Custom Action Figures Thread

[GodzillaXGomoraFight]

http://imgur.com/gallery/9LP1nK6

Realized I never took proper pictures of the bootleg Monsterarts Showa King Ghidorah that I custom painted myself last year. It is not a perfect representation of the kaiju but gets pretty darn close. With its articulation, it is definitely by far the most dynamic Showa Ghidorah we will ever get before Monsterarts eventually releases its own.

[Executive Hamster]

Got the Destoroyah finally a few days ago. Looks too skreeonkin awesome!

If Bandai could've painted the wings like that, maybe the figure wouldn't have gotten so much (deserved) flack. Very nice!

The criticism for that figure was definitely fair, but Im definitely in the minority that thinks even the retail version looks good and the wings dont bother me much. I am much more bothered by its height than the wings. It should at least be as tall as the spacegodzilla figure.

[_JNavs_]

Figured you guys would get a kick out of this 25cm STARRO from The Suicide Squad I put together. I used a 25cm Cold Cast Starfish as the base, and sculpted/painted over it.

[Breakdown]

Started this guy months ago and finally got around to finishing him a few weeks back.

Here's another redesign, this time of Godzilla 1954. I basically tried to make the original suit more modern and beefy (A lot of Shin features like the gills and ribcage) while retaining everything that made the 54 suit, well, the 54 suit. Shoulders are a little broad but they've grown on me.

You mind PMing me an STL for this guy? I'd love to print and paint him!

[KaijuKidComics]

Yo folks. I've lurked around here for a long, long time just for news on product and all but I finally jumped onboard and since I make a ton of custom figures/statue pieces for my collection thought I'd just post my most recent to kick off with, a simple clay Salunga from SP. Eventually when I can afford it I want to get into designing and printing 3D figure stuff but for now this will have to do, hope you enjoy.
(Hopefully doing this right, the linking/image sharing system here is really confusing.....)

[Executive Hamster]

Yo folks. I've lurked around here for a long, long time just for news on product and all but I finally jumped onboard and since I make a ton of custom figures/statue pieces for my collection thought I'd just post my most recent to kick off with, a simple clay Salunga from SP. Eventually when I can afford it I want to get into designing and printing 3D figure stuff but for now this will have to do, hope you enjoy.
(Hopefully doing this right, the linking/image sharing system here is really confusing.....)

I think you need to have either 30 or 60 posts before you can post images, if I remember right.

[KaijuKidComics]

Yo folks. I've lurked around here for a long, long time just for news on product and all but I finally jumped onboard and since I make a ton of custom figures/statue pieces for my collection thought I'd just post my most recent to kick off with, a simple clay Salunga from SP. Eventually when I can afford it I want to get into designing and printing 3D figure stuff but for now this will have to do, hope you enjoy.
(Hopefully doing this right, the linking/image sharing system here is really confusing.....)

I think you need to have either 30 or 60 posts before you can post images, if I remember right.

Dang....not gonna lie, that's really weak, especially for the artists and customizing types like me who would prefer to lead with sharing our work. I'd heard that the TK forums were a little frustrating but that's kinda ridiculous imo. Maybe I'll just go back to just dropping in for figure news and images, not really gonna enjoy a forum where I have to "prove" myself just to share customs and art pieces, but thanks for letting me know.

[Maritonic]

Dang....not gonna lie, that's really weak, especially for the artists and customizing types like me who would prefer to lead with sharing our work. I'd heard that the TK forums were a little frustrating but that's kinda ridiculous imo. Maybe I'll just go back to just dropping in for figure news and images, not really gonna enjoy a forum where I have to "prove" myself just to share customs and art pieces, but thanks for letting me know.

For starter, probationary periods are extremely common on forums and subreddits.

Secondly, and more importantly, it's an unfortunate measure that had to be taken after some extremely vile events. No one is wild about it, but it's just what needed to be done.

[_JNavs_]

Yo folks. I've lurked around here for a long, long time just for news on product and all but I finally jumped onboard and since I make a ton of custom figures/statue pieces for my collection thought I'd just post my most recent to kick off with, a simple clay Salunga from SP. Eventually when I can afford it I want to get into designing and printing 3D figure stuff but for now this will have to do, hope you enjoy.
(Hopefully doing this right, the linking/image sharing system here is really confusing.....)

I think you need to have either 30 or 60 posts before you can post images, if I remember right.

Dang....not gonna lie, that's really weak, especially for the artists and customizing types like me who would prefer to lead with sharing our work. I'd heard that the TK forums were a little frustrating but that's kinda ridiculous imo. Maybe I'll just go back to just dropping in for figure news and images, not really gonna enjoy a forum where I have to "prove" myself just to share customs and art pieces, but thanks for letting me know.

A few individuals started spamming gore in every thread. This is the only way to prevent that.

[KaijuKidComics]

Dang....not gonna lie, that's really weak, especially for the artists and customizing types like me who would prefer to lead with sharing our work. I'd heard that the TK forums were a little frustrating but that's kinda ridiculous imo. Maybe I'll just go back to just dropping in for figure news and images, not really gonna enjoy a forum where I have to "prove" myself just to share customs and art pieces, but thanks for letting me know.

