Balrog's Customs (Mighty Mask, Old Kai, Kibitokai - P11)

The Nail looks great and I love your figure display for Frieza Saga!

Figure-rise Piccolo is a good base, though I used a Dragon Stars Piccolo myself.

I imagine you want to use a Gogeta for the bare chest and the jacket maybe, but you will still need to modify it quite a lot as Nail's coat reaches down close to his knees, while Gogeta's jacket only goes down to mid-torso. As for the bare chest, remember that Namekians have very different abdominal areas to humans or saiyans, not only with colors but also different muscle shapes. 

If you're not comfortable using cloth for customs, you can make it easier to give it a shape by inserting soft plastic or metal wire inside the cloth). You can also paint the cloth to harden it a bit and make it take shape more easily.

I've used several Figure-rise figures for customs before and they work great if you don't need to modify the body too much (as is the case with Nail from a Piccolo figure) but beware if you intend to dremel some of it, the figures are mostly hollow due to being model kits, so it can be messy if you dremel the wrong areas.

To give you an exemple for Nail, I had to dremel off a good part of the abdominal area and smooth it to sculpt the namekian abs and muscles for the bare torso, and even the relatively solid Dragon Stars had some hollow areas quite close to the surface.. if you dremel the same way on a Figure-rise Piccolo, you'll also find more hollowed out areas and will have to completely resculpt back to the surface of the abdominal area, which may also cause an imbalance in the figure as Figure-rise figures are VERY light if you use a heavier material like epoxy resin to sculpt it. 

Again, I went for Dragon Stars for safety (and it's cheaper, and doesn't require assembly), but you should go with what you're most comfortable with. If you're going with the Gogeta bare chest, you should be able to apply a thin layer of epoxy resin or similar material and give it the muscle design of a namekian rather easily.

I look forward to seeing the results of your work on that Nail custom, make sure to share it!

Pikkon is looking awesome! That must have been a lot of work!

You working on Semi-Perfect Cell too, I see!

Hi again everyone!

I'm not a big fan of Dragon Ball GT, I always thougth it had a lot of potential but was mostly wasted in terrible filler early on, but I find some of the character design was pretty inspired and makes for cool figures.

Lately, the very nice Dragon Stars SSJ4 Goku, Vegeta and now Gogeta have given me motivation to create some more characters, so here's my first one : Super Android 17.



Also, here's a picture of my repainted (upgraded?) Dragon Stars SSJ4 boys. I repainted Vegeta's fur to a more appropriate color, added the fur above the pectorals on both, repainted Gogeta's fur entirely (it was bright red, supposed to be dark brown), and repainted Goku's pants entirely because while that off-yellow color it had is faithful to most illustrations I've seen.. I just don't like that color.




I hope you like those pictures, and please leave comments, your feedback is always appreciated and drives me to keep making more.

Wow! I never expected to see a custom of Vegeta in bandages! Cool idea!

Whoa! Imperfect Cell!!! Was the wire for his tail something like coax cable for cable TV? I never thought of using anything like that for a tail before!