Star Wars: Custom Rancor

[Schweizer]

Buying one of the Wizards of the Coast Rancors for $30+ didn't appeal to me, so I tracked down an old Micro Machines Action Fleet Rancor figure and did some modifications. 

Here's the original (not my pic, grabbed it from the web):


I fixed the articulations (arms, mouth) in place, used 3-dimensional fabric paint to create wrinkles/skin to cover the areas where different parts were assembled (those same points of articulation), and painted it black, then dryburshed in layers from dark to light.

[Commander Vyper]

Really nice, only quibble is the mould line under the arm:



It's a bit big.

Love the drybrush/blending on the skin though, really brings out the texture.

The Commander

[rob_alderman]

Surprisingly, that looks really, really good.

Mamy of the WOTC Star wars figs have big mould lines, so it's not out of place! Personally, I would have filed it down though!

Great use of fabric glue. Seems to have worked pretty darn well.

If someone told me it was  WOTC miniature, I'd have believed them. Well done.

[Ray Rivers]

 

Wow... nicely done.

[YIU]

It is excellent, both paintjob and "conversion". I was about to do the same as you with an Action Fleet Rancor but I don't think I will do it unless I find a decent Jabba (the Wotc one is far too expensive, as the Rancor is).

I didn't notice the mold line but it's not a problem : your Rancor is fantastic and really looks like the Wotc one.

BTW it's a nightmare to remove mold line on hard plastic like this one.

Will you make a Rancor pit now ?

[Verderer]

I like what you've done with that plastic monstrosity (pun intended), much better. I have to diasgree about it looking like the WOTC one though. Not your fault of course, but the head looks too big in relation to the body. In that sense the WOTC one is better purely as a model, but your paint job kinda hides that a bit.

As it happens, I bought one big starter pack of WOTC SW minis, and it contained the rancor just as I hoped. I dunno if all these packs contain it, or if was I just lucky? 

[swiftnick]

That is really nice.

[Darkoath]

I think Grenadier did a nice metal Rancor that pops up on ebay once in a while...

Darkoath

[YIU]

was I just lucky? 

Just ask your wife what she was doing when you opened your Star Wars booster   

[wellender]

That is a really nice job.  It almost looks like two different figures.

[B. Basiliscus]

Marvelous edit, almost looks professional if you forget that it was a toy in the first place.

[Commander Vyper]

I think Grenadier did a nice metal Rancor that pops up on ebay once in a while...

Darkoath

One on Ebay current I seem to recall...

[YIU]

One on Ebay current I seem to recall...

Yes...just sell a kidney if you want to buy it 

[uti long smile]

Nice job!

[Schweizer]

I didn't really notice the mold line on the bottom of the arms until I had painted it, but since I'll be looking at it from above 99% of the time, It's not eating me up.

As far as the Jabba, I have an action fleet of that, too.  The scale is right, so I'll give it a paint, too.  It's rubber, though, so although I did my spraypaint black base coat a week or two ago, it's still a little sticky.  Once that eventually goes away (may be as long as a month), I'll go to work on him, using the color scheme from the cartoon, meaning yellow eyes instead of red.