The Boys Custom #7/39 Victoria Neuman

 Victoria Neuman, just one look can kill!

And her video

The Boys custom #6/39 Termite

 

Termite is a recurring antagonist in Season Three of the Amazon series The Boys. He is a Supe with the power to shrink down in size. For this reason it was the perfect candidate to shrink to 1/21 scale....

The Boys Custom #5/39 Sister Sage

 Dear followers, 

time for number 5, Sister Sage, I have to admit I love this character in the TV serie, She's intelligent, smart, sel ironic, no needs violent powers to reach her targets, often walking on a thiny blade.

And the actress Susan Heyward is absolutely an astonishing beauty, her smile makes you fall in love immediately, what a woman/actress/person!

 Here we go with the new 1/21 statue:

 

some group pictures now that something Skif-style starts to arise from the deep about this new wave I launched suddenly...

And Sister Sage again...

Finally the video "painting my Sister Sage" from my Youtube Channel:

 

The Boys custom #4/39 Kimiko

 

This is the number four, Kimiko.

The gallery starts to have a nice lot to begin...

Give a look at the video for the Tutorial.

Have fun, stay free, have Skif!

Marvel Comics custom Thundra

 

I've never made a character twice, neither as a variant nor as a crossover. So I won't print this Tundra for myself, because I already made it for my collection many years ago, from a resin copy of Eaglemoss CMFC She Hulk. 

But if I have to choose today, with the introduction of AI and 3D printers in our hobby, I would made it as I published it today on Cults3D. 

Because the pose is very dynamic and the movement of the chain is really beautiful. 

If you haven't yet your own Thundra in your CMFC... and if you own a 3D printer... I recommend this one from my website Cults3D (100% free):

Download here

The Boys custom #3/39 Black Noir

 Here is the number 3!

Painting tutorial in the link to the video!

Have a look, have a Skif!

Who is the #3/39 ?

 

Number 3/39 of The Boys already painted and filmed, just need the time for the editing and it will be shown as sooner as possible... guess who?? 

In the meantime I was wondering about numbers in this blog since the beginning.

Let's share some numbers.

Skif_MC CMFC: 507 customs published by me in Marvel Comics waves 1-6

Skif_MC XCFC: 82 customs published by me in X-Com waves 1-2

Skif_MC The Boys: 2 customs made by me in The Boys wave 1

Skif_MC CMFC: 132 customs made and printed by me for Marvel Comics wave 6 waiting for paints

Skif_MC XCFC: 60 customs made and printed by me for X-Com wave 3 waiting for paints

Skif_MC The Boys: 37 customs made and printed by me for The Boys wave 1 waiting for paints

Skif_MC CMFC: 125 e-customs made by me waiting for printing for Marvel Comics wave 7

Skif_MC XCFC: 68 e-customs made by me waiting for printing for X-Com wave 4

Skif_MC The Boys: 5 e-customs made by me waiting for printing for The Boys wave 1

Total of customs only: 

figure CMFC:

507 already published + 132 waiting paints +125 waiting prints = 764 Marvel Comics 

figure X-Com:

82 already published + 60 waiting paints + 68 waiting prints =  210 X-Com

figure The Boys:

2 already published + 37 waiting for paints + 5 waiting for prints = 44 The Boys

So, that considering only the customs I made the count arrives at 1018 customs. 

All of these characters are unique, no replicas, no variants, no characters others do. Its'a sort of physical archive... 

The amount of figures already printed and waiting for paints suggest at least 3 years of work ahead, and adding the ones that I'm still waiting to print I can assume that I still have a total of at least 6 years of work in front of me.

A little bit too Titanic even for me! Specially if I continue to produce e-customs on Cults3D that I pretend to print and paint. Some how I shall to stop e-sculpting and take more time for painting if I want to survive all this waves. Let's see in the next months how it will go....

Waiting forward to meet you here for The Boys figure #3/39.... guess who...? Suggestion are welcome.

Your

Skif

The Boys custom #2/39 The Deep

 

It's very difficult to translate the effect of The Deep's scaled suit into a 90mm scale. I had to play with four shades of green, two of which were metallic green, as well as a dark green wash. I hope you get the idea...

The original sculpt was produced from a MeshyAI base, which I then corrected with SculptGL and made printable with 3DBuilder.

The print was done with the Anycubic Photon Mono 7, which... after printing the thirty-ninth figure of The Boys... died! And Anycubic isn't going to give me another one... no! So for now, I'll stop at 39 issues of The Boys. In the meantime, enjoy the second one (and maybe the third... which is already running around the house after coming to life...)

Have a lovely day, stay happy stay Skif!

 

The Boys Custom #1/39 Lamplighter

 As promised, here our journey starts.

Lamplighter the Super from the serie The Boys.

Bubbling pot

 

I imagine many of you will be waiting for news or the first issue of The Boys series.

I can tell you that you won't have to wait long, because the first piece is already painted and filed away on my now-depleted shelves. It's just a matter of giving to the video a decent look and publishing everything: specifications, video, photos, and 4D.

