all the plastic (which ended up being a real pain the arse), and a new head. The Head here is actually a clone trooper helmet that modified and sculpted over to appear more like Revan's mask in virtually every pic I can find of him (which I have no idea what the mask the figure was wearing was all about). Anyways, here he is, and I hope my customer will be happy!

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Transformers Soundwave and Ravage
























Soundwave is one of my favorite TF's characters...He was my first as a kid, and with the release of the WFC version, I finally got a modern design of him that I liked as much as the original. I had a legends movie Ravage figure lying around, so I decided to give Soundwave one of his companions. I re-did Ravage's head and gave it a ball joint so now he can look around. I also re-sculpted his head as well using Apoxie sculpt.

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Crytek "Stalker" alien

























Another Crytek figure for my son, this one I did over in purple colors. Again, I really dig the overall design of the aliens in this series, and hope my boy will too. As with the other one I did, he is getting re-sealed in his packaging and will be given to my boy as a birthday gift. As with the other I did, I am really curious to see if he can tell that I painted this guy!

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Crytek "Heavy" Alien

























Man, when I first saw these new figures by Crytek in the store, I just knew I had to get them for my boy. He enjoys crazy looking aliens, and with his birthday coming up, I thought he would like the style of these figures. Here I took the one called "Heavy" and gave him a full re-paint as all the alien dudes in the series have a dull brown like color scheme. Taking these guys apart is a snap, the entire figure comes apart with the removal of only two screws, so there is lots of custom potential with these guys in my opinon. For now, I am keeping these guys "un-modded" so I can re-seal the packaging and wrap them up for when I give them to my son for his birthday, and I am really curious to see if he'l notice that I painted them before he gets them out of the package. Oh yeah, the poor guy getting stomped in the last pic is a gift from a while back (and my favorite custom figure in my collection) from my good buddy Tankster!

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Star Wars Darth Talon









This figure was a bonus fig I included for a recent customer who ordered some commissions from me. For the most part, I like the Darth Talon figure except for the fact that she came with no articulated elbows. Using some elbows from a GI Joe RoC Baroness figure and my trusty Dremel, I remedied that. A quick re paint of her armor and voila! A perfected Darth Talon figure.

Star Wars Darth Malak






















Another commission piece, and wow was I amazed at how craptacular this figure was when I first got it. He was way, way, too short to start with, and he looked like he was in a constant state of shock. The first thing I did was chop off his boots, and then replace them with a set from an Obi-Wan figure giving him jointed ankles. I used feet from a Darth Sidious figure so that his boots had the same detail as the originals too. Once attached, I evened the area out using Apoxie scuplt. I then cut off his cape and gave him a cloth one as well. I then made some small cuts around his eyes to make small recesses for paint to flow into which helped him look not so spaced out anymore. Lastly I mixed up a quick wash, and gave him a bath in it to both darken him up some and bring out some of the various details of the mold.