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Now on Etsy…

May 17, 2011

These ARE the droids your looking for… Now on Etsy!!!

 

Click the image above, or use this link here.

Use these custom vintage Star Wars stickers are to transform your old R2-D2 into one of many Astromech Droid variants. Here are some of the droids available with these original custom graphics:

* R2-V2 (grey and blue)
* R5-K6 (red and black)
* R5-I9 (black and grey)
* R2-W2 (white)

* R3-T2 (white and blue)
* R2-D1 (white and red)
* R2-D3 (white and orange)
* R2-T7 (white and black)

These custom vintage Star Wars stickers are used to transform your old R2-D2 into one of many Astromech Droid variants.

 

A word about my customs…

April 4, 2010

I’m both a vintage collector and a customizer. As such, I try to restore any vintage figure I come upon, and only the most played with, loose-jointed, paint-worn and sun-faded figures are considered for customizing. The drawback is that some custom figures can still have small dings or loose joints, but overall I’m trying to add value and save a vintage figure that might otherwise be thrown away.

All of my customs are hand-crafted using authentic vintage star wars action figures as a base. I disassemble, hand-paint, and re-assemble all figures. They are then finished with a protective coat of acrylic matte sealer.

Most of my customs are either movie characters that weren’t represented in the original toy releases, or characters from the extended universe that are relevant but didn’t make it into one of the movies. There are also a few customs that are more “realistic” versions of themselves, where I felt they were short-changed as figures in their original release. And, like most customizers, I throw in a few of my own designs that have no place in the “real” star wars universe.

Where possible, I will include the “recipes” for the figures I post…