Customizing Indy Figures

So, real quick, here are my customs for Last Crusade - with 18 figures to go and a lot less characters on the whole, this may be the biggest area in need of some work... you'll see what I mean...

102) Scout Leader Havelock (in production)
103) Herman Mueller (in production)
104) Young Indy
105) Fedora

106) Half Breed (in production)
107) Roscoe (in production)
108) Rough Rider (in production)
109) Panama Hat (in production)
110) Sheriff (in production)
111) Elsa Schneider, Venice (in production)
112) Librarian (in production)
113) Kazim

114) Brunwald Elsa (in production)
115) Scottish Lord Indy (in production)
116) Butler (in production)
117) Indy with Jacket and Tie
118) Henry Jones Sr.
119) Colonel Vogel in Black Uniform

120) Walter Donovan with Coat (in production)

121) Marcus Brody, Iskenderun

122) Sallah with Fez

123) Sinister Man

124) Female Officer at Castle

125) German Soldier on Motorbike
126) Indy in German Officer Disguise

127) Elsa Schneider, Berlin (in production)
128) Indy with Black Coat

129) Indy in Zeppelin Waiter Disguise

130) Sultan of Hatay (in production)
131) Walter Donovan, Hatay

132) Colonel Vogel in Desert Uniform
133) Elsa Schneider, Hatay (in production)
134) Brotherhood Member (in production)
135) Hatay Tank Driver (in production)
136) Grail Knight
137) Elsa Schneider with Wrong Holy Grail
138) Aging Walter Donovan

139) Henry Jones Sr. with Hanky Hat


Again, there's some work to do with the Last Crusade...

Best,
Daniel

Holy heck, Alina!!! This is absolutely phenomenal! A priceless find worthy of an Indy adventure itself.

I will have to carefully examine and enjoy these images over a very long period of time, you've given us a staggering amount to digest here.

Simply marvelous, what an incredible feat!!

My personal favorite has to be the Cigarette Girl!!! That was an amazing addition!!!

Thank you again for sharing your extraordinary, prolific work!!

WHOO!

Wow, thanks Lance! I feel honored you enjoy the figures...

But again, honor to whom honor is due: Some of the designs and custom recipes come from other people and I just tried my hand on them - case in point being the cigarette girl, which was first built by Tommy Lin and I followed the instructions with my own figure. Others were suggested by resident Raveners and others still were built by me from scratch.

Again, my thanks for the kind words!

Next up: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and the Expanded Universe

Best,
Daniel

And as promised, here's the list of the official figures and my customs for Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - the only one of the films I've completed so far (mainly because there are a lot less memorable characters to customize). So, here it goes:

140) Dovchenko in US Uniform

141) George "Mac" McHale

142) Indy in Shirt
143) Irina Spalko
144) Colonel Jones in T-Shirt (otherwise known as Interrogation Indy)

145) FBI Agent Paul Smith

146) FBI Agent Taylor

147) General Robert Ross

148) Dean Charles Stanforth

149) Indy in Grey Suit

150) Russian Agent (that's K from MIB with a hat, so not really a custom and more of a "re-imagining")

151) Mutt Willams with Hat

152) Mutt Williams in Leather Jacket

153) Indy with Jacket
154) Mac, Peru

155) Cemetary Warrior
156) Colonel Dovchenko
157) Russian Soldiers
158) Harold Oxley with Poncho

159) Mary Williams

160) Mutt in Shirt
161) Ugha Warrior
162) Interdimensional Being (another re-imagining, this time of a Dr Who creature - not shown in the picture, an Akator Skeleton without its head )

163) Wedding Marion

164) Wedding Indy

165) Wedding Mutt

166) Wedding Ox


Hope you like 'em...

Best,
Daniel

Okay, vacation time is over and now it's back to the custom Indy figures... this next batch is from the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles...

167) Anna Jones with Baby Henry (in production)
168) Henry, Age 9, with Indiana the dog (in production)
169) Henry Jones Senior, Anno 1908

170) Helen Seymour (a re-imagined Jocasta Nu with a sculpted hat)

171) Henry in Safari Dress (pictured with Indiana the dog)

172) Ned Lawrence (in production)
173) Young Indy, 16

174) Nancy Stratemeyer (in production)
175) Remy Baudouin, Mexico

176) Demetrios, "Claw" (in production)

177) Young Indy in Belgian Uniform

178) Remy in Belgian Uniform
179) Young Indy as Bike Messenger

180) Officer Schiller

181) Count Czernin (in production)
182) "Treasure of the Peacock's Eye" Young Indy

183) Greycloud

184) "Mystery of the Blues" Indy

185) Old Indy


Next up: The Expanded Universe... concept figures, deleted scenes characters, comic book appearances and video game personnel...

Best wishes,
Daniel

Hats off to you once again!!! Thanks again for sharing your extraordinary work!!!

Wow......

Alina - you are both gifted and prolific !

Lance, inky... Thank you both again for the kind words...

There are only a few finished figures left and then it's back for me to the work bench - hope you'll like them too!

Best wishes,
Daniel
(incidentally, "Alina Fox" is the name of my comic book heroine - her adventures can be seen on www.alinafox.de for the time being...)

AlinaFox said:

(by the way: thanks Stoo! Your Old Indy segments brought me to the Raven in the first place! )

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You're very welcome, Daniel, and I'm glad you made it here!

WOW! ALL of your stuff is superb but I'm really amazed at your Young Indy figures (especially their little props like the journal and Old Indy's cane, etc.)! They are so special & unique that it's hard to pick a favourite! Schiller gave me a chuckle because he is Daniel Craig's character.

