Branjita's Finished Custom Figures

Difficulty: my work 6/10, sadpanda 's work, probably 10/10

I won this awesome Yamcha custom from sadpanda on ebay back in 2014 when he was selling it. Sadpanda did a fantastic job on the sculpt and paint work, but a few areas needed a little bit of work. First, I shortened the hands and wrist bands perhaps 1/8" and then drilled the forearms and hands so I could use plastic pegs. Sadpanda had used some kind of thin wire, and there was a gap between the hands and wrist bands. I could have reused that wire, but I wanted to see if I could get pegs more centered than he had managed (it's an extremely difficult task that I mess up constantly too). Shortening the arms permitted this figure to no longer need to be posed with his arms slightly bent, in order to not look long-armed. I then engineered the belt to not have just empty space all the way around it, by adding some Apoxie Sculpt carefully in the gap; the belt had previously only been held on with super glue in two small areas. Inside, Sadpanda had tried a really clever way of making a peg to hold the torso on, but the torso was extremely loose, because the peg was around 1/4" too tall. I used the hot glue and vaseline method to tighten that up. There were a few areas that needed sanding, and I wanted to use my stickers instead of his hand painted symbols, so I sanded those off as well. The neck needed a lot of dremeling to make the neck smoothly transition into the head, and that took a bit of time. I then repainted the entire figure, except for the feet. There was a big gap all the way around the torso (under the arms and above the shoulders) and I have often left that without caring. However, this time, I mixed up some Apoxie Sculpt and filled the gap, then sanded it, painted, and then clear coated the entire figure. Finally, I added my stickers.

I don't remember what all Sadpanda used to create this, but I know for a fact that he used Irwin Buu Saga SS Vegeta arms and a series 5 SS Gohan head that he heavily, heavily, heavily modified. 

Yamcha's my favorite character, and Sadpanda's custom was so good that I feel privileged to own it. I'm really thankful I didn't have to do this hair sculpt myself, and the way he sculpted the pants is 10 times better than I can sculpt fabric.

Here he is next to Adrenaline 's Namek Saga Yamcha he graciously sold me many years ago (I added the halo), my WIP Cell Saga Yamcha I've been working on a little bit, and Irwin's Buu Saga Yamcha.

And here he is with part of the Saiyan Saga Z warriors.