Branjita's Finished Custom Figures

The Roshi is an unmodified IF Labs Master Roshi. He comes with that lawn chair, his cane, and the magazine. He's a very nice figure. Keep in mind though that these are fairly large scale. Roshi measures almost 5.75 inches tall.

He's really really cool. I wish I could downgrade his overall scale for myself. The best part is the face. You nailed his mischievous stare. My only complaints are one, his shoulder straps or whatever they are that go around his back, should be darker, like brown. And two, that he should have no wristbands. But I think they're not too far out of place.

Soul of Hyper Figuration Android 16
Difficulty: 2/10
How to make: The original figure looked upward like he was watching birds, and I didn't like that. So what I did is separate him at the hips, cut the hips into two pieces, cut a triangular chunk out, and glued it back together. I didn't cut straight (it's hard to get a perfectly flush chop) so I had to use some apoxie sculpt to fill the area, then sand, then repaint the pants. Turned out really nice, but I would have liked it better if it was a 2 minute custom like I hoped it would be, instead of a 45 minute one (not including 4 hour drying time on the apoxie).

Before:




Goku in Ginyu's body
Difficulty: 7/10
How to make: This character is from Gohan's imagination when his father got stuck in Captain Ginyu's body. I always thought this was funny, so I had to do it. I've seen people do this custom before, but they always inaccurately made the character the same size as Goku. It's Captain Ginyu wearing Goku's clothing, with Goku's soul. So the character is Ginyu's size, not Goku's size.


I made this custom because I decided to redo my Captain Ginyu custom from '07/'08 and make him even better. The head I wasn't going to reuse needed to be repurposed, because I went to way too much effort resculpting and re-engineering the Bandai Blasting Energy Action head to just not use it for anything. I had an extra Jakks Goku body, that's already too big to be Goku in my collection, so I decided to use that. I made the boots taller with apoxie and engineered the peg to go in there. It made him a little bit taller. I cut the hands off and engineered some other hands (from my old Ginyu custom... from Jakks USS Trunks) onto the forearms after resculpting them and they are articulated (they twist). All of the articulation was maintained actually, though the right shoulder joint is really tight. To help remedy that, I brushed some Vaseline over the paint and into those shoulder joints to help prevent paint wear. I made him a belt from something (not sure what anymore) and sculpted where I needed to, which included redoing the entire neck and collar bones to resemble Captain Ginyu. I repainted every single thing except the orange gi. The boots took over 3 hours because of the lines. The gi symbols are the stickers I designed for Figuarts (the first run that didn't have orange outlining the logos). I finished him off with my usual flat clear, but I put semigloss on the horns to give them a bit of shine. I think he turned out really nice for what I consider an unimportant character, and a character I didn't really want to do a lot of sculpting to. I probably should have enlarged the ears, but if I did that, I'd have to make him a new scouter. My old scouter was custom made to fit his head, and it would suck to not use it.


Rotation pics: Here he is with his scouter. I know he didn't wear one in the artwork, but I made this from scratch years ago, and it fits his ear precisely, so it would be a waste to not use it.
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Here he is standing next to a much more exciting work in progress. I really need to beef this guy up and sculpt the armor to be correct. I made him years ago with SOME epoxy putty, but a lot of him was Sculpey III as you can still see.


He scales really well with my other figures. He should technically be even bigger than this, but this works well in my opinion.



I wish there were more Namek saga 5 inch scale figures. It's a shame I am having to make almost every single character entirely from scratch due to the existing figures being awful looking, out of scale, or non-existent.

Guess what? Teen Tien saw more air-time than Goku in Ginyu's body and Goku's clothes.  This is the most minor character you own LOL

But he was done really, really well. Great paint work around the joints and on the boots. Now that I can see bigger images, I think the belt is fine. The eyes are my only complaint. They look better are your WIP Ginyu (which btw looks like an absolutely daunting task) They just look a little uneven, but seriously, 2 minutes of reapplying red dots again and thickening the bottom blue outline of his right eye would fix it for sure! I'll say 9.2/10

Android 16 is nice. Can't even see what you did. Good job.

And I like your Kid Gohan skin tone better too.

Now that I have time, Ginyu is awesome! Paint job is, like always, really great. He's such a minor character that you did so well! I appreciate that you increased the height for proper scaling. Phenomenal.


Android 16 is great as well. As adrenaline said, I can't even tell what you changed. I really like the group shot of 16, 17, and 18, since 17 and 18 are my favorite characters.

Regular Captain Ginyu? The dwc had a scouter on his head and no real ear so I had to sculpt one that still needs sanding.

it's the same size as the other one