Thought I'd start a new thread because I seem to recall I started one a few years ago and can't find it, and... also I'm sure people are getting a bit tired of seeing my customs posted in their thread.
So who's first up......?
Yes kids, it's Amanaman!
This is a build-up of Cagoda's incredible Amana kit, with new hands and some other pieces added. The skulls are heavily modded or new. The paint was WAY, WAY more complex than I originally thought. I thought "paint the back green and the front yellow and zig-zag some stripes - done!" This was one of the most complex paint-ups ever, mostly because I decided to try to match his stripes exactly (hey, people match Boba's helmet scratches.)
Along with Greedo from ANH and Bossk from ESB, Amanaman is my fave alien from ROTJ, so it was worth the extra (extra-extra) effort.
I made a real effort to exactly match the hands (and finger poses,) which was super tricky to do - the first hand sculpts I did turned out to be too large. He's a tough character to get everything in proportion on.
I am still casting the gold/brass drinks table that Amana stands next to (to fill that gap on the huge stand in the back) so that'll be another week or two.
Interesting trivia I mentioned to Cagoda: the lowest Amana trophy skull looks to be the hero skull they used for the "ark ghost" in Raiders of the Lost Ark - maybe an inside joke.
This has articulation in order to achieve two poses - the "Kenner card pic" with the mummified skeleton and the pose you see him in onscreen in ROTJ (which has his right arm totally across his body and his left hand in a near-vertical pose,) which I didn't have time to set up for these pics.
These are the two poses - Kenner on left, movie (from two angles) in center and at right.
So who's first up......?
Yes kids, it's Amanaman!
This is a build-up of Cagoda's incredible Amana kit, with new hands and some other pieces added. The skulls are heavily modded or new. The paint was WAY, WAY more complex than I originally thought. I thought "paint the back green and the front yellow and zig-zag some stripes - done!"
This was one of the most complex paint-ups ever, mostly because I decided to try to match his stripes exactly (hey, people match Boba's helmet scratches.)Along with Greedo from ANH and Bossk from ESB, Amanaman is my fave alien from ROTJ, so it was worth the extra (extra-extra) effort.
I made a real effort to exactly match the hands (and finger poses,) which was super tricky to do - the first hand sculpts I did turned out to be too large. He's a tough character to get everything in proportion on.
I am still casting the gold/brass drinks table that Amana stands next to (to fill that gap on the huge stand in the back) so that'll be another week or two.
Interesting trivia I mentioned to Cagoda: the lowest Amana trophy skull looks to be the hero skull they used for the "ark ghost" in Raiders of the Lost Ark - maybe an inside joke.
This has articulation in order to achieve two poses - the "Kenner card pic" with the mummified skeleton and the pose you see him in onscreen in ROTJ (which has his right arm totally across his body and his left hand in a near-vertical pose,) which I didn't have time to set up for these pics.
These are the two poses - Kenner on left, movie (from two angles) in center and at right.
Such a legendary customizer whose work I have admired for years.
