continuing with my Shadows of the Empire kick, here's my Dash Rendar. Wow, I think this was the heaviest bit of kit bashing I've done on a figure. So for those who want to know the recipe....
Upper torso was from GI Joe 25th Anniversary Zartan (though I believe the same torso was used for Cap. Bludd) The lower torso and legs were TVC Han Solo from the "Solo" film. Great thing is the two halves mate up perfectly so you can still pose the torso a bit. Now I needed to find a set of bare arms and that's a little harder to find. I forgot I had a medical frigate Luke laying around or I would have tried that first. Also a lot of figures will have an arm band or something you'd have to shave off. I ended up using a Marvel "Warpath" figure. Now I was worried it wouldn't work because he stands a good head taller than most other figures. He's BIG. Fortunately, the arms themselves weren't really longer so although Dash looks pretty ripped, he's not a gorilla! A bonus here again was that the arm design was the same as the torso and the two arms mated perfectly here as well. The hands on Warpath didn't look right, posed almost like claws and too large. No way to hold anything. I used a pair from a fodder TVC Col Cracken torso I had. Score again as the hands snapped in without modification!
The shoulder armor, puffy shoulders and matching texture on the pants were sculpted from Procreate. If sculpting isn't your bag, the armor has a similar "look" that you could simply paint the shoulder padding as a shortcut. Now for his head and after looking at hundreds of SW figures, there's nothing even close. I thought that perhaps a Chris Pratt Jurassic Park figure might be the closest to start with. Found a decent one and even though the neck ball seemed much bigger on the JP figure, the head swaps over without any problems. I did have to grind down the Zartan neck a bit cause its huge but the ball didn't need any changes. The holster was from the same Han figure as the color seemed a good match. Gave him a different blaster just to move him a little bit further than just a Han stand in.
As for paints, another blessing was that I had a blue color that matched the pants so I didn't have to paint everything, just the lower torso and the strips on the legs. The color is Apple Barrel brand. Color: 21484E Admiral Blue. The silver armor I spray painted on. Textured padding was DecoArt Americana brand. Color: Cinnamon Stick. For the neck stump and his hair and stubble I mixed whatever I had on hand which was a pain. But I don't feel like spending as much on gas as a couple bottles of paint and wait in line forever behind Christmas shoppers. LOL Only real corner I cut was not adding the extra strap to the holster. Seemed like more trouble than it'd be worth and I'm more than happy with how this figure turned out. So many potential problems (or more involved work) that were avoided through pure chance. Next on my to-do list is Guri.
