Repaints and customs by icruise

[Restaurajones]

Good job in the paint!! really you have made a improvement on it!!

And very nice figures

 

[icruise]

A couple of more Jabbas.

Vintage Jabba metal miniature from West End Games (painted by me). It's 2" x 0.75" large, so it looks better in person.

I really hate the POTF Jabba figure. The sculpt is based on the terrible CGI version from the special edition of ANH, the paint job is very bare-bones, and the way they did the eyes (plastic eyeballs inset into the head) must have sounded like a good idea, but makes it look like one of those haunted house portraits with the moving eyes. Anyway, I was able to get a second one on ebay for about $1.50, so I decided to repaint it.

BEFORE

Another thing I dislike about this figure is that you can't turn his torso so that he's facing to the side, which is how we normally imagine Jabba. So I decided to fix this. It was actually pretty hard. I had to dremel the hell out of it since it's sealed shut and the plastic is insanely hard and thick.

AFTER

Probably not my best work, but think it's a bit better now.

 

[Devil_666]

Probably not my best work, but think it's a bit better now.

A bit!? Dude it's 1000x better! Great work.

 

[icruise]

When I got my vintage Jabba shampoo bottle a while ago, I actually won an auction for two of them. Since I had an extra, I decided to repaint one of them. Something about the sculpt reminds me of a Buddha or other idol so instead of going for the realistic look, I made it look like a bronze statue. I permanently attached the head to the body and also sanded it a little bit all over with some fine grain sandpaper to help the paint stick to the plastic. The flash makes the "patina" effect a bit more prominent than it is in person.

 

[galactiboy]

That is awesome Great faux bronze technique

 

[Mr. Fusion]

BEFORE

Another thing I dislike about this figure is that you can't turn his torso so that he's facing to the side, which is how we normally imagine Jabba. So I decided to fix this. It was actually pretty hard. I had to dremel the hell out of it since it's sealed shut and the plastic is insanely hard and thick.

AFTER

Probably not my best work, but think it's a bit better now.

That's amazing! Looks worlds better.

 

[Jessica]

This is just the cutest!

 

[icruise]

I cut up a stuffed Christmas ornament to get the beard and outfit for Jabba Claus.

 

[MANDO]

Jabba Claus! That's too much! Love the Hasbro repaint and that faux bronze shapoo bottle is ace!

 

[icruise]

I've done a few more custom Mighty Muggs to go with my Jabba that I posted earlier: Bib Fortuna, Oola, and the Rancor.

 

[icruise]

I thought I would resurrect this thread to add my repaint of the 2010 Hasbro Vintage Collection Jabba and throne. I have some information about it on my blog.

Also, I recently finished painting the AMT/ERTL Rancor. Took quite a while, although that's mostly because I had troubling finding the time to work on it. I added a custom base to it. There's more info on my blog (in my signature). More info on my blog.

This is how it started out:

And this is the finished product: