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04-24-2015, 12:10 PM | #1 |
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*UPDATE* Finally have his vehicle and gun now. Here's some pics of him in the vehicle and with his rifle.
It's been 3 years now and all I see is Darklon getting more and more expensive. I have resigned myself to never getting the club Darklon. Never figured out how I can make him with minimal painting until earlier this week. Luckily, I had all the parts. I was not planning to paint the legs but I spilled the gold paint all over his right upper leg when painting the knee pads so I was forced to paint the leg. It was however a blessing in disguise cause when I put the unpainted leg and the painted leg beside each other, I realized how much nicer it looked and given the amount of clearance in the hip joint, nothing rubs so this is a fully playable Darklon. Hope you like my interpretation of him. I'm waiting for his Evader and rifle to arrive. I'll post pics of him in there after I get it. Next up is figuring out how to make a Voltar with minimal painting. With my custom Sgt. Major (another club figure I'll probably never own)
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04-24-2015, 12:53 PM | #2 |
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Looks good. I actually think repainting the majority of the body of most figures when doing customs helps the overall aesthetic. Makes it look more even I guess.
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04-25-2015, 04:39 AM | #3 |
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Dude, this is great! Is this the one you were pissed off about the other day? Because I really think it worked.
And I agree with pig iron, painting the entire figure really brings it all together. I say that with qualification given that I just dug some customs out of storage tubs to find that the paint I stuck on 3 years ago has yellowed slightly while the white plastic didn't, making it look very shit indeed. On the plus side mate, I found a pair of flippers but they're black, will that work for you?
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04-25-2015, 10:07 AM | #4 |
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spot on ,good work bud
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04-25-2015, 10:19 AM | #5 |
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Great work my Canadian brother. Looks amazing. And isn't it amazing how accidents can come out be such great inventions or in your case, an amazing custom? I will steal this idea from you, if you don't mind.
Other great creations that were invented by accident: Corn Flakes were supposed to prevent masturbation. Anti-masturbation dieticians Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and William Keith Kellogg believed that a clean, healthy diet of plainer foods like cereal was key to preventing sexual urges. So, they began experimenting with granola as a non-stimulating replacement for the average diet. One day, the brothers left a batch of wheat unattended to go address some other matter. When they returned, the wheat was stale, but they attempted to roll it out anyway -- resulting in a flat, thin flake. The Slinky was supposed to hold equipment on naval ships. A navy engineer by the name of Richard James was working to create a meter to monitor the horsepower output of ships during World War II, when one of the springs used to stabilize the meter fell off the table and continued to "walk" away. The idea to make a children's toy out of the wandering spring came to him almost immediately, and in 1945 his first Slinky was complete. Potato chips were the result of an angry chef. You can thank one picky, dissatisfied customer in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., for the invention of this glorious snack food. In 1853, after a customer repeatedly sent his order of fried potatoes back to the waiter, complaining that they were too soggy and thick, the New York restaurant's chef George Crum was fed up, and so he took the request for a thinner potato quite literally -- cutting the potatoes into thin slices, frying them and covering them in salt. Behold, "Saratoga Chips." |
04-25-2015, 12:53 PM | #6 |
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Thanks guys. Yeah this was the one I was pissed off about. Haha. To Judd, I actually need the grey flippers. They're actually for my Undertow officer.
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04-25-2015, 07:26 PM | #7 |
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With just tooling for the head, that figure is very doable for the club. Nice custom.
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04-26-2015, 10:54 AM | #8 |
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Very cool idea!
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04-26-2015, 12:39 PM | #9 |
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Thanks. The club actually did make him. Unfortunately, he costs like $150 or more on the secondary market.
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04-26-2015, 02:54 PM | #10 |
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Hopefully, going forth with the club catering to the 80's crowd, and doing more ARAH specific character we will see less of stuff like this with more quantity and lower secondary market prices.
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