WildBill's Customs and Dios

[WildBill]

I love this figure by the way. I'm tempted to say that this is my favourite of all so far.
Joes aren't available near me so if anyone has access to a bunch of renegades Dukes I'd be interested in trading or buying.
MB, if you go back one page you can see I have a Low Light with this mod....turned out better than this one actually.

 

[MAJOR BLOOD]

Man, that is nice. When is he going in a diorama?

 

[WildBill]

Man, that is nice. When is he going in a diorama?

Not till I get home. ALso gotta make some more backgrounds.

 

[fogger1138]

Awesome stuff!

I have this torso, and I've been trying to figure out good arms to use. Which did you use? Do they have the quilting?

 

[Slaymaker]

Wildbill - what kind of glue do you use in the neck mod? I did mine relatively the same, except the place I glued the forearm to the neck snapped off when I tried to tilt the head.

 

[WildBill]

Thanks for the feedback guys.
For that torso I used helix arms, so no quilting.
I use crazy glue. You have to be careful where you apply it so the join doesn't get bound up. I dremel into the torso pretty far so that there is good support for the joint.
It's a great mod if you can spare the donor fit and get over the fact that you are risking scrapping the whole figure.

 

[Rick]

that neck build was genious. Great tips on the weathering

 

[WildBill]

Thanks everyone for the comments. Glad you like my work!

 

[Cloud Strife]

Wow! Dude, you have some awesome customs, mods and dios. The neck mods are genius and look a lot better than others I've seen using a similar method. Well, the hinge joint method anyway, I don't believe I've seen the method you used on Renegade Duke.

Again, very cool stuff!

 

[Rick]

Most recent here....I'm sure many of you recognize the inspiration.

Wish someone sold just ball caps. maurauders should make them.

With the last pic were you going for the old fashion GI original 12 figure look. I think Hasbro should make a figure of him. Nice job man, I havn't tried to sculpt yet. Bought some green stuff but haven't put it to work.

 

[Rick]

Man! These vipers are sweet. Diggin the open face look. I mean there are goggles up top so why not. Great Mod.

 

[fogger1138]

Wish someone sold just ball caps. maurauders should make them.

I have a few from 21st century stuff - if I ever figure out how to mold & cast, I'll put them out there.

 

[Slaymaker]

Wish someone sold just ball caps. maurauders should make them.

Raginspoon has the exact cap as that figure on his site - I just got 2 in a trade yesterday...haven't open the ziplock yet to check them out...

 

[Fled74]

Raginspoon has the exact cap as that figure on his site - I just got 2 in a trade yesterday...haven't open the ziplock yet to check them out...

I have one of those caps. Great piece, but it only fits over bald heads.

 

[WildBill]

Wish someone sold just ball caps. maurauders should make them.

With the last pic were you going for the old fashion GI original 12 figure look. I think Hasbro should make a figure of him. Nice job man, I havn't tried to sculpt yet. Bought some green stuff but haven't put it to work.

Not really. He does look like general Colton though doesn't he? Both those heads are from Ragin spoon customs. I haven't tried any sculpting myself yet.
I tried to make the first one look like that spec ops guy Time magazine covered, "Cowboy".

Raginspoon has the exact cap as that figure on his site - I just got 2 in a trade yesterday...haven't open the ziplock yet to check them out...

That cap is from Ragin Spoon customs. I dremmeled it out quite a bit to get it to fit nicely. It will also fit on renegades Duke now.

I have a few from 21st century stuff - if I ever figure out how to mold & cast, I'll put them out there.

I saw a custom on here I think with one of those ball caps. They are awesome. Please do start casting them!

 

[WildBill]

Just got a bunch more caps from Ragin. Both styles. Time to start dremelling!

 

[WildBill]

Found this in my box of original vehicles. It`s my first vehicle custom from the late 80's early 90's. I believe my intention was for it to be some kind of madmax vehicle.

 

[WildBill]

I wanted to see what a FANG would look like with a canopy......So I whipped one up.

WIP;

 

[Mandingo Rex]

That canopy on the FANG is cool. A bit odd-looking, but you did about as good of a fit as one could possible do, I think. It's a weird-ass base vehicle, to begin with.

 

[WildBill]

Yeah I know...kind of a silly Project. I considered adding another angle to the front of the canopy so that there were two tiers before it went to the roof panel. In the end there are so many angles on that thing I left it as is.

 

[Tofujesse]

That looks cool...how bout dropping the seat and giving it a kinda a Hind look cockpit canopy

 

[G.I.*EDDIE]

That looks cool...how bout dropping the seat and giving it a kinda a Hind look cockpit canopy

Yeah, I was thinking based on other Conra vehicles, that a bubble would be more in line...

 

[fogger1138]

Yeah, I was thinking based on other Conra vehicles, that a bubble would be more in line...

Based on other Conra vehicles, an ejection seat would be more in line.

CONRAAAAA! :splatthwipthwip:

 

[G.I.*EDDIE]

DAMN IT!!

 

[WildBill]

Do you have any idea how hard it is to make round bubble windows with straight stock styrene.....it's impossible. I'd need to have some kind of vacuum or blowing forming technique.......Eddie?

 

[Tofujesse]

I have a vac form table just not the time. Maybe in a few when everything is all cleared up I can start doing stuff like that.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to make round bubble windows with straight stock styrene.....it's impossible. I'd need to have some kind of vacuum or blowing forming technique.......Eddie?

 

[G.I.*EDDIE]

Lol, nice WB...maybe steal one from one of Conras D) other wacky vehicles

 

[WildBill]

Latest.

 

[Monkeywrench]

I've seen her before but I can't remember where

 

[WildBill]

Another TJ head cast,

 

[G.I.*EDDIE]

Great job on the skin tone and shading...might I suggest lowering the head a tad more?

 

[WildBill]

thanks Eddie! Once I get back to a dremel I can try lowering the head.