Tommycoholic
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Post by Tommycoholic on Mar 19, 2017 8:30:55 GMT -5
I love your work, you are the man.
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Post by Tommycoholic on Mar 17, 2017 6:58:03 GMT -5
Thanks a lot for sharing this, very interesting.
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Post by Tommycoholic on Mar 17, 2017 6:53:42 GMT -5
I used a shrunken Jakks head for my custom hasbro Austin Aries, i prefer the jakks head and I'm glad that I didn't wait for that one. I hope the Elite one will be different, but i doubt it.
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Post by Tommycoholic on Mar 16, 2017 7:14:29 GMT -5
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Post by Tommycoholic on Mar 7, 2017 12:09:25 GMT -5
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Post by Tommycoholic on Feb 18, 2017 12:29:57 GMT -5
Thanks a lot to all of you, British Bulldog and Jim Neidhart will be next to add to the Hart Foundation
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Post by Tommycoholic on Feb 14, 2017 3:44:08 GMT -5
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Post by Tommycoholic on Jan 26, 2017 15:48:35 GMT -5
Amazing work, looks just like the real thing!
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Post by Tommycoholic on Jan 20, 2017 10:06:34 GMT -5
Dude, I don't even collect Hasbro figures but hot damn you do insane work. Your sculpts are phenomenal. Have you worked in the industry before? Thank you and the other guys for the replies! Sadly i've never worked in the industry before, it's just improvement over the last few years. I was always a fan of posing figures but original hasbros weren't made that way, so i try to make a mix of hasbro-ish cartoony and semi-realistic customs.
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Post by Tommycoholic on Jan 18, 2017 15:08:30 GMT -5
Bobby Roode feat. the GLORIOUS custom turntable soundbox. Here's a little showcase video of the figure and it's accessory. The turntable soundbox has an inbuild MP3 player, so it can play every theme music while the figure is turning around, pics will follow soon. Thanks again to my girlfriend for the amazing video, i highly appreciate the effort she puts into these clips!
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Post by Tommycoholic on Oct 27, 2016 16:08:58 GMT -5
Thanks a lot guys, here's a new video:
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Post by Tommycoholic on Oct 27, 2016 16:04:03 GMT -5
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Post by Tommycoholic on Sept 23, 2016 13:22:19 GMT -5
Thank you so much, i really appreciate the kind words!
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Post by Tommycoholic on Sept 23, 2016 13:20:57 GMT -5
Dude. No seriously, DUDE. This is absolutely incredible. You did an amazing job! 8 months?!?!?! That's dedication my man!!!!!!!!! Thanks a lot for the replies so far! Yea, f'n 8 months, nerve wrecking all the time. I started it as a side project and spent a limited bugdet every month, because i didn't want to spend a huge amount of money at once. So i kept building it every now and then, but it was a really slow growning process. I'm used to work on one custom for 3-4 weeks, so i am already really patient. The building itself isn't that time consuming, the planning really is because i'm not a craftsman, i know hasbro customizing very well, but carpentry and electromechanical work is out of my league. So i had to find ways to work with my skills and material i can work with. I'm sure there are cheaper and easier ways to do this and that, but i couldn't think of any and didn't want a sloppy look at the end. The fans for example took me 1 1/2 months, i've drawn 70 different fans and made variants in color and changed the faces. After that, i had to create an empty arena from the scratch and copy and paste the fans into the picture. Sure, i could have went with the awesome arena display by extremesets, but almost everyone is using it nowadays and i really wanted to say, that i've made all of this by myself. That's why it took me so long, i wanted no help from anybody, that's maybe a little dumb but that's what i wanted . I didn't even mentioned the fact that i'm working on an arena, because i wanted to impress with this one out of nowhere and i knew people would ask about the status of it all the time. I'm now just happy to have my life back, i was thinking of this all the time, even changed some parts from time to time, because i wasn't satisfied. Actually i made a SmackDown! arena back in 2003 in the basement at my dad's house when i was a kid, but i didn't had an income, so it was very limited. I had the thought of a bigger arena in my head for 13 years now and i couldn't be happier. Here's a pic of my first arena, sorry for the quality, it's the only picture i have:
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Post by Tommycoholic on Sept 19, 2016 12:36:50 GMT -5
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Post by Tommycoholic on Sept 17, 2016 17:05:32 GMT -5
I'm finally done with the biggest project i've ever built. I was sick of the lame grey background for so long and wanted to take better pics of my stuff, that's why this came to life. I've wanted to create a whole Hasbro arena for so long and it took me 8 months to complete it. That's why i didn't make too many custom figures in that time period, that bastard was just so time consuming. The hardest part was to plan and find bits and pieces in the size of a Hasbro figure, so i had to built 90% myself from the scratch. Like the announcers table or the structure-frame around the tron for example is all made by hand with wooden sticks and glue, but patience is the key. It contains 5 different light installations, the one on the top is even sound activated. All of the fans were drawn by myself and colored digitally with faces of my friends and people i admire. All of the signs are individual, the ads on the balconys contain brands of friends like Goodleg Toys and Wreds.de just to name a few. The ringside fans can even move up and down by the use of a motor shaft, the first video doesn't capture it, but i hope to bring that feature up in the next videos. The ring is still Hasbro-ish with the squared ring posts, the aprons were made with a transfer ribbon, same goes for the banners on the top at the metal structure. Size does matter, so i tried to make this as big as possible but my spare room is still limited, so i went with a size of 6'7" x 1'12"x 2'9". CLICK HERE FOR THE FIRST VIDEO
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Post by Tommycoholic on Apr 11, 2016 5:08:21 GMT -5
Thanks a lot! Here's a "quick" one, so i quit on proto pics this time. The NWA belt is a casted replica.
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Post by Tommycoholic on Mar 26, 2016 8:04:03 GMT -5
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Post by Tommycoholic on Feb 20, 2016 15:38:07 GMT -5
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Post by Tommycoholic on Oct 3, 2015 14:08:29 GMT -5
Just went through this whole thread...your work is amazing Tommycoholic! Keep up the good work brother! Do an HBK =) Thank you! HBK is on my to-do list! Here's an update:
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