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Star Wars Action Figures / Re: Customs by CHEWIE updated 08.10.07
« on: August 20, 2007, 01:30 AM »
Heya Chewie!

Love the use of the Doctor Doom base for the terror droids.

"Bleeda" has a great color scheme. I'm finding myself very envious of your color choices and painting skills

Also, always love your civillian customs! 

A really great batch.

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Hiya, commented on some of these new ones over at Rebelscum. They look great.

I love that medical droid! Great use of the new BAT.

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The figure is great, but I think I like the custom weapon even more. They both look excellent.

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Star Wars Action Figures / Re: Psycho's Customs - Updated 8/05 WIP
« on: August 5, 2005, 12:47 PM »
Now this is what I call an excellent female custom!  That is such a good and unique use of parts.  Usually I can identify a figure's face very easily, but I had no idea at all that you used a Shmi. 

Excellent work!  A+

 :P

It might sound odd, but sanding the eyebrows off can usually really change the look a head sculpt. On males, it often looks a little strange... but it seems to work well for altering the appearance of female headsculpts. That and the shorter blonde hair are the only differences on the head.

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Star Wars Action Figures / Re: Psycho's Customs - Updated 8/03
« on: August 5, 2005, 02:52 AM »
After happily completing my war droid that had been sitting around for years, literally, I'm going through my old bagged "I should finish these one day" custom projects. Next up is this yet to be named WIP "Jedi Infiltrator."

Much like the "Fallen Jedi" used the shroud of the Dark Side to hide himself from those who hunted down the remaining Jedi, she's used the force to cloak her true nature and loyalty to the Jedi Order. She has done so to infiltrate her enemies' ranks, so she might restore balance to the force. However, using such deception, living a lie and presenting that lie has brought her dangerously close to the true Dark Side of the Force... as such, her motives have begun to sway toward revenge...

Her head and legs are from Shmi Skywalker, chest from an Episode 1 Handmaiden Padme, arms from Mon Mothma, hands (for more dynamic Force using stance) are from Rystall, and Luke Skywalker belt. I'd like to give her smaller lightsaber hilt, touch up her paint and add a bit of detailing.


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Chewie,

Sculpting is frustrating for me, I find it very hard to do it entirely from scratch. If I could make a suggestion though, it would be to try and find a head with a similar hair line around the face that you could blend you rsculpt into. The thich dreadlocks on yours are a step in the right direction, but the hair on the top of the head really sort of just sits there... maybe there's a head (or seperate hair piece like on Agen Kolar, or whoever the long haired Jedi from ROTS is) that you could sclupt on top of...

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Kit, your "sentinel" droid looks great! I love "kitbashed" droids that are parted together like that and don't end up like a bunch of junk glued together.

I've recently done 2 droids...



But, I think I'm going to have to try and come up with an idea specificly for this month.

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Star Wars Action Figures / Re: Psycho's Customs - Updated 8/03
« on: August 3, 2005, 06:53 AM »
Thanks!

A voltron body, gundam hands, and a Energon Transformers Arcee head.

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Star Wars Action Figures / Re: Psycho's Customs
« on: August 3, 2005, 02:07 AM »


This was my "entry" for the last round of group projects at Rebelscum, based somewhat on the "bettie bot" from ROTS. I wasn't too fond of the original design, and went for a simple paint job on her. The black beneath the metallic plates is supposed to tie it in a bit with the original trilogy droids, which were either puppets or people in body suits. She's pretty basic, but I'm happy with the results.

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Star Wars Action Figures / Re: Psycho's Customs
« on: July 30, 2005, 07:49 PM »
The war droid is my favorite. I like how is posed to run on all fours. Then backflips into standing position. Guns a blazing! The prune face guy is also a great design.

I think you're right about the back flip move... I can really envision him vaulting forward with all his weight on his front "legs", swinging his rear legs up and over his head, planting them onto the ground, then swinging the guns up, over, and down into a firing position. One of those totally unnecessary moves that he's got programmed in just to cool and intimidate his targets. ;)

Thanks a lot guys, feedback really helps to get me motivated in making new figures... thanks for letting me share.

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Star Wars Action Figures / Re: Yoda's Kybuck steed
« on: July 29, 2005, 03:09 PM »
Kit,

Saw this at Rebelscum as well... it's GREAT.  When I saw the first pictures I really didn't think it was going to work. It came out looking dead on though. You gotta get a picture of Yoda either riding it or standing in front of it.

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Star Wars Action Figures / Re: Psycho's Customs
« on: July 29, 2005, 03:07 PM »
To answer some questions:

Senth Kiran is a Rebellion-era Imperial Agent. He's a scout and hunter who's found full-time employment with the Empire. Being an alien, he isn't treated especially well, nor does he particularly enjoy his work, but he has a "a job's a job" attitude about it. POFT2 Tie Pilot arms and legs, Storm Trooper gauntlets and boots, and "prune face"'s head and torso.


Regarding Leda-Mem... I always found it amusing the Jedi Council is made up of middle-aged to ancient males, and the females all look 20 something and either wear highly ornamental robes, or barely anything.  Leda is an attempt to balance that out a bit, give character like Qui-Gon Jinn a contemporary. Characterwise, she was once extremely gifted with foresight through the Force, but upon feeling that the exterimination of the Jedi was close at hand, she refused to believe her our instincts and blinded herself to the future.

The Fallen Jedi is actually a Wind Commander "Pilgrim Traitor" body, arms from the Rancor Keeper, boots from an Ep1 Naboo Pilot, hands from Jedi Training Obi-Wan, and the head is the horned Cantina Alien.  An accomplished master of the lightsaber, he turned from the Jedi Order when Vader began to exterminate them, using the Dark Side as a sort of cloak or shroud in the Force to hide behind, knowing Vader's and the Emperor's attention would be focused on the Light.

SS-N8 is mostly rearranged Battle droid parts, the guns are from Xyber-9 weapons, the "toes" are from a medical droid, the backpack is from a Gundam, and that little bit connecting his torso to his hips is from an Avenger's accessory. The rest, as I said, are battledroid parts cut up and reordered. (reversed head, legs for arms, hips for feet, etc)

Originally,  he was going to be partly transformable. He'd walk on 4 limbs, then turn his head/torso around, flip his limbs, and have a standing/firing stance. Well, that got dropped along the way, but when I posted the original pictures, Master_Phurby noted he looked a little like the striding creatures from Dark Crystal, so I took that last picture of him in the 4-legged stance... that's how I've got him posed now.

Storywise, he's an ancient war-droid prototype that ended up fighting FOR the Republic in the clone wars, against the droid army.  Old EU says the Empire banned assassin droids and the like, so SS-N8 was forced into exile, and ended up working alongside the Rebellion from time to time.

Thanks for all the comments and questions guys!


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Star Wars Action Figures / Psycho's Customs - Updated 8/05 WIP
« on: July 29, 2005, 12:46 PM »
Hey everyone. I'm coming over from the Rebelscum forums, the group projects there have gotten me interested, and I see you all do similar things here. I'm looking forward to getting involved in those. In the meantime, I'd like to share the handful of customs I do have completed. Let me know what you think!


Senth Kiran, Imperial Hunter


Lee-Da Mem, Jedi Master


ISB Officer


Grand Moff Tarkin (based on DARKLORD1967's)


An unnamed fallen Jedi



SS-N8 War Droid prototype

If you've got comments, I'd be happy to hear them! Thanks!

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