Topic: Goldleaderone's custom figures

[TrooperBrCustoms]

Very nice this green pilot.

[Goldleaderone]

I started working on a super articulated Chewbacca figure from TFA today. It's practically done, I just would like to get a lighter brown and go over it in some areas. The body of the figure is from the Early Bird Revenge of the Sith set. What I did was I dry brushed with a dark brown, painting over the Kashyyyk paint job. I used the boil and pop method to remove the head. I trimmed the peg down and popped the TFA Chewie head on.

Parts I used:

Head, Bowcaster and bag: TFA Chewbacca (Build-A-Weapon set)
Body: Early Bird Revenge of the Sith set


Last pic:  "Oh really you're cold?!"

[Tamer]

Nice. Time to go share this.

[Goldleaderone]

Here is a custom pilot from one of my favorite games. Kasan Moor from the original Rogue Squadron. Pretty cool to have another pilot from one of your favorite video games. I picked what I thought was the best action figure head that most resembled her. This character is under the old canon, now "Legends."

Parts used:

Head: Irina Spalko from Indiana Jones Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Body: Dorovio Bold from The Legacy Collection
Helmet: Jon Vander from the Saga Collection

Trimmed the peg some and dry brushed her hair a bit darker. It's hard to tell what helmet she uses as that is the only photo of Kasan, so I gave her the most beat up extra helmet I had.


Kasan Moor was an Imperial TIE interceptor pilot and flew as the lieutenant of the elite 128th TIE Interceptor Squadron. Following the destruction of her homeworld, Alderaan, by the Empire's Death Star, Moor grew something of a hatred for the Empire and would defect to the Rebel Alliance during the Alliance's liberation of Gerrard V.

Moor's knowledge of Imperial installations and her exceptional piloting skills were reason for her induction into the legendary Rogue Squadron, an Alliance starfighter unit led by Commander Luke Skywalker. Flying under the callsign Rogue Seven, Moor led the Alliance through a string of several victorious hit and run operations against various Imperial bases. Following her assistance in bringing down Moff Kohl Seerdon, Moor retired from being an active member of Rogue Squadron to be an advisor to Mon Mothma, Chief of the Rebel Alliance. She would once more fly for Rogue Squadron during the Battle of Calamari years later.

[Tamer]

Daggone I miss some of those old flight sims, remember those?

Great creation, off to share.

I even set up a windows 98 computer system a few weeks ago, complete with vga joystick to play some of those old cdrom games.

[Goldleaderone]

Even though the EU (Legends) is no longer canon, I still like to make some customs from it. Here is my newest custom pilot, Gavin Darklighter. He is the cousin of Biggs Darklighter. I bought a custom of Gavin a few years ago off ebay, but it wasn't super articulated. Now that I found all the parts I needed for cheap, I wanted to make my own.

Recipe:

Head: Major Barrage from GI Joe
Body: Jon "Dutch" Vander from The Black Series
Helmet: Luke Skywalker VOTC


Just some minor tweaking and part swapping here really. I had to do some minor trimming to the neck post for the head to fit properly. I always thought Gavin had black hair. According to Wookiepedia, he is listed as having dark brown hair so I left it. I'm very happy with my head selection, I've had my eye on it for quite some time. The helmet fits perfectly. As you can see, I like to be accurate as possible - the helmet is the same and the flares are on the right leg.

[Tamer]

Looks pretty good to me. Might need some eye work, but man dead ringer with the reference image you used. Off to share.

[JDeck]

  The figure is spot on with the reference picture. Pilots are fun to army build, and customize.

[Goldleaderone]

  The figure is spot on with the reference picture. Pilots are fun to army build, and customize.

Thanks man. Yeah I have a lot of custom pilots that I made from video games I grew up playing. The Jon Vander figures that I got for cheap came in handy too. Biggs from The Black Series is cheap also but they used this neon orange color that I didn't like. With Vander they went back to the traditional orange, thankfully.

[Goldleaderone]

I finally have my own personal astromech to go with my own pilot figure. I named him R2-S5, a mix of personal preference and based off my favorite baseball team, the Boston Red Sox.

I also checked Wookiepedia, and that droid's designation isn't taken so I'm in the clear (for now).

[Tamer]

Looks great to me. Off to share.

[Starchaser]

Nice job of these last updates. I really like how Gavin turned out, I might have to build one of my own. The paint job on your astromech is really nice! Kudos.

[Goldleaderone]

Nice job of these last updates. I really like how Gavin turned out, I might have to build one of my own. The paint job on your astromech is really nice! Kudos.

Thanks! Of all the custom pilots I've made, Gavin is the one I'm most happy with. The astro however, there was no painting done. I just grabbed a bunch of astromech parts from the Disney build-a-droid on ebay and put together my own, rather then painting lol.

[Starchaser]

My bad, but the droid still turned out great!

[Goldleaderone]

"This is TIE SS-2-5. You can call me Wedge!"

I decided to whip up a quick custom of my favorite character, Wedge Antilles. This is based on his appearance from Star Wars Rebels. He defects to the Alliance along with Hobbie, with the help of Sabine.

Parts I used:
Head: Wedge Antilles Black Series Snowspeeder Pilot
Body: Biggs Darklighter Imperial Pilot Legacy I

Afterwards I painted Wedge's head cover/cap black and dropped a tiny bit of tacky material to tighten up the ball-jointed neck. I have another TIE Pilot that I got for cheap coming in from ebay soon. It's a 5POA figure (no head under helmet). I'm just going to drill out the helmet and use that. The one included with Biggs has an unusual opening.