Okay, so we've got an AD&D Gnome and a Champions of Norrath Dark Elf, I figure I'll add my own figure to the growing fantasy offerings:

Garet Jax was a protector and companion to Jair Ohmsford. A master of weapons and weaponless combat, he had no equal, and had found himself searching the Four Lands for an opponent worthy of him. Not even, it seemed, the deadly Kraken could do him in...until he met the Jachyra, a Demon from beyond the Forbidding. He died fighting it, though to this day no one knows if he defeated it or not, as by the time his companions spotted his body, the battle was long past and the the magic that sustained the Jachyra gone.


For those not familiar with the book Garet Jax was the Shannara equivalent of Snake-Eyes, though I believe he'd mop the floor with Snake-Eyes any day (and probably slaughter Storm Shadow without breaking a sweat). He was a loner and a man of few words, hovering between heroic legend and mercenary; what drove him, where he came from, few knew and none with any real solidity. He dressed always in black, and at least initially carried a black staff and short sword, though he always seemed to have other weapons on hand, and could make use of any weapon that came to hand.

Pic:



(Background created by Cap! )

Parts Used:

Head: Comc Pack General Hawk
Torso, waist, skirt: VvV Kamakura
Arms: DTC Barrel Roll
Legs: VvV Cobra Commander
Cloak: Star Wars
Short sword: POTC, modified
Staff: Custom


The only parts of him that required extensive work were the staff and sword. The head required me to shave down the neck ball and the inside hole for it on the torso, then it fit well. I felt it captured his look perfectly. If you look at the figure closely (didn't work with the pics) I painted the eyes grey.

The sword I cut down from a full-length POTC sword and rounded off the end, then trimmed away the guard to make a decent short sword out of it. The staff is actually two plastic Q-tips with their ends removed, joined in the center with a length of paper clip and glued; I sanded and smoothed it, then added a stick pin on the end and painted the whole of it.

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NIIIIICE Doc. Dead on to what I invisioned him to look like as I was reading the book.

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Rockage cubed Rob. Rockage cubed,

Oh. I have a long sword coming your way. Very medieval.

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don't know the character, but the work is great. love the subtle dry brushing. very great looking figure.

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That is an excellent figure. Just real nice all around. And kudos to Cap, great dio as always.

The entire figure is cool looking but I'm totally swiping the staff recipe.

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I really like him, and he would fit very well into the AD&D series im working on. I have to say your backdrop props really add to the feel of him. I'm going to have to break down and make a dio set. Great job with this.

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Thanks guys.

I actually had a second version of him--same parts but different accessories--as an AD&D ranger, but we won't see him for a while--the paint just won't stop chipping. Oddly this body handled the black paint just fine...weird. Oh yeah, the only parts difference is the arms--Garet Jax uses DTC Barrel Roll, while my ranger uses Viper Lockdown Joe Colton--same part, really, must a different look. Handy to know though.


The staff pieces come from Q-tips I found at the Dollar Store with the hollow plastic core. Comes in a bag of like 700, and are an ideal fit to Joe hands, just the right size not to stretch or rub.

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Great stuff Terry Brooks is my favorite author. Ive read nearly every Shannara book out there.. Elf Stones was the first Terry Brooks book I ever read. Wishsong however is my favorite. Elf Stones a close second.

Id love to see more Shannara figures.

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great figure! good to see 25th parts being used on other that 25th customs.

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Thanks--I forgot you were into Terry Brooks (I must be getting old. ) Elfstones was my first one too; Sword was next and then I was eager for Wishsong. Recently re-read both Sword and Wishsong to get a better feel for my customs (still working on parts for Allanon, but matching his height and finding a proper set of robes is proving a bit troublesome.)

I do plan to do more Shannara customs--Brin Ohmsford and possibly Jair; Eretria, are on the idea list. I did Panamon Creel (I don't think I posted him to the board, though)--twice, actually--and was much happier with the second version, which you can see here. I'd eventually love to find the means to customs of The Reaper and a Troll (Kelset, maybe?) but right now the means are a bit beyond my skills.



Thanks!

Actually in this case, there aren't any 25A parts (the comic pack Hawk head is from the RAH set released last year; it just had the ideal look I was after). I DO have a 25A custom I'm working on now that's related to my Thera fantasy-verse (a world I created when I was 16 and have built up, edited and worked on in my head ever since); haven't had time this week to do more than some Green Stuff work on it and modify a Star Wars head for it though, due to work obligations. Hopefully with the holiday weekend coming up I'll be able to do more to get him finished.

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doh.. I even have the 25th hawk.
but the head you used matches very well to the character.

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They aren't that impressive, which I was (admittedly) disappointed to see when I found one (they're fairly abundant on the pegs right now, or were as of a couple of weeks ago). It didn't strike me as Hawk--too mean, to hardened, not like the previous incarnations. While I'm not a 25A fan by any means I had actually been interested in this one after seeing the first photos--but up close he just didn't intrigue me (unlike say, Buzzer, whom I liked enough to buy.)



Thanks! There it was a dual matter in choice: the hairstyle, which was how I saw Garet Jax (close cropped hair), and the determined expression that so matched his essentially humorless attitude. Making it fit the torso required some griding down of the neckball but not much overall, and it sat just the right height without having to be further modified. Time and again I've held off figures in the belief that sooner or later the right part will come along--in this case I had the part, it was the customs time to come along (thanks to my second journey through "Wishsong". )

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