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My customised Canonet 28 with 40mm 2.8 lens. Just had new seals fitted and works wonderfully.
Explored 424 on 11th March 2009
A 1946 Ford ½-Ton “Jailbar Grille” Pickup Truck, customised ‘Street Rod’. Kustom paintwork + alloy wheels. Registration “616 XUW”, rear California plate painted yellow to comply with U.K. legislations. First imported to the U.K. in 2010. Spotted near the town of York.
Okay, so first off sorry I haven’t been that active - college likes to cram a hearts worth of stuff into right before Christmas. Every freakin year... and I got stuff going on at home and housing and blah blah. Now onto the good stuff!
So for my new OC character (which I’ll upload soon) I decided the only way to go was a Custom. And this time I wanted to show a step by step process to idk, inspire? Because I’m not exactly an expert at customising and I mean I edit my customs to look A LOT better. So here is a BTS look into the real deal custom I worked on to show that even if you aren’t an expert you can still make a decent fig with what you got. And I find it’s the simple stuff that I screw up on so here’s some stuff that I do (which I think is standard).
1. Sanded a knock off fig - if you’re looking for varied knockoffs search “Lego Hulk” on eBay. Click on the ones that show Rhino big figs (and others) and then stem from there on eBay in the “people who bought this also bought” section. There you will find a whole bunch of different big figures like the one I have and stuff. Also, buy from different sellers and don’t go over £8 cause it’ll be a ripoff. All your paying for (even if the quality looks better) will be the same fig that’ll come a week sooner. I just get mine from China and they’re usually better (or the same quality) than the one I got from a UK seller a week earlier. It says it’ll take a month(s) but usually it’s like 2-3 weeks and much cheaper.
2. Watered and mixed paints! The paints I use are in these links:
The varied colours are these ones - www.cowlingandwilcox.com/acrylic-paints/180-daler-rowney-...
The colours I use the most (black, white and grey) are these - www.google.co.uk/shopping/product/2768909258461177493?q=a... Remember paint is sort of like pasta, it’s usually more than you expect when it’s done. So less is more!
3. Applied an overall coat - I use a mega blocks piece of land that has grooves and stuff so it’s easier to hold and sturdy to hold the fig up. I can also paint the feet and stuff too.
4. Added white to the mixture cause I wasn’t happy with the colour
5. Splatted white on the chest to get a feel for the way it’ll look
6. Same for the face
7. Took out the arms and there’s probably a better way to do this but I just sanded down the arm part, painted it, then when it dries I just rotate it and pick off the dry paint.
8. This is a cool thing I do to hold arms and stuff for painting them separately to avoid screwing up anything. So I just use damaged Lego or stuff I have lots of or knockoffs (idk) and use it to hold the arms up. Then I use lollipop sticks (more sturdy than Lego sticks) to hold the arms in place by lodging it into said Lego.
9. Did a another coat of the white and spread it out so it’s more like idk textured?
10. Used my tiny brush to do the little details around the sides
11. I love these paint pens and especially the fine tips (you get different sizes) I use these ones DO NOT get these from Amazon though, I got my cheaper elsewhere - IN COMMENTS IS THE LINK
12. Used broader pens for thicker lines (just cause I had them) but you can do the same with the fine ones. Just push the tip in once or twice, shake em (with cap on) and bam, done.
13. Again I used a lollipop sticks to keep the arms aligned as best as I could for symmetry (which was hard for me).
14. Annnnnd yeah I’m still working on the tail. But that’s just green stuff and everyone knows you just cut off a bit, mix it green, mould it, wait to air dry, paint it. Done!
Pretty self explanatory but it’s just what I did! Stay tuned for the character bio and edited complete figure!
Wilhelmina is about to tuck into an enormous banana split -
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the lovely mini vase in the foreground is recently arrived - beautifully made by Sara of www.mountainsandclouds
A Superb 1960 Morris Minor 2-Door Fully-Customised, Chopped-And-Cropped Hot Rod! – Registration “412 YMX”, Fitted With A 4.3-Litre, 4,275-CC, 262.4-Cubic Inch Rover V8 Engine, 3-Speed Automatic Transmission, Jaguar Rear Live Axle Differential, MGB Front Axle, Custom Chrome Grille, Full Custom 1930s “3-Window” -Style Coupe Roof, Custom Rear Light Bezels, Custom Leather-Padded Interior, Performance Gauges, Alloy Wheels, Nexen-Brand Sport Tires, Etc, Painted In “Kustom Candy Apple Red”…
Was Also Originally Supplied With A Custom-Built Matching Trailer, Also Built By The Same Owner/Builder, Using The Rear End From Another Morris Minor.
