Topic: Rogue Jedi's custom figures

[Tamer]

Hey its great to see you back and with a huge update. Time to get this to the front and facebook pages.

[JediMerc]

Wow! You have been working!

I love the alternate take on the PT and the character concepts you developed along with it.  Always interesting to see how others perceive the CW as having played out...

I love the 501st with the scars on his face; nice addition to add some interest to the figure.  The Mando with the lime green outlining caught my eye as well.  Nice update!

[Rogue Jedi]

Tamer it's great to be back and Jedimerc I agree I love seeing/reading about what other people thought the prequels would/should be. On that note I can't wait to finish and post Kit Skywalker as Darth Vader...also just some more background on my take of the prequels...Owen Lars is dating (and of course ends up marrying) Beru Skywalker. As a side note I have a decent stockpile of photos of Star Wars customs as well as more Jurassic Park Customs I made for my son that I will be posting in the next few days so keep a look out for them.

[CloneSniper78]

wow what a bunch of cool customs. I love the Jurassic Park customs and the Monster drink with the smuggler.

[Tamer]

Looking forward to seeing the new work too.

[Rogue Jedi]

Here's some more Jurassic Park Customs that I did for my son. These figures are from the second and third movie. The only ones I didn't get to were Kelly Malcolm, Carter, Mr. Lodlow and Roland's hunting partner from Jurassic Park the Lost World and Mr. and Mrs. Kirby from Jurassic Park 3 (We used a GI Joe Road Block figure for the third mercenary Nash so there was no custom to post for him).

Nick Van Owen from Jurassic Park the Lost World

Eddie Carr from Jurassic Park the Lost World

Dr. Burke from Jurassic Park the Lost World


Roland Tembo from Jurassic Park the Lost World


Dieter Stark from Jurassic Park the Lost World

Sarah Harding from Jurassic Park the Lost World

Dr. Grant from Jurassic Park 3


Billy from Jurassic Park 3

Eric Kirby from Jurassic Park 3

Mr. Udesky from Jurassic Park 3

Cooper from Jurassic Park 3

There's a few more Jurassic Park Customs that were remakes from the old kenner line as well as some background guys and a few made up ones as well. There might even be a couple of dinosaur customs as well. I'll post those in a few days and leave you with one final custom of a realistic Captain Rex.

[Tamer]

Wow, what another great update. I cannot wait to see where you go from here. Your son has to be ecstatic about those JP Customs. Off to tell the news.

[Luke Sprywalker]

man, I am just catching up on the customs you have posted! Some really nice customs and I love your Jurassic Park line!

[Rogue Jedi]

So I kinda like the Trandoshan species as they provide very fertile ground for some fun customs. I've seen fan art as well as "cannon" art of some trandoshans with spikes and decides to give it a go. This fellow below is less of  a bounty hunter and more of a galactic big game hunter, however he may or may not hunt sentient beings for sport as well (think of the group of trandoshans from the Clone Wars). Any way I hope you all enjoy and as always comments, critiques and suggestions are always welcomed.

[Clonehead]

That trando is magnificent! Like the Rex and all of the Jp stuff as well.

[JediMerc]

The trandoshan game hunter is out of this world!  Great look with the added feathering(?) and blood stains.  Very nice!

[Tamer]

Wow, that Trandoshan is absolutely fantastic. Just off the charts. Time go share the news.

[spudafett]

that trandoshan is fantastic.  awesome job, very well done.  How did you make the spikes?

[Rogue Jedi]

spudafett the spikes were made using some plastic dental wedges (the docs at our clinic prefer the wooden ones and we had a couple of boxes of the plastic ones lying around that were never going to get used so I asked if I could have them because I knew eventually they would come in handy). JediMerc I was going for spikes rather than feathers but now that you mention it I do like the idea of using them on something else as feathers...might have an idea brewing on that one...

