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Custom Collections and fan art

Custom figures, custom collections, and fan art

 

Csaba Horvath, fellow Star Wars collector friend is telling us how he was befriended with the Star Wars and how he became a collector. It is a long story. He has being collecting for years, but mainly original figures. Later, he got enough seeing many mistakes in the released figures, and decided to be a novice customizer, repairing things, and modifying some muscular figures. He sent a kind of making of, where he listed  how he made modifications, and from which figures. So you will find an explanation, where Csaba tells what figures were used to create these custom figures, that he wanted to make from better heads and parts. Take a look at his work. Thanks Csaba.


 

Han Solo: this figure was made from a 2012 Movie Heroes Han torso, and a 1995 Power of the Force 2 Han Solo head. He did not liked the muscular body, but the other had worse head so combining the two seemed to be a good idwa.

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The same is true for Luke and Lando, too.
Luke Skywalker: torso: 1999 Power of the Force 2, Head: 1998 Power of the Force Bespin Gear

 

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Lando Calrissian: torso: 2004 Star Wars saga Series, head: 1997 Power of the Force 2 The heads are better in the '97 Power of the Force wave, says Csaba, but these body builder torsos are ridiculous. The later waves had much realistic torsos, but there, I did not liked the heads. However, keep in mind, that is only my opinion. - he commented.

 

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Cad Bane: this is a 2010 Clone Wars deluxe line with Prate Speeder Bike figure, which had not got a coat. So I made a custom cape from a vintage Bib Fortuna dressing the bounty hunter in it. (UPDATE! -) Bane was much taller than Obi-wan. Both figures was quite tall, so I could slice down Bane's leg right above his boots, cut down a bit from his leg, and stick back the boots.

 

 

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Zittaasabba: This is a Revenge of the Sith Wookie Flyer with Wookie Warrior figure upper body, and a plain Wookie Warrior lower body combination. The Wookie Flyer needs a sitting pilot figure, but I wanted to have him standing normally. So I used one of my Wookie Warriors, (I have plenty of them) so to have a better lower body. He van sit in his helicopter after the custom works, too. I found data somewhere about a so called Zittaasabba, who was the most famous wookie pilot in the battle of Kashyyyk, so in my collewction he IS Zittaasabba.

 zittaasabba_custom

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Jango Fett: I replaced his head. The torso is a 2007 30th Anniversary Collection figure, which can be undressed (the poncho, chest armor, and legplates can be removed), however the head wasn't realistic. So I got a 2002  Kamino Escape figure, which has a perfect head. The two head was totally different, one was fix, the other had ball joint, so I couldn't just stick it there, because it didn't let the figure undressed. So this part needed a serious custom work, and now the figure has a great head which can be turned around, and you can still change its armors.

 jango fett_custom

 

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Tanus Spijek and  J'Quille: They are from the 2002-2004 Saga I, series. The two figures have almost the same torso, only their heads were different. So they are the same tall, which is not good, Tanus is too tall, J'Quille is too small. So I cut down their legs, and sliced a bit down from Tanus's, which was great to implant this part into J'Quille's leg. Their heights are good now. All I had to do was to paint the new part  to match J'Quille's color. ( - Update ends)

tanus_jquille_custom

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Coleman Trebor: here I replaced the hands. A 2003 Star Wars Saga figure were built on a 2009 Legacy Collection Geonosis Arena Showdown figure. The first one had a grotesque torso, the later had a small hand in my opinion. So I combined the two, and put a nice Jedi cloak on him. 


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 Written, commented and translated by: Norbert Rostas

 

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