DarthSinister's: Virtual Customs

[RoadWarrior]

These are great! Thanks for posting all the comic reffs.

[BanthaRawk]

Love the latest additions to your ever growing virtual collection! I also love the reference pics. you started adding. They really bring back some good memories, I have all the Marvel Star Wars comics. Only reason I havn't gone back and read them is they are stored away. I may have to get the trade paperbacks so I can catch up on old times. Anyway, keep doing this breakthrough work my man.

[XDarthSinisterX]

I guess the reference pics were worth doing. Thanks guys.

OKAY. This one is a personal one. I watched Kung Fu the 1970's TV series religiously when I was a kid, and as if that wasn't enough as an adult when reran on cable. I also watch a lot of HISTORY channel and catch "Wild West Tech" most of the time too. Sad to hear about David Carridine today.
I'm dedicating this one to his career and to good childhood memories.
Glad I found the Kill Bill head.

He fought against the Separatists in the Clone Wars on extreme terrain on planets near the Outer Rim. It's said that his power was in league with Master Jedi such as Ki-Adi-Mundi and Mace Windu. And when his Clone battalion turned on him no body was ever found lending to rumors of an escape.


MASTER QUI-CHANG KANE

[r1bb1t]

Wonderful tribute to a wonderful actor.
Hated to see him go.It's nice to see what you've done
with this iconic legend.

RIP David

[ReverendStrone]

It is well past time I left some comments in this incredible thread. DS, I haven’t known what to say, but these are just awesome. I know they’re digital, which initially made me not look as closely, but I’ve kept coming back again and again because you are so inventive and your ideas are so good. Many of these are so convincing I have to look twice to remind myself it’s a comp. I keep coming back to study the thought that you’ve put into all these details. They demand comment…

Jaxxon – I got no love for the character but cannot deny, if they ever made a figure that looked as cool as your interpretation, I’d be all over it.
Amaiza – Amazing! I’m tempted to try and replicate this one in plastic. The design is really great. She’d look great in an alien nightclub diorama. Now if Hasbro ever made her, even as a loose collector, I’d have to demand they pink up the SW logo on her card, like your’s.
Valance – well, as you may have noticed, I have no nostalgia for the Marvel comics, but I do really, really dig your custom concepts. If this was ever made and was even half as cool as your concept, I’d have to cave and buy him.
Dragon Rider – very cool and surprisingly SW feeling (thanks to your skills) even though the source material really isn’t in this case (at least in this nerd’s opinion).
Hedj – Oh crap – this guy is too awesome for words. Hasbro for pity sake, please look at this and make it. I neeed this character and I neeed him to look exactly like DS’s concept. Please don’t make me have to custom him myself! DS, you have a real knack for taking the marvel designs and really bringing them into plastic form (even digitally) in a way that meshes so well with the existing line and feels like the SW movies design aesthetics. I’m loving your translations from cartoon to realism, something you know I enjoy doing as well.
Kihotay – fantastic. Love the clone armour on him.
Ackmena and Krelman – Holy crud – this one takes the prize. The cardboard cantina backdrop is icing on the cake.
Crimson Jack – LOL! Okay, this one I wouldn’t buy, but it’s a spectacular looking figure concept! That said, I’d be tracking down the blue monkey lizard on e-bay.
Jolli – sold! Awesome figure/s. I’m totally unfamiliar with the source material in this case but want her anyways.
Quarg and Luke (Doomworld) – Loving your take on Quarg here.
Doshun and Effie - Wow these are really successful. You nailed ’em both but that droid is really working well especially.
Eight Against the World – Oh man, you’re gonna make me cry.
Serji-X Arrogantus – I love this guy and his bike. I immediately notice he had an astonishing similarity to Eli Wallach that I see wasn’t coincidental.
Warto – real nice.
Behemoth – great design translation and I really dig the colouring on the beast.
Fudd, Slzzk and Dafi – These guys could easily be in the backgrounds somewhere in the trilogies. Nice. And I love the retconning of Fudd into a Swokes Swokes. That totally works!
Biggs with T-16s – I’m genuinely surprised we haven’t seen the T-16 rereleased, especially seeing as there is a comic appearance with a new paint ap, like yours. After the Rebel TIE release, I wonder if we might be seeing the future right here. I love the purple on Biggs. I’d welcome another shot at owning a womprat too.
Fixer and Camie – I am hoping that Hasbro’s comic pack lives up to the promise of your magnificent pair here. Great work. Hmmm, I feel like I have seen that speeder somewhere before too…
Greyshade – love the old school flared cape.
Master Com – um, wow. That is amazing. Purely as an exercise in superb photoshop chroming if nothing else, that’s awesome and would be an amazing pair of figures.
Master Kane – beautiful and today, so appropriate. Well done mate!

