Gubernator's various new Star Wars customs (updated 27 September 2024)

Holy cow you've gotten so good at this! They all look fantastic and if I try to point anything out my mind goes "but that guy looked just as good! And THAT one! And..." 

That dreaded doll dot... 

High quality paint jobs again.
Even in placeholder outfits they look great.
And apparently "looks better with real hair" is applicable to non-humans as well

Diana wrote:

That dreaded doll dot... 

Never understood the point of that. Why not just make it glossy, even on dolls???

skywalkersaga wrote:Wow, your mods continue to impress! Especially like the Salacious Crumb hairing job and the Bib Fortuna upgrade. Nicely done.

Thank you very much, Sky, I'm glad you liked it.

Patreon_3DXFiles wrote:Awesome to see some of my files being used and painted! (ishi Tib)
Matt from Poison3DHarleyCstms is a cool dude

They look awesome mate!

I've got a few Jabba goons coming in the next few months. I'm sure Poison3DHarleyCstms will add them to his store

Thank you very much, I appreciate it. And I'm grateful for you making the file, which turned out so well -- I was comparing to the mask used in the film, and you got everything down right. Glad Matt picked up this one, and will check out any future ones. I was just browsing his items, as he has a sale, and looked up your files, which all look excellent.

Diana wrote:Holy cow you've gotten so good at this! They all look fantastic and if I try to point anything out my mind goes "but that guy looked just as good! And THAT one! And..." 

That dreaded doll dot... 

Thank you very much, Diana, glad you liked them. And that you find my obsession with (eradicating) the doll dot funny.

Visisonor wrote:High quality paint jobs again.
Even in placeholder outfits they look great.
And apparently "looks better with real hair" is applicable to non-humans as well

Thank you very much, I'm delighted you liked them. Apparently yes, and with the bigger size and -- let's face it -- more careful application on my part, the newest hair addition looks better than the previous ones.

Well done, ner‘vod!

skywalkersaga wrote:

Diana wrote:That dreaded doll dot... 

Never understood the point of that. Why not just make it glossy, even on dolls???

I agree completely. I've been eradicating doll dots for some time. That said, certain styles of dolls (or of their characters' original design) probably do call for a doll dot. But not realistic ones.

Darth_Hogge wrote:Well done, ner‘vod!

Thank you very much, glad you liked them -- and for making me look up ner'vod, which turns out to be quite the term of endearment.

Whoah! Lots of great stuff, Ian. The hair work on Crumb is like night and day — so much better. I’m not familiar with Starsher, but I like your Ishi Tib. Excellent mods and paint work.

Stryker2012 wrote:Whoah! Lots of great stuff, Ian. The hair work on Crumb is like night and day — so much better. I’m not familiar with Starsher, but I like your Ishi Tib. Excellent mods and paint work.

Thank you very much, Mark, I'm delighted you like them. Given what you have assembled to go with your Jabba, this is a great compliment. By the way, Matt (PosionedHarleyCustoms) is having a sale, and most of the Jabba goon heads, hands, and accessories are available.

What skywalkersaga said , more very impressive mods . Your repaints are top notch .

Very cool Ian!

Chip wrote:What skywalkersaga said , more very impressive mods . Your repaints are top notch .

Thank you very much, Chip, glad you liked them.

BAMComix wrote:Very cool Ian!

Thank you, Dal, I'm happy you liked them.

Holy Cow !
the Hot Toys Crumb modification is really fantastic. A touch better than your previous creations. You have turned a plastic figure into a real little monster. Your paint jobs are really good and are getting better and better, each one a clear upgrade to the already beautiful figures.

Good stuff and impressive paint applications!

That Bib Fortuna repaint is excellent, and that Ishi Tib is a cool-looking creature!

Ephiane wrote:Holy Cow !
the Hot Toys Crumb modification is really fantastic. A touch better than your previous creations. You have turned a plastic figure into a real little monster. Your paint jobs are really good and are getting better and better, each one a clear upgrade to the already beautiful figures.

Thank you very much, Ephiane, I'm glad you liked them. Crumb has always been a bit of a "grail" figure for me, and I'm glad I got this one, and that I went ahead to customize it.

Zes wrote:Good stuff and impressive paint applications!

That Bib Fortuna repaint is excellent, and that Ishi Tib is a cool-looking creature!

Thank you very much, Jonathan, I'm glad you approve. With Bib, I was hoping I didn't go too far overboard with the red (and it is a little less vibrant in hand), but if you liked it, I guess it turned out pretty good. Ishi Tib is a bit of an odd duck (really only part duck), but one of them was prominent in a few background shots so I couldn't pass it up.

Ephiane wrote:Holy Cow !
the Hot Toys Crumb modification is really fantastic. A touch better than your previous creations. You have turned a plastic figure into a real little monster. Your paint jobs are really good and are getting better and better, each one a clear upgrade to the already beautiful figures.

I agree! simply, superb, Ian!

Thanks for the inspiration. Now I really want to paint those headsculpts that are waiting in a drawer for months !

