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this is absolutely stunning - i am blown away

Thanks fordtruckin - I appreciate it I am proud to have impressed you thank you for the kind comments. You're absolutely right, I try and plan out exactly what I'm going to do before i do it with any custom. You have such a small canvas with these guys anything you do has to add something important and keep to scale or it just looks wrong. You also have to remember not to go overboard with detail as I found out on my last one. I did a bride for a cake topper ( not minifig, about 2x bigger) and spent about an hour adding highlights and shade to her arms. I thought it looked great. Then I blinked, refocused on something further away, looked back and realised I couldn't see any of the detail I'd just painted. Moral of the story, look up from your work every now and then, and don't get carried away..... Anyway, after that rambling on, I'm doing the tv series version. I grew up watching it and loved it, so it was a no brainer to choose them.

Hey - they sure are. I love it when a plan comes together.....

Hi guys!!! Thought i'd share a sneak peak of my latest creation. I've been wanting to do this for a while but I've been really busy with other stuff (read: sister in laws Lego wedding cake toppers....) and have finally had time this weekend. As you can see, they need hair and faces but they are coming along nicely. Once they are finished I'll post up detailed pics. Hope you like them as much as I do!!

blown away - where do you even start to work out how to build something like this? I'm just looking at the feet and the detail is stunning!! I wish I had even a quarter of the skill needed to come up with something like this - Incredible

Wow!!! I love this sooo much!! I'm a huge Gundam fan (bit like you i think - not really much into anime but love Gundam) and have a few 1/100 sets in progress at all times, but I'd never thought of doing lego versions. Totally genius!! Excellent

quite simply one of the best builds i have ever seen. Absolutely amazing.

These are totally awesome!!! I love the RSR my favourite so far, although I'm anxious to see the Mustang, from the group shot it looks fantastic! Some great work here - keep it up!

Hi ShiningOne!! Thanks very much for your kind comments, I'm really glad you like them. I've added a couple of in progress pics in my posts over in the custom forum: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=137017 http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=137014 Generally it is just a case of cutting and gluing plasticard and then filing it to shape, nothing difficult, just takes lots of patience and acceptance that you might have to scrap what you've done and start over more than once before you get something you are happy with. I'm making a bride and groom at the moment and I've tried about 4 different ways of making the brides hair and had to scrap each one because i t didn't look right. The method I've settled on so far (might still change) has taken me about 4 hours solid so far and I'm not even half way through finished making it, let alone painting it! I don't mean this to discourage you from starting, more to stick with it and keep trying! Miliput putty (I use the white one) is great stuff for forming into little shapes to add onto the figures and also for smoothing out cut edges etc. It works much better if you wet your fingers as the surface will slide under your fingertips instead of grabbing them (hope that makes sense!) Then it's just a case of sanding and more sanding to get everything super smooth before painting. If you have any other questions I'd be more than happy to try and help - I'm no expert but I'll share what I know. I like making them for friends - Actually I just like making them full stop - I find it very therapeutic and relaxing. If I can bring other people a bit of happiness by making them for them then so much the better. I'd love to be able to do it full time but it isn't something I think you can feasibly make a living doing Love your Ninja Quest minifigs - they are awesome!!

As requested by ShiningOne, some in progress pics:

As requested by ShiningOne I've found a couple of in progress pics :

extra picture added hope that shows it a bit better

Sorry Jbricks, you are right. I did this and the adventurer as a set for some friends of mine and I never bothered to take proper pictures of them. I've got an in progress shot of this one: where she is minus her head (didn't like the first haircut i gave her.) I'll ask their owners if they can take a couple of pics of them stood up and I'll add them on.

Thanks! Apologies about the picture, you are right, it was the photo quality and not my painting (I hope!!) I've replaced the picture with a better resolution one.

Here's my rendition of a "proper" minifig StormTrooper. His helmet is a standard Lego item that i tweaked very slightly - not necessarily successfully. I didn't like that the eye lenses were convex, so i filed them flat and i carved the black detail that was printed actually into the helmet. It was great in principle, but at this scale I find it is really difficult to get a clean enough finish on detail like that. Anyway, it's done now.... The armour includes front and rear chest plates, gauntlets and shoulder protection, hand protection, leg trim (rear of legs are filled so it go around 3 sides) and a little pocket detail. The blaster is a standard Lego item. Everything is custom painted and detailed. I have to be honest, this was hand painted and I have never had a great success painting white, so the finish is not the best. I've since been practising with my airbrush and have finally got that sorted, so next time it should look better. Next time I hear you ask? Yup, next in line is an Imperial Guard. I have a bride and groom minifig pair to finish off before I can start on him but I'll post him up as soon as I've finished him. Hope you like him!!!