Marvel Comics Custom Prism

Just in time for the summer... and crossing my fingers that will be a good summer... here is a old custom I finally can publish here... waiting for tomorrow come---

PRISM!

Making Virgo

 

Dedicated to P.

This summer and after

It's been a while since I've published a "written only" post... and since it's the middle of summer, perhaps it's the right time to give a little background and outline the schedule I have in mind for the coming months.

As I wrote in a previous post, the fifth Marvel wave is almost over.

The publication of Virgo (another member of the Zodiac Team) is almost upon us, and the last five figures I'm already working on will follow. These are, not in the order they'll be published, the following:

1-Prism

2-Lady Dorma

3-Megaman

4-Shard

5-Lady Deadpool

Consistently with my work (the real one...) I hope to complete all of the five by the end of the summer.

This way, I can start the second wave of X-Com Custom Figures.

The second wave of X-Com includes another 27 miniatures that I've already printed and have been waiting for a year to be customized, painted, and placed on their bases.

I selected most of these figures as excellent candidates for the X-Com collection, requiring only a few small adjustments with green Milliput—in short, a lot of painting and very little sculpting.

Since the beginning of this blog, the conversion to 3D has been a major innovation, minimizing the material costs of this hobby. In fact, I'd say costs have been reduced by 90%, while production has quadrupled, as the numbers confirm.

Over the next few weeks, I've also planned to print the figures that will be issued with Marvel Wave 6 and with X-Com Wave 3. I started out with the idea of extending both the Marvel and X-COM collections by another 25 characters, but I have to say I got carried away... Now I find it very easy to work with softwares like SculptGL and 3DBuilder, and as you can see in my videos, I'm also supplementing my works with some small AI tools and add on.

Instead of expanding with another 50 figures... I've basically already published 169 on the Cults3D website!!!

Meanwhile, I've procured 4 liters of resin to be ready for production, but if I've done my calculations correctly, between bases and figures, I'll need at least double that amount.

I'll only count what I've managed to print at the end of the summer, and what I'll have printed will all (finally) be 100% e-Custom, created by me, along with a few e-sculpts made from scratch.

Soon you'll also see the first bases with my logo printed, again thanks to the 3D printer. They might look a little crappy... but it's stuff I printed, as I said, a year ago, and I'm certainly not throwing it away, but I have to be honest: after a year of training on e-sculpt, the difference between how I worked at the beginning and how I work now is huge. Bt this will be visible probably in a year or two when this stuff will be published!

Finally, I'll leave you with a comment on the management of Skif-Socials... Aside from the work I put into each miniature (from selection, printing, modeling, and painting, for a total of about 30 hours per figure), I also put a lot of work into the videos and YouTube channel (always with highly "creepy" tools worthy of the worst hobbyist ever... a cell phone camera and a camera stand made out of cardboard...). On average, with about 30 minutes of footage, I manage to keep videos under 3 minutes and shorts under 50 seconds, which are my standard. Publishing a video, especially choosing the soundtrack, takes me at least 6 hours, which is quite a lot...

The response to my videos is paltry, barely more than a few dozen views and 20 followers, but at least my shorts often get over 1000 views, and that, let's say... helps morale!!

It's a different story for the Skif_MC channel on Cults3D, where I have almost a hundred followers and a lot of people who appreciate my e-customs.

The blog, this Blog, on the other hand, remains silent, with very few comments... and the silence is like deep space... I hope this changes, because the blog is over 13 years old, and I'd like to bother you for at least that many more!

Best regards from your little Skif.

Marvel Comics custom Blockbuster

 

Here we go with a new one... Blockbuster! 

Hope you like it!

Marvel Comics custom Faira Sar Namora

Courtesy Marvel Fandom:

Faira Sar Namora was the servant of Namora.

She was tasked with the mission of retrieving Namorita from the surface, and was interrupted when she discovered Lemuria being attacked by Deviants then by Evolutionaries. She appeared in the surface in order to seek for heroes, but the Evolutionaries followed and captured her, along with two heroes she had encountered, Scarlet Spider and Hummingbird.

They were brought to Wundagore Mountain, for the High Evolutionary. After escaping captivity, along with Nova, who the Evolutionary had captured before, they were confronted by more Evolutionaries, but helped by the New Warriors, who had arrived in the search of Nova. During the battle, the Evolutionary tried to use a machine to kill all those who had powers, but his plan was foiled when Sun Girl blasted the device. After the Evolutionaries and the High Evolutionary left the scene, Namora stayed in Wundagore Mountain to help the New Warriors secure the place.

Marvel Comics Custom Janus (Willem Vincent)

 Courtesy writeups.org ;

Janus is a very minor, presumably obscure Alpha Flight opponent. He was only seen for a few issues during a 1987/88 story arc.

Janus suffers from a severe dissociative disorder, and can physically split into two persons.

The both of him could handle Manikin’s “cave man” body. Therefore, he’s probably a strong and ferocious fighter. But this is not well-established and the game stats are speculative.

In his calm, one-bodied state he’s a particularly creative artist.

Marvel Comics Custom Ganymede

Late at night again....            

...Just after a long day at work...  but nothing can prevent me to show you.... GANYMEDE!!

Marvel Comics custom Agatha Harkness

 

Here we go fellows with the latest one, Agatha Harkness!

Marvel Comics custom Titan, Shi'ar Imperial Guard

Titan is a member of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard, a powerful group of alien enforcers lead by their leader Gladiator.

Marvel Comics custom Whizzer

 

Courtesy Marvel.com

While on a trip to Africa, he was bitten by a cobra and was saved by a transfusion of mongoose blood and soon discovered he developed super-speed. After returning home, he decided to become a crime-fighter.

