darkSpyro

Here he is....

So, no one active on this thread anymore?

No one's doing critiques anymore so I just post when I finish something. Your Gill Grunt looks nice but the eyes seem to have some spots or something.

Yeah some of the ink wash to his face got on his eyes, been meaning to tidy that up! I've got a Magna-Charge painted up, calling him "Scrap-Heap Magna-Charge" and a repaint of Swashbuckler is under way as well. Pictures to come.

Finishing up Christmas Tree Rex and Nuclear Blast Zone. What should I do for Zap?

Yeah i get very little or no responce on my figures i have repainted also...this thread isn't like it usta be. But your Gill Grunt looks good bro. I like the wash you did to his gun.

Done a few reprints since posting last. Thanks for the responses you guys!

I've repainted:

Manga Charge, who is now "Scrap Metal Magna Charge"

Wash Buckler who is now in a Red outfit, I'm thinking of calling him "Buccaneer Wash Buckler"

That's all for now, I'm trying to look through my collection and see who's after a re paint.

Better quality Neon Boom Jet. I hate taking pictures with my 3DS at night. (My 3DS is my only camera, unfortunately)



By the way, I nicknamed it "Bloom Lit". A play on his name based on this custom's theme. Going to do at least one new custom paint before the month ends.

Hm... I'm kind of doing several projects since my free time is varying a lot, but I'd like to know what you guys think. I'm doing some work on display pieces for my collection, and for that I'm doing some furniture - park benches, a reading table, etc all around the size of the figures or several. They're not exactly about specific Skylander characters but will have Undead and other elemental designs, would this be okay to put in here? Would give some more activity to the thread :U

Do it, why not!? I'll get some pics up of those repaints some time today.
Waiting on enigma to arrive in the post!

Alright then,it's still work in progress but here's one of the park benches -

(Hand of Fate for scale)

The bottom is still unpainted and I'm undecided on what to do with the sides(maybe add some thorny branch designs), but I'm really fond of the upside down bat in the middle. The eyes and the tiny mouth glow in the dark, though it's a bit messy since the glue kept pushing the dust in the teeth downwards since there was no good way to leave the back nice and flat since I kept moving it around my desk while painting the rest. It's just big enough to fit my newly finished Hex collection~

And on that, my LC Hex just arrived and she looks like someone gave her enough coats of paint to disappear with some details entirely. *sigh* Like my S1 Hex, this one will need a full repaint, if not a custom to hide some of that(you can also see her mouth is actually halfway through one of her cheeks, so I think I'll just go from the ground up and do that All Hallows' Eve Hex custom I said I would do).

That's so cute and awesome (just like Hex), especially the bat!

Sorry, been busy with my daughter today, she's been trying to level up her Thumpback and Flashwing figures on Trap Team. We are late comers, partly due to her age (4) but our collections growing fast!! Enigma didn't turn up yet.

I'll get those pics of my other repaints up soon as!

Yesterday I got some paint for my spare swarm I got last week, but I wanted to take it further to do not just one custom paint, but three this weekend! I present to you "LameLime's Mid-2015 Repaint Showcase"

First is Inverted Swarm. Basically the inverted color version of Swarm, however not 100% accurate. I made a mistake and gotten a regular metallic blue other than a light blue, actually, I don't think I've seen such paint at Michael's when I was getting some. This figure uses metallic blue, black, and satin white. I really love the satin because it maintains the same texture of the figure. I should use more of it. This figure was also pretty tricky, you can see several small flaws on it, but I still love it. I will nickname this figure "mrawS".



And here we have "Neon Thumpback". Part 2 of my neon figure quest. I used the same Neon Green from Neon Boom Jet, also got new Neon Blue and Yellow paints to use on this figure. Again, fully glows under a blacklight! I also nicknamed him "Flash-Back"



Finally is "Radiant Trigger Happy". I wanted to try what I call a "Radiant" custom for more than a year. I had many many ideas for repaints last summer but didn't get ahold of just one, but now I have a Radiant figure! These "Radiant" repaints will consist of black, metallic purple, and also Glow-in-the-dark paint! That's why it's called Radiant. Trigger Happy is my first subject to radiant-ify. I'll try nicknaming him "Glimmer Happy" if there is enough space in nicknaming.

Those all look awesome! I like that Trigger Happy more than the original!

