Branjita's Finished Custom Figures

Difficulty: For my portion, 8/10; for Adrenaline 's portion, I'd assume probably 10/10

This was another figure Adam did the sculpting on for me in 2014 to 2016 while I did some design work for him. This was a big one! I'm really glad and thankful that Adam agreed to do the sculpting work on this one for me, as this was quite a lot of work for him. But his custom was one of my favorite custom's of his, and he sculpts clothes so much better than I do, so I really wanted one like his. I was doing some pretty difficult, time consuming work for him in exchange, so he agreed. In 2014, I provided him the Chara Puchi Tao head, and I provided him the Mystic Gohan body already cut down to the size I wanted him. I shortened the legs and reattached them. I used my dremel and took off the shoulder pads and sanded under the arms on the torso so his arms could hopefully go closer to his sides. I think I glued some craft foam onto it to act as something Adam could sculpt on top of for making his robe. I modified the Chara Puchi head's sculpt a bit, but Adam still had to do more work on it. If I remember right, I removed the eyebrows and mustache, and drew where I wanted the eyes to be and what shape I wanted them to be. I think I trimmed his nose too. I mailed it all to him, and he got to work on it. Once he finished the sculpt, he did the base coats of every color on him. He looked pretty similar to Adam's Tao, just without the symbol on his shirt, the sealer, and the black latches on his shirt. He was basically done, but I like shading figures too much, so I did more work.

Here's Adam's custom next to the earliest work in progress pic of my Tao (that I can find) with mostly just Adam's work on it still. I'm showing this just to show you all how much work he did, as well as how much I changed it over the past couple of weeks.

I ended up repainting all the black clothing, because I discovered that Tao Pai Pai actually wears dark purple pants and sleeves in the anime. It's a detail that my brain (and probably most people's brains) lies about--that he's wearing black. It's the same reason most people (myself included) think Future Trunks is wearing a blue jacket, but it's actually purple... Anyway, I ended up repainting almost every single thing except the shoes. I even repainted the underside of his robe white, since I saw in the anime that it is white. Thankfully I discovered I have the same red and pink paints that Adam used, so I was super lucky and didn't have to repaint every little pink and red detail. I dremeled the joints on the arms hoping that they wouldn't lose paint when used. Once I assembled everything and epoxied the figure together, I was too nervous to move the arms after all the time I spent on this figure, so I didn't bother to try them too much. The shoulder sockets are just too tight. The symbol on his shirt (front and back) is from the sheet of stickers I designed (and still sell on ebay). I tried to blend them into the figure with some paint. I probably should have just tried making a stencil out of the KILL YOU! on the back, but I didn't think about it till it was too late. Once I got the symbols on and blended the paint, I finished clearcoating everything and he was finished.

Difficulty: For my portion, 5/10; for Adrenaline 's portion, I'd assume probably 5/10

I'm not 100% sure, but I think Adam helped me with this figure in 2014 or 2016 in exchange for some design work I did for him. I used a DWC bootleg Guldo head and hands, arms from something (that I can't remember), a WCF Dodoria body (that I believe Adam did the resculpting work on), and I engineered the arms to be articulated. I believe Adam did the base coats of paint on it, and I fully detailed and repainted him. To finish him off, I applied one of the stickers I designed (that I still sell on ebay).

Someday I'll need to finish my Recoome, Captain Ginyu, and the other Jeice I started.