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01-02-2012, 08:07 PM | #1 |
Psy Ops Trainee
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: St. Paul, MN
Posts: 249
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Here is my finished Rain project- its my first real custom figure. I took the guy apart, washed it, tooled down the rub areas, primed it, picked a color scheme, hand painted it, and reassembled it. It isn't the most sophisticated figure ever, but I'm proud of how it turned out.
For *lots* of information on the entire project, you can check out my blog entry about it. You can see it (and all the rest) here. What it looked like out of the box How he looks now.
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Check out my blog that documents my adventures crafting, collecting and customizing GI Joe related stuff. I'm a beginner, and I hope other beginners who read it can learn from my mistakes and more experienced folks will enjoy seeing how for they have come. Updated at least once a week. |
01-02-2012, 08:16 PM | #2 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Portland, OR
Posts: 491
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I like how he turned out, and I enjoyed looking through your blog... I am thinking about doing some customization myself and I like seeing what other beginners are doing for there first customs! Very cool, and keep at it! You can only get better from here!
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01-02-2012, 08:49 PM | #3 |
Iron Grenadier
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Great north
Posts: 991
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I applaud your choice of figure as a customizing base! Using a relatively cheap figure that has a good base and quality sculpting makes us adventurous and willing. The Corps are a bit of customizing away from being Kick Ass! instead of just decent .
If your interested in taking your figure one step further you might want to consider giving them DCUC / AVATAR style hips. All youd need (at the least) is : * An exacto blade or box cutter * drill * some type of rod or pin ( usually pizza boxes come with plastic tripods) * super glue This would give your figure the ability to do side kicks or ride motorcycles and its well worth the few minutes it would take. Recently i've switched over to customizing some unique & cheap figures and trying to bring them up to almost Hasbro quality . I love the result so far so i can relate to how you feel about "Rain". I actually receive more satisfaction from upgrading a crappy figure than customizing Hasbro's already high quality figures. |
01-02-2012, 08:54 PM | #4 |
Psy Ops Trainee
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: St. Paul, MN
Posts: 249
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Veedub- working on a custom is a lot of fun if you are patient. I screwed up a few times working on the project (and did my best to document it on my blog in hopes that other folks new to this could go to school on my mistakes). There are plenty of really, really good customizers and painters here on hisstank, but as long as you accept that your work probably isn't going to be as good as theirs the first time out, its something you can really enjoy. I have my little guy sitting on my desk now looking at me as I type to remind myself to "keep it up" as the new semester starts.
...I think he'll also represent my desire to ninja kick certain profs and assignments depending on how the semester goes. ;-) D
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Check out my blog that documents my adventures crafting, collecting and customizing GI Joe related stuff. I'm a beginner, and I hope other beginners who read it can learn from my mistakes and more experienced folks will enjoy seeing how for they have come. Updated at least once a week. |
01-02-2012, 08:54 PM | #5 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Central Falls, RI
Posts: 107
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Nice skills! Corps guys are definitely underrated!
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01-03-2012, 12:52 AM | #6 |
Psy Ops Trainee
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: St. Paul, MN
Posts: 249
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Thanks Z. They make great learning-to-paint fodder.
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Check out my blog that documents my adventures crafting, collecting and customizing GI Joe related stuff. I'm a beginner, and I hope other beginners who read it can learn from my mistakes and more experienced folks will enjoy seeing how for they have come. Updated at least once a week. |
01-13-2012, 09:35 AM | #7 |
Iron Grenadier
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Great north
Posts: 991
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Again...very nice work and i'm really drawn to your choice of figure. It's uniqueness just makes the custom that much better.
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