Nice work!!

Yes i like the satin paint texture also....they all look good, well done. Although Trigger Happy....errr "Glimmer Happy" i mean...lol, looks a bit odd with out his pupils. And i like the first photoshoped pic better then the second one, with the inside of his mouth blackened. Need to do the same to your figure..creates depth...and dosen't have the figure looking like(from a distance) he's sticking his tounge out of big white lips...lol.
Been working on my Epic Ultra Trigger Happy...should have him done soon.

I usually photoshop the character artwork first for a general idea of what I'm going to paint the figure before I start. At first I wanted the mouth to be untouched, but it was difficult therefore I had to paint it, I did the gameplay image photoshop AFTER the repaint as a more accurate version of the first image.

As I promised... More repaints.


"Buccaneer Wash Buckler"





"Scrap Metal Magna Chrage"

I'm planning on a re-paint of Shroomboom. He will be a Dark character re-paint and will be re-named

"Nightshade Shroomboom"

I'm working on a custom Snap Shot right now, gonna take a while to finish him though

Nightshade Shroomboom.

I have an iPhone now with a BETTER camera that I've always wanted. So I'm retaking pictures of my four customs in better quality...










Need to re-coat this one...

Well now that i can see your figures better the only advice i can give you is get some smaller brushes 0, 3/0, 5/0 an 10/0 and.....SLOW DOWN!....lol.. they don't have be painted right now ...theres no need to rush, there not going anywhere.
Also it looks like your paint is to thick....thin it down a bit. Many coats looks smother and better then 1 or 2 thick coats.

Like your repaints Petrichormat...they look good. /thumbs up

I spend around 1-2 hours on each figure, but I spend hours working on a theme, I use literally 3/4 colours in a palette to tie the figure together, in keeping with their original paint jobs. Magna Charge is an exception in that he was literally 2 colours mixed in differing quantities to achieve the desired effect.

Your comments about smaller brushes and taking time are spot on. Take time to look at the model as a whole, paint one area at a time, use as small a brush as possible and have patience, you'll find you get better results.

I've been painting miniatures for years, having started on Warhammer.... Every now and then my daughter suggests I paint a Skylander.

I wouldn't be able to post this tomorrow but I also JUST finished it... So here it goes nothing :U



With a guest appearance of the recently arrived Ghost Roaster(who needs some detailing badly), my Undead themed park bench is done along with the All Hallows' Eve Hex custom! The bench now has some pretty thorny branch designs, plus the rest is painted in a nice coat of grey. Now,on to Hex...



It's actually more accurate to her ingame colors than the artwork(which is way more pink) and being LightCore can't really follow it too closely, but I'm happy with the result. Cape, hair made of ribbon threads, hat made of polymer clay. Hardest parts were definately gluing the hair on without making a mess with the glue and cutting her headress off - always too scared to cut something else on the figure when I do that. I also considered painting the ends of her gauntlets and cutting off the shoulder pads so it's the actual Lost Islands outfit, but she looks way better this way.

The cauldron next to her isn't finished - at first I wanted to do one like the artwork but I tried my hand at some upside-down skull filled with glow-in-the-dark dust and hot glue. Probably not worth showing finished,though.

That's truly an amazing blend between Hallow's Eve and normal Hex. Looks really nice with the semi-translucent orange part underneath the main cloak. Would like to see her glowing in normal light and in a dark room for comparison.

Might get some photos of that next week if I have the time; won't be able to play on my X360 until tuesday unfortunately.

Yes ...well done Bifrost. If you remember... i did the orange on the lightcore part of my Epic Ultra Hex also.

That Hex is amazing! Nice work!

Work in progress...

Just finishing up Thumpback and I'll stick some pictures up.

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I wouldn't be able to post this tomorrow but I also JUST finished it... So here it goes nothing :U

I love your Hallows eve Hex , portal Master Bifrost . You are very very talented .

Congratulations on finding a Ghost Roaster .

Finally able to at least plug the portal with the x360 on - it's kinda dark but my camera is real old and either lights up the entire room or I need to be entirely still to get anything for it to not be a gray smear, phone not much better.



Next working on Ghost Roaster,finishing the Undead Square stuff and some other minor projects - priority is looking for new shelves too, Knight Mare is arriving soon and I have no space left in the trap tray.

