Tuesday, December 27, 2011
2011's Top 3
Here's my selection:
Ty Kwinn, Private Enforcer
Thorn Kord, Cuy'val Dar
Quade Nish, Sector Ranger
Saturday, December 17, 2011
GI JOE - The Baroness
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Star Wars - the Equalizer: Ty Kwinn
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Star Wars - Sith Lord Darth Kraft
In order to assure loyalty in the Stormtrooper Corps, Emperor Palpatine installed Sith agents as commissars. Darth Kraft is such a Sith Commissar.
This figure was created for the current Sith custom figure contest on the Imperial Shipyards.
If you want to see the Major League of Star Wars Customizers go to www.imperialshipyards.net
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Friday, July 8, 2011
The first product review
The pictures on the internet looked promising and altogether it is not a bad figure, but could be a lot better if Hasbro had given it a bit more thought.
I'm not a Marvel expert so I won't try to tell you much about the character, but talk about the figure: Crossbones is very tall for a four inch figure, towering over Heavy Duty, Roadblock, Bench Press and Chewbacca.
Straight out of the packaging it feels a bit...cheap. Hasbro should have used a better quality plastic. The figure is well articulated, although I would have preferred him to have a better range of movement in the elbow joints and use the hip ball joints of the GI Joe figures.
The paintjob on my figure is pretty nice, the vest is well detailed with zippers, fasteners, mag pouches and a very small survival knife (too small in my book) moulded into the vest and not removeable. On his right thigh there's a moulded pistol holster, again the pistol is not removeable and the whole setup is ridiculously small.
Crossbones comes with an M4 Carbine with attached grenade launcher and zwo TEC-9 pistols. The latter look really nice and with a bit of paint (unless you like olive green weapons) can be turned into really cool weapons. The M4 is mediocre and might best be replaced by a weapon from the spare parts box.
One disadvantage of the soft, rubbery plastic of the vest shows itself when those who take the vest off for whatever reason (after all, it's removeable so why not remove it?) put it back on and discover that the pins don't want to slip into the corresponding holes anymore.
Anyway, I like the figure, but would like it a lot more if certain details had been taken better care of by Hasbro.
The figure can be used as a base for customizing and in my book that's the real value of Crossbones.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Best of the Internet - Kessel Run Review
Under the title "Kessel Run Review" you will be able to find cool reviews of products, customs and interesting news from across the Glaxy.
Fellow Shipyarder Jenn really does an amazing job in producing these reviews both on youtube and on her website.
Be sure to check her youtube-channel at: http://www.youtube.com/user/wookielover1138
and her website at: http://www.ciurla.com/kesselrunreview
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Monday, January 10, 2011
BugSkirts Workshop
His custom figures are truly awesome.