Branjita's Finished Custom Figures

No, I haven't made one yet. I've been waiting to see if one will ever be made. I do have the parts to make one though, if I really have to.

Hey good eye! I should have put that here. She/he fits in really well I think. I am not going to be too picky. The head size is right, and that's what matters most in my collection.


I was surprised nobody caught that I put my WIP SS2 Gohan in the pic as well. He had to be in it. I designed the layout so he'd be front and center on this shelf! I couldn't leave him out of the shot!

Nice gift

Capsule x Nike sold me my Vegeta custom I made him back. I'm pretty happy to have him back.

Custom diorama for my girlfriend's upcoming birthday
Difficulty: 5/10

Backstory: I've been dating my girlfriend since 2/12/16 and her birthday is in 2 weeks. Since she left town to be with her family for Thanksgiving, I've been working at a furiously fast pace on a diorama for her. She has always hand-made me gifts, and I never have particularly, because I work more hours than her and am crappy about using my free time for anything but video games lately. I think it is time I pay her back with something meaningful to commemorate some of the adventures we've been on. I usually make these type of dioramas for my family with things I collect on vacations we take. Things like rocks, pine cones, tickets, etc. spanning the course of a week long vacation. For this one, I'm at a disadvantage because my girlfriend and I didn't go out of town, and I didn't pick up ANYTHING, except a souvenir crushed penny, and I didn't have a diorama in mind. The primary adventures shown in this diorama were two trips to the Dallas Zoo. On the first one, we went for the Pokemon Go event in the evening, when they kept the zoo open late for Pokemon Go players to visit and catch Pokemon. At that time period, the zoo was a Pikachu nest. The second visit was recent, with the intent of seeing the baby elephant--elephants being her favorite animal. It was a Nidoran (female and male both) nest then. This diorama has a bit of an Easter Egg in it, and it's related to a trip to the Arboretum (botanical garden), where there was a tree that I said looked like it was full of Koffings and Weezings. Koffing is the Pokemon who reminds my girlfriend of me most because he's happy, cute, and I like doing his voice. So I made one of the trees look like that tree and I put a Koffing behind it. The other tree I made so I could put a hummingbird sticker in it (my nickname for her is hummingbird because she's small, cute, and flutters )and I put a Koffing behind it to represent me looking at her.

How to make: I bought two small animal toys at Hobby Lobby off the clearance aisle a few months ago without a clear idea of how I was going to use them, but they were only $2 each. I love cheetahs and she loves elephants, and we saw both on both trips to the zoo, so that works out. The base is something I bought from a vintage toy store. It's a base for an unknown figure. It was well-painted and perfect for $1. I had a solid green plastic tree from a set of dollar store toys I bought years ago (bought it for the tiger I used to make my Sabretooth Cat that chases kid Gohan), and I cut off the base and painted it with several layers of paint and then clearcoated it sloppily. The hummingbird sticker was off an address label or something. The Koffings I found online and I sized them how big I wanted them and printed them on sticker paper. The Dallas Zoo logo and the phrase above it came from the tickets to the zoo. The pictures are ones I took while we were there on both trips and I glued them onto some wood sticks. The crushed penny was something I bought while we were at the zoo on our second trip. I tried making it easier to see the tiger and lettering by putting some dark blue paint on it and wiping it off, but it looked bad, so I just tried to wipe all the paint off it. I couldn't get it all off because I already had it glued to the base and everything else. The moss is the bushes I used in my Battle of Gods scene stealer contest entry years ago. Everything else I didn't already mention are all from various potpourri bowls of my mom's. I had no "found objects" from our adventures to make additions to the base with, so potpourri made sense. I don't know what any of this stuff is. The brown things seem like husks or skins of something, the green things I used for the trees I hot glued piece by piece to make look like trees, and I used some random thing I kind of shredded with my x-acto knife to cover the skull that was on the base. I then put some moss on it. The fluffy flower things were white but I carefully hot glued them to the green things and then painted them with extremely watered down lavender colored paint. Those were very, very, very difficult and are very, very, very fragile. Lots of hot glue involved on this entire project and I cut all of the hot glue strings off that I could see so it would look clean. I think I went through 4 sticks of hot glue.

I hope she likes it. I don't know how many hours I spent on this, but I would estimate between 15 and 25 hours. I added a "do not touch!" sign to the diorama since I'll be presenting this to her at her birthday party at her apartment. One of our mutual friends is particularly rough and likes to touch things, so I want her to see that and NOT TOUCH IT. To transport it, I hot glued the base to a piece of cardboard and then I heavily hot glued the cardboard to the bottom of a box. I hope the flowers survive the trip and nobody kicks, knocks over, or shakes the box. I've of course marked it aggressively with "EXTREMELY FRAGILE! DO NOT SHAKE, TIP, OR TURN UPSIDE DOWN!"

Clean work. You always manage something, even when your resources are low. I know Laura will LOVE it.

Btw, did you ever post the Cooler I made you?