My son has been wanting to paint some of our doubles for quite some time. He has really enjoyed seeing everyone's customs. He wishes that somehow the customs would show up in game. I finally broke down and took him to buy some paints. We (mostly me because he said that it was too hard in a lot of areas) painted our first custom. It is a series one Trigger Happy that we painted a couple different shades of metallic blue. We then painted a series one Ignitor metallic aquamarine and gold. After those two, we started painting some Dark Skylanders. My son really likes the black (his favorite color, along with red) and silver Dark variants. I think he might have been influenced to paint Dark customs because of the recent announcement of the new Dark variants for SuperChargers. Anyways, we painted a Dark Tree Rex, a Dark Whisper Elf (to match the original Dark Stealth Elf, of course), and a Dark Rattle Shake. My personal favorite is the Dark RattleShake. I think that it is a shame they didn't make a real Dark RattleShake because I think his figurine was made for that color scheme. When I have a little more time and can figure out how to upload pictures, I will post pictures of the finished products.

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Finally able to at least plug the portal with the x360 on - it's kinda dark but my camera is real old and either lights up the entire room or I need to be entirely still to get anything for it to not be a gray smear, phone not much better.



Next working on Ghost Roaster,finishing the Undead Square stuff and some other minor projects - priority is looking for new shelves too, Knight Mare is arriving soon and I have no space left in the trap tray.

Looks great, thanks for sharing, can't wait to see your next project :3

I have a custom hoppity pop fizz, uploading later.

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My son has been wanting to paint some of our doubles for quite some time. He has really enjoyed seeing everyone's customs. He wishes that somehow the customs would show up in game. I finally broke down and took him to buy some paints. We (mostly me because he said that it was too hard in a lot of areas) painted our first custom. It is a series one Trigger Happy that we painted a couple different shades of metallic blue. We then painted a series one Ignitor metallic aquamarine and gold. After those two, we started painting some Dark Skylanders. My son really likes the black (his favorite color, along with red) and silver Dark variants. I think he might have been influenced to paint Dark customs because of the recent announcement of the new Dark variants for SuperChargers. Anyways, we painted a Dark Tree Rex, a Dark Whisper Elf (to match the original Dark Stealth Elf, of course), and a Dark Rattle Shake. My personal favorite is the Dark RattleShake. I think that it is a shame they didn't make a real Dark RattleShake because I think his figurine was made for that color scheme. When I have a little more time and can figure out how to upload pictures, I will post pictures of the finished products.

I love that people are inspired by each others customs!! Makes me happy.
Look forward to seeing some results.

As you can see I've done a few repaints now, and my Thumpback was greatly received by my 4 year old daughter. I'm working on Jet Vac, Hoot-Loop and possibly Swarm or Crusher. If anyone has any suggestions for a Skylander I should paint, I'm happy to give it a go.

Well, hopefully this next one won't be staying with me for long, but it's still good to keep it here for the future - after a change of plans and a few hours, the customized Nightmare Express!




I might've talked about it(Lou calls the Express a him but not too sure about that) as the Nightmare Exmech before, not too sure, but that was a project that just never could get completed - I bought and sliced up a cheap skeleton toy and tried to make him a robot standing on the rails, but the toy was just huge and never fit the base right, not to mention I'd be stuck with it forever despite not needing the piece anymore since no kids could play with it without breaking the hot glue eventually.
So a sudden moment of remembering Jin Saotome's work got me an idea - give it effects out of hot glue instead, since I had already gone through the work of cutting the train off the base. Couldn't be as tidy as his work but since this is a static figure it doesn't matter as much, and for my first attempt sculpting with hot glue it's pretty darn amazing.
However, I could look at this guy all day and be like 'wow I really made it look great' but it's gotta go with its magic items. Saving up for a WiiU has been super tough without art comissions and the like offsite, and I'm considering getting Superchargers on that console, meaning I need a new portal - and the three figures make more than enough to get one used. Gosh darn X360 being incompatible with all other ones. So hopefully these pictures will be enough to remember.
(and no,it's against the rules to advertise and sell/trade figures here,even if you're in the same country as me don't push it)

What kind of elemental theme should I give my spare Portal of Power?

