Tag: Tutorials

CUSTOM ACTION FIGURES:101 – Tutorial Tuesday – “Improving Rifle Shouldering” By Rob Panick In this week’s tutorial, we’ll learn how to modify your figure to allow it to better shoulder a rifle. Most of the time a stock action figure’s arms won’t move into position to let it hold a rifle in a realistic pose. With a little bit of modification, you can fairly easily fix this. We’ll begin with a disassembled figure. For help disassembling your figure, check out my video tutorial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf3V6Wxknyk The main thing that prevents…

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CUSTOM ACTION FIGURES: 101 – Customizer Product Reviews – “Vortious Custom Accessories: Headless Horseman Kit” By Rob Panick This week on Custom Action Figures: 101’s Customizer Product Reviews, we have an action figure kit from Dennis Plourde of Vortious Custom Accessories. This is his new “Headless Horseman” kit. I sat down and asked Dennis a few questions about him and his business. CUSTOM ACTION FIGURES: 101- Tell us a little about yourself Dennis. DENNIS PLOURDE – I live in Aberdeen MD, where I grew up from the age of 12.…

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  CUSTOM ACTION FIGURES: 101 – “DRY BRUSHING” – TUTORIAL TUESDAY By Rob Panick This week on , we’re going to be taking a look at dry brushing your figures. Dry brushing is a paint technique where your paint brush is relatively dry when you apply the paint. This is done by loading your brush with paint, and them wiping a majority of the paint off on a rag, paper towel, or cloth. The result is an almost “scratchy” look, where the raised portion of the surface detail is highlighted,…

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CUSTOM ACTION FIGURES: 101 – “HEAD SWAPS: ADAPTING LINES” – TUTORIAL TUESDAY By Rob Panick Welcome back to CAF: 101. This week we’re going to learn how to swap out action figure heads across toy lines and make a head with a larger neck hole fit onto a neck with a smaller ball. To begin with, here’s a list of the tools and materials you will need: LOW TEMP HOT GLUE GUN & GLUE STICK PETROLEUM JELLY OR CHAP STICK DRILL BIT THE SAME SIZE AS THE SMALLER NECK BALL…

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CUSTOM ACTION FIGURES: 101 – CREATING MUZZLE FLASH Welcome to Tutorial Tuesday! I’ll be bringing you a new customizing tutorial every tuesday here on Custom Action Figures: 101! In this edition of Custom Action figures: 101, we learn how to make muzzle flash for action figure weapons. Adding muzzle flash is one of the easiest things you can do to add some really cool realistic detail to your custom figure. Unlike some of my other tutorials, creating muzzle flash doesn’t directly involve making any changes to your actual figure. It…

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