BAMComix wrote:I agree! simply, superb, Ian!

Thank you very much, Dal, I'm glad you liked them.

Urushi wrote:Thanks for the inspiration. Now I really want to paint those headsculpts that are waiting in a drawer for months !

You are welcome and thank you for the kind words. And good luck!

Back to Ishi Tib -- which is actually the name of a species, and there were two or three in Jabba's palace, one of them a female; unless there was just one and the costume changed in different shots. The actual mask used in the film was perhaps a sort of beige-ish green, though the low lighting and Lucas color magic made little of that clear. Online sources told me Ishi Tib were bluish or greenish, so I decided to start with a blue under-layer on top of the black primer.

You are most correct my friend, The Ishi Tib first appears in RTOJ  and it's hands were slightly different.
The Mask made an appearance as a "Blooper" in the Phantom Menace, Liam Neeson was wearing it as a joke and the footage is on youtube somewhere.
I believe the mask appears in the background of the Pod Race.

  The Hands were changed for TPM as they used the same mold to make the Ishi Tib, Aqualish and Quarren and Klatoonian to make the latex hands.

The hands were changed again for the 2015 Game Star Wars: Battlefront  and they remain the same for an appearance in The Mandalorian/Book of Boba Fett in Purple/Pink
I believe in the Clone Wars cartoon there were various colors too.


Just a side Note: I sculpted this file a few years ago as a Full Size movie accurate Display, but whn I started my patreon I made some adjustments to make it 1/6

Patreon_3DXFiles wrote:

Back to Ishi Tib -- which is actually the name of a species, and there were two or three in Jabba's palace, one of them a female; unless there was just one and the costume changed in different shots. The actual mask used in the film was perhaps a sort of beige-ish green, though the low lighting and Lucas color magic made little of that clear. Online sources told me Ishi Tib were bluish or greenish, so I decided to start with a blue under-layer on top of the black primer.

You are most correct my friend, The Ishi Tib first appears in RTOJ  and it's hands were slightly different.
The Mask made an appearance as a "Blooper" in the Phantom Menace, Liam Neeson was wearing it as a joke and the footage is on youtube somewhere.
I believe the mask appears in the background of the Pod Race.

  The Hands were changed for TPM as they used the same mold to make the Ishi Tib, Aqualish and Quarren and Klatoonian to make the latex hands.

The hands were changed again for the 2015 Game Star Wars: Battlefront  and they remain the same for an appearance in The Mandalorian/Book of Boba Fett in Purple/Pink
I believe in the Clone Wars cartoon there were various colors too.

Just a side Note: I sculpted this file a few years ago as a Full Size movie accurate Display, but whn I started my patreon I made some adjustments to make it 1/6

I am delighted to find out. In ROTJ, they were fairly stuck in the background, although they were present in multiple scenes. Being an Original Trilogy guy, it is this that I'm most interested in replicating, but have a long way to go on the clothing, though I have collected some stills and behind the scenes shots.
I was actually admiring how screen accurate the Ishi Tib had was, and you having originally made it in 1:1 scale explains its excellence in sixth scale. Well done! I wonder what other sculpts were your work. Have three more from Matt that I'll be posting soon.

Part VII - September 2024

I got some more heads and additional accessories from my 3D print expert Matt, who now has a new shop (HERE) instead of on Etsy. I painted these up and ended up putting together the figures in a more or less complete state, although they are still works in progress, except for the last.

Bith head and hands.



I like the sculpts and quality, but ran into some trouble putting them on the body I selected (Coo Model, as an inexpensive option) -- the hands, in particular, give me trouble, especially one, which is a little too narrow to easily fit over the thick (and basically unremovable) Coo wrist pegs. This has to do with the original design, not the printer; I'll be looking into other body options. For now, I'm using the old Kenner Bith musician clothing, although the body size and proportions make it a little off (it looks a little too baggy and yet the sleeves aren't quite long enough).





This next one is a Rodian head, hands, and blaster, but not everyone's slow-on-the-draw Greedo, but his cousin Beedo, from Jabba's Palace in Return of the Jedi. These are Jabba's Palace goons, after all -- there was at least one Bith musician there, although I wonder if he was there before the Special Edition, which I don't consider fully canon. At any rate, Beedo, alongside another basically identically clothed Rodian at Jabba's Palace, sported a rebel Hoth jacket on top of his Greedo jumpsuit with the ribbed/quilted strips along the side. He might not have had the Han-like belt and holster, but I supplied them on the basis of Greedo's appearance in A New Hope. The 3D file for Greedo strangely has him left-handed, which was ok in this instance, because Beedo is a leftie! Matt can actually print it either way. A cool feature of the trigger hand is that the outer part of the index finger is attachable, allowing a very good hold on the blaster. The blaster seems to be very movie accurate.



