Pretty sure Inigo works for Big Chief.
Interesting - I wonder how that works when you work for a company with official licenses while also personally mass producing heads for characters that you don't have a license for.
You'd think BC would frown on that, but maybe not.
I'm certain Greggo would -- or has -- tried to get the Indiana Jones license. He and his brother started BCS I believe.
And yes, Inigo does work for them, he did all the sculpts for their Bond line.
Talibane, I would love to see your Marion and Dietrich. I don't know why you've never posted them. Did you get the Vartal head way back when?
I'm also curious how you like the Snyderman Marion sculpt in hand.
Marion and Dietrich have super complex outfits plus other complexities, so I am just now circling back to them. Also, I decided I just didn't have the skills to do them back maybe 7-8 years ago when I was starting out with customs whereas I feel like now I can do them justice. For example I am hand stenciling Marion's white dress (dots and more dots) and hand making Dietrich's jacket because it's longer than any jacket that's available and was custom-made (ie it's not a real German period jacket that you could match via a DID fig etc - the pockets and lapels are quite unique).
And I do really like Vartal's Dietrich (btw, in googling many years ago I seem to recall a guy on either here or at that Raven board hat had done a melted-face Dietrich that looked kinda cool, but it was years ago) and Greggo painted it - which was no easy feat because the sculpt was super rough and needed a lot of remedial work. It came out pretty well but then I managed to snag a BW Universal Solider Dolph/Scott head which I really think would work fairly well for Dietrich. Not great pics, but this one:
A little young and more chiseled for Dietrich, but faces are pretty similar. I'm still weighing up which sculpt to use - the BW paint is obviously stellar, and it's not a bad likeness to Dietrich whereas the Vartal sculpt can't have that same level of detail and paint apps whereas the likeness is a little more spot on. I will sell whichever head I don't use.
Dietrich and Vogel are both super tricky to get the uniform details just right - I had to make Dietrich's holster for example, and I want to get those tiny thin straps at the top of his boots right. I've assembled maybe ten different types of black gloved hands to get them just right.
But I have everything together for my Marion and Dietrich, it's just SW has been occupying me so much with Amanaman, Ugnaught and Lando Skiff just knocking me over in the past maybe 4 months.
Greggo did great with my Snyderman Marion (long hair white dress version) sculpt. It feels slightly dated in terms of look (level of detail etc, hair sculpt depth) vs the latest HT but probably holds up better than many of the production sculpts from that 7-10 years ago era. I can post pics. Actually, I think Greggo did better than Silentsurfer did for another buddy of mine who also got the Snyderman Marion - SS painted the eyes a bit too large on his.
Sculptor Buffy Is the way to go for a dead on Indy i believe . If you see his private commission Rick Deckard you know what i talking about !
That head is just so unbelievably realistic. Did Buffy do the paint as well as the sculpt? Where are they - on here or on FB?
If anyone wants a repainted SS head lmk!
Still holds up apparently lol
Who painted it? Silentsurfer's paint ups of that head are just epic.