Happy Halloween! My favorite holiday because I can make spooky art, spooky customs and spooky costumes.
Many years ago (2011) I did some mock comic covers called Dark Lords Of The Sith. These were the start of a fun little story to lay the ground work for a Star Wars Sequel (way before the actual Sequels).
If anyone wants to go back in the Graphic Arts section and read them they're still there. I just need to go in and fix the pictures, which I will do this evening. The stars of this tale of Sith Lords were all based on Golden and Silver age Horror Movies, a homage if you will. These great Sith Lords are something I've been building my skills towards making into custom figures for some time. I was able to accomplish a Sith Master (Darth Vereor) a few years ago and had to stop on him and his pet Nexu "Blasko" because of time issues. I'm finally starting to balance out my time issues, so I was able to create his Defel apprentice Lord Vernula. The set is a homage to the late great Bela Lugosi and his portrayal of Count Dracula in the 1931 Universal master piece. Using the likeness of Bela Lugosi as the Master and the Nexu as a homage to Lugosi's film "Black Cat" I found the perfect apprentice in the bat-like alien called a Defel, again a homage to Count Dracula.
Darth Vereor’s apprentice, DARTH VERNULA, was trained in the brutal ways of his master. This Defel Dark Lord was known for his vicious fighting style and equally vicious weapon. The version of a LightSaber was clasped together for a broad sword effect but could be detached for a double weapon fighting style. The weapon also had shorter energy blades that could be separately activated, surprising many doomed Jedi in close combat.
Following the orders of his Master, who was obsessed with eternal life, VERNULA raided an outpost in the Spar Sector. The mission was to find a fabled artifact that was able to extend the possessor’s life indefinitely. The artifact was never found and the mission nearly went very bad when a group of Jedi at the outpost intervened. VERNULA’s vicious training prevailed and all were killed.
VERNULA Latin word meaning: servant.
Here is the original artwork that inspired the figure.
And the figure...
Lord Vernula's sabers are magnetized to his robotic arm.
Lord Vernula's saber hilts are magnetically connected...
...and can be easily separated. All four blades are removable. I need to work on the smaller blades to get the color right.
Lord Vernula's Master, Darth Vereor and his Force controled Nexu "Blasko".