I liked this look best, aesthetically, although Matt has other versions that had individual crest "bristles" and might have had a more screen-accurate but wonkier appearance. Making the hands fit well on my choice of body, again Coo Model, was again a bit difficult, but less problematic. Perhaps I just got luckier drilling the holes. Once again, the old Kenner outfit was designed for a body with different size and proportions; here the only problem is with length of the sleeves. The Kenner rebel Hoth vest was fine, except for having to remove the badge or greeblie on the right (camera left) side of the chest. This was easy enough to accomplish, but left a couple of visible holes. The Kenner Greedo vest is a not very accurate rendition of the pick-up-photography Greedo (played by a woman) outfit, and it is less impressive than the original British studio outfit (which was closer to Han's); neither was appropriate for Beedo.






Here they are together, as they might have bumped into each other at Jabba's Palace.



Finally, a head I painted a long time ago but have repainted since, got a body and outfit, resulting in a probably finished figure. This was Nien Nunb, everyone's favorite Sullustian. Technically, at least one Sullustian was apparently present in Jabba's Palace, but I've only seen a single set/backstage photo, which finally gave me some more reference as to the actual colors for the repaint. But the outfit is Nien Nunb's, as much as I could figure it out from the film, stills, and set/backstage photos. The jumpsuit is a recolored Kenner one (from Luke as X-Wing pilot, which was orange), the vest comes from a Kenner Han, the gloves and boots are from Sideshow imperials.





I hope this was of some interest or amusement. As always, what do you think?

Awesome-looking kitbashes. And and interesting read overall, bits of trivia and all.

Great stuff, Ian. Cool that you’re keeping this going. They look good.

Visisonor wrote:Awesome-looking kitbashes. And and interesting read overall, bits of trivia and all.

Thank you very much, I'm glad you liked them, and the trivia. There's probably more trivia to be shared, but I forget things, and also realize some people prefer less text and more photos, given the limited amount of time they might have when checking in. And you know me, I find it hard to keep to just a couple of photos...

Stryker2012 wrote:Great stuff, Ian. Cool that you’re keeping this going. They look good.

Thank you very much, Mark, I appreciate it. As you can see, I still have some things to work out with the outfits (especially lower end of the sleeves) and am probably going to upgrade the footwear on the Bith and Rodian. I did break down and pre-order Sideshow's new Greedo, who is obviously a different character.

More awesome work on these customs! It's such a treat to see SW aliens in 1/6 scale, and even better when they are one-of-a-kind pieces.

These Star Wars customs are always a fun read! I particularly liked how you painted the Bith head and hands. They look excellent!

skywalkersaga wrote:More awesome work on these customs! It's such a treat to see SW aliens in 1/6 scale, and even better when they are one-of-a-kind pieces.

Thank you very much, Sky, I appreciate it and am glad you approve. I'm both excited about and disheartened by the Sideshow announced figures (especially the second wave which seems to include Jabba goons), but would still like to complete these. Painting is easier for me than custom clothing, and the old Kenner/Hasbro outfits only go so far. I have a couple of things coming up that might of some special interest to you... Also, did you happen to see my new Vader review?

Zes wrote:These Star Wars customs are always a fun read! I particularly liked how you painted the Bith head and hands. They look excellent!

Thank you very much, Jonathan, I'm glad you like them. These are a little different, as they are essentially (originally meant to be) Cantina characters, and belong to an older and simpler aesthetic (the Greedo/Rodian look was developed from a preexisting blander Martian design), but luckily there was still plenty of detail to play with. I tried to find a balance between subtle and somewhat expressive. At this point, the outfits and the effectiveness of the hand attachment remain the main points to improve.

You have been very busy, improved your alien customizing and painting skill much further, which is beautiful.

Beedo look like he is wearing fake adidas track suit. I wonder what he might look in real adidas tracksuit. Cousin Gopnikoo might know.

GF - I haven't had the heart to read the Vader review because I had to cancel my PO of that figure due to lack of funds. I'm really gutted about it, trying to find a way to purchase it eventually. I will read it when I'm feeling less sad about it.... sometime.

Ovy wrote:You have been very busy, improved your alien customizing and painting skill much further, which is beautiful.

Beedo look like he is wearing fake adidas track suit. I wonder what he might look in real adidas tracksuit. Cousin Gopnikoo might know.

Thank you very much, Ovy, I'm glad you approve. Also delighted you have come back, and I hope you won't be a stranger. I'm surprised that Beedo's track suit worked as well as it did -- I originally thought it would be too naive. I need to figure out what to do with the sleeves -- here and elsewhere. As for the Gopnik idea, sweet, and I have actually created some more Gopniks, but with the mess that is going on over there, I haven't had the heart to do anything with them.

skywalkersaga wrote:GF - I haven't had the heart to read the Vader review because I had to cancel my PO of that figure due to lack of funds. I'm really gutted about it, trying to find a way to purchase it eventually. I will read it when I'm feeling less sad about it.... sometime.

I am really sorry to hear this, as it is a great set. I hope you like it if and when you get it or read the review. The latter can, perhaps, inform you on whether you really really want or need it, or whether your needs might be met by picking up some of the piece(s) parted out. Either way, no pressure. I hope things work out better and you don't have to make difficult choices like this.