This Car Was Spotted Outside Mathewson’s Classic Car Auction House And Motor Museum, Thornton-Le-Dale, Ryedale, North Yorkshire, U.K., In March 2021.
Front-quarter offside view of a 1959 Buick Le Sabre 4-Door, 6-Passenger Sedan; Customised, model code [4419], one of 8,286 examples built. Age-related six-character registration “651 UXM”.
Back in 2018 I snapped this brutal 1959 Buick Le Sabre 4-Door Customised Sedan outside the famous Mathewson’s auction house in Thornton-Le-Dale, Ryedale, North Yorkshire, U.K. (around the time the first season of the popular TV series was being filmed). This jet age-styled car was by far the most radical vehicle on auction that day.
This Bad-To-The-Bone Buick, registration “651 UXM” had been in the U.K. for quite a while, and had received some interesting custom work, including aftermarket alloy mags, removed door handles, missing some chrome trim, and its front bench seat was a replacement which might’ve come from a pickup truck. The car was painted in a shade of Kustom “Matte Black” respray, underneath a glossy “Glacier Green” roof. At the time the car was up for auction, it still had its original (possibly tuned) 6.0-Litre, 250-HP, 363.5-CID “Nailhead Wildcat” OHV V8, column-mounted 3-Spd helical M/T, and an (assuming) original 3.58:1 ratio live rear axle hypoid differential. The car required some mechanical attention, including new brakes. The chrome bumpers were quite badly pitted, too. However, the rest of the car seemed pretty solid and complete. This Buick was purchased by an enthusiast who has since undertaken some much-needed recommissioning work.
A customised 1966 Ford Anglia Deluxe 105E Drag Racer. Lotus Cortina-inspired green stripe/white paint. Ran on the strip today at Melbourne raceway, York.
This Is A Real Beauty! – An English 1965 Ford Anglia 105E “Deluxe” Saloon Customised Hot Rod – Registration “CKN 185C”, Painted In A Kustom Black Respray W/ Red Metal Flake Roof, Custom Slot Mag Wheels, Fully-Raised/”Jacked” Rear Dragster-Type Suspension, Nice Big Fat Sports Tyres And Extra Bits Of Period ‘Rodder Kit.
Spotted On The 7Th Of August 2017 On A Dual Carriageway Heading Northbound Somewhere In Norfolk, Driven By A Young Man Living The Dream! – This Photo Was Taken By My Passenger, I Honked The Guy, Gave Him A Massive “Thumbs Up”, Yelled “Nice Anglia Dude!”, And He Smiled A Nice Grin Of Appreciation.
As Gorgeous As This Car Was, And As Much As A Treat As It Was To See That Day, I Remember Shortly Afterwards Just Driving Along Back Up North, Feeling Somewhat Saddened, In My Trusted-Yet-Uninspiring, 100%-Non-Classic-Whatsoever 2010 Fiesta “Edge” Hatchback… Sad That I Didn’t Have A Car As Cool And As Unique As That Anglia! But Hey, There’s Still Time!
Yesterday my long-awaited Feeple65 Roke finally came in, and I am more than thrilled with his body and poseability. ^_^
Just gotta do something about those ears, to me they look like cabbages right now, but it can be fixed! -_^
Forgot just how beautiful this sculpt is, I really have no idea why these guys aren't more popular?
Can't wait to customise him!
