Gubernator's Various Photos, Kitbashes, and Customs (new update 12 September 2024)

GubernatorFan wrote:4: Pretty blonde trying to blend in with her environment.

Someone wanted to know what this head (SDH025-C) looks like on this body (TBL S47B)... so here it is:

She looks good on this body, I feel like this 47B is smaller and more compact, compared to my old S17b, the shoulder almost reaches unreasonable 3 heads on a girl's body, which made my girls look so board, so wide ..........

lawlaw91 wrote:She looks good on this body, I feel like this 47B is smaller and more compact, compared to my old S17b, the shoulder almost reaches unreasonable 3 heads on a girl's body, which made my girls look so board, so wide   ..........

Thanks, I think so too. Yes, S47B (and S46A) has narrower shoulders, which is what you are observing. And it is mostly a good thing. It is, unfortunately, a little too tall. In terms of height, my favorite TBLeague / Phicen female bodies are S29B and S25B.

5: May the Fourth be with You, 2023

Inspired by Sky. May we all overcome our adversaries and adversities.

Cool custom, and great-looking group!

Awww, love it, GF! Nice to see the Nelvaan Anakin in action again. :'D

Your Clone Troopers look great altogether!

That is one buff, Anakin. Nice group photo with his backup pals.

Visisonor wrote:Cool custom, and great-looking group!

Thank you very much!

skywalkersaga wrote:Awww, love it, GF! Nice to see the Nelvaan Anakin in action again. :'D

Your Clone Troopers look great altogether!

Thank you, I'm glad you liked them. I didn't know from your message about the lightsabers whether you would manage to post something and I figured I needed to do something in your honor. So thanks for the gentle push.

Stryker2012 wrote:That is one buff, Anakin. Nice group photo with his backup pals.

Yeah, move over Adam Driver lol. I'm glad you like the group shot. I know he's the plainest, but the new white clone trooper is my favorite.

The fact is all stormtroopers have their own unique design and colors, following the great Anakin

Cool group shot!

lawlaw91 wrote:The fact is all stormtroopers have their own unique design and colors, following the great Anakin

Glad you liked them.

BAMComix wrote:Cool group shot!

Thank you very much, Dal!

Nice to see your Anakin again. Also great to see the different Troopers in action with him. Do you have any favourite among those three?

And where was your thread where you were making that artifical hand/arm for him?

Valiarde wrote:Nice to see your Anakin again. Also great to see the different Troopers in action with him. Do you have any favourite among those three?

And where was your thread where you were making that artifical hand/arm for him?

Thank you, Simon. Yes, I think I like the plain original Second Phase trooper best -- most iconic; the others are the same with color additions.

There wasn't a detailed coverage of the artificial arm/hand, but the thread is here:
https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t6294-custom-nelvaan-anakin-updated-part-iv-heads

and the specific response to your question here:
https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t6294-custom-nelvaan-anakin-updated-part-iv-heads#89121
https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t6294-custom-nelvaan-anakin-updated-part-iv-heads#88925

The vambrace part is just printed on paper and self-adhesive label paper, built up a little bit (for "relief"), and painted over with the same acrylic paint as the plastic hand.

6. Some glimpses behind the wall of the Forbidden City















Just did a bit of a kitbash from the i8Toys Yi sets, and decided to see how she looked next to my other Chinese kitbashes and sets -- of which I have very few. Very loosely inspired by Emperor Tang Xuanzong's favorite concubine Yang Guifei's favoritism for the general An Lushan. The male figures are actually mostly Ming Dynasty, but what's a few centuries between dynasties and courtly fashions?

Nice. I had no idea you had gotten parts from some of these figures. Cool collection of figures.

Stryker2012 wrote:Nice. I had no idea you had gotten parts from some of these figures. Cool collection of figures.

