My Old Custom Star Wars Alien/Character Builds From The Cantina & Jabba's Palace/Skiffs.

These are from many years ago, I had to search through my 475 threads over there to find these pics as there's 10 years of work saved  But since I've been encouraged to show these I hope they help which will make it worth it for me. Any questions about parts or techniques are welcome and I'll do my best to remember! No particular order, just as I found the threads going backwards in time... This is where I hate not being able to just copy and paste images here...

Myo:
















Wuther:









Barada:















ROTJ Luke:



Tusken Raider:















Kabe & Luke:











Elis Helrot:



















Nikto In White:





















Dr. Evazan, Ponda Baba, Bom Vimdin:















Boba Fett made using bits from vinyl kit long time ago!:















Pote Snitkin:























Ree Yees:































Nabrun Leids:

















M'iiyoom Onith:

















Klatuu (I've redone his eyes to shiny pearlecent black since these pics) :

















Hammerhead:







Pics of some others Like my Weekway and 2nd Nikto, updated eyes on my Klatuu etc.. where they are now and my Jabba's throne that needs some TLC as figures have fallen over and others are being rebuilt (Leia, Calrissian Guard Disguise etc..):

























I have more Aliens in different stages of build, like another Weekway, Wolfman, Braniac's head is there LOL, the cyborg slave trader etc...

What an excellent assemblage! Did you create some of those heads yourself? I love how many less-commonly depicted characters you have here! :')

Speaking of which, I'm insanely envious of that Sideshow Numa, aka the little green Twi'lek girl -- I look for her everywhere, but she is rare to impossible to find on her own. ;-;

skywalkersaga wrote:What an excellent assemblage! Did you create some of those heads yourself? I love how many less-commonly depicted characters you have here! :')

Speaking of which, I'm insanely envious of that Sideshow Numa, aka the little green Twi'lek girl -- I look for her everywhere, but she is rare to impossible to find on her own. ;-;

Cheers! As for the heads, no I was way too lazy when I could buy the casts for $20 each back in the day, I painted them though LOL. I found Numa loose on Toy Anxiety but that was years ago.

Oh, gotcha! But that's awesome that you went for all those unique characters, and the paint jobs are excellent. 

As for Numa, these days I only ever see her in the original boxed set she came with....the Star Wars Militaries Waxer and Boil from the The Clone Wars, which is often like... 500 gbp or more. 

skywalkersaga wrote:Oh, gotcha! But that's awesome that you went for all those unique characters, and the paint jobs are excellent. 

As for Numa, these days I only ever see her in the original boxed set she came with....the Star Wars Militaries Waxer and Boil from the The Clone Wars, which is often like... 500 gbp or more. 

Oh wait... I made the Tusken Raider head etc.. with real bandages, forgot about that! Also made any hair and helmets too.

shovelchop81 wrote:

skywalkersaga wrote:Oh, gotcha! But that's awesome that you went for all those unique characters, and the paint jobs are excellent. 

As for Numa, these days I only ever see her in the original boxed set she came with....the Star Wars Militaries Waxer and Boil from the The Clone Wars, which is often like... 500 gbp or more. 

Oh wait... I made the Tusken Raider head etc.. with real bandages, forgot about that!

Excellent!

Holy cow, Alex! That is an impressive collection. As Sky pointed out, so many characters you don’t often see. Very cool. Is the Hammerhead the Sideshow piece, or did you make that one? Awesome stuff — looking forward to seeing your updates if you ever get a chance to work on them.

Like Stryker said, "Holy Cow, Alex"! The range of the reproduced characters and their quality overall is stunning. And you made the Tusken Raider head yourself -- why, that was one of the very best likenesses (not that I'm really surprised, knowing your skills)!

By the way, you can copy and paste images, using the little "Insert Image" button and pasting the link in there -- it is good as long as the image remains available on the original website. If it disappears there, I assume it would disappear here too. So I usually avoid using it, but sometimes I give in to being easy and lazy.

skywalkersaga wrote:

shovelchop81 wrote:

skywalkersaga wrote:Oh, gotcha! But that's awesome that you went for all those unique characters, and the paint jobs are excellent. 

As for Numa, these days I only ever see her in the original boxed set she came with....the Star Wars Militaries Waxer and Boil from the The Clone Wars, which is often like... 500 gbp or more. 

Oh wait... I made the Tusken Raider head etc.. with real bandages, forgot about that!

Excellent!

Thanks!

Stryker2011 wrote:Holy cow, Alex! That is an impressive collection. As Sky pointed out, so many characters you don’t often see. Very cool. Is the Hammerhead the Sideshow piece, or did you make that one? Awesome stuff — looking forward to seeing your updates if you ever get a chance to work on them.

Cheers! The Hammerhead (Ithorian) is the SSC body and head I got loose and just added some clothing and accessories too, I've also made a Jedi Ithorian! LOL.

GubernatorFan wrote:Like Stryker said, "Holy Cow, Alex"! The range of the reproduced characters and their quality overall is stunning. And you made the Tusken Raider head yourself -- why, that was one of the very best likenesses (not that I'm really surprised, knowing your skills)!

By the way, you can copy and paste images, using the little "Insert Image" button and pasting the link in there -- it is good as long as the image remains available on the original website. If it disappears there, I assume it would disappear here too. So I usually avoid using it, but sometimes I give in to being easy and lazy.

Thank you GF! I've got a large box full of half done or 'ready to build' SW projects That I plan to do one day... a sort of emergency back up plan for my sanity! Shows you how lazy I am, I do use the button and insert images lol.

that is incredibly awesome!!! Each character is so detailed and acurate!!! Now they all have to visit Stryker's coming diorama!

