Poncho's Customs (updated october 2018)

terak day one.

found a bottle in the inlaws recyling which may help with some armour plating...maybe

also narrowed down a base vintage figure to modify work experiment with it was toss up between nikto klaatu and squidhead. i decided on squid head luckily i have a beater with a duff hand which will do nicely.

mmm its not going well......

might peservere.....

sigh....

Set it aside for a few days. Regroup, and then return to it. I find that when you come back to it. You have new ideas.

Can't wait to see it, Chris! (But take your time. ) There are a lot of details on the head of that guy which will cause someone to recognize him.

As for the body, I'd just focus on the 2 or 3 most identify-able armour details, and do the rest with paint. I don't think it would take too many visual cues to recognize that character.

But yeah, you know what you're doing.

day 2
some face cutting!

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day 3

limb part swaps and sanding of torso

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Taking shape Chris, good progress mate

day 4 lets play with miliput! funny stuff....should i apply primer before painting...i think i should

Do your milliput work before you prime . I also like to wash the figure before doing any milliput work . I always prime anything I do before painting

day 5.....milliput sculpting..
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Nicely done mate

Chris, it's coming along nicely.

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day 7 armour rethink.......mmmmm.....

this figure is constantly changing ha ha

I have no idea what you're doing with those bits, but I can't wait to see this thing finished!

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ahhh this is very frustrating im 80% done. if i do another custom i think il do something simple

poncho wrote:ahhh this is very frustrating im 80% done. if i do another custom i think il do something simple

Welcome to the world of customs.

Don't give up. Just take a break, and come back to it later. I quite often have more than one custom on the go at a time. So I can take a break from one, if I need too.

Commander Clint wrote:Don't give up.  Just take a break, and come back to it later.  I quite often have more than one custom on the go at a time.  So I can take a break from one, if I need too.

Some wise words from a custom master Hang in there Chris, nearly there mate

im done. the chain on the armour i cant see away around it so im leaving that. i think its turned out ok abit messy in places but you can see what its meant to be. miliput scuplting was new and interesting.

page 1 updated! with new custom

Turned out great Chris, well done mate

That turned out great. It's always tough when working with a new substance like milliput.

cheers boys :-). may do one more at some point ive seen a interesting droid or i may do leia cermonial that looks easy

Leia Cermonial :

ive always wanted to make one. well having decided to put the customs ideas to bed i thought i was done. however i came across a loose beater potf2 1998 leia cermonial for £1 from a carboot sale a couple weeks ago ive decided to de-modern it and make it vintage.....