How to make costume minifigures and where to get blank body lots

[CandyKisses13]

How about's do I get started on making costume Lego's. By like where to buy blank bodies, heads, hair, helmets and weapons. Also where and how do I get or make the body decals and the little side capes on them along with painting them as well? I'm new at this your help would be grateful thank you. Sorry I know I’m asking for a lot but I would like to learn and know how to do this. I have Googled and You tubed this stuff but nothing tells me where to get blank bodies in whole sale lots. Again I do thank you all for your help. Jenna

Thank you all again

Jenna

Name is Jenna

I thank you all.

Edited February 27, 2013 by CandyKisses13

[Vindicare]

While I have no experience with customizing figs, I've heard these two terms thrown around a lot. Waterslide decals & Brasso, those are a customizers best friend, I assume. People use Waterslide to make custom head/torso/leg prints. Brasso, although I'm unsure on how to apply and what amount, but it can remove prints without damaging the plastic. Check out the Minifigure Customs section of the board.

Someone with more knowledge will come along and point you in a better direction.

[Str0ngbad]

Hi Jenna,

Welcome to customizing. I'm really new to this too but I'll help you where I can. Bricklink.com is the easiest way to get parts for customizing but as Legocrazy81 mentioned Brasso can remove the printing from any piece so you don't have to get blank pieces. For example, I recently killed a C-3PO because I needed a pearl gold torso. Brasso is really cheap and very easy to use but it smells AWFUL so if you're sensitive to that kind of thing, you may want to cover your nose. Find a cloth rag of some sort that you don't mind getting stained, put a spot of Brasso on it about the size of a quarter and firmly rub the print that you want removed on the cloth. Repeat until all of the print is gone. Try looking through the tutorials section here for answers to questions like what kind of paper/decals to use, how to apply decals, etc. Also, there is a book available from twomorrows.com called 'Minifigure Customization: Populate Your World' that is cheap and a fantastic investment for anyone who wants to learn about most any part of customization. It details everything from making decals and cloth accessories to molding your own parts.

Edited February 26, 2013 by Str0ngbad

[CorneliusMurdock]

This belongs in the MCW part of the site. I'm moving it there now. There are tutorials there to help.

[CandyKisses13]

I thank you EUROBRICKS team if I shouldn't get respounses from the topics I post on the forums in my email I am sorry for doing that. I am all new to this stuff but thats not an excuse to do something wrong I am deeply sorry. I promise to make my topics about some new stuff or at least try to make it about new stuff.

to Tony or StrOngbad

Thank you deeply for your help. I will keep you in mind when I need a question answered. Cheers. Yes I feel email to email takes more to type then just throwing out a answer on a forum or blog. I thank you for the email to email help and again thank you.

To Legocrazy81

I thank you deeply for your help I will most def be looking into that forum tonight. Also any little bit will help me on my way.

To

CorneliusMurdock

I see now I am sorry for posting that topic. I promise I want start a topic on old or on topics that have been worn out with replies. I thank you for giving me another chance on here. I am new to all this post topic forum stuff. Thank you deeply Jenna Also thank you for letting me know what MCW means.

[Stinky]

Wow! Look at these custom made WW1 German minifig capes!

http://www.marktplaats.nl/a/kinderen-en-baby-s/speelgoed-duplo-en-lego/m649547811-lego-minifig-accesoire-cape.html?c=3c1f5dcc18d02a99040ca8de656940d2&previousPage=lr

I don't want'm.

[CandyKisses13]

They do look nice how much for how many???

[Omicron]

Nice to see a fellow Mass citizen customizing. :P

Since Bricklink and brasso were already brought up, I figured I'd introduce you to custom vendors to expand on your customs.

http://www.arealight...m/shop/home.php

http://www.brickforge.com/store/

http://brickwarriors.com/Shop.aspx

http://www.brickarms.../resellers.aspx

If you need anymore advice, just drop me a message.

-Omi

Edited February 27, 2013 by Omicron

[CandyKisses13]

Thank you Omicron for adding some more places to go to. Yeah Born and raised in Mass and very Irish lol. Again thank you for those websites I will be stopping by them later today.

Jenna