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Post by balrog on May 23, 2019 12:24:57 GMT -6
Very cool to see Janemba... nice work! Thank you for the kind words! It was a challenging sculpting attempt, trying to maximize the articulation while also recreating the bulky chitinous look of Janemba but it worked out in the end! I whipped up a couple other custom figures the last couple of days, here's a simple shot of an exhausted Goten in what I'll call the "Buu Saga Fusion" display since it should eventually feature also an equally tired Kid Trunks and a Goku and Piccolo performing the Fusion Dance for the kids. He was made from a Kid Goku body, with an Adult Goku head.. repainted, modified the shoes, added long sleeves (too long like in some scenes where his sleeves go over his hands) and anklewraps, modified the torso and the belt. The other quick custom figure is Future Mai to go in the Black Goku Saga display. On the left you can also get a glimpse of the Cabba custom figure I made a while back, and in the back are Gowasu and Zamasu customs also, and of course Mai stands behind Trunks biding her time for the right time to shoot Black. This display area will eventually get a makeover once Zamasu Fused is released. I hope you like these, and more will come soon!
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Post by Branjita on May 23, 2019 13:31:05 GMT -6
Man, these are awesome. Keep it up!
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Post by balrog on May 28, 2019 12:37:59 GMT -6
Hi everyone! I updated my Buu Saga Fusion display, it's just waiting for a proper Kid Trunks now! And I also whipped up a custom figure of Android 14 to join my Android 15 old figure.. something tells me Android 13 may join them some time in the future.. (For some reason the picture above is appearing a tad smaller than expected, but you can click on it to get a zoomed version, sorry about that) And a close-up picture... My "DBZ Movies Figures" display is getting much larger than I anticipated, I may not be able to share the same shelf for Dragon Ball and these much longer. I have some more big characters planned so I'll have to find a way! I hope you like these, keep the comments coming and don't hesitate to ask for more pictures or ask questions if you have some!
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Post by Branjita on May 30, 2019 9:18:10 GMT -6
Very nice work! I'm loving all the attention to the movie characters!
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Post by balrog on May 30, 2019 14:47:19 GMT -6
Very nice work! I'm loving all the attention to the movie characters! Thank you, and I'm happy to hear that since I have many more movie characters planned! In the mean time, here's an updated picture of my Cooler custom who got a better head (you can see the old version in a previous picture in this thread) and a full body repaint. I daresay it makes him look.. cooler.
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Post by balrog on Jun 1, 2019 7:55:56 GMT -6
To stay on the Frost Demon theme after Cooler, here's my latest work : Final Form Frost who joins the Universe 6 roster (on the right). Base figure is a Dragon Stars Frieza, replaced the head, resculpted the feet, wristguards and shinguards, also the waist for the "pants", a full body repaint and a coat of gloss varnish on the head and chest blue parts. I plan on making First Form and Third Form Frost customs as well in the future but I'll see how those work out, but for now I'm quite happy with how this one turned out. You can also see up close the replacement heads for Hit and Cabba to make them more in line with the SH Figuarts collection since those were originally Dragon Stars.
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Post by friezku on Jun 1, 2019 19:55:37 GMT -6
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Post by Branjita on Jun 3, 2019 9:19:57 GMT -6
The Frost looks great! Makes me jealous that I can't find the time to customize!
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Post by balrog on Jun 6, 2019 15:26:13 GMT -6
Thanks for the kind words and encouragements, it drives me to continue working on my customs and trust me there's plenty more I want to tackle before I'm done! I recently assembled a Figure-rise Piccolo and I wasn't going to use his cape but since that figure is a little larger than SH Figuarts scale I immediately thought it might fit Super Buu to make a decent Buucolo. Lo and behold, I think it works pretty nicely!