Thank you very much, glad you liked them.
You know how I admire these sets, but since they are not really something I collect with any consistency, I usually resist getting them. I occasionally get something I deem more interesting and sufficiently historical/plausible. But I do pick up a few bits and pieces from the sets I don't get when I see them parted out, and sometimes kitbash or recreate similar figures. The most recent instance, the Yi Tang Dynasty clothing sets, I mixed and matched the parts from the three sets when I saw them parted out by Toy Anxiety. It ended up being pretty close to one of the versions, but at least two of the items are different. I did look up Tang fashions, and they are not far off. Except that the Tang-period Chinese generally appreciated a fuller figure -- but that doesn't show as much in these clothes.

Nice assortment of figures! Very colourful.

BAMComix wrote:Nice assortment of figures! Very colourful.

Thank you very much! Yes, definitely colorful. As the Middle Ages should be, but we sometimes forget among all those leather biker-gang color schemes.

Such an aesthetically pleasing assemblage of figures! I love the beautiful array of colours. And nicely posed as well.

That’s a fantastic result from picking up “a few bits and pieces”…..! The dark blue/red edged studded dragon affair looks especially amazing - sorry it no doubt has a proper name, but I’m not sure what? The staging background works well and also love the colourfulness.

That`s a cool and rather off beat collection of figures . Plenty there to create a story .

skywalkersaga wrote:Such an aesthetically pleasing assemblage of figures! I love the beautiful array of colours. And nicely posed as well.

Thank you very much, I'm glad you enjoyed them. Certainly a bit outside so much of our usual fare. There must be plenty of people collecting these -- and doing so more consistently and doing much more with them, but we don't see much in the way of showcasing that here, apart from the occasional in-hand photos of particular products.

Tanzenwolfe wrote:That’s a fantastic result from picking up “a few bits and pieces”…..!  The dark blue/red edged studded dragon affair looks especially amazing - sorry it no doubt has a proper name, but I’m not sure what?  The staging background works well and also love the colourfulness.  

Thank you very much, glad you liked them. The fully-amored soldier on left (Jin cavalry), the emperor (Ming Taizu, era name Hongwu), and the guy in the outfit you liked so much are actual sets I purchased. The rest are mix and match or partly reconstituted from parted-out sets. I'm glad you liked the makeshift background, imperfect as it is. The blue/red-edged studded dragon affair is a type of military garment, a sort of combination between what in Western Europe would have been a surcoat and a gambeson. The set came in two variants, I got the dark blue more mature one:
https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t1156-new-productding-shengmo-play-x-poptoys-1-6-da-ming-bird-hand-moveable-doll-2-color-ds002?highlight=ming+dynasty

Chip wrote:That`s a cool and rather off beat collection of figures . Plenty there to create a story .

Thank you very much, I'm happy you liked them. Hard to keep from just a little bit of story-telling when setting them up as a group.

That is a nice collection of Asian figures! Very nice photos, too!

That is a cool collection of asian dresses. Always greart to see them in hand and in poses.

My favourite is the one on the last pic (I know he showed up mainly hidden on another pic) but that robe looks very cool 

Thanks for showing

Randam Hajile wrote:That is a nice collection of Asian figures! Very nice photos, too!

Thank you very much, Ralf, coming from you that's a huge compliment. It occurs to me that I'm still a little stuck in product review mode when photographing figures, but of course it's not as if I have the skill or ability to go for something quite as moody and realistic as what you and Simon have been able to achieve.

Valiarde wrote:That is a cool collection of Asian dresses. Always great to see them in hand and in poses.

My favourite is the one on the last pic (I know he showed up mainly hidden on another pic) but that robe looks very cool 

Thanks for showing

Thank you, Simon, glad you liked them. Like I've said, they are not a focus of collecting for me, but as you see I've been unable to resist picking up some (and there are a handful of others). Yes, that is the default robe the emperor comes with. The set also included the even more formal yellow robe which I used in most of the photos -- except I was lazy and didn't remove the off-white robe first (which is why he looks even heavier and more neck-less in the photos with the yellow robe on).