Topic: Mr. Black's customs: K2SO repaint for charity

[spudafett]

Not at all, buddy, I'd rather have honest criticism than misplace praise. And I know what you mean. Lady Jaye does have some large parts on her body, her neck being on of 'em And indeed, the female Rebel pilot's arms remain a bit buff, despite the fact I sanded off the shoulders quite a bit. But with the armour and shoulder plates in place, I'm positive it'll work out for the better.

Thanks for the advice on the helmet too, guys. I'll go down a different road though, one I've travelled before. I'll sand down the Lady Jaye head (which isn't of any use to me anyway), so that it'll fit inside the Saga '06 helmet. I think women will put up their hair underneath the helmet as well, not letting long hair come out from underneath it. Safety first, right?

are you going to glue in the lady jaye head inside the helmet then to preserve the ball joint?  If your doing that you'll just have to have a seperate head for un-helmeted display correct?  That's what I did with my 501st fem trooper.  Although, instead of wasting a somewhat useful head, you could just fill in the cavity of the at-at driver's helmet with sculpy and drill a new socket...  Or use the less professional hot glue method.

[Mr. Black]

That's right, Spuda, just using that Lady Jaye head to fill the helmet socket  So she'll have a helmet with that head glued in and her Scarlett head for display with her helmet off. I did the same with my Mereel Mando custom, just used a spare Jango head, sanded it down and glued it inside the Mando bucket.

[Mr. Black]

As you'll probably know Yakface.com hosts an annual Secret Santa Custom round. Quite a few of us took part and made some great custom gifts for each other.

This is what I made for fellow Yarder/Yak MrHoppers, a battle damaged Spider Droid and as a bonus a female Jedi Knight. The latter is a custom I made a few years ago, I must admit. I wanted to make a new Jedi, but you wouldn't believe the insane paint rub issues I experienced with that one. Because of the deadline, I opted to add an older quality custom, instead of a new one with a soddy paint job.

When I got BJ's name from Chewie, I immediately thought of making this for him, to go with his awesome trench diorama.

The Spider Droid is the Saga Deluxe one (I think), with the walking mechanism ripped out, damage effects using my Dremel and soldering iron and a bit of tubing on the under side. Repainted the entire thing in shades of green and added the obligatory weathering and battle marks.

Despite the pressure of the deadline (shipped Dec.17th., arrived Jan.3rd.) I had great fun making this one. I even thought of adding decals, inspired by that walker seen in Sucker Punch. But like I said, time wouldn't let me.

The Jedi is made from a 25th. Scarlett body, ROTS Shaak Ti skirt and VvV Bombstrike head. Fully repainted of course.

Anwyay, enough talk, here's the pics:















Additional pics can be seen on my FB Page

 

[Luke Sprywalker]

That is an awesome gift! Very well done Remco!

[hangarbay94]

Very nice Incom, you are another customiser who has come on leaps and bounds since I first joined the forums. I love your presentation, you just oooze creativity.

[darthdaddy]

LOVE IT!!

[JediMindtrix]

awesome Rem,she looks amazing,and that is such a cool thing to add in.it looks like she's really doing one of those Anikin Skywalker takedowns on the droid.

[Tamer]

Remco, this is sweet!

On the front page. You are on fire!

[Poffie]

I like The SPIDER Who is the facebook LIKE !!!

[Clonehead]

Beautiful work, Remco! The saber cut is marvelous ad I love the paint on the spider droid.

[RebelAce]

Cool!  That spider droid has definitely seen better days.

[JediMerc]

Awesome execution!  I love action poses in photography and yours always look terrific.  I'm really liking the green paint you applied to this droid, not typical to the types of coloring we usually see on custom droids. 

[Jedi Minstrel]

Nice set up with the Jedi and droid!

[botwt]

Very well done!!!

[Mr. Black]

Thanks very much, guys, always appreciate your feedback! And MrHoppers already positioned these two in his excellent diorama