Custom Concept Snake eyes!

Last time we went over some accessories. This time more meat. I needed to sand the vains off since the arms will be painted black to match his traditional suit. I used a dremel and then I wet sanded with 1500 grade called "black ice".

My big thing is the inclusion of revoltech joints. I love them. And they went in here swimmingly. same procedure as usuale. Dremeled out a semi- circle and then drilled a whole for the peg. 

Next I decided, Snake eyes needs grenades and they need to be detachable. So I started with one of these.

 A 3/32"-1/16" magnet. Hobby shops usually carry them. They come in packs of 50 for about $7-$8. I use K&J magnetics they are a sponsor so check out the side bar cause I broke!

For this trick I took one rubber grenade from some figure and dremeled a hole for one magnet and crazy glued that Sumnabich' in their. Then I took the corresponding magnet that would go into the belt and marked it so I would be sure to glue it in the correct polar direction or whatever you call that. I do this by sticking the magnets together and marking the side I will glue down with a sharpie. If you think it's stupid just wait. One day you will crazy glue something together only to find the items that should be attracting are repulsed by each other and then you will have to destroy your precious work. And if you'r anything like me you will pound the last of your sixth stone ipa and curse furiously how "if magnets weren't made by ass hats this never would have happened! And it dosen't help that pandora thinks Royksopp is ANYTHING LIKE passion pit! GOD DAMIT WHY IS EVERYONE BUT ME AN IDEOT!" It helps, trust me.

I then dremeled into the place I wanted the grenades to be ( I choose the belt.)again using the marking technique. I also made sure I placed the magnets with enough space so the grenades would not be crowded but would be close.

I made this ninja pouch which I wanted to be adheared to his back belt when the sword isnt' their Al'a Naruto. So...

If you are not familiar with the Giorgio Tsoukalos meme's get familiarized.

Magnets, they'll stick your shit to your other shit. Best friends forever.

 Now I have made holsters out of foamy and I liked them but, I wanted something that looked sleek and was low profile and light. So I had been kicking around an idea about craft ribbon. Then someone on figurerealm ( I forget who) dropped by one of my threads and mentioned he used craft ribbon and it made my mind up. I would try this.

I started with deciding on a style, obviously. So I started with something I liked and improved upon it.

Soft, sleek low profile. It had all the elements I wanted, but my vision was slightly different.

Step one was cutting and measuring. I wanted a over hang.

 I made sure my cloth came out to about where the handle ended.

 The next step was glueing. I glued the seam as far from the gun as I could and added more glue to bring it in as needed. After it had set I cut away enough to revile the grip.

After sizing it I cut out a pattern for the design I wanted to incorporate, BUT before I sowed this bad boy up I added one more Integrale factor!

 I cut out foamy in the same shape, coated it with crazy glue and after it dried shaved it super thin
( using a rotary tool.) As a backer to add substance and rigidity and to house...

I really just can't help myself...It's a problem I am working on.
anyway, THATS RIGHT! MAGNETS! Cause aside from revoltech...the only thing I use more is magnets. When it comes to magnets I'm like whores to the crue. I just can't help myself.

when I got it to the desired width I glued it to the holster and then wrapped the loose parts around and glued them to the back.

The next step was drilling a very deep narrow hole into the leg.

Then placing a tower of magnets in it. Magnets stacked have more power I needed lots of holding power and not a lot of area. This was a photo to show case and to gauge depth.

final product about 7 magnets stacked.

When it all comes together...we are left with a whole lot of awesomeness.

I will be moving saturday spot light to every other week due to time constraints and language barriers. Until i get off the 10 hour 1/2 hour schedule it's just not feasible.

On the next liver quivering episode of Automatauntaun Customs!

 "OF POWER!"