And maybe I can even tell you who the first in The Boys series will be... actually, no, maybe I'll upload it tonight and leave you wondering, but if you know me even a little, you already know it won't be Homelander... that would be too banal and not very Skif Marvel Customs...

So, stay very tuned because The Boys will really fly high, it's a ambitious project, the quality superior, the amount of characters impressive.

In the meantime give a look to the new STL you can download for free from Cults3D, at least:

SHROUD

PATRIOT

                                                                                            

GIPSY MOTH

FLYING TIGER

                                         

Stay fresh, stay Skif
                                

Marvel Comics Custom Krang

 

Hi gentlemen,

This is Krang, former usurper of the throne of Atlantis, sometime ally and sometime adversary of Namor the Sub Mariner.

The Boys are coming to Skif Marvel Customs

 Dear followers,

The new Marvel wave has begun, and you can currently find the new figures already uploaded in the respective "Marvel Wave 6" gallery.

And yet... it seems like I'm slowing down a bit...

Actually, that's not entirely true.

I have hundreds of e-customs I made already printed and just waiting for the brushes.

But something unexpected happened. Many times I've wondered, and you've asked me, if one day I'd pursue a project, after XCom, on "The Boys" series.

I've always been quite reluctant, because I didn't want to overly distort the nature of the blog, which remains the heart of all my activities and is clearly focused, as the name itself suggests, on Marvel Comics-related production.

In the end... you convinced me, and I'm convinced.

Over the past few weeks, I've been working on "The Boys" project, and today I'm announcing that the series of customs related to this famous Prime series will also be released.

I expect 39 releases. The 39 characters have already been developed and printed and the releases, in an order that has not yet been decided, will be as follows:

Queen Maeve

A-Train

Soldier Boy

Black Noir

The Deep

Firecracker

Hughie Campbell

Kimiko

Franchie

Sister Sage

Billy Butcher

Homelander

Translucent

Crimson Countess

Gunpowder

Mindstorm

Supersonic

Ezekiel

Mother's Milk

Starlight

Mesmer

Little Nina

Ashley Barrett

Marie Moreau

Stormfront

Popclaw

Lamplighter

Victoria Newman

Eagle the Archer

TNT Twins

Termite

Stan Edgar

Sam Riordam

Sheline

Jetstreak

Countess Crow

Zoe Neuman

Emma Meyer

Soooo..... Stay tuned because The Boys are coming to Skif Marvel Customs!

Just a brief sneak preview video following here....

the Pros and Cons of AI in our hobby

I've seen so many discussions in the world of modeling and kit bashing, blogs, Reddit etc... about the use of artificial intelligence in our hobby.

I'm amazed at the fury against the use of AI; on Reddit, I even read that some people think AI users are "shit".

All this fury really makes me sad and weird, even if I I can imagine who's behind these comments. So this is my humble point of view; let me give you two very simple comparisons:

Samuel Morse patented his electric telegraph system in the United States in 1837, and postmen were very pissed off.

Antonio Meucci, just 17 years later, created the first working prototype, called the telettrophone, and I assure you, if blogs and forums had existed, all telegraphers would have gone wild against this new technology.

Some might argue, however, that these are communication tools that don't fall within the scope of artistic values.

Well, then, we can observe that until 1826, only painted reproductions of facts, panoramas, events, portraits, etc. existed, and that painting was considered one of the six main arts:

Architecture, Music, Painting, Sculpture, Poetry and Literature, and Dance.

When the first photographic image was taken in 1826, painters evidently stood as the sole defenders of the pure art of reproduction. Of course, because if reproducing a panorama required technical study and brushes, with the advent of photography, all you needed was a camera, a good angle, and the press of a button. Sacrilege!

The succession of frames in sequence then led to the birth of cinema, first with text underneath and in black and white, then in color with the original soundtrack. Today, cinema is indeed called the "Seventh Art." Not to mention photography.

Perhaps this example is closer to our world and way of seeing things.

But if that's not enough, let's get even closer.

15 years ago, when I modeled with Milliput and SuperSculpey, I could only make copies of my works by duplicating them with silicone rubber molds and epoxy resin. 

Each time, I started from the wire core and added material. The first weeks of work were entirely dedicated to sculpting the base of the human figure. Always the same. Always same process and same rough base figure just with different pose, but not yet any added value. Then weeks to refine. Finally, weeks to produce the molds and replicate the figures. Molds that, at best, lasted a dozen copies and then were thrown away.

Luckily, e-Sculpting arrived, bless SculptGL. I saved a ton of time and material, and I was able to store my miniatures in the "new molds" (the STL format) without risking losing, ruining, or remaking them. I no longer had to start from the wire.

I feel sorry for those who sold Super Sculpey and wire, but the advent of e-sculpting changed my approach to this hobby. 

And I wasn't angry with those who no longer sculpted with their hands but used a mouse! In fact, I had to roll up my sleeves and learn a new technique: less on the real piece and more on the virtual piece.

