Topic: www.customsforthekid.blogspot.com YEAR TWO

[darthdaddy]

MANDALORIAN SITH



Taken from the blog:

"When Luke Sprywalker announced the Custom Sith Competition over at Imperial Shipyards this month, Dad felt it was the perfect time to pay tribute to Mike Martinez of Mercury Art Studios.  Dad will be donating his MANDALORIAN SITH entry the Mercury Art Studios Auction and the proceeds will be given to the family of Mike Martinez. Mike always created the coolest and most unique Sith custom action figures. He is known in our house as the Sith master. Dad thought of Mike when he created this action figure and tried to create a Sith custom action figure that he never saw anyone make before. Dad created this action figure from the old (head) and the new Jodo Kast action figures (forearms), a Boba Fett torso, and a Lord Maleval (everything else). He removed the chest armor from the Boba Fett and dremmeled the torso until the chest and abdomen were only as thin as the armor. He then dremmeled the front chest and abdomen of the Lord Maleval action figure and then fused Boba Fett's chest armor to the Lord Maleval with Apoxie Sculpt. Then Dad painted the action figure in colors that he saw in a Mandalorian Sith drawing that some new friends showed him on The Forcebook.

If you are interested in owning this figure, look below for the link where you will be able to bid on this action figure on ebay. Dad is going to start the bidding high so Mike's family gets the assistance they need. Dad worked about ten hours on this action figure, so whoever wins it will definitely be getting their moneys worth. Not only will the buyer be getting one cool toy, but the money will be used for a good cause.

Best of luck everyone!!"










To bid on this figure click here:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300586608183

[Luke Sprywalker]

Wow! This is a really great figure Brian! Very nice of you to donate this guy for the cause. I know how hard it is to let your creations go. Great job all around!

[wookielover1138]

Very awesome Brian, love it! I hope the Spotlight on EBN helps with the auction

[Jedi Minstrel]

Very Cool!

[SITHHAPPENS]

very cool

[darthdaddy]

Taken from the blog:

ONE COOL CUSTOMIZING FAD

At the beginning of this year we saw a lot of customizers taking advantage of combining the Vintage Gamorrean Guard with Marvel Universe Series 3 World War Hulk Action Figure. Both JACKOFTRADZE and Von Reinhardt put out variations on the figure and we know there were several more customizers who tackled the project also. When we saw fellow customizers results, we knew we wanted one too.

Knowing that the Vintage Gamorrean Guard was hard to come by this year, Dad didn't have the heart to cannibalize the figure to make his custom Gamorrean Gladiator action figure. He did have the heart to use parts from the POTF version though. Dad cut off the head of the figure and used the Dremel to make a hole in the head to make it ball jointed. All he had to do from there was paint the head to match the body.

GAMORREAN GLADIATOR
created by Darth Daddy








To read the full post go to:
http://customsforthekid.blogspot.com/2011/08/one-cool-customizing-fad.html

[peakob1]

Oh man! I would hate to run into that GAMORREAN GLADIATOR
during a battle! That dude is huge. Signed up for the ship yards I will start to post some of my stuff here over the weekend
keep up the great work!!

[wookielover1138]

DD your Gamorrean Gladiator is just spectacular, but I wouldn't expect anything less from you

Welcome to The Yards peakob1!!! Can't wait to see your work

[Luke Sprywalker]

Love this Brian!

[Tamer]

I like this too, on the front page!

It is nice to know that you can get pretty much the same effect using the old potf2 parts. I hated the thought of canibalizing those nice new ones which really are one of Hasbro's finest creations. Why they won't re-release those again I have no idea, but this custom is just nice.

[sithtrooper66]

ive never seen a custom gramorean

[CloneSniper78]

I love that custom, great job!

[Tamer]

I saw Skaar (Hulk's son) on the Marvel pegs yesterday and this great looking creation almost had me picking him up. If anyone wants me to pick that up shoot me a pm because Brian did a great job on this. Hard to believe its the potf2 head.

[SITHHAPPENS]

thats bad ass great job brian!!!!!!!!

[darthdaddy]

Thanks everybody.  I kept moving forward with the gladiator theme, but so far I only have WIP figures to show.  I haven't had much time to work on the blog at all.  "Customs I Wish I Owned" has suffered the most.  Once Elias goes back to school next week, things should go back to normal.  Here's a few pictures of the other gladiators I have been working on:

LANNIK MANDALORIAN GLADIATOR





TANK




To see the full post read it here:

http://customsforthekid.blogspot.com/2011/08/gladiators.html