Here is my Custom Princess Peach to go with my Princess Daisy. I couldn't make one without the other. I know the colors are off, but I actually used my artistic license and decided to use a darker magenta for the accent colors because I liked the contrast. My favorite has to be the Chibi Toad Doll. If you want to see more pictures, go to My Flickr Page. Please leave comments and tell me what you think.
Posted by Ekoala on Friday Jul 02, 2010 at 07:48 pm [Comments(0)]
Here is my custom Samus Pinky Street. Lately I have been loving the cute style of the Pinky street figures, so I thought I would make some more.I am a huge metroid fan, but it seems that almost every customizer has done a Samus figure, (Me included, I just haven't posted it) so I figured I would do one in a different style.To see more pictures go to My Flickr Page. Let me know what you think.
Posted by Ekoala on Friday Jul 02, 2010 at 06:50 pm [Comments(0)]
Here is my custom Princess Daisy figure in the style of Pinky Street. I have done Peach in the past, so I thought I would tribute the less popular princess, Princess Daisy. I have a bunch of Pinky Street figures that I used for parts and accessories for when I do other figures, but I thought I would actually try making a PS figure. The best part of this is the Chibi Luigi doll. It came out a lot better than I thought it was going to. To see more pictures go to My Flickr Page. Let me know what you think.
Posted by Ekoala on Monday May 10, 2010 at 01:55 pm [Comments(1)]
Here is Jenny the Teenage Robot from the popular Nicktoon "My Life as a Teenage Robot." My son loves this show, and I wanted to make a Jenny. This is basically a Drossel repaint, but I did have to modify the ears and the ear placement a bit. You can see more pictures on My Flickr Page.
Posted by Ekoala on Tuesday Apr 06, 2010 at 12:59 pm [Comments(0)]
The 80's had some great toys. I remember playing with battle beasts when I was a kid and thought they were so cool, so I decided to make larger action figure battle beasts. Here is Pugnacious Penguin. My brother loves penguins, so I had to make this one. He is made from an Avatar Amp Suit and an Iron Monger. As you can tell, he is the swordsman of the group.
Here is my favorite animal, which is of course the Killer Koala. I used the head from the Koala spartan, and used an Iron Monger body. When I use to play Phantasy Star Online, I was always a ranger, so I made my favorite animal a gunslinger as well.
This one was a surprise figure to me. I was messing around with robot parts I had lying around and came up with the great body, so I had to figure out a head for it. At first this was going to be a fox, but I liked the white tiger head better. I used an Iron Monger, Mecha Hulk and a Metallo Torso. Very cool build. I called him Mauling Tiger. The original version was Ferocious Tiger, but whatever.
Posted by Ekoala on Tuesday Feb 16, 2010 at 02:57 pm [Comments(1)]
Here is something that my brother and I have been talking about for a while. We thought it would be cool to have characters from the Super Mario Universe drive giant Mechs of themselves. I decided to do Mario first because, well, that is all they had at Toys'r'us when I went. I used a giant Mario Vinyl Figure and a Mario Keychain. For the Cock-pit, I used the pit from an Avatar Amp Suit. If you want to see more pictures, head over to My Flickr Page to see more pictures and a closer look at the cockpit. As always, I love constructive criticism, so let me know what I can do better.
Posted by Ekoala on Friday Feb 05, 2010 at 07:00 pm [Comments(1)]
Here is my latest custom. I just picked up Boy and His Blob for Wii, and I love it! I had to make a custom figure and I had the perfect base to make it. I used a Revoltech Yotsuba figure and sculpted everything else. I had to shorted the legs, arms, and torso to get the proportions right, but in the end it came out. Check out My Flickr Page to see more pics.
Posted by Ekoala on Monday Dec 14, 2009 at 12:10 pm [Comments(1)]
Here is a bunch of customs that I did this last month. I was trying to be a little more off-beat with my figures this time. I know these won't get as much attention as my video game customs, but I am doing this for fun and not attention. So here is what I came up with.
One of my favorite web cartoons is homestarrunner, and every once in a while, I like to pay tribute to them. Here is Strong Badman. He goes around Strongbadia demanding danishes and kicking butt. I used a wrestling figure and I sculpted the head and hands. I plan on making a couple more from the series like Coach Z and Bubs.
