Another custom I have finished and tons of scans!!

[Joe Hudson]

Well, I have finally finished my second custom. I have to tell you I have learned a LOT!! This one will be for Billy Bajema, he is a TE for the St Louis Rams. I tried to make this one a little personal for Billy. I actually have his game used shoes and added his number on the back heels.

It was really cool to have Billy and his family back over to our house. He was very excited to see his figure and then of course ever kid in the culdesac wanted to see and play football with him. He was more than happy to play with them and then sign autographs for them all afterwards.

Thanks for looking,

Joe

Billy in a game

 

[moon puppy]

Another great one Joe, I know your kids are loving it as much as the players are.

 

[Joe Hudson]

Thanks. Billy was all smiles and kept looking at it. I have another one I am doing as a surprise to him, his collge uniform. He also said he is going to show all his buddies so I might get busy soon! lol

Joe

 

[moon puppy]

Did you cast the figure or will you have to sculpt from scratch again?

 

[Joe Hudson]

I did not sculpt the figure, only parts of it. I used the Mcfarlane figures and swaped parts and then modified what I needed too.

Joe

 

[jknaus]

Thats awesome Joe. Looks like the kids are having fun too.
James

 

[moon puppy]

Yeah, it's that "modify" they gloss over ain't it James? Thanks for sharing this with us Joe.

 

[Sharkmouth]

still fabulous work! Don't you also paint them? If so, accolades are still in order.

Regards,

 

[Joe Hudson]

Thanks James and yes the kids are having a blast!! They are all ready to play again when Billy comes over.

moon puppy wrote:

Yeah, it's that "modify" they gloss over ain't it James? Thanks for sharing this with us Joe.

hmy: You know we can't share our trade secrets!!! What I meant was, I need to remove all the texture from the sock,hose, jersey. Then I had to remove all the pads, then I had to rmove the sculpted on elbow pads, the left hand, all the detail on the gloves, then remove the biceps on the left arm and etc....my version of modify!


sharkmouth wrote:

still fabulous work! Don't you also paint them? If so, accolades are still in order.

Regards,

Thanks and yes I then have to paint the guy and make the base/groundwork.

Joe

 

[JSteinman]

 

[Joe Hudson]

Thanks guys. I appreciate the kind words.

Bob,
Love the avatar!!

Joe

 

[TREEMENDUS]

Joe

That is incredibly well painted.

 

[Joe Hudson]

TREEMENDUS wrote:

Joe

That is incredibly well painted.

Thank you. I actually had to make a correction on him, I had forgotten the NFL logo on the gloves. Here are a few pictures of the corrected one.

Thanks again,

Joe

 

[dave samson]

Joe,
I cant believe i missed this one ! that looks so good all the colors are a very good match to the real uniform .those kids will never forget that day! that is worth what you did in itself