Topic: Jon's customs - TFA Rebel Pilots

[jon_k]

PG 1: Darth Sion | T3M4 | Female Light Side Revan
PG 2: Mara Jade | Visas Marr | Bao Dur
PG 3: Mira | Carth Onasi
PG 4: First Order AT-AT Forest Gunner | Darth Nihilus
PG 5: Jolee Bindo | Canderous Ordo | Atton Rand | G0-T0 | Jyn Erso
PG 5: TFA Rebel Pilots


First custom, KOTOR II Darth Sion made of 3 Anakins.

Recipe:
Torso, left arm & legs: Tartakovsky Clone Wars Anakin
Right arm: ROTS "slashing action" Anakin
Head: Battle Damage ROTS Anakin.

Boil & popped everything apart and cut the lower right arm out of the ball joint hoop. Drilled out the new arm to the size of a spare yoda cane I had laying around, and built a new bar to thread through the hoop.



Glued the new bar in place from the outside, scored up the body with dental tools, painted the large sections and reassembled. Rolled out thin sheets of green stuff and cut them into the loin cloth sections. Cut a chunk out of the belt in the back to allow room for the loin cloth sections to be glued underneath.



Did some shaky detail painting (I didn't like the way actually painting the cracks looked, so I did some black and red drybrushing to catch on the scoring and went for a little more of an impressionistic look than literal), and here we are!

Not 100% pleased with my small-scale painting, but hopefully that will eventually improve. Thoughts?

[AjuntaPall]

Nice job man! Keep up the good work

[Tamer]

You can read my thoughts on the front pages.

Fantastic work for a first custom. Fantastic!

[jon_k]

Thanks guys, I appreciate it!

[Starchaser]

Great job with Darth Sion. Glad to have you aboard.

[JDeck]

Awesome! He looks cool. The loincloth is great.  I like the detail work, I need to pick up some dental tools.

[jon_k]

They're actually cheaper than I expected. I picked up a set of 12 on Amazon for something like $8

[jon_k]

Here's another KOTOR build I've finally finished. I wanted to try my hand at T3-M4 because I haven't seen many of them.







Mostly made of a hacked up R4-P17 and some scratchbuilding from an old model kit, with a little bit of a pit droid and a couple missiles from the new R2 figure. Cut down the dome and filled in the holes with green stuff, and used the pit droid ball joint for the head articulation. Most of what I did is pretty self-explanatory from the photos, I think. Finished product below:







And one more for scale:




Sorry for the photo-heavy post!

[Tamer]

Looks nice to me and we like pic heavy posts here!

Off to share your latest on our front pages.

[AjuntaPall]

Looks great! Nice wip shots too. I may try one of these

[jon_k]

Thanks guys, I had a lot of fun with this one

[JDeck]

Cool! I really like seeing custom droids.

[I-am-Boba-Fett]

Great job on T3-M4 !

[jon_k]

I wanted to give Revan a shot the way I played KOTOR before I learned (ex) canon because I haven't seen one yet: female and light side. I've never personally been a fan of cloth on 3.75" so I went with all plastics for the fabrics.

Recipe:
Head: Custom sculpt with greenstuff
Torso, arms and hips: Deena Shan (rebellion legacy comic book collection)
Legs, feet, hands, hood and cape: Barriss Offee (VC)
Skirt: Princess Leia (POTF2 ceremonial gown)
Sabers: Saesee Tiin (POTJ)

Skirt decoration is greenstuff and a piece of a pen. For the most part, the pieces fit together pretty well on their own. I had to shave down the inside of the hood, the shoulders and side of the cloak, the belt on the skirt, and the collar and neck on the torso, but otherwise, it was mostly just boil & pop and paint white and brown with a gold wash over the metal brown parts. Overall, I'm pretty happy with it, through I may have done the mask a little differently if I tried it again. The Hasbro version of the mask looks wrong to me, but this isn't quite right either.

[Tamer]

Wow, she looks gorgeous. Great work and thanks for sharing your process and recipe. Off to share on the pages.