First Ever Custom - Sting

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My First Custom - Sting

Well here it is, my first ever custom and I personally couldnt be happier with it. I understand theres always room for improvement but I think it works well.

Credit to my dad for helping with the painting, anyway enjoy and feel free to offer advice, improvements etc.


The first stage I combined a John Cena head with a Shawn Michaels body, im not 100% which series the Michaels is from but it worked well. The first coat of base paint was added here.


This was after the 2nd coat of base paint


And finally the fully covered lower half of the figure was ready for detail. But thats later...


Next up was the hair, I was going for one of Stings earliest looks and i think the colour is pretty much spot on. This was the first coat for the hair.


And the final coat.


Onto the face paint, the white base coat was added here.


And the final touches to the paint, and abit of clear up around the eyes etc



Next up the blue paint was added to the boots along with white laces to add a little more detail.


Also added white wrist tape.


Next was the scorpion, I give all credit to my dad on this one. It was very tricky but i think it turned out great.



And heres the final product, added some clear varnish which is still drying but it adds a shine to the figure and gives some authenticity.

Anyway thanks all for taking some to look.

Later.

[brucebenoit]

fairly good not bad at all for it being your frirst congrats

[wwe4ever]

Not bad for a first custom. Nice painting on the tights. It looks nice and smooth and so does the face paint but the face paint is a little sloppy. A custom skintone would have been awesome but it was only your first custom. Keep it up.

[pimpmaster5000]

wow thats really good for a first!

most of the times first customs suck bad but this one is really good , smoothe painting , over used head , looks good to me

[*Xx:DAN:xX*]

pretty good for a first

[tibbs1984]

It looks decent. Needs some cleaning up cause there is paint in places there shouldn't be. Remember to take your time and even if it takes forever to get a custom done it will still be easier than trying to fix mistakes from rushing. Pretty good first fig.

[SMK]

Pretty good for a first. Keep working at it

[Warheart]

that;s pretty good for being your first.
im sure you'll get better

[Importracer]

what did you use to paint the face? i always use a toothpick on sting you can do cleaner lines that way.not bad for a first just take a little more time to get cleaner lines.also sting never wore boots with laces.what i do on my sting customs is just paint the laces same color as the boot and also stings boots had black soles.

[Harry 2L]

that is pretty good, I love how you showed the step by step

[Deleted]

That is pretty nice for a first shot. Also big ups to your Dad for doing a cool father/son thing.

[thekinglawler]

thats awesome man, when i tried making customs i tried making a sting and gave up on it because the scorpion never turned out right

[snazzycazzy]

9/10 dude love it!

[ironman08]

That looks great man, brilliant for a 1st 9.5/10

[thegr8collector]

great

[ghostmogar]

Yea Really Not To bad for being your first Custom I would work around the face to make strighter lines but really nice man 8/10

[schellshocker]

Really good for your first Custom.

I would suggest taking the figure apart next time then painting all the parts, adding varnish then re-assembling the figure. This way the paint won't chip when the torso or legs are moved when changing poses

Great Job on the Figure

[NYdream™]

Its good... Way better than my first..... But if you want to get better i recomend you do all the work and not have your dad help...... Trust me I used to do the same and i got nowhere.....

[stinghitmanfan]

im glad to see actually the pics from start to finish custom product and it came out good. so congrats on that as well!!!

[derrtaysouth95]

looks good for your first time.

tell your dad he did a nice job painting! haha