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Stunning Wam Blam Lufba Custom By Sjefke

Posted by Paul | April 16, 2014 at 09:13 PM ET

JTA moderator Sjefke has created another stunning custom figure: Wam "Blam" Lufba. Be sure to check out this work of art!! Click through to see it all, complete with work in progress and reference photos.

Wam was a Yuzzum, native to Endor. He was kidnapped and presented to Jabba the Hutt to pay off a debt. Jabba wasn't impressed with offering, so he figured it would be great sport to throw Wam and theslaver to the Rancor. According to the story, Wam grabbed the Czerka U-84 Hunting Rifle from one of the guards and killed them with it.
Jabba was so amused, he hired Wam as his exterminator and Pote Snitkin took him on as his henchman. Wam was such a great shot with the U-84, that he earned the nickname "Blam".

When I read this story, I made Wam my avatar. He's short, ugly, has bad teeth and he's too dumb to realize Jabba thinks he's a joke. Why wouldn't I want him as my avatar? How many other people survived the Rancor pit?

Wam presented a lot of problems as a custom. To keep the scale, he had to be about 3 1/2 inches tall. The limbs are impossibly thin, and I dont do less than 12 POAs. HEAR THAT HASBRO! Even ultra small ball joints from a CW Commando Droid or Ahsoka Tano were too large, and I wasn't about to cut up a $100 CW44 Ahsoka to make a Yuzzum. Also, I wanted soft goods like the TVC Gammorrean Guard, because I thought his pelt would look terrible as molded plastic.

The base figure was a Megablocks Halo Brute figure, which stands about two inches tall, and has joints are all either very small hinge joints or ball peg joints. I cut off the knee and elbow hinges and extended them with coffee stirring rods reinforced with tooth picks, using Lightening Bond Glue and Fill (I get no honorarium from that company). I sawed out two ball pegs from another figure glued them onto the legs to use as the ankles. I wanted ball peg joints on the wrists too, and found that really good metal pins with rounded heads work great as ball pegs. I plan to ultra-articulate an Ahsoka figure this way some day. I built up the limbs with Aves Apoxie Fixit Sculpt and then shaped them with a file and sand paper.

I scavenged The fur off a $1 Beanie Baby. It's glued to the body with Loctite Flexible Glue. That kind of killed the waist articulation. Otherwise he would have had 16 POAs. To get the right color I added highlights with a fabric marker.

Wam has 15 points of articulation.

Head: Original sculpt over a Brute head.
Antennae: Packing wire, cut to length and topped with a little GreenStuff for shape.
Neck: I sawed off the ball peg neck from the Brute and glued it lower on his chest.
Body: Brute body extended with about 8 mm with Aves.
Arms and legs: Tooth picks glued to the hinge joints of the Brute.
Upper arm: Swivel joint made out of a flat pin head.
Wrist: Metal pin heads.
Hands: From Marvel Universe Longshot figure. The right hand was balled in a typical superhero fist, so I had to cut the thumb and fingers free and the sculpt on the distal finger tips and shape the nails.
Ankles: Ball pegs.
Feet: Original sculpt.

Czerka Arms U-84 Hunting Rifle:
I tried to be as faithful to the gun's details as the few grainy reference photos allowed.
Stock: Carved from a popcicle stick,
Barrel: Plastic tooth pick.
Sights: Parts from a Saga Legends foot locker rifle and a metal pin.
Trigger and other details: Molded from other plastic rifles and weapons.
Strap: Nitrile glove material cut to 3 mm wide and 4 inches long, then blackened with a Sharpie marker. The strap is attached to the rifle with metal staples, bent into buckle shapes. The gun was a scratch build. The stock was carved from a popcicle stick. The barrel was mostly a plastic tooth pick with another rifle barrel glued to the end. The sight is part of another gun. The long narrow part is a part of a metal needle. The detail is various odds and ends that I carve off of other old greebles. The strap is a strip of a nitrile glove colored black. It's attached to two metal staples that are bent into buckle shapes. One is glued to the stock. The other is wrapped around the barrel so it rotates freely. The detail is too small to see with my camera obviously.

Thanks JTA
Enjoy
--
Sjefke

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