Packerbacker Customs A Fatal 4 Pack pg. 85

[AcidDragon]

Very awesome job on all of them. Kallus is especially spot on.

[1987olds442]

These look great! Fantastic work

[packerbacker180]

Thanks, everyone

[Idiot Savant]

Excellent work on these figures buddy!

Beware the Lamb Chops!

[packerbacker180]

Here's a couple I finished a little while ago but never got around to taking pictures until now. Two characters from opposite ends of the EU. First up is Darth Bane, creator of the Sith Rule of Two.

"Peace is a lie. There is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength. Through strength, I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through victory, my chains are broken."












The second custom is of Ben Skywalker, the only child to Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker. Because he's appeared mostly in novels, there aren't a ton of images of him, but I based his appearance off this image and addded some brown and repainted the boots to an Obi-wan Kenobi figure just so it didn't look like a Kenobi figure with just a new head.

[BrandonDaCollector]

Great customs again PB, amazing how you made them. The head sculpt is just tremendous with the big jaw and even his left arm, it matches them pics you provided really well Darth Bane has always been a great Sith character. Ben looks really nice too, you did him excellently and I love the pic with your customs of his parents!

Now thanks to Disney, a lot of stuff like this is legends now

GREAT STUFF PB

[packerbacker180]

Thanks for checking them out. I'm on book for of Legacy of the Jedi ("Exile"). I don't have the team or focus to actually read novels anymore, but I've found listening to audiobooks while I paint to be a nice replacement. I skipped over the Yuuzhan Vong War because I think I've read enough on it in the past to jump past that series. I did the Darth Bane series already which was pretty good. It's fun kind of exploring something more unfamiliar.

[BrandonDaCollector]

Your welcome PB. Oh Legacy was great and the Vong series was superb and yes moving to something your not familar with can be quite fun. Yep, stuff like that makes it better

[packerbacker180]

I actually finished these a while ago was just too lazy to take pictures. Hasbro was nice enough to reveal a Black Series Mara Jade today amongst other reveals, so there's that. This is my second attempt at Mara Jade. Used the same legs and torso, but although the Black Widow head and ML arms weren't bad, the arms looked a bit too buff and the head just looked like Natasha and I couldn't unsee that. So I bought this 3D printed head from Scoundrels Stock and went with some MCU arms that looked more like a normal, fit female. I'm much happier with the results.








I also finished a Crix Madine from ROTJ. I don't know why but as I was telling Brandon in his Star Wars figure thread, for some reason as I kid I was always drawn to the Crix figure even though I didn't know his name, and just about everything about the figure color-wise was wrong. I mean, they gave him a grey outfit and grey hair, so it was like a completely different character. Luckily the ROTJ Lando figure is pretty cheap. The head was an enlarged head from a 3.75 version, it may be a little small but it's pretty close. I think he looks ok even though the face might be a bit small and youthful looking. Or maybe I'm over-critical.

[BrandonDaCollector]

I was scrolling thru the board and saw that you updated your section PB. Thanks for mentioning Me PB, I really appreciate that IMO you are being a little too critical but that is ok, it shows you are paying attention and all that I think My General Madine by Kenner is fine. The outfit maybe a different color, they just made him older looking. There was other figures that were questionable that Kenner made, don't forget about the Zuckuss & 4-Lom mishap.

OK, now on to your customs. I couldn't tell ya what your figure is based from, I never looked for the New Black Widow figure. I must say your Mara is quite decent looking. She is very old school looking yet matches a modernish look as well. Great face and it's cool she as a blaster & lightsaber! You did her great. Madine looks really good too. He does look quite screen accurate here with the different hair & outfit color. Yeah, I am fond of characters that only had seconds on screen too.

Great stuff PB. So who is next on your SW list