[Rogue Jedi]

Alright my update for today is the final installment of the Jurassic Park figures that I did for my son (I have a few more that I would like to do and will eventually get to but for now this is it as I'm back to focusing on my own customs with a focus on some Special Forces Jedi Commanders and their clones as well as some Star Wars customs inspired/influenced by Marvel characters and I should have some updates of those in a few days). First up are some dinosaur food...I mean background people.







Alright some background on these next characters (and also a little of what I imagine would be the continuation of the Jurassic Park universe past Jurassic Park 3); In the third film during Dr. Grant’s lecture a student makes the point that paleontology will soon be DOA as soon as the U.S. and Coasta Rician governments figure out what to do with the island and by this point they have and it has become a biological preserve that also serves as a study facility for paleontologists to observe dinosaur behavior (This is kinda the gist of how my son and I play because it allows us to bring in old characters such as Dr. Grant and Dr. Sattler as well as a now Dr. Billy Brennan and also Dr. Sarah Harding as well as Dr. Malcolm who begrudgingly agrees to come along at Sarah’s insistence but also for the reason of providing insight and forethought so lacking in JP to prevent another disaster from happening) So now we have the dinosaurs roaming free while the observation teams utilize facilities protected by electric fences and other security measures however due to the events from Jurassic Park 2 (T-rex on the mainland) and the fact that after that happened they can’t keep people away from Isla Sorna as evidenced by Jurassic Park 3 (both the boat tour at the beginning and subsequent landing on the island looking for the lost kid) plus a handful of other events (if it were a movie these other events would be mentioned in passing with perhaps one shown at the beginning  of the film typical JP style to set up what’s to follow) a company consisting of former soldiers/specialists (think Blackwater) is contracted out to provide island and facility security as yet one more safety measure.
The Commander



Members of his team that provide security for Jurassic Park













Next up we have the dino wrangles. It is these individuals who are in charge of keeping the staff safe and protected on the frequent trips outside the fences. All but one of these are inspired by the old Kenner Toy line.
T-rex Turner


Harpoon Harrison


Jaws Jackson


And our made up wrangler (my son had a big hand in designing this) Taser Tex
















 
Now on to the antagonists; While the books mentions InGen’s rival company as Biosyn and that it was this company wanted to steal InGen’s secrets that lead to the chaos Biosyn is never mentioned in the movies and only hinted at (by way of Dodgson paying Nedry to steal the embryos). Having failed in the past the Owner of Biosyn tasks Dodgson with putting together a team to infiltrate the preserve and shut down their operations…but why? As a diversion to divert attention away from their true target; The new dinosaur cloning lab located somewhere in mainland South America. (The story goes on from there and involves why the cloning lab exists and what it's purpose is as well as introducing 2 more islands on top of the 2 original ones as a way to try and keep the dinosaurs from different time period separate for better scientific study and due to what happens at the South American lab thanks to another Biosyn team thousands of juvenile dinosaur species escape...)
The Owner of Biosyn


Members of his team. Again a few of these are recreations of the old Kenner toys.
Dr. Snare



Skinner



Scrap Davis (as this was a prototype that was never released I did take some liberties on it)




Ok last series of updates for this line. I know originally I said I wasn't doing any dinosaurs but I did end up doing 2. A huge brachiosaurus for my son and after seeing the Allosaurus my son received for a grandparent from the recently revamped JP line while I didn't like the colors I loved the design and knew I had to get my hands on one myself and then do a 'tweek" of it.
Brachiosaurus WIP and completed













Allosaurus before and after
Before (The colors/pattern seems so unnatural which is ironic because it's inspired by a lizard with a pretty much identical coloration/pattern)


After (much better!)


On top of a new paint job I also wanted to give him a bit of a personality...like a past confrontation with a stegosaurus didn't go so well so I dremmeled some scars and then sculpted some epoxy into the grooves to give them some texture.

As always thanks for looking and comments, critiques and questions are always welcomed.