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Post by PGV on Oct 21, 2014 8:40:00 GMT -6
King Piccolo from DBDifficulty: 7/10 How to make: This is for my 4.5 to 5 inch DB collection I am trying to create mostly from scratch. I started with a Banpresto DX Action Figure Piccolo (you might be most familiar with the Raditz from the set) and I was severely disappointed with the figure. The articulation is basically worthless and just serves to make the figure ugly. The arms swing, swivel in an inhuman, weird location that is useless, barely bend at the elbow, and the wrists turn. The head and waist turn, which is useful. The legs look ball jointed, but aren't, they suck. The knees look really dumb when bent, there's no ankle articulation, and the swivel on the thigh is useless because the figure can't stand with the legs swiveled. I was hoping to make this figure into Cell Saga Piccolo since the arms are so beefy, but I changed my plans and made him into King Piccolo instead. I used the head from some bootleg King Piccolo super deformed figure that came with Roshi, Goku, Korin, etc. The face is a great sculpt, but needed some additions to the jaw and engineering to fit the neck. The shoulders were tiny and stupid looking so I sculpted some shirt on top. The hands I had were a fist and special beam cannon hand so I had to replace them (I'm not sure if there were alternate hands or not... I may have added wrist articulation, I don't remember), so I used hands from an old Spider-man figure of some ugly guy named Smythe I think. I added a lot of height to the lower legs because they were out of proportion for King Piccolo. I then sent the figure to Adrenaline for him to sculpt the clothing. He reworked what I did on the shirt, made the pants go higher, made him less skinny, sculpted some details to the inner thighs, resculpted the entire lower legs, and as I requested, made his feet enormous, since they were in the anime. Once I got the figure back, I did a minor amount of sanding, and gave him a full repaint. Painting Piccolo arms is annoying, but I practically have it down to a science now. I finished it off with one of the stickers I designed, the largest King Piccolo sticker from the Style 2 sticker sheets I sell. Before/After Bran i really love the job you did on this one
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Post by PGV on Oct 21, 2014 8:13:02 GMT -6
so after months of trial and error and more error and rescuplting and swearing and painting etc. etc. I ve finally done a figuarts custom!!! well its, lets say 99% finished, but I don't know when / if it will be 100% finished!! so im just going post some pics now!!!... that yamcha head turned out really well! great job
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Post by PGV on Oct 21, 2014 8:09:13 GMT -6
I gotta make a team of 20 yardrats nice works
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Post by PGV on Oct 21, 2014 8:05:14 GMT -6
All the stuff look great! I want to make a Cameraman too but I still got nothing for it yet. By the way, when will be my Tambourine get start? Hi cmakh, I will send 1 extra figue with the tambourine to repay you for the delay. Its parts are crafted, I have yet to assemble and paint it. Please send me again your adress via PM
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Post by PGV on Oct 20, 2014 10:40:52 GMT -6
You made Lionel! Damn you lol I want it, even though he looks too tall. These look like some fun customs, but BD Recoome is the best! Really awesome. you should repaint the Figuarts Cell. Glad to see you back Thank you! For Lionel I used a Robin Hood figure (and a jakks end of dbz trunks head), it fits really well in my opinion I'm going to post more customs really soon, and to check out your creations as well
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Post by PGV on Oct 19, 2014 11:05:30 GMT -6
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Post by PGV on Oct 19, 2014 10:02:06 GMT -6
Happy birthday to my long time Italian friend PGV! Hi guys, thank youall ! Sorry I've been away for so long, but I was out on a two months long vacation and then when i got back my grandma died and I wasn't much in the mood to be online.
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Post by PGV on Oct 19, 2014 9:59:55 GMT -6
I really hope they are going to make something better than the already seen in 100 variants main characters
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Post by PGV on Oct 19, 2014 9:56:34 GMT -6
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Post by PGV on Jul 20, 2014 11:15:13 GMT -6
haha, DB started to be aired in Italy since 1998 on ITALIA1... the 3 series DB/Z GT have been reaired for an incredible amount of times. I know that the first DB series was aired even before (maybe 1994) on a minor channel with a different italian dub, but i never knew about that first release as it wasn't a main italian channel. The movies have been transmitted on RAI2 with a first italian dub, and they were reaired on ITALIA1 with the main series voice actors much later. DBZ is so popular in Italy that it is being aired even now every evening on ITALIA2
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Post by PGV on May 30, 2014 14:48:01 GMT -6
Great! I gotta make a Teen Broly too!
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Post by PGV on May 30, 2014 13:09:47 GMT -6
this is going to turn great! well done!
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Post by PGV on May 17, 2014 23:36:29 GMT -6
About the plastic transparent part I just saved most of the ones from the figures I bought in the past... While for the paper I usually print them and attach them with vinilic glue to cardboard Examples Since I'll be soon in lack of plastic I'm going to reproduce this type of box: It is cool looking and mostly cardboard. The transparent front part could be obtained from many this you buy potentially often ( newspaper kiosk cheap items, different food boxes, or even transparent foils that are not hard like the ones you can find into the stationery shop ). This is an example of a box obtained from a x-mas chocolate figurine of a king magus:
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Post by PGV on May 13, 2014 15:27:47 GMT -6
Great job on them customs PGV! Still not sure what to think of old trunks though haha, but man am I liking that perfect cell, SS bardock, and mighty mask! Also that ss4 Goku is a new one correct? Right, but that ss4 goku needs some fixes before postin final pics of him
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Post by PGV on May 13, 2014 14:52:08 GMT -6
lol , I never experienced this even if I hate smoke... but maybe my nose is usually in Krillin mode...
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