Thanks a lot for sharing that epic and unique collection!

blackpool wrote:that is incredibly awesome!!! Each character is so detailed and acurate!!! Now they all have to visit Stryker's coming diorama!

Thanks a lot for sharing that epic and unique collection!

Thank you! I'm just happy some members can enjoy really old work of mine! I hope it's useful for reference material/ideas too.

shovelchop81 wrote:

blackpool wrote:that is incredibly awesome!!! Each character is so detailed and acurate!!! Now they all have to visit Stryker's coming diorama!

Thanks a lot for sharing that epic and unique collection!

Thank you! I'm just happy some members can enjoy really old work of mine! I hope it's useful for reference material/ideas too.

Oh, there's a few in there I'd like to do for sure. As I mentioned in my Jabba thread, the skiff guards are on my list -- just need to start saving up for all those Shapeways casts, plus the three characters I already committed to over at the Freaks. There's a few guys over there who are doing some pretty amazing stuff -- my painting skills aren't at their level, so mine won't be looking all that great comparatively. You can see their stuff in current threads in the Customs section. Pretty amazing stuff, I would start closer to the end of their threads, as their newer stuff is pretty amazing. You have to be a member to see anything, if you're so inclined.

The Darkness Predator:

http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/star-wars-custom-figures-and-dioramas/127345-beyond-event-horizon-customs-bashes-the_darkness_predator.html

Chakaman:

http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/star-wars-custom-figures-and-dioramas/82498-chakamans-customs-mods-repaints.html

And then there's quite a few who contributed to this thread which was started a couple months ago:

http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/star-wars-custom-figures-and-dioramas/230265-custom-figures-anymore.html

Quite the rogues gallery you have there. I seem to remember that Jessica Rotich (I forget what she called herself on OSW.) did a run of nice Cantina alien heads. I painted the whole lot of them for a member called Monkeybat, they were one of the most fun jobs I did.

CHEERS!

Rogerbee wrote:Quite the rogues gallery you have there. I seem to remember that Jessica Rotich (I forget what she called herself on OSW.) did a run of nice Cantina alien heads. I painted the whole lot of them for a member called Monkeybat, they were one of the most fun jobs I did.

CHEERS!

I got most of these from a couple of guys on SSF, Enaud and dorgmalsnow I think as raw resin casts. Some might have used EasyFlo.

So lovely detailed. That Pote Snitkin guy is my favourite, and he is the only one I don't remember seeing in the movies! Along with that Hammerhead man, they created an entire race with multiple characters from this costume.

Is the silver four armes gasmask guy wearing crocs?

And yes, you should join Strykers JABBAONTHEDIAS National Museum.

Good eye, Ovy, I think he IS wearing crocs! Thank god they are painted and integrated into this alien futuristic costume or else crime against footwear-kind.

shovelchop81 wrote:

I got most of these from a couple of guys on SSF, Enaud and dorgmalsnow I think as raw resin casts. Some might have used EasyFlo.

I see, I suppose some could have been from them too.

CHEERS!

Ovy wrote:So lovely detailed. That Pote Snitkin guy is my favourite, and he is the only one I don't remember seeing in the movies! Along with that Hammerhead man, they created an entire race with multiple characters from this costume.

Is the silver four armes gasmask guy wearing crocs?

And yes, you should join Strykers JABBAONTHEDIAS National Museum.

LOL, yup! He's got four arms but everyone notices the crocs! I didn't even know they were called crocs until I built him   . I'd love to pose some of my figures around Striker's Jabba dio but sadly he's on the other side of the pond! I love that Pote Snitkin sculpt and paint too, he was a captain of one of the much smaller barges, more like row boat but heavily armed which was involved in the sailbarge fight.

GubernatorFan wrote:Good eye, Ovy, I think he IS wearing crocs! Thank god they are painted and integrated into this alien futuristic costume or else crime against footwear-kind.

Hehe, I guess I just wanted to give him odd looking footwear, he is a four armed alien with an avocado for a head and a gas mask for a face after all   .

Rogerbee wrote:

shovelchop81 wrote:

I got most of these from a couple of guys on SSF, Enaud and dorgmalsnow I think as raw resin casts. Some might have used EasyFlo.

I see, I suppose some could have been from them too.

CHEERS!

Could be he bought the heads off them too if they look to be the same sculpts, no idea what goes on over there, I just pick up the odd kit and sculpt now and again. Still need to build my Conan Thulsa Doom kit and tiger helmet opponent from Gladiator kit too.

shovelchop81 wrote: I'd love to pose some of my figures around Striker's Jabba dio but sadly he's on the other side of the pond!

Any time you want to send them over, I'll be glad to pose them for you. (You might have a wee bit of trouble getting them back, however.)

Stryker2011 wrote:

shovelchop81 wrote: I'd love to pose some of my figures around Striker's Jabba dio but sadly he's on the other side of the pond!

Any time you want to send them over, I'll be glad to pose them for you. (You might have a wee bit of trouble getting them back, however.)

LOL, yeah that and the crazy shipping costs mean it wouldn't happen plus you'd have to pay import tax just to borrow them!!

Wait, there's a Thulsa Doom kit!? And avocado head? Reminds me I've got a couple of avocados in the fridge... hope they haven't gone bad.

PS just looked it up on eBay -- no sign of the kit (so far as I could see), but snyderman31 sells a nice head sculpt (with or without neck, $150).

GubernatorFan wrote:Wait, there's a Thulsa Doom kit!? And avocado head? Reminds me I've got a couple of avocados in the fridge... hope they haven't gone bad.

PS just looked it up on eBay -- no sign of the kit (so far as I could see), but snyderman31 sells a nice head sculpt (with or without neck, $150).

I've had the kit for years now, he only made a few to order, cost less than the bloody hs you just quoted me!