Next I made the Crimson Chin. I love fairly odd parents, and I thought that this was a good chance to make something from the show. He is a little darker than I had hoped, but still came out really good. The only thing I had to sculpt was the chin and mouth.
The Ronald McDonald figure was a spur of the moment custom. I was at a flea market and saw this figure with a giant afro. I thought he would make a great clown figure. What better clown than the most famous one. Not sure who the wrestling figure was that I used, but I loved the way it came out.
Lastly, my Koala Spartan. This isn't a new one, but I haven't written about it yet, so I thought I would. I wanted to make a custom koala figure, and so I made this one. I am currently working on a battle mech for him. To check out all my customs go to My Flickr Page.
Posted by Ekoala on Wednesday Dec 09, 2009 at 12:55 pm [Comments(1)]
I know that this has already been posted all over the place, but I wanted to write up the process and why I did what I did. For the torso I used a Mecha Hulk. I got this off ebay, but it was missing the back panel, so I improvised a gas tank using a 5 hour energy bottle and some mighty putty. I used some spare parts for the helmet and the face guard. For the wheels, I used a 1989 GI Joe Pulverizer. I used super glue and mighty putty to connect the two halves together. Gutsdozer originally popped Neo-Mets from his chest, so I thought he needed to have one. For the Neo-Met, I used a Terminator Head cut in half, shoes from a Luigi figure that I had already used to make my Super Mario Custom Figures and an egg from an egg machine. To see more pics, go to My Flickr Page. Here are some more pics in case you didn't want to go to my flickr page :(
I have finally made a King Hippo Custom Figure. I was having a hard time finding a base figure to use, but I found a figure that is perfect. I used a Blob build-a-figure as the base and the results came out really cool. For this piece, I went for form over function, so the legs do not move, but the arms, head, and feet still move. I have had this done for a while, but I haven't had a chance to post it. I was beat out by fugazi's awesome custom king hippo. Here are some more pics:
I always wondered why Dr. Wily never created an awesome Robot suit to kick Megaman's butt. Here is what I imagined a Dr. Wily mech would look like. I tried to stay true to Dr. Wily's style by using a skull on the front and a bubble top for him to look down on things. I also made Gutsman and Metalman. I made these look a little more industrial because they were working robots that were reprogrammed to be evil, or so the plot of Megaman 1 says. I tried to keep the color schemes really close to the original, but I did change some things, especially on Metalman. If you would like to see more pics, check out My Flickr Page to see more. Here are some more after the cut:
Here is what I think Wario would look like if he were an action figure. I found the base figure at a flea market, and the rolls made me think that he would make a good Wario figure. I never realized how feminine a guy could look with purple overalls, until I started to paint him. Luckily I was able to darken up the purple, and make it a bit more masculine. My favorite part is probably the mustache. I wanted a different style of mustache for this figure, and I thought that it would look cool to connect to the side burns. For more pictures, hit up My Flickr Page and let me know what you think!
Posted by Ekoala on Saturday Jun 27, 2009 at 02:39 pm [Comments(0)]
After playing Chibi Robo on the Gamecube and DS, I wanted one to clean up my house for me, but unfortunately nano robotics isn't quite there yet. So, I decided to at least have a figure of Chibi to remind me to someday build one that actually works. I used Lego Bricks to make the head, arms and legs, and I used a highlighter to make the body. I also used a plug from an old game system to make...well...the plug. If you want to see more pictures, head over to My Flickr Page and check out all of the awesome pictures.
Posted by Ekoala on Friday May 29, 2009 at 02:14 pm [Comments(0)]
Here is something that I thought would be cute, and it only took be about 20 minutes to do. As you all know, I love Super Mario Bros. It was only natural to make a custom Koala based on the game. I would have made one sooner, but I couldn't figure out what to use for the hat. Luckily, I found an old Mario plush that I won from a claw machine, and used parts from that. I really wasn't trying to be perfect, it was just a cute project. I am working on a bunch of other projects to, and they will be out eventually. Hope this will hold you guys over for a couple of weeks until I can get more.
Posted by Ekoala on Tuesday Apr 28, 2009 at 07:08 am [Comments(1)]
