Branjita's Finished Custom Figures

King Piccolo from DB
Difficulty: 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.

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