Of course a real accurate Buucolo is going to require a modified faceplate (he has a pointy nose) and a larger and longer "horn / head tail" but until I improve to tackle that or Demoniacal Fit releases his Buutenks sculpt, this will do for now. And here's a fun little project I whipped up the last couple days, a little sculpture of Gregory made from scratch with epoxy resin and some bendy metal wire. He's a little larger than he should be but too small would have limited the expression and pose so I went for a personal take on him. I hope you like him too! Keep the comments coming, I really appreciate them!
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Post by Branjita on Jun 7, 2019 11:53:43 GMT -6
I love that Buucolo! I'd wait for the Demoniacal Fit head, because it should work perfectly. Love the Gregory.
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Post by balrog on Jun 10, 2019 9:49:39 GMT -6
I love that Buucolo! I'd wait for the Demoniacal Fit head, because it should work perfectly. Love the Gregory. Thank you very much, it means a lot coming from a customizer fellow, and there's a lot of amazing customs on these forums so this is really appreciated! I've made a few improvements to my Buu Saga display again.. First I replaced the head of Kaioshin so now both he and Kibito look like they belong in a SH Figuarts collection..
I also gave Mr. Satan a new face so he looks happy to have survived through all this with his newfound friend, Buu. I know the Scultures Buu is a little too small compared to the SH Figuarts enormous Fat Buu, but in my mind it's because all the evil that was inside him has been purged (Evil Buu, plus all the humans he ate) and so that explains why he's a little less big. And finally, I also made a Kid Trunks custom to join my Goten custom, now the display features both kids, exhausted from their training with the fusion, and their teachers behind them. He's made from a Kid Goku body with Trunks boots and fully repainted (skin and clothes since Trunks is a little more tan than Goku and Goten). I repainted the head since that's a SSJ faceplate, recolored the eyes and the eyebrows and gave him a little more smirk to fit Kid Trunks better. I also replaced the head of my Z Sword / Kai Gohan since I prefer him in SSJ form for this outfit (in the back behind Super Buu). (You can click the picture below to get a zoomed-in version) I hope you like these, I have another custom in the works that is nearing completion and I'll make sure to share it with you!
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Post by Branjita on Jun 10, 2019 10:00:38 GMT -6
Everything looks great!!
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Post by balrog on Jun 11, 2019 13:48:11 GMT -6
Hi again everyone! A while ago I decided it should be possible to customize a Figure-rise Perfect Cell into a decent Semi-Perfect Cell for SH Figuarts scale.. it seemed simple enough compared to some more ambitious projects, the two designs are fairly similar, just a lot of repainting and some epoxy resin sculpting for a few parts of the body.. except the tail. I present to you Semi-Perfect Cell. The tail gave me trouble, I had a few attempts but in the end I think I found a good solution with an electrical cable cut to fit, then hollowed out (partly) to allow for the insertion of bendable metal wires along the length. This allowed me to bend it into a suitable shape. The rest was some sculpting for the stinger and paint for the whole thing... In the end I'm quite happy with it. Here's a zoomed out shot at the Android Saga display (with the Saiyan Saga and Super Display, roughly half of my collection), gives better scale of the size of this Semi-Perfect Cell. I hope you'll like this one too, and I really hope we'll soon get a nice Imperfect Cell figure or at least a solid base figure to start with to customize one!
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Post by friezku on Jun 11, 2019 20:38:30 GMT -6
balrog Cool Semi-PErfect Cell Are you considering making a custom Imperfect Cell?
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Post by balrog on Jun 12, 2019 11:08:00 GMT -6
balrog Cool Semi-PErfect Cell Are you considering making a custom Imperfect Cell? Possibly, I'm always looking for ways to customize more characters and this is a really important one I'd love to have. But I'm not certain it would be easily doable with another Figure-rise Perfect Cell as Imperfect Cell is overall much thinner and the differences in design between Imperfect and Perfect are much greater. I'm hoping maybe Dragon Stars will make an Imperfect Cell at some point, or maybe I'll try it someday with a fully sculpted body on a simple humanoid shape like I did for my Janemba custom.. We'll see, but thanks for the interest you show for my customs!
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