A few days ago I got three more spares. I got the Giants Wii U starter pack with another tree rex and the repaint I want to do comes from paints I currently have. I haven't started it before. The other two spares were Stealth Elf and Camo. I need to pick up more paint next week for my Stealth Elf and Camo custom ideas. I chose these two characters because they're really good to play with and I have nice ideas for them. In a few days, I'll get back to work next week.

Hmm. Now that I've brought this up, I suppose I could try my Tree Rex repaint now...

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What kind of elemental theme should I give my spare Portal of Power?

I'd say Undead, but Saotome did it already as well as Tech. Try making a Life one,there's always plenty of cheap aquarium scenery that could be used as plants as well as actual toy farm sets, not to mention fake grass to make moss with.

A bit of a dumb update, but one that I thought I'd let people know. Someone was actually interested in Pretty in Pink Hex after I gave her a new, less sticky coat, and since I need to save up for that WiiU and digital Superchargers I think she wouldn't mind getting a new home. But of course,even if I can't really show her off in the upcoming collection display pics, the pictures will stay here for as long as the topic is around.
(speaking of which, getting some picture of the other finalized Undead benches by tomorrow or later, almost done with them)

I finished a lot of customs recently, and I'll post them when the final 3 are finished.

WARNING LOTS OF PICTURES. I AM IN NO WAY RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR COMPUTER LAGGING :

None of the pictures open here, but dragging to a new tab is working. Really nice work mega spyro, wish I had as much dedication to work on so many figures :U

Well, part one of my Undead Square display set is done! No shelf, trying to convince relatives that we could drill some holes in the wall for a nice glass one, but the pieces are getting done. Three more now, a spider bench, a ghost bench and a pumpkin reading table! As always, at least until I sell it, Hand of Fate for scale since it's on the desk.




I forgot the fake book that is supposed to be on top of that table, but the furniture are what matters really. Now for something I've been working on for all those 5 years, finally attempt to finish the actual scenery for Undead Square; I finished the main piece, the Undead Shrine of the Twin Vortex Crystals,long ago, but never posted pictures - going to finish the ground it's supposed to be on first.

Tonight I did three more customs. These are all three more green base cores for my SSA custom doubles collection for both paths. Also I'm too lazy for image photoshopping.

Enigmatic Stealth Elf
A basic repaint that is mostly black and has some white bits. I got some new white paint hoping it would glow under a blacklight, but no. It would be cool if the figure's white parts would glow under the blacklight like my Neon series. Also when I say "Enigmatic" this has nothing to do with Enigma. But I was thinking of an "Enigmatic Enigma" one day.



Harvest Camo
Uses Orange, Dark Green, and Bronze. Camo changes like the leaves in Autumn.



Borax Ignitor
Uses black, metallic purple, and neon green. This is what happens when you drop boric acid into Ignitor's armor. If you're not a chemist, green fire is caused by boric acid and some other chemistry goods. The green fire glows under a blacklight. Yep, I have a fetish for neon paint.





Also I don't care how bad my detail is. What matters is I got a spare figure, repainted it into a palette-swap, and have both paths for one character. So don't criticize me of my work. These are not your customs. (Sorry, I get easily offended with stuff like this)

Dragging to a new tab is not working for me..so tried to go to your Photobucket library page, but said "Library is Private".

Also calm down bro....no one is going to criticize your work. And i like the Glow in the Dark paint also...all my Epic Ultra's.

What are you talking about?

I used Imgur to upload these images.

Was talking about mega spyro...not yours...can see your pic's just fine.

Finally got around to repainting my second Barkley to match my Sequoia Tree Rex(got the 3DS with Barkley and the Life Minis pack)



For those that haven't seen my Sequoia Tree Rex.....also i would like to replace the LED in his gauntlet to a Red LED and the LED in his head to a Yellow LED, but mine are glued together very well...and i don't want to brake him...or take the chance of damaging the RFID Chip.

They're looking very nice together, nice job!
Yeah, after my little experiment with Scarlet Ninjini, you need amazing precision to mess with the LEDs because they and the cables are just so close to the chip.

Well the wires are very thin....and can brake easily. But i am skilled enough, its just that there glued so well together ..thats the problem i would have. Because i'm sure you saw the pic i posted of my Hot Head i tolk apart....the chip was already dead....and i wanted to see if i could take it apart....also wanted to see how they worked..lol.