Hey there one and all!
I've been itching lately. I swear it has nothing to do with any sort of rash, I promise! No, it has to do with itching to do some sort of creative project. In these past few weeks I've been experimenting with Disneys Vinylmation figures, and customizing them to represent different characters than the figures usually display.
I recently was on a trip in Toronto with my gf to see her family. We stopped at a mall, things were said, and I ended the mall trip with two vinylmation figures from the malls disney store. I have no idea why, but something just made me do it. After getting back home, i decided to try my hand at my first vynilmation custom, and came up with this ugly thing you see above. Lol, ok so maybe its not totally ugly (someone did buy it from me on ebay :) ) but it led me to see the potential I had for other figures.
This was my second custom, also wasnt too happy how it turned out. I decided on a chucky doll cause I saw this clump of fur laying around... ok so the fur was on an old ragged teddy bear, but its found new life as the chucky doll's hair. Because of this new found potential (and after making some money with these first two) I went out and bought a couple more figures.
This was turned out a little more satisfactory. Kind of. By this point I was more in the tune of testing paints to see what worked, as well as working more on my paint brush-man-ship (thats not even a word!) and produced my second Power Ranger custom. Finally, the last custom I placed on ebay.
This one turned out much better than the last three. I was pleased. It makes me think that I've found a certain style to go by when creating these customs. It also taught me that the paints I use are complete and utter crap, as many layers were painted on each of these to mask the underlying designs of the disney characters I befouled (Thats ok, I never liked them much anyhow... :P).
The point of this post was to welcome you to the NEW RANGER CUSTOMS! what happened to the old one you ask? Nothing, it may still be there, posts and all. I just dont remember at all what my wordpress passwords and such are, as well, I find blogger a bit simpler to handle in such stress filled times.
My next project will hopefully finish this week. Its also Vinylmation, and its also Power Rangers, hence why this blog is called Ranger customs. If you'd like to take a look at my past works, well
HERE ya go! If you also stumble upon my little bloggy here, please comment, leave a little blurb, whatever you feel like so that I know my art is in fact being appreciated.
Later Y'all!
