Hey fellow custom Freaks! This was posted in another topic so I thought I'd share it here. I started this custom a while ago but just recently finished him.
It sat for years on the work bench until I completed him to where I was happy with him. So lets start with my research.
I don't think he's wearing a Jedi-like hood like most of the figures put him in. As seen in these screen caps, he's wearing something different, unless he's
wearing two different robes in the two different scene set ups he's in?
Notice from the front he's wearing a smooth robe that seems to fall from his head and drapes nicely down his body, framing it.
But from the side there seems to be a fold or something back there:
Here you can see his collar from underneath the hood peeking through in silhouette:
Reference of Garindan with the comlink:
And that fold back there again:
Based on the above reference I designed what I think he's wearing, as if he's only wearing ONE robe in all those shots. My seamstress friend of mine
made the robe I designed and lined it with wire so I could give Garindan his proper silhouette 'shape':
Here he is nekkid:
So I basically popped off big G's head and replaced the Hasbro body with a BBI body, I think? He's the same height as a Sandtrooper, as I based his
height on that scene where they stand together and speak.
I noticed the Hasbro head's trunk was too wide, so I cut a 2mm wedge out of it from the tip to where the trunk starts and re-glued the trunk back together.
The result is a slimmer trunk. I then re-painted the head and glossed up his eye goggles.
I dressed him back in his Hasbro clothes and replaced the cloak. I used new boots and made him a new belt. I thought maybe he could have a small blaster
so I made one using a gun from a 12 inch Final Fantasy figure and did what the boys at Bapty did in '76... I added a scope and some Star Wars greeblies to it.
I like the end result so I made a holster for it. I also gave him a pouch and spot to hang the comlink. I need to replace his over-sized Hasbro comlink with a
nice comlink from the Sideshow Stormtrooper Luke but I don't have one. Anyone have an extra?
Maybe I'll have to cast one up for him? I also gave him
some binoculars since he's a spy after all, and tucked them onto the back of his belt. I got them from a Star Wars Hasbro figure, but which one I forget? The
belt buckle was silver when I made it, but I washed it in flat black to give it a tarnished look, since from the front NO details are visible and this muted the silver,
which stood out too much. After all that I attached his gloves and there you have him; my Garindan custom: (more pics in my next post)
It sat for years on the work bench until I completed him to where I was happy with him. So lets start with my research.
I don't think he's wearing a Jedi-like hood like most of the figures put him in. As seen in these screen caps, he's wearing something different, unless he's
wearing two different robes in the two different scene set ups he's in?
Notice from the front he's wearing a smooth robe that seems to fall from his head and drapes nicely down his body, framing it.
But from the side there seems to be a fold or something back there:
Here you can see his collar from underneath the hood peeking through in silhouette:
Reference of Garindan with the comlink:
And that fold back there again:
Based on the above reference I designed what I think he's wearing, as if he's only wearing ONE robe in all those shots. My seamstress friend of mine
made the robe I designed and lined it with wire so I could give Garindan his proper silhouette 'shape':
Here he is nekkid:
So I basically popped off big G's head and replaced the Hasbro body with a BBI body, I think? He's the same height as a Sandtrooper, as I based his
height on that scene where they stand together and speak.
I noticed the Hasbro head's trunk was too wide, so I cut a 2mm wedge out of it from the tip to where the trunk starts and re-glued the trunk back together.
The result is a slimmer trunk. I then re-painted the head and glossed up his eye goggles.
I dressed him back in his Hasbro clothes and replaced the cloak. I used new boots and made him a new belt. I thought maybe he could have a small blaster
so I made one using a gun from a 12 inch Final Fantasy figure and did what the boys at Bapty did in '76... I added a scope and some Star Wars greeblies to it.
I like the end result so I made a holster for it. I also gave him a pouch and spot to hang the comlink. I need to replace his over-sized Hasbro comlink with a
nice comlink from the Sideshow Stormtrooper Luke but I don't have one. Anyone have an extra?
Maybe I'll have to cast one up for him? I also gave him some binoculars since he's a spy after all, and tucked them onto the back of his belt. I got them from a Star Wars Hasbro figure, but which one I forget? The
belt buckle was silver when I made it, but I washed it in flat black to give it a tarnished look, since from the front NO details are visible and this muted the silver,
which stood out too much. After all that I attached his gloves and there you have him; my Garindan custom: (more pics in my next post)
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Very nice Brinn! Hasbro's version has always been one of their better efforts. The additional TLC from you really made this shine!
..............or am i 
