Gardinermitch Customs - Dark Order. RIP Mr. Brodie Lee

Finished up a Darby Allin.  I will eventually fix up the skin tones, but it will do for now while I'm adding to my inventory of wrestlers I've made. I was really happy with the way the facepaint turned out.  The picture doesn't do the black parts justice. The dry-brushing worked great at making the paint on his neck look legit. Messed up his chest tattoo a bit, counted wrong and centered the wrong letter in the first line.  Oh well. 

Finished up a Will Ospreay and Cody (minus belt, WIP)  Really happy with the paint job. Noticed as I posted it I need to touch up the one Orange line, but that's not a huge deal. Head could still improve, but they are getting better with each custom I think.  Also starting a better Matt Riddle. I was really unhappy with the first one.  Sneak peak at the tights.  I am pretty happy with them.  Working on a head, but I also have a cast coming in that looks awesome.   Also WIP on Cody's belt. Going to make a few different ones, I have a ton of white leather to work with. (Also have a cast coming in for Cody's head to fix my poor job of making one)

not bad. a bit sloppy but not bad.do not sure if you prime your figures before painting but that helps a lot

An airbrush would be a great tool to have. But in the meantime, I would suggest diluting the paint a bit more. You're only gonna get better dude so keep it up.

Finished up the Fiend and Dustin Rhodes.  Dustin was a 100% Goldust for parts. Well, plus the belt I made for him. Pretty happy with how he turned out.  The lines could be a bit smoother, curves are tricky with the contours. Fiend was a ton of fun. I gave him a Big E torso (Dremel & Milliput to change the singlet), K.O. arms, Ascension crotch and upper legs (I don't actually know which Ascension guy), and I'm not totally sure who's boots. Found them in a lot of spare parts I bought, not sure whose they started as. Mask was made by BEW, cast from Figure Giant.  Had a ton of fun painting the mask.  Definitely see the appeal of tattoo decals, but the ones for Bray are too bright, his tattoos have darkened a lot with the cover-ups and additions he's made. 



Edit -- What a difference a good head scan makes.  Thanks to Figuregiant for the awesome cast. 

Finished a Hangman Page too.  Rope is WIP currently. 

Finished up Marty Scurll today.  I know his hands don't have tape.  I forgot to swap them before I put everything together, and they are the type that need to be heated to be popped off so I'm waiting for the sealer to fully cure first. Accessories are a bit down the road yet but someday.  Really happy with how he turned out overall. The skin looks nicer in person, the wash brought out a lot of the details well.   Did an Io Shirai recently too, but still fixing up the head a pit so pictures are still to come.  Next up are Tessa Blanchard and Brian Cage. 

Added spoiler tags to old posts so things would load quicker.  

Finished Tessa.  Overall I'm pretty happy with this one. Some minor things could be better, and the head isn't perfect, but I'm happy with the result. 


Also finished Brian Cage.  I am really happy with how the head turned out.  I know it's not super perfect, but it's probably the best head I've made myself so far.  Bobby Roode NXT was the starting point.  I have to fix up the arm wraps, but I was getting annoyed with them and wanted to leave them for a few weeks down the road after I'm done a couple other figures.  




Next up -- MJF & Killer Kross.  MJF head from TSM customs, Killer Kross head was batista with a couple mods (Wider nose & more pronounced cheeks).  Head is a little wide for Kross, but I'm pretty happy with how it looks. (Minus the touch ups to finish up at the end) Definitely taking my sweet time on the tattoos for him.  He has a super star power quality to him, and after watching that interview with Van Vliet (the first time I've really heard Kross speak out of kayfabe) I was completely enthralled.  Seems like the wrestler I would most like to go have a beer with.   BTW thaht terrible torso crack was not my doing.  It came from a parts lot and whoever I bought it from butchered it in their attempt so the pegs were already snapped. I had to heat gun away like 15 stretch marks on the upper torso too. 

Update with some other projects I haven't posted to here yet.  Working on quite a bit right now, likely a couple of smaller updates in the next month followed by another big one like this. 

Updated Ospreay head.  No need to make it any better now with the amazing one coming out next summer! 




Got a good riddle headscan in, fixed him up. 




Ilya Dragunov 
   

More to come in next post.  Haven't updated in a while and quite a few finished.