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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!!!

Here's my latest creation: This little lady has been given a slightly pinched waist (too modest to show it in this picture sorry) and her legs and feet filled to stop nasty draughts. Her hair was given a trim from the Lego supplied cut and she was then painted head to toe. Her chair was built from Lego and then smoothed and painted to make it more comfy and less slippy. The bottle and glass were standard Lego fare painted to suit. Her furry friend is also a Lego chap given a lovely new look. Her book and reading glasses were scratch built from polysheet. The book pages turn and have painted images and text on them. The cover is a Lego-esque take on the genuine Catch 22 cover. Hope you like!!

Hi all, thought i'd share a couple of my latest minifig creations: This little chap is kitted out with a bucket, axe, backpack, bedroll, rope, frying pan, saw, camera and hat. I think they are all Lego parts, backpack might not be though. They were all slightly modified just to suit my personal liking before being custom painted. The fella himself was given a nice set of custom painted clothes. His canoe was made from 4522012. I cut the middle 2 brick rows out of the whole length, to get a more canoe-like vessel, glued the 2 halves back together, then filled, smoothed and painted, giving it a varnished wood finish on the inside. I'f I were to do it again I'd probably use 2 boats and glue them back to back, but I was running out of time on this so it had to do. Our little adventurer also got a bike to play with: yes - those are Kreo in the background - but I'm a bit of a huge Transformers fan. Don't hate me please!!! This bike was a pain in the backside. The basic frame is from a Lego bicycle, which i cut the front forks and rear chainstays off. I then boxed in the downtube to match the real bike (Orange Sub Zero if you want to compare: http://s227.photobuc...zero-1.jpg.html ) bulked up the headtube, cut the swing arm off a Lego motorbike and fixed this to the frame then built some square seatstays to join up. The front suspension forks are also off the Lego motobike. The handlebar is a flute from the snake charmer minifig with cut down swing levers added as brake levers. It was all then filled, smoothed and painted. Hope you like!!

I really liked the Lego City garbage truck 60118...... until i saw this. Wow. It's brilliant!!! If you ever consider releasing the LDD files I'd love to have a look as Im itching to build this for real now. Brilliant - congratulations for designing such a great set

I really like this - and I think the tyres look great. It might sound a bit odd but it just has a "polished" look to it, like it could/should be a "proper" Lego set (I mean that as a compliment!!!)

This is absolutely awesome!! Unimogs have to be my all-time favourite vehicle and it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside to see it done such justice. Can't wait to see it finished - love the detail and the way you got the 4x4 transmission to work is genius - well done!!

a couple more: A few details: I made the armour for the Stormtrooper from scratch, the helmet was a standard lego item that I modified slightly. The gym goer was custom painted, and all his accessories were scratch made and painted. In hindsight he would've looked better without the gloss coat, but he was my first attempt and I've learned a lot since then. The chap in the boat used accessories from lego which, along with him, were all custom hand painted. His boat was a lego rowboat which i basically cut the centre section out of and glued back together before filling, smoothing and repainting into a canoe. The reading ladys chair was built from lego then painted, the cat was a lego item custom painted, along with the bottle and glass. The book was scratch made and painted along with the reading glasses (and the lady herself was custom painted - her hair was modified from a standard item too) The bike was a nightmare - it is a mix of a lego bicycle and a motorbike and a lot of scratchbuilt parts.

Hi fellow brick buddies!! I'm Jon, from the UK, and have been a lego fanatic my whole life. As a kid I was lucky enough to inherit a lot of lego from my older brother - that coupled with generous parents meant i managed to build up quite a reserve. Sadly, when I moved out, space at my new home was at a premium so my collection was bequeathed to my nephew so i was left brickless. As time has passed I've gained more spare space and have managed to start to build up a small collection, but my particular obsession has become minifigs, which are now numbering in the upper 60s. I've always been interested in making plastic kits which merged into custom painting transformers and gundam and(almost naturally) ended up with me starting on minifigs. I've only done a few so far as they have always been themes friends have asked for, but i've really enjoyed doing them and would like to do them more regularly. Ideally I'd like to do personal commissions for customers, but I'm a way off getting that set up, but maybe one day! Anyway, thought I'd share a few of my favourites with you - hope you like them!