Is the Corey-Carrier-in-safari-outfit made partly out of a young Anakin Skywalker? Years ago, I had suggested using this kid for anyone wishing to build one but yours looks even better.

If you feel like it, post a picture of your Old Indy in the Old Indiana Jones Chronicles thread. It would make a nice addition.

Looking forward to seeing the rest! WUNDERBAR!

Thanks Stoo!
Yeah, I'm pretty pleased with the Young Indy results myself, if I may say so - especially since I found a plasticine figure which kind of resembled Sean Patrick Flanery (mainly the hair) and since I managed to put enough Green Stuff on a Peter Pan figures face to built a Remy

And yes, you're right: that's an Anakin for Corey Carrier - again with a lot of green stuff for the jacket and a dremeled down fireman's hat for the pith helmet. While the Empty Child ("Are you my mommy?") has a great outfit, I believe the figure's in a different scale.

I'll take you up on your offer and will put some better shots of the George Hall figure up in the Old Indy thread soon!

Thanks again!

Best wishes,
Daniel

AlinaFox said:

And yes, you're right: that's an Anakin for Corey Carrier - again with a lot of green stuff for the jacket

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Anakin was a complete guess on my part because I haven't bought any action figures since 1982! That said, I'd like to make my own Corey-Carrier-in-Egypt figure some day and am interested to know what would be the best way to build one. It seems that Anakin would be the best place to start. Danke! Hey, if you want to make some ?xtra money, I'll pay you to make me one.

AlinaFox said:

...a dremeled down fireman's hat for the pith helmet.

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Glad you mentioned that, Daniel, because I'm crazy about pith helmets and my only quibble with your Corey figure is the headgear. (In the photo, it has the appearance of a Sherlock Holmes deer hunter cap!) I realize that you were probably aiming for his brimmed 'safari style' in East Africa but, to match that outfit, he needs his white topee in Egypt.

Now, I'm aware that these things are tiny and difficult to work with but it's rare that customizers here have achieved 'helmet perfection' with their Belloqs and Blumburtts (as great as their work is). In my opinion, the best attempt at a miniature pith helmet is Blumburtt's otter-tailed 'Wolseley' in post #999 by Jr.Jones. An honourable mention goes to Inky Skin's custom of Belloq's 'Bombay Bowler' in post #1584?for the thickness of the brim only.

Your headgear for Belloq looks similar to the same plastic one which a couple of other customizers have used (and is close enough, I suppose, but not perfect). For your Blumburtt, did you make his pith from putty?

AlinaFox said:

07) Belloq (Peru)

101) Captain Blumburtt in Eleventh Poona Rifles Uniform

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You also may be interested in these 2 threads below. Compare what you've made (& have planned) with people's wishes from 5-6 years ago:

Young Indiana Jones action figures
Young Indy action figures

ugh, the pith helmets... yeah, you really got me there... those were positively driving me mad!

For Belloq, I first tried building one out of Henry Sr.'s hat and it looked awful. Then I found out, like you mentioned, that some customizers used a GI Joe helmet which I had, so René's wearing that one now. For Blumburtt I made a cast from that helmet and it turned out a bit rougher, which I'm okay with (I'm not exactly a stickler for screen accuracy in this scale, you know - for me, they're supposed to be action figures with the emphasis on "action" ). And Corey's helmet, well, that was one of the first times I tried to use not an already existing action figure prop but to take a part of one of those rigid, Smurf-type figures. It could be better, I'll admit. I'll keep my eyes peeled for a better one

And yeah, sure, I'll build you a Henry Jr., if you like - let's talk

Best wishes and thanks again
Daniel

Oh, by the way - if anyone has a good idea how to make glasses, I'd really appreciate a hint Right know !'m using wire which is a sub par choice, I think...

And here is the last batch of my finished figures: Featured is the Expanded Universe - concept/fan drawings, characters from deleted scenes, from video games, from comic books and the Disneyland rides...

186) Forrestal, fan imagining

187) Susan Ryan, from a "Raiders" deleted scene

188) Toht, concept by Ron Cobb, from "Raiders" (in production)
189) Pat Roach's Gestapo Agent, from a "Last Crusade" deleted scene

190) Sophia Hapgood, from "Fate of Atlantis"

191) Cary Stevens, from "Staff of Moses"

192) Dr. Gennadi Volodnikov, from "Infernal Machine" (in production)
193) Sophia Hapgood, from "Infernal Machine" (in production)
194) Albrecht von Beck, from "Emperor's Tomb"

195) Marshal Kai, from "Emperor's Tomb" (in production)
196) Mei-Jing, from "Emperor's Tomb" (in production)
197) Abner Ravenwood, concept from "Emperors Tomb"

198) Magnus Völler, from "Staff of Kings"

199) Short Round, from the comic story "Into the Great Unknown"

200) Sallah, from "Temple of the Forbidden Eye" (in production)

That's it for now... when I'm able to build more figures and to take their picures, I will post them according to their numbers...

oh, and I have some bonus figures planned

Best wishes
Daniel

AlinaFox said:

ugh, the pith helmets... yeah, you really got me there... those were positively driving me mad!

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Here's a great resource.

http://vortiouscustomaccessories.ecrater.com/p/19593750/safari-hat?keywords=safari


More fantastic figures!!! Thanks for sharing!

Hi All,

AlinaFox - Just been looking thru all your indy customs and I just got to say totally awesome work off to you. and I look forward to seeing more awesome customs from you.

Ron

@ Lance: Fantastic! Thanks for the link!

@ Ron: thank you for your kind words - as I am pretty occupied at the moment job-wise I'm not sure when I will be able to continue, even though I itch for getting back to the workbank. When I have more figures to show, I'll post them here...

Best wishes
Daniel