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

 

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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.

 

R5-A2 Astromech Droid

I recently created fresh vintage-style reproduction stickers using all-new vector graphics. This R5-A2 unit is the first one I’ve posted with the new sticker:

I produced a sticker sheet with 16 different color schemes that can be combined with various paint jobs to create almost any droid you can think of. I’m posting these sheets on eBay for those who would like to do their own All you need is an old droid, and after 30 years, most have damaged stickers that make them good restoration candidates anyway.

Here’s a link to eBay. Check out my other auctions as well…

 

Hammerhead As Rebel Pilot

Here is my version of Hammerhead, an Ithorian, as a X-Wing rebel pilot.

Recipe:

• Vintage Hammerhead Head, Feet and Hands
• Vintage Bossk Arms and Legs
• Vintage X-Wing Pilot Body

As always, I only use vintage figures that are beyond repair or restoration, breathing new life into something that would otherwise be thrown away.

BoShek, Everyone’s Second-Favorite Cantina Pilot

This is the requisite “BoShek” custom, the pilot from the cantina scene that introduces Obi Wan to Chewbacca.

Recipe:

• Bossk Body
• X-Wing Pilot Legs and Arms
• GI-Joe Head

I only use vintage figures, those that are beyond any repair or restoration, for my customs.

BoShek intros Obi Wan to Chewbacca

Soontir Fel, Almost Finished…

Soontir Fel, a character in the expanded universe, was considered among “the best starfighter pilots in the galaxy”. This figure is nearly finished, just missing the red “blood-stripe” down the sleeves, signature of the 181st Imperial Fighter Wing.

You can find a full Wookieepedia bio for Sooner Fel here.

This character was pulled together from a wide range of vintage figures.

Recipe:

• Vintage General Madine Legs
• Vintage X-Wing Pilot Body
• Vintage Snowtrooper Arms
• Vintage GI-Joe Head
• Vintage AT-AT Driver Helmet

These particular vintage figures were good candidates for customization, being in generally poor condition…and the X-Wing pilot needed a new paint job…

Soontir Fel 181th

Death Star Droid…For Real…

As most people know, the Death Star Droid had a shiny black finish, yet the action figure was metallic chrome. Fans will recognize this silver colored droid as the RA-7 from the Jawa Sandcrawler, not the RA-7 seen in the original Star Wars on the Death Star. Making this correction is probably one of the easiest (yet satisfying) customizations I’ve done.

For more info on the RA-7, click here.

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Recipe:

• Vintage Death Star Droid

The donor figure had lost not only his paint, but started loosing quite a bit of chrome as well…

Greedo, As He Should Be…

I always felt Greedo got a bum deal. Even his action figure looks nothing like what he wears in the movie. Or maybe this is another Rodian all together. Possibly Greedo the Elder ???

Anywho, this is my interpretation of what Greedo’s action figure should have looked like. Enjoy!

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Recipe:

• Greedo head and arms
• Bespin Han Solo body (modified)
• Dagoba Luke legs (modified)

This was basically cobbled together from spare parts left over from earlier customizations.

Sold to BP of NJ, April 2010

Astromech Droid R2-A5

R2-A5 is an astromech droid similar to R2-D2. He can be seen in the original Star Wars movie on Tatooine just before the cantena scene. Unfortunately, this character was edited out in the special edition in favor of some cheesy CG effects.

This particular custom is based on a sensor-scope R2-D2, with a green-themed reproduction sticker. I’m including a reference photo at the bottom of this post for comparison. This astromech’s bio can be found on Wookieepedia here.

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Recipe:

• R2-D2 with sensor scope.

It’s a shame that so many of these droids end up in the trash heap, just because the stickers they used don’t hold up to 30 years of wear-and-tear. I’ve taken it upon myself to try and save some of these old R2 units, using my own reproduction stickers in the various myriad color schemes seen in the original three movies.

R2-A5 Reference Photo