Then, nowaday, came AI: Meshy mainly. 

The many hours (much less than working with Super Sculpey or Milliput, anyway) spent modeling STL files were reduced to just a few hours. You give it an image, and it returns an STL file that's 80% faithful to the original and error-free. The remaining 20% ​​is modeling techniques with software to add, modify, correct, and make it more similar to the original. Still hours of work, but many, many fewer and of a different nature. 

So what?! What is your problem with the AI? That now much more people can do that?

Dont you like the result? Well, believe me, I am not offended if you don't visit at all my creations.

After almost 18 years in this kind of hobby... where I don't sell, never sold, only given away for free....  I don't have to run after deliveries or customer worries... they don't tell me what to do but I do what I want, and I don't remake the same fucking Ironman 100 times to earn a few pennies by selling it secretly...

After 18 years of doing what I do solely because I love Marvel Comics and I love XCOM… and I love seeing over a thousand different characters all in the same scale (90mm scale, my scale...), which I assure you all lined up look amazing on my shelves… 

...well, after going from clay to 3D printing… 

...after doing practically every character from Marvel... 

...I don't think I have anything to prove to anyone about using or not AI... so…: thank goodness Meshy AI exists, saving us a ton of time; Life is short, and I need to get to 3,000 Marvel figures!! Hurry! 

And I'll always share everything for free... because what Marvel put on the market through Eaglemoss I bought as it should be, and what I would never have found on the market I built myself, and I'm happy to share it with those who don't know how to build it and can't buy it because it doesn't exist. For free.

Gentlemen, mates, this is the future; it is not the strongest species that survives, but the one most capable of adapting.

Skif

E-custom Eaglemoss extension: Black Goliath, Bling and Shaper of Worlds Marvel Comics inspired

 

Hi fellows, 

Here we have my last three figure for the extension of your endless Classic Marvel Figurine Collection.

They are: Bling, Black Goliath and the Shaper of Worlds.

                                                Shaper of Worlds                                    Bling

                                                                        Black Goliath

Download them all for free from my Cults3D page and enjoy your prints!

Stay happy, stay Skif.

 

Marvel Comics The Needle custom

 

Here we have Needle! Needle is an older tailor who was mugged and lost one of his eyes. But he also gained a power to paralyze people with his gaze of his good eye. 

The Needle (Josef Saint) was introduced in Spider-Woman #9 (far in the 1978) and he is primarily affiliated with the Night Shift.

I created the STL file (that you can download from my Cults3D page for free) and printed with Anycubic printer Photon Mono 7 3D.

Some lite modification to the boots (using green Milliput) and painted with Vallejo and Citadel colors.

What's Marvel new in Cults3D April 2026

 

Dear followers, just a minute to show you what you will find freshly added to integrate in your CMFC.

Mainly 3 new figures I like to highlight:

1- The Badoon Emperor

2-Sunder

3-Aquon

Those are very rare and forgotten dark figures that Marvel Comics would never create the action figures but if you are a true Marvel fan like me you can't miss in your CMFC.

Marvel Comics custom Warp

 Warp (Earth-982) is a Marvel Comics character and master thief with teleportation powers.

His abilities center on spatial manipulation, specifically creating teleportation warps to move himself or others to remote locations, in terms of time and space.

Hope you like, the picture and the video...

New Custom: Shuri Lady Black Panther

 

Finally the first custom of Marvel wave 6.

This is my Marvel Custom number 504, not bad uh!?

First of all thanks to DarkRadamanthys that gave for free this STL on Cults3D, check it here.

Than... just enjoy, if you like her, my new custom

and of course the video of making Lady Black Panther...

New STL's available for free: Puma and Moloid

 Dear gentlemen,

waiting for the first issues for Marvel wave 6 of my customs, I suggest to give a look to two new issues for your CMFC in STL format.

As always these are 100% free for download and ready to be print (after scaling to your preferred size) and join your own collection.

Here we have a Moloid, and after many years of figuring how to.... Puma!

Just visit my Cults3D page and download for free.

Have fun, for free!

Stepford Cuckoo's

 In the meantime... as Marvel Wave 6 is arriving, I would suggest you to give a look to recent developments on my Cults3D page, where I recently shared the STL file for your own CMFC Stepford Cuckoo's Team complete (5 members). 

Give a look and if you like, download and print!

Link to all my 3D models: Skf Marvel Customs 3D Models

 

Xcom2 Action figure: The Reaper. End of Xcom wave 2.

 

Hallo fellows!

With the Reaper ends the Wave 2 of Xcom custom figures. 

I shall follow with the Marvel Comics customs wave 6 that will consist of more than 100 new figure, unseen, unissued, vintage and from the golden age. Something that you won't find anywhere else but here.

In the meantime enjoy the Reaper:

and the video making:

1/20 action figure custom for XCom 2 Chimera Squad: Torque

 

Here we go with Torque, first character from the upgrade Chimera Squad!