(…he also really needs a name! *facepalm*)
This is a fully-rebuilt custom Hot Rod special which (according to supplied paperwork) originally started out as a 1935 Ford Roadster (build date 04-01-35), was rebuilt/customised by Dan Slayton of Bakersfield, California between 1984-’86, and was later shipped to the U.K. in 2005, where it was later transformed into a circa 1928/’29 Model A Roadster bodied-build (fitted W/ a chromed Model A windscreen surround, plus custom fibreglass body built in Yorkshire, U.K.), featuring a custom-built grille, chromed inserts, petrol tank and retrofit frame steels all cast in the style of a 1932 Ford. The car was fitted W/ full classic MoPar running gear, such as a retrofit 5.3-Litre 318-CID Chrysler LA engine originally from a 1969 Plymouth police cruiser, including a rebuilt TorqueFlite “Street Racer” automatic transmission W/ 8” Gennie Nostalgia shifter, and an 8.25:1 live rear axle differential ratio from a 1976 Plymouth Volare.
The car also features a custom-built full steel floor, custom smooth steelie wheels + whitewalls, custom-fitted Pete-&-Jakes front axle I-beam, chromed hairpin + dampers, Buick-finned front drum brakes, Plymouth-finned rear drum brakes, Posie springs, the steering column + wheel from a Triumph, and a modified bench seat from a Hillman Minx, plus lots of other new components and custom-fitted equipment. Full Kustom gray respray, black/grey interior.
The car is fitted with an age-related six-character black plate registration; “468 UXK”, which matches a 1957 London plate.
This car was featured at Mathewson’s classic car auction and sales showroom, Pickering, Ryedale, North Yorkshire, U.K., October 2021.
Many owners of Classic cars like to add their own individual features to their car. This results in what is known as 'A Custom Car'. Happy Hump day!
I obtained another dead Kodalux L so did the same conversion to my DIY-FIX Reflex as i did to my DIY IIIS a while back... much more useful with the shutter speed and aperture indicators as well as EV....
Why Kodak didn't do this i will never understand?
If you follow me on IG you have probably already seen some parts or process snaps of it, but I finally took better pictures of the IKEA doll bed that I have customised to match my dolls... well, one of them.
The bed was painted with four layers of paint - yellow, pink and brown to show through the sanded parts and off white as a top coat. I also used crackling medium to create few "cracked imperfections" and sanded the entire thing for hours.
It was finished with lace tied into bows on each side and decorated with little buttons. The angel cutout on headboard is also from Ikea, came in one of these papercraft/scrapbooking sets. I added tiny gems to cover punched holes.
It still needs a mattress and bedding but I have not made it yet, laziness took over again. :3
The scale is not perfect fit for any BJD size. Finka is SD10 and the scale looks pretty decent when she is sitting on it, but its too short for an SD to "sleep" on it. MSD can lay down but the frame of the bed looks rather massive in comparison to them.
Its not bad for the base price of it though.
I wish my cabinets were wide enough to fit the bed inside and position dolls on it, unfortunately both of them are just a few centimetres short. x.x
Des représentations féminines sur les éléments apparents du moteur d'une Harley Davidson.
Rassemblement autos/motos de Taluyers (69)
Toulouse: "Bien, do you know what is happening to me?"
Me: "I havn't got a clue darling, but I'm sure it'll all be okay one day!"
Yesterday's scanning session, amongst other places, took me back to 1994 Malta. There cannot be a UK bus enthusiast out there who hasn't seen or heard of the legendary vehicles the island once relied upon for its public transport system. The vast majority of those in operation during the late '80s and 1990s were sourced from the UK .. as the island is right hand drive. Seldom were chassis left as manufactured, most being 'customised' in one way or another using typical Maltese ingenuity and engineering prowess. These facts ensured any visiting enthusiast seldom found two identiacal buses ... even ones from the same batch in Britain.
Here a cosmetically re-styled, and not unattractive ex London AEC Swift rounds the Triton fountain at Valletta bus station with much clacking from it's ex Leyland National 510 engine.
I bought a job lot to practice customising. This one didn't talk so I thought I would open her up and change the eyes too.
To the people who said customising vintage blythe's is wrong, ruins them or makes them look like RBL's... Lark would like you to know that she still has plenty of Kenner soul ❤
I love all my vintage girls... original, restored or custom.
Lets not judge what other people choose to do with their dolly's :)
P.S. And please don't steal my photo's just so you can re-post them elsewhere and criticize behind my back... that really isn't a very nice thing to do. x
Lillian: "Hey Maddie - can you see anything through those dark glasses."
Maddie: "Shhh - I'm being cool."
Annabella (on the left): "Well I'm being the Princess!"
The other petites - together: *As always!*