[XDarthSinisterX]

Thanks ya'll.
Master Kane was a fairly easy custom to do, and I would have finished it quickly but I had some trouble with the head. I could only find two pics of the Bill Snakecharmer head on line. One pic was taken on an angle that made the head look less like David Carridine and I decided not to use it out of fear that no one would recognize him. The other was just the opposite. It looked so much like him it was hard to tell it wasn't real. I don't like using those because I wan't the customs to look like all the pieces came from action figures. I used it anyway but it still looks a little too real for my tastes. I avoided using a Patrick Stewart head for Don-Wan Kihotay for just that reason.
That's okay though. This was a tribute so I let it slide.
One thing with these virtual customs though, they're fairly easy to do and somewhat quick so when I want to get one out fast (as I did with Kane) it's attainable.

[BanthaRawk]

Love the Kane custom! Growing up, his show was one that I had to watch come hell or high water. He certainly looks like a grizzled battle weary Jedi. Love, love, love this stuff! Keep'em comming.

[XDarthSinisterX]

Glad some of you could appreciate the Kane custom. And with that let's just stay in the 1970's and continue on our MARVEL COMICS stint!

Continuing to follow the "Wheel" story line which ran from issues 18-23 we are introduced to the corrupt, underhanded IMPERIAL SECTOR COMMANDER STROM.
Simon Greyshade said of STROM, "Nature seems to have compensated for his lack of hair by making him exceptionally thick-headed!" And the ex-senator was absolutly on the money.
Strom was the Imperial Sector Commander of the Mid Rim sector which contained Besh Gorgon. He maintained a tense relationship with Senator Simon Greyshade of The Wheel, neither man hiding his contempt for the other. A tall, bald man with a well-muscled frame, Strom commanded a Pursuit-class cruiser which carried TIE Advanced x1 prototypes similar to the one used by Darth Vader.

IMPERIAL SECTOR COMMANDER STROM






Our heroes, upon entering the Wheel, split up in an attempt to hide from Commander Strom and the pursuing Imperials. Chewbacca, having made his way to the Crimson Casino on the Wheel's upper level, gets into a scuff with a MANDALLIAN GIANT BOUNCER and is captured by members of the Wheel SECURITY FORCE and forced to enter a gladiatorial match called The Big Game. In the meantime, Han Solo is also entered into The Big Game, not knowing that Chewbacca is also a contestant in the event. This has all been arranged by Greyshade, who is working out a deal with Imperial Commander Strom to have all of the Rebels meet an untimely end on the condition that Leia be allowed to stay with Greyshade on the Wheel.

MANDALLIAN GIANT BOUNCER AND WHEEL SECURITY






Who can guess what existing figures head I used for the GIANT? This was a hard one to manipulate and I almost gave up.


NEXT ISSUE > DEATHGAME!

[XDarthSinisterX]

P.S.: I'd like to thank Mr. Curto, for without his wonderful figure photos on this site and COOL TOY REVIEW none of this would be possible.

Hope you don't mind mate.

[r1bb1t]

Another beautiful batch of awesomeness.
As far as guessing the Giant's head,possibly Rappertunie?
My first guess was the Kraken or a Nemoidian.
I'm saying this fig because of the difficult manipulation.