Freezer Dragon Ball Z custom figure Irwin Toys repaint action

Here is another custom figure I made for my own collection, now many years ago. I got the Freezer Irwin Toys, which looked decent, but was severely flawed. Hence I repainted him, and turned out to be a very nice figure.

 Now there is the SH Figuarts, but at that moment this figure was all there was. Nevertheless, I think he even looks better than the regular one, except for the articulation.

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Xeno Vegeta v2 (Dragonball Z) Custom Action Figure heroes SH Figuarts

Here is my second version of Xeno Vegeta. A custom I did for myself, extending and making more different than the original videogame character, and here I repeated him for a customer, this time with more extras, much more poseability, damaged mask, etc.

Cumber Dragon Ball Super custom figure sh figuarts bandai

Here is one of my most recent custom figures, Cumber :) . Made in all poseable style, with modern points of articulation, sculpted mostly everything in molten plastic. Tail was made removable.I made him specially big so he can grab figures like Goku Figuarts effortlessly.

 

Metal Cooler Dragon Ball Z Custom 500th custom SH Figuarts クウラ

It has take its time, but here it is, my 500th custom! I (of course) wanted to do something special for such a landmark in a customizer's career, and it took a long time for me to decide what could be that something so special. The opportunity appeared as a chroming powder I bought months ago and arrived just in time. Now I was sure; it would be a chromey custom that will be ultra-durable and ultra-poseable!

After -again- looking at various characters, I decided for Metal Cooler (bad luck for Silver Sable), the movie villain of Dragon Ball Z and brother of Freezer, in the metal form he returned with in the OVA "The Return of Coola". The base figure was Toyman DCUC (I think, there wasn't much left of him when I started) as it is slimer than a regular DCUC (which is my standard for normal superhero-villain). The hands were took from a Myth Cloth figure. One of the important parts of the custom (and surely, the most difficult) was making a tail. I didn't know what to use, as I didn't know of any that suited the purpose, and in the end I used a ball joint from Punisher and the made a solid one, so it has a good deal of movement and still looks good when posing.

I had to sculpt nearly all the surface of the figure, and of course, I made the head from zero too. The shoulder pad have a mechanism so it doesn't bother him for the movement.

For the chroming, I first applied a black coat of gloss Tamiya, then the chroming powder, gloss varnish, then Tamiya clear blue + green, then more chroming powder, and then more varnish. It is a bit darker than the original, but it gives a very nice gloss metal finish. 

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