Topic: Darth Streams Customs Update 8/10 Exar Kun

[darthstreams]

Hello everyone. I've been customizing star wars figures for about a year now, and I heard about this blog through another forum. I've been posting on rebelscum and my blogspot for a bit now, thought I'd try over here. I do mostly Star Wars EU figures because I am big into reading the comics and playing the video games. Anyway enjoy, and I'll try my best to answer any questions. If you want to see any of my other stuff or more pictures check out my blogspot darthstreams.blogspot.com

Here are a few pictures of my A'Sharad Hett custom


A'Sharad fighting my Darth Bane custom

My Custom Carded Section of my wall

TMNT Gammorean Guard

Mandalore the Preserver (Canderous)

Yellow Spacer

Gammorrean Guards, Rancor Slayers, saw some other people doing these, thought it was cool

Darth Baras from SWTOR

POTF Painted Blue Snag in front of a custom I got off ebay

Xesh, force hound from Dawn of the Jedi

Khem Val from SWTOR

Darth Andenddu

Abyssin Jedi

Rakatans Packaged

Ludo Kressh

Naga Sadow

Ludo Kressh, Naga Sadow 3.75" and 7", and Jedi Master Odan Urr

Jedi Dooku

Nihilus and Atris

Darth Bane Custom

Kreia Custom

Darth Wyyrlock Carded

Darth Stryfe Carded, will probably revisit this one

Vul Isen Carded

Atris Carded

Darth Maleval Carded

Canderous Carded

Juhani Carded

Dark side Sora Bulq Carded

Jedi Master Zao Carded

Zombie Death Trooper Carded

Dark Side Bastila Carded

Darth Sion (Lord of Pain) v1

Calo Nord Carded

Xamar Carded

Admiral Gar Stazi Carded

Visas Marr Carded

Zayne Carrick Custom v2 Carded

Bao-Dur v1 carded

Darth Bandon Custom Carded

Darth Nihilus Pre-Malachor V Custom Concept Carded

Syn Custom w/hasbro delilah blue and cade skywalker

Darth Maul Pumpkin

TMNT Darth Maul

Givin Jedi


Vader and Sidious, modern day, the apt pupil

Custom Twi'lek Warrior

Custom Rodian Bounty Hunter

Trandoshan Jedi

Custom Winged Rancor


Zayne Carrick V2 and V1

Darth Russel Internet Meme Carded

2 ROIDS Mauls and 2 ROIDS Jango Fetts

Robo-Maul

ROIDS Maul fighting the Rancor







Odan-Urr in action

ROIDS Savage Oppress

Death Trooper uncarded

Mandalorian Squad

Bunch of customs

Darth Malgus Custom

Random Customs

More Customs

Seknos Rath from Dawn of the Jedi

More customs

Mon Calamari Soldier from Legacy

Selkath

Vader Custom

Custom Darth Krayt

My Character from SWTOR Darth Streams


K'Kruhk inspired by how he looked in Dark Times

7 inch Sion

7 inch Rakata, pic taken before finished

Feeorin Custom

K'Kruhk custom


Thanks everyone, check out my blog for more pics!

[TheIRISH Rogue]

What a sweet collection! Welcome to the ISY!! I look forward to seeing more of your work!

Keep at it!

[Tamer]

Wow, now that is just impressive plain and simple. First off welcome to ISY and thank you for sharing your work.

That by the way is now sporting on our front page.

[CloneTroopr]

My jaw just dropped for every picture you posted up...amazing KotOR customs (especially on custom cardbacks), man! XD Love the Canderous, and your SWTOR character. Can't wait to see more.

[ghostskull18]

Awesome! I like everything that I see here! Amazing job and welcome to the yards!

[Mungo Baobab]

You have some great customs here. Welcome to ISY.

[rex smoke]

WOW great work! How do you do the custom cards?

[Tamer]

WOW great work! How do you do the custom cards?

Can we both vote to hopefully someday get him to share his secrets on all this. I think between him and Wookie Balls they could outpace Hasbro on the cardback quality. Hasbro take notes!

[darthstreams]

WOW great work! How do you do the custom cards?

It took me a while to get the cardback down to a science. In my mind only 2 have come out really good so far. I have a couple image templates broken up into layers in photoshop (you could also use other free alternatives photoscape or pixlr). If I need a certain image to break into layers I will scan it with my scanner. Most of the time you can find these already made on the internet. I print the images set at high quality on glossy photo paper (must remember to set type of paper or else your printing may smudge). After I have my image printed I use spray adhesive to get the image to stick to a comic book divider, then smooth out any bubbling if it occurs. Then I usually will cut off the excess with my paper trimmer, I used to use scissors but it's so much easier with a paper trimmer. Then I have a tool that rounds the edges and another that adds the hole punch. All of my carded customs are mounted with a base that a bubble attaches to so I can take the figure out whenever I want. I get these from http://www.protechproductsinc.com/starwars.htm, if you do not care about being able to pop off the bubble you can just glue on any old bubble from other figures. That's it.

Here's a tutorial I wrote up with pictures back in November. My process has changed a little just because I invested in the paper trimmer, hole punch, and corner rounder.

http://darthstreams.blogspot.com/2012/11/new-customs-and-tutorial-cardback-making.html

Paper trimmer



hole punch



Corner Rounding tool



Since I got these I updated the look of a lot of my cards but these two were recently made with them:

[darthstreams]

BTW thanks everyone for the warm welcome and kind words. If anyone is thinking about making a cardback and needs some help PM me! If you need a template and don't want to go through the work of doing it yourself just let me know and I'll send you mine.

[Tamer]

Hey, thanks for showing us how you do it. That is worth another front pager.

[Luke Sprywalker]

First off, welcome to ISY! Now, holy crap, really great customs and a ton of them! Loving the figures and the card backs! That Rancor is so cool! Glad to see you here and thanks for sharing the info.

[rex smoke]

Great thanks for the tips! Can you send me a link to the site where you got the template because I can't find one that has layers

[mr.Jedi1977]

WOW amazing stuff !!! I have always wanted to see how to make the card backs and you have done one heck of a job !!!  welcome to the yards

[darthstreams]

Great thanks for the tips! Can you send me a link to the site where you got the template because I can't find one that has layers

I had to make mine, I'll try to upload the file somewhere and post the link when I get a chance, it's on my other computer.

Here's an update with some quick Episode VII customs I made today.

Solo, Luke, Leia



Fighting the clone emperor custom