For starter, probationary periods are extremely common on forums and subreddits.

Secondly, and more importantly, it's an unfortunate measure that had to be taken after some extremely vile events. No one is wild about it, but it's just what needed to be done.

Fair enough, but it's still not worth my time to bother with, I'd rather have the freedom to start posting my customs, share news pics and let my actions speak for themselves instead of being forced to deal with tedious procedure because of a few jackasses. Thanks anyway.

[Executive Hamster]

I mean, if youve already been watching this forum for news and figures aand such, you might as well drop a comment here and there. Took me only a few days to reach the threshold.

[GodzillaXGomoraFight]

I am a user on the forum for a little over a decade now and I've never gotten the hang of embedding images into posts on the forum. I've been able to circumvent that and create albums of photos I take of figures I get using image hosting sites like Imgur. Very easy to work with and once you have your album ready you share a link and it directs people right to it.

[shadowgigan]

Dang....not gonna lie, that's really weak, especially for the artists and customizing types like me who would prefer to lead with sharing our work. I'd heard that the TK forums were a little frustrating but that's kinda ridiculous imo. Maybe I'll just go back to just dropping in for figure news and images, not really gonna enjoy a forum where I have to "prove" myself just to share customs and art pieces, but thanks for letting me know.

For starter, probationary periods are extremely common on forums and subreddits.

Secondly, and more importantly, it's an unfortunate measure that had to be taken after some extremely vile events. No one is wild about it, but it's just what needed to be done.

Fair enough, but it's still not worth my time to bother with, I'd rather have the freedom to start posting my customs, share news pics and let my actions speak for themselves instead of being forced to deal with tedious procedure because of a few jackasses. Thanks anyway.

You could just PM someone and I'm sure they would be willing to post them for you. I'm interested in seeing your creations!

[Maritonic]

You could just PM someone and I'm sure they would be willing to post them for you. I'm interested in seeing your creations!

New users can't PM. The parties previously mentioned were sending mass PMs to users with disgusting and vile images. Unfortunately staff have no control over PMs, so all we could do is tell people not to open them.

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I mean, if youve already been watching this forum for news and figures aand such, you might as well drop a comment here and there. Took me only a few days to reach the threshold.

What's funny is we have had plenty of users get out of the probationary period. It's not a matter of post count, it's just verifying the legitimacy of a user. I've approved users with 20 posts before. However, we have some that are over 100 that are still being watched. It's a really shitty situation, but it's absolutely better than the alternative.

[Executive Hamster]

I sure do hope KaijuKidComics decides to stay around a bit. If he is the same person as KaijuKid on deviantart, his customs are pretty good and quite unique.

[_JNavs_]

I mean if it's "not worth his time", we have plenty of customizers who do fantastic work as is. To some, 20 posts are a mountain to scale when not interested in the source. I get it.

[goji89]

I can understand his frustrations and if he doesn't feel it's worth his time than so be it.

[KaijuKidComics]

I mean if it's "not worth his time", we have plenty of customizers who do fantastic work as is. To some, 20 posts are a mountain to scale when not interested in the source. I get it.

"When not interested in the source"?
No offense but if I'm reading that right, just gonna say been a fan since the late 80s.....there's NOTHING I follow with more excitement or love than kaiju, and Godzilla specifically, and it's that passion that drives my love of making custom figures. But I also have heard and see some evidence that the forums here have become a bit of a clique club....the mod even hinted at it, some people have to plow through over 100 posts to get "approved" because they're THAT paranoid about being bombarded by bad users? To me it just says that I'll have no idea when I'll be allowed to have full access to the features that will allow me to share my work easily, and it's tedious replying over and over with "Oh, that's cool!" just to get a number on my posts to get that approval.

And yes I am the same Kaijukid from DA, and it's precisely because I'd rather get back to work on my figures and my comics that I don't want to waste time twiddling my thumbs and waiting for approval from, I've lurked here in passing for years for figure news and information on purchasing because I've also been a rabid figure collector for over 20 years and this has always been one of the best sources for early information, but I've strictly stuck to the toy side for my own sanity.

I'm not trying to come off like a dick but honestly I work a full time job, I spend a lot of time on my art and custom pieces and while I get the reasons behind the over-caution it's rather ridiculous as well. If anything a good character reference should be sufficient, Executive Hamster knows that I'm very friendly toward my friends and followers on DA and Instagram and I don't do terrible, stupid things like posting garbage for shock value, I'm not interested in waiting for the mods here to be convinced that I'm worth the "risk". If I change my mind then I'll try to something something to contribute a worthwhile response to, but otherwise I just really don't feel the need to expend the effort and waiting on the whims of nervous mods.

[Breakdown]

Here's a commission I recently finished for a model made to resemble this rare resin kit:

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And here's a 3D printed model of the anime trilogy MechaGodzilla. The model is by ilikepaperclips on deviantArt.

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[GFAN198423]

Finished my repaint of the Sakai 2021 Godzilla from Bandai.

Before and After shots.