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custom minifig Bionisean
custom minifig Bionisean by BioniSean
I’m not sure if this is actually a custom minifig or not, but i really like the decal, so I’m posting it up to see if anyone knows, i think its really cool and with the grey legs it looks really neat, if it is a standard Lego part I’ve got to get a few.
army of one custom minifig
custom minfig by exxtrooperâ„¢
This is a very peculiar custom minifig by exxtrooper, the custom weapon is very interesting and looks like it’s been made of several interesting elements. the decals on this custom minifig however are very unusual, I’m not sure what or whom this minifig is meant to represent, but, it does look cool.
halo marine custom minifig with cool face decal
(halo marine custom minifig with cool face decal by exxtrooper)
I really like the face decal on this Halo minifig, there’s just something really nice looking about the orange glasses, the only down side is that this is a sticker rather than a waterslide decal so it might fall off and makes the minifig pretty fragile to play with.
Lego Minifigs for military vignettes
Whilst for most of use who make custom minifigs the dream would be either Lego actually make military collections, or we can get our hands on some durable minifigs with custom decals, the reality is getting decent military themed minifigs is quite difficult, you need to really plan out what you want to acheive, since the Indiana Jones collection does have some Lego minifigs with a Military theme, and StarWars has a whole range of storm troopers, its not so difficult for sci-fi or WWII custom minifig makers. But if you’re hopeing to make something modern, get ready to do some serious hunting.
so Lets take a look a the themes that work for military vignettes:
Cowboys – Lego Cowboy theme
Knights and castles – Lego theme
WWII – Indiana Jones Russian and German soldier minifigs
Modern – Dino Attack (these are now out of production so you’re going to need to source these), Power Miners Lego themes.
Sci-fi – Lego Starwars theme.
You’ll find that in order to build up a large army of minifigs, you’ll either need to buy loads of sets of Lego, leaving you with plenty of potentially useless spare parts and costing you an arm and a leg, or, you’ll need to search on the second hand Lego community to find individual parts, in this instance you’ll need to potentially buy the minifig in seperate parts, ie legs seperate from arms, torso seperate from head etc, this can add to the cost, but you’ll be able to get exactly what you need.
In other instances you might have designed a custom decal for your Lego minifigs, your best bet here is to source the lego minifig whos plastic is as close to the base colour you want, then, using brasso remove the existing decal and apply your own one instead, this might take longer and costa bit, but the results are supurb.
Tagged army, custom, decal, dino attack, indiana jones, Lego, Military, minifig, soldier, star wars
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Sourcing Lego parts for custom minifigs
Following on from the overview of how to customize lego minifigs found here Lets go into more concise detail on how to source and find specific elements for a custom minifig. The reason we are focusing on this rather than the concept and design stages is because this part of the process is one which is not reliant on ideas.
Lego has designed hundreds of thousands of different sets, minifigs and decals, however there are also elements that Lego do not produce, publicly Lego have stated for example that you cannot get Lego weapons from Lego, as such you would have to rely on external companies like BrickArms for these.
In order to source Lego parts for your custom minifig, you need to have you idea clear. First you want to break down your custom minifig design in to the individual body parts and accessories. You can find out more about the make up of the minifig here
To save you a degree of time this site has a cool feature that allows you to structure your minifig based on the different combination of elements, its certainly not exhaustive of the entire range of Lego minifigs out there but its pretty close. Additionally other sites such as Brick Link and The Lego pick a Brick and my personal favorite Find my Brick are all great places to source individual Custom minifig torso, arm and leg parts. You can find a full list of custom minifig product suppliers here. You have to get creative here, for example for modern military custom minifigs, Lego do not produce a torso that represents this, however the minfigs from the Dino Attack collection are very SWAT team-esque and could be used as a substitute, but the again the Dino Attack Lego minifigs are no longer made by Lego so you’d either have to find them second hand or produce your own decals for your custom minifig.
As a result of changing Lego stock in the brand new and second hand market as well as the ever increasing demand for certain minifigs, when creating large quantities of custom minifigs, it may cost a lot, or you may have to wait for prolonged periods of time for the right minifig components to appear on the market. In these instances you may well find it easier to use flat colour minifigs and create your own decals, however event these flat colour torsos may be in short supply as well, so you have to be reasonably prepared to removed existing decals, or change the colour template or in extreme circumstances create your own casts and mould your own minifigs from scratch. Regardless of what you do in this context, sourcing the right minifig components can be the longest and most frustrating part of minifig customization, but it can also be very rewarding, just remember your Lego invading army that’s the light at the end of the tunnel.
