ESB Dios III

So here's my final set of pictures I'm submitting to FFURG.com's Casting Call #60.


Gotta Keep you warm kid, till I can build the shelter.


I thought they smelled bad on the outside!!!

In all honesty, I probably should have used LSMaker to do the lightsaber effect, and the small bits of vapor in Gimp instead of both in Gimp.



Stand by Ion Control...FIRE!!!!

ESB Dios II

More FFURG's Casting Call #60: Dioramas of the Empire Strikes Back to look at. If I ever find the extra set of Hoth pictures I took, I'll really be in business.


So, how to make the BMF with crew look not like sitting on your dryer in full light? I don't know either, and lacking a black sheet or back drop, here's my best shot and probably the most work I've ever done to an image with GIMP. What I did do is obviously 3PO's eyes, as well as drop a light in the back over the hatch to the access corridor, and finally darken out the non-cockpit part of the images.



"The Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack."


"Through the Force, things you will see, far away places, the future, the past...old friends long gone."


"I see a city in the clouds..."

Agent Faces 25th Aniv

So I have returned with my first post-baby custom and the first custom from the new house. Started off with a simple head placement. Took a v2 Spy Troops Agent Faces (v1 is actually the Crimson Guard Mailaway), hollowed out the head, trimmed some of it away, and put it on a Chuckles body. And the background is the downstairs fireplace in the house. Yeah, that's right, braggin' about the house because I got upstairs and downstairs functioning and passed inspection fireplaces.

Why not paint the shirt? I was going for the Timothy Dalton/Pierce Bronson era Felix Leiter/Thomas Magnum/Burn Notice sort of casual guy. His cover in various locations is probably tourist and leaving the shirt the print it is probably more stereotypical symoblic of that since the GI Joe line is a bunch of stereotypes.

ESB Dioshots I

I have taken over yet another Casting Call at FFURG.com. CC60: The Dioramas of the Empire Strikes Back celbates the 30th Aniversary of the movieby taking and constructing scenes with toys, customs and whatever else we can imagine. It also celebrates diorama making/photo editing which is just as important to customs as making the figures themselves.

It is exciting for me because this is really my first real forray into using GIMP to add effects. I've merged pictures using photoshop but that was relatively simple and essentially a microscope lab manual how to. This I'm doing all by myself free handed.





There will be more, if they survived the switch from Win7 back to Vista due to a job. And hopefully customs will resume production here by the end of summer.

Gavin Darklighter

Rather simple with same basic recipe as Traest Kref'yla, but with a GI Joe Greenshirt head that's been dirtied up in a few places. So this is Gavin as he has now become a fleet Commodore in the second galactic civil war.

Dace Diath

Head: bbi Elite Force
Body: Anakin Skywalker, Walmart Droid Factor 09
Right Hand/Saber: RotS Anakin Skywalker
Left Hand: ????

I only tried to paint match the skin colored areas and make the head fit. The body is mostly left alone. This was done for www.ffurg.com 's Casting Call #57: Tales of the Jedi.

Monkeywrench

The massive update of end of the year stuff continues with yet another Dreadnok from 1986, Monkeywrench. So the initial figure's head is just Outback. No glasses. I've seen a lot that just give him the glasses from the Baroness. Too easy. I took a Torch head, shaved the beard, sculpeyed it back in, than painted the hair a bit more orange/red. The body is still Monkeywrench.

Old Republic Trooper "B"

Televiper head cast, Han Solo Torso, Death Star Trooper upper legs, Pilot Vander legs lower, hands???, Arms ???, body armor GI Joe ROC Pit Commando.

Master Orro, Celegian Jedi Master

Just a repainted foam brain, some Force Lightning effects drilled in. No plans to make his special atmospheric tube.

RAM Motor Cycle (Rock-n-Roll's Personal)

Just a splashing of some enamel chrome to make the engine and tail pipes. I have no idea why I went with the wheels. Now I have to go and touch up the tires in black. UGH.

Tresina Lobi, Jedi Master-NJO

Now there is some confusion in the books as to this one's species. She is described as both Chev and Chevin. She is said to have flaxen wheat hair, which is a species trait for the Chev (humanoid, not pachyaderm) and an ultra rare one at that. Insider's Who's Who has her has a human (totally incorrect). So I went with Chev appearance. Parts are Adi Gallia arms, PotF2 Obi-Wan Kenobi legs, Wiolesa skirt and upper body, head is Marion Ravenwood cast from the Indiana Jones line.

Short Fuze

The UBP Short Fuze head put on a Zap body, with a nicer dark green finish. Sorta pissed that I snapped the Zap backpack straps, but oh well.

BIG BRAWLER!!!

Cobra Island Outback, with v1 Brawler head, hand scratched off/painted slogan, and bbi belt.

BRAWLIN~~~~

Thrasher

This is a Torch body, with Mutt lower arms and I'm a different right hand. The head is Anakin Skywalker. There is a small green stripe on the top. The shoulderpads I'm told came from Gene.

Zandar

Oh, ye forgotten Dreadnoks. I put a casted head on, gave the Chuckles holster from the Cobra Island pack, on the dreadnock Torch body. I put a couple of the odd tattoos on. I should have used the Young Indy or Tunnel Rat Bandana too, but I figure he lost the head band, so losing the bandanna too would make him slightly less flaming.

Zarana

Long time. I know. Let's get to it, shall we.



It's just an Agent Helix repainted in classic Zarana pink and blues with a few punk liberties taken with the hair and make up.

FFURG Casting Call 55: The Force Unleashed Secret Aprentice Outfits Kento's robes

Quinlan Vos legs and upper body, GI Joe Major Bludd/Blackout lower arms, Boba Fett upper arms, GI Joe Greenshirt head and Luke Skywalker BAD hood.

I decided not to cut the tails of the robe because I am not really able to make an organic/smooth cut line.

FFURG Casting Call 55: The Force Unleashed Secret Aprentice Outfits Bounty Hunter Disguise

Head is GI Joe Greenshirt head, interior body is mostly a BAD Jedi Luke with Obi-Wan upper arms, Boba Fett lower arms, BAD Luke thighs, Anakin Skywalker lower legs, 30th Aniversary Kamino Jango Fett armor, a Vader BAD skirt piece for the soft goods, a Fett cloak coped to the armor line, Lady Jaye 5pack belt and finally a POFT2 robe portion from Bib Fortuna cut away in the skirt.

I think there's a rat liver and sink in there too, but I have no clue.

Footloose, 25th Aniversary Version

So take one Stalker body, remove the lower arms, put in the DTC lower arms and head. To make the web gear, a 21st Century knife sheath was attatched by punching a small hole in the web gear and gluing it on.

Scarlet

Well, the o-ring saga draws to a conclusion. The movie versions of the Scarlet and Baroness enabled me to "wait" for different or at least more realistic takes on the characters. However, Scarlet's just seemed off. Why would the more causual outfit have the hair up? Why would the more armored have it down? Well I decided to swap heads. This was no simiple matter as when I set off to do it. I ended up having to cut each neck post just above the neck line and glue to the other figure. The result is slightly better versions of each figure.