Marvel Comics Custom Man Elephant

Courtesy from writeups.org

Man-Elephant (Manfred Haller) is a minor enemy of the She-Hulk, first seen in 1981.

Manfred Haller returned in 2008. But with different powers, different visuals, against a stronger and far more experienced She-Hulk, etc..

Haller is a brilliant inventor and businessman. His inventions are always on the cutting edge of modern technology.

His battlesuit is built to emulate an elephant. 

Added features include:

Two tusks which are detachable from the suit’s head, and fastened to powerful chains. These can be used as grappling hooks “or just to tear, gouge and gore”.

The trunk can strangle people or detect “the most subtlest of odors” as well as emit “a sonic signal or knockout gas”. 

And the ears can “amplify voices from afar”.

The body consists of a “hydraulics super suit,” a harness which gives the arms, hands, and legs super strength ; and “heavy-duty shock resistant” skin.

Here we go custom:

Making Marvel Comics Custom Phantom Rider

 Here we go...

Marvel Comics Customs White Dragon and Sculphunter

 Here we go with Number 487 White Dragon:

and number 488 Sculphunter:

The Phantom Reporter Skif MArvel Customs

 New video new character for my CMFC,,,

The video of making Gemini

 Hope you like it!

Marvel Comics Custom Gemini (Zodiac Squad)

 Simply Gemini!

what's cooking today and plans for tomorrow

 Dear followers,

today I give you a preview of the projects I'm working on and that concern the short and medium term but also the long term.

There are still 46 miniatures that I printed in resin with the 3D printer that I have to work on.

I am showing you 13 of them in the photo below, with the indication of the character they will play.

These are all custom Marvel Comics and they are not all because the Marvel customs that I think I will issue in the medium term should be 19 in total, namely:

Agata Arkness, Prism, Ganymede, Titan, Whizzler, Man Elephant, Lady Dorma, Gemini, Virgo, Blockbuster, Janus, Megaman, Phantom Reporter,  Shard, Sculphunter, Lady Deadpool, White Dragon, Atlantean Warrior girl and the Phantom Rider...

After completing these new 19 custom Marvel Comics figures, it will be time for the X-Com Wave 2.

This is already in the long term: there are 27 characters between humans and aliens, already printed, waiting to receive the green milliput and the paint to integrate the already well-populated X-Com gallery.

Finally, in the very long term, I'm talking about 2026, I plan to have printed another 118 characters, which you can download in STL format all for free from my Cults3D page already today.

These 118 will be divided as follows:

Sixth (final) Marvel Comics Wave: 97 characters (I scraped the bottom of the barrel...)

Third (and last) X-Com Wave: 21 characters.

Maybe I'll be able to finish them all, with an average of 4 per month, in three years, so we'll keep together at least until 2029...

In 2029 I'll re-consider the sense of existence of this blog, as well as the Youtube page, and decide whether to continue in this titanic undertaking or hang up my paintbrushes and say goodbye... We'll see... there's a lot of time between me today and that moment...

So... we have a schedule:

2025 Mid Term 19 Marvel Comics Customs Wave 5

2025-26 Long term 27 X-Com Customs Wave 2

2026-27 Very Long Term Marvel Comics Customs Wave 6

2028-29 Very Long Term X-Com Customs Wave 3

byezz

484 Libra, Zodiac Cartel, Skif Marvel Customs

Courtesy Marvel.com

While working with the french government in Vietnam Gustav met and fell in love with Lau Brandt. After marrying her they were hunted down by her brother Khruul throughout Vietnam for ten months before Lau gave birth to thier daughter who would become known as Mantis. 

(...) After years of training with them he left and did not take his daughter with him.

He then returned to America where he was approached by Cornelius Van Lunt who offered him a position in his crime organization known as Zodiac. Gustav accepted and took his position as Libra in Honolulu, Hawaii. Months later Libra attended a meeting with other Zodiac leaders when Nick Fury posed as Scorpio and "captured" the Avengers. 

Months later under the leadership of Aries Libra and the other members of Zodiac attacked the Avengers and tried to take over Manhattan. However due to the combined forces of Daredevil, the Black Panther, and the Avengers the team was transported to the Ankh Dimension in order to restore power to the Zodiac Key. (...)

Marvel Custom The Jackal

 

Here we go buddies!

Number 483 custom...

And the video of Making the Jackal...

482 served: Marvel Comics Talos custom figure, CMFC

 

Why do not add Talos, the General of the Skrull Council, to our former Eaglemoss collection CMFC?

I started from a STL figure taken for free around the net and remodeled in order to have the Skrull Talos, armed with a gun, with his classic trench coat. 

Please give a look on his 4D view in the gallery on the right side of this page and eventually take a visit to my Youtube page to warch the video of Making Talos!

Byezz

Skif

New Marvel Comics custom figure: Imperial Guard Earthquake

 Hi fellows, time for another custom, Earthquake directly from the Imperial Guard. 

Custom number 481... OMG!

If you want so see the video of the making of Earthquake just follow the link!

New Marvel Comics e-Customs to add your CMFC that would never have been published

 

Hi fellows, please take a look at my page on Cults3D, here is the list of recently added character to enlarge your Marvel Comis Figurine Collection that Eaglemoss would have never published:

Barbarus

Mastermind

Dora Milaje

Cancer (from Zodiacus team)

Commanda

Vibraxas 

Miss Sinister

Silver Fox

Iron Maiden

Shalla Baal

Angar the screamer

Kristalyn Ogada

Wicked

Atlas 

Amazon

Sister and Brother Sun

Maximilian Zaran

and last Omega Sentinel.

If you love your CMFC you can't miss those. Of course everything is for free to download.

Only at SKIF_MC 3D models