Customs; how many of you do 'em?
 

Donsbabyboo suggested that we do "Customs" as a theme. I'm not entirely sure what he was driving at but I gotta ask, how many of you actually do customs out there? I personally don't do that many but if ALL you guys do, we can do it as a theme sometime in the near future.

Perhaps we need to define "custom" as well. Touching up a paint app, I wouldnt' consider a custom but elsewhere, people might. Frankensteining, sculpting your own dude, repainting, LBCs, I consider them as customizing. I'd like to know everyone's feedback.



Here's the problem I'm having. What's the point of doing customs, be it fave or in-action? We could all go over to Joecustoms.com and look at the 1000s of customs over there. I have some over there. Luke has 'em over there. I'm sure a few members here are registered there too. Maybe a "Let's See Your Customs In Action" might work but it will ONLY work if a lot of people do customs in general. And what happens when your customs are only for show?

I don't do any customizing but that doesn't mean that I wouldn't try. I would like to get some custom fodder and try it out some time. It is definitly a cool idea for a theme week and judging from what some people have here I think it could be a good thing.

Man, I have literally dozens and dozens of customs, it has always been something I have played around with, but it doesn't really grab me as a theme week because I use 'em in pics anyway. In fact I already posted some pics of my customs simply because people asked me to.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to be a wet blanket, if that's what the majority of people want, then go for it, I can always find/make more customs to post. Perhaps a future theme week could be your favourite vehicle/driver combo in action....there's plenty to choose from there.

I'm not a big customizer. Mostly I frankestein the occasional figure to get a look that I like or to give someone a new body if their crotch or thumbs are broken. You may have noticed Outback in my Transformers story has v1 Outback's head on v3 Outback's body-- That's what I'm talking about.

Otherwise, I have my Duke, Cobra Commander, Destro, and eventually Flint made to look like their counterparts on the cartoon, and a Baroness cobbled together from three different Baronesses to attain a look that's not cartoon, but that I like. Other than those, I have very few other real customs-- Just little things like putting a brown-haired Bombstrike head on a Spytroops Lady Jaye body and the like.

I did recently make a pretty cool Quarrel though... It's G.I. Jane's head on VvV Scarlett's body. Looks pretty cool. She's hanging out with Big Ben now.

EDIT: I just realized I got carried away and didn't really answer the question at hand. I could probably get a few customs together for a picture or two, but they wouldn't be very "customized" customs, and there wouldn't be too many of them.

I like this idea, gives me an excuse to post pics of my custom Snake-Eyes on his custom Ninja Cycle :) .

Lately I have done a lot of customs, but haven't completed them yet, so a group project would be great for motivation.

Sonneilon, you might want to post a poll for this idea, that'll give you clear indication how many people customize their figures.

Customising is my true Joe Passion to be honest. I creep them into my diostories as much as possible. I'm gunna re-work my site to encorporate a lot of my newer ones but I want to wait as Issue 5 (when I can finally work on it again) has one of them as a main/suprise character. I can post some of my fave ones here tonight if you want them?
(most have been posted on JBL in the past)

Actually I did just one. I removed Grunt torso and on his place I put Crosshair single pack torso. Just worked fine to me.

i would think switching around heads, torsos, arms, etc
even if its just a single body part could & should be considered a custom
no need to bust out the dremel
no need to bust out with the paints

but slapping on a Crosshair hat on the last Chief Torpedo released
or swapping a weapon shouldnt count :rolleyes:

I have done some customs. They're not the greatest, mostly part swaps. I try to substitute permanent marker for paint whenever I can because of chipping. I could definitely set up some scenes with my customs.

I agree with that.