Almost to the finish line on this one!!!

So close to getting it complete. It has been staring at me on my desk far to long, begging for me to complete him. With the much needed holiday break last December, it helped me disconnect from work for a bit and actually get to painting this bad boy. I messed around with a few things to try and see what works for me for the most part. Applying an ink wash was kind of a scary step for me, but with a little nudge from my buddy N8 Vandyke, he convinced me that it was the right step to take to unify it more. The only thing left i need to do to him is apply some little decals that I have left over from a Mashinen Krieger model.

Once I apply the decals and do one more minor pass on it, I will be taking some detail shots and posting them in my main PLAY gallery. Follow me on the tweet tweets for an update on when that happens. Enjoy!

Been awhile since I have had some freetime to bounce back on to this little side project of mine. I finally got a nice layer of white sprayed down in the appropriate panels. Had to do some patch work to it as well, and need to replace a few bits here and there. Here is a few side by side shots of what the blank figure looked like compared to what I have done to it so far. Planning on going to the hobby store this weekend to start the detailing and working on giving this piece more character and dimension.

I was planning on having more updates up until this point… but I just decided to steam roll through it and get this in decent shape before I showed anything on it. This is my 1st custom, so I did take some time piecing it together. Some nights I would just que up the Star Wars marathon that was on SPIKE a few weeks ago on my DVR, and just stare at it planning my next move.

If you haven’t guessed it yet, this is Ashley Woods 3A Bamabaland Anniversary figure, combined with an AT/AT Driver from Star Wars, to form my 1st custom named AT/3A. This is just in its primed state, but I thought it looked in good enough shape to throw out there. Still have to clean it up a bit and smooth it down in some spots, maybe over the Labor Day weekend I can get this finished off with a nice paint job.

I started off the night working with rubber stamp pads to make some of the forms for my 1st custom adventure. It seemed like it would work, it was easy to cut, kept its form mostly, and flexible. Unfortunately it didn’t work out that way. For smaller stuff i think it might work, like some sort of bands or something in the belt/strap realm, but it wasn’t working on this piece of puzzle. It seems like it only comes in a defined thickness and what I needed to construct was double the thickness of what the rubber stamp sheets where. Also being flexible, the rubber stamp material shifted slightly when cut, that pairing up with a second piece wasn’t lining up the way I wanted it to. So I went with some plastic sheets that I picked up at Tap Plastics here in SF, which worked out perfectly with what I had in mind.

Still a work in progress, so not really saying what this is just yet. As time goes on and I start assembling the pieces together, it will be evident. But for now… seeecrets!

Oh ya, after looking at the above picture, I forgot how much crazy glue sucks to get off your fingers.

I have been sitting way too long on my 1st Anniversary Bambaland figures, thinking of what I want to do with the 2 I have left. Hmm… I kind of want to say what I have in mind now, but I think I am going to hold off until I get to a good stage. I’m a little new at this, so bear with me, but I do plan on at least updating once or twice a week until it is finished hoping for early August sometime. All the #SDCC tweets lately have inspired me to get the ball rollin and put some other stuff on the back burner instead.