CUSTOMANIA DEC 2012

For the record, that's a great looking custom, Especially after seeing the WIP pics, I could tell you put in a great effort resculpting the Dusty head and giving a nice, smoth paintjob. I wanted my custom to be a real wrestler, but one that had never been done before. Unfortunately, I had a lot of "real life" setbacks and ended up turning in a rushed custom that wasn't really to my liking. Real life sucks -Lol!

As for a "rematch", if we can come to an agreement on stips, I'm all for it for the January Customania. Personally, I'm more in tune with older stars (70's-90's), but if I'm motivated enough, I'm good for anything.

Good job, dude!

ChristianEdge vs MaskedSuperstarFan

It's hard to judge a fictional vs actual character. The fictional custom can be anything and there is nothing to compare it to, but MSF made something that has direct reference pics and if he didn't get the part selection right it is evident.

That said, sculpting looks pretty good on Bhoy. Nice skintone. The black outline on the boots could use some retouching.

MSF Charlie Brown: Sculpting is pretty good. The only suggestion I have for it would be to make the beard a little less round. As it is now, the beard is too uniform around the edges. What is impressive, however, is the line work inside the beard and on the hair. You managed to make it look like hair. That's something a lot of people struggle with and basically end up just drawing line with their sculpting tools in the clay. Nice dry brushing, but the under coat is too yellow. Good head choice. Never thought Kidman would work for Boogie but it does. Torso is a little thick though.

Winner: MSF Charlie Brown



Powers of Pain 88 vs Crazywrestler

A couple more pics of the Taker would have been more helpful, especially WIP pics, because as it is it looks more like a fixup than a custom. The red paint looks pretty good. Red is reeeaaally hard to get to cover. My concern is that it looks tacky. Not tacky poor taste but tacky sticky. It could be the flash bouncing off your sealer though. Touch up the black lines on his tie a bit and you'll be all set on this piece.

The Robbie E....I can tell you are a new customizer so I won't rip this apart,
and I'll try to give you some helpful hints.


Tape is your friend. The best way to ensure straight lines is to tape them off. Let the paint dry fully before pulling it off because it can pull your paint off if not 100% dry.

Google hair sculpting tutorials. There are some great videos about it on YouTube also.

If you are swapping parts make sure the skintones match or do a custom skintone. It could be fantastic everywhere else, but if you skip this step it makes the figure look bad. A lot of guys that used to frequent this board don't consider it a true custom unless it has a skintone.

Keep practicing and don't get discouraged. Starting out, we all put out stuff that was less than stellar.

Winner: PP88 Undertaker

Thanks for the tips bio and tavg I am very new to customizing and all the tips help me learn. So Thank you.

i like the idea of making a customania around fantasy wrestlers instead of doing work on real wrestlers. If anyone wants to do a simple 1 v 1 like this, id be down

The freehand looked pretty good really. I'm one of the few guys that isn't bothered by decals though. I've done enough McFarlane SP's to see that making a good decal takes talent too. In the future just keep in mind that not everybody feels the way I do about them.

Hopefully this is the start of a new custom comp.cycle.

Thanks for everyone's efforts, sorry it only ended up being 2 matches, and sorry about my long ass delay in posting from Sunday to Friday, lol.

It's great in a sense to see this board kind of on a reboot. Many of the old faces are no longer here, there's lots of new guys around that are making the efforts. Definitely a lot of growing to do all around, but ChristianEdge and Masked have come a long way over the last year or two. Nice to see people develop their skills and continue to grow. Hell, I've been making customs since 98 or 99 when I was still in high school. I would say I never really did a real custom until 2000 or so when I first started sculpting. To this day, I still find myself learning new techniques and improving. Keep the drive and move forward, if you work on it enough you will become great.

like i said, if we had a reference picture or concept drawing then we could critique it. since it is a made up figure you cant really say what looks good and what dosnt due to there being nothing to judge it against.
if you had customized an actual wrestler then we could have critiqued you just like the rest fo the guys who turned in their figures.

i like said in my write up, it looks cool....but i have nothing to critique it against.