A fan-fiction project I created almost 10 years ago, DEADLINE is a team of intergalactic bounty hunters that patrol the galaxy serving justice for those that can afford it. Originally conceived as a comic book series, it will soon become a series of customized action figures starring in their own photonovels!

Hopper is a Rodian tracker. He is best at scouting out an ememy camp, completley unseen. Hopper was genetically enhanced by Dr. Evazan with stronger than normal leg muscles with enable his to not only jump long distances, but also kick with enough power to knock out a wall. He was also equipped with razor-sharp talons on his hands and feet, which enable him to climb walls or cut through plasteel.

This is one of those customs that looked really cool on paper! Not to say that I don't like the results, but man, they took a LONG time to do!

I started off with a Battle Droid (Boomer Damage) and added a lot of sculpey! I wanted to maintain the articulataion, and the "Boomer Droid" offered the best legs of all the droids so far. I sculpted the muscles and costume onto the figure, curing the sculpey each time I completed a limb.

I did this so many times, that almost all the joints broke on this figure! Truly disappointing. But I glued them back together and I am hapy to report that they still move even if they are not very sturdy.

I opted to make Hopper a Rodian instead of trying to make the odd face seen on the reference drawing. partly because I had an extra head, and partly because I wanted to make the scaly texture on the body. I did this by gently rolling a severed Bossk arm over the sculpy before curing it. The reulst is that he looks more reptillian now than he was originally.

The next challenge was to make the "hair" on this guy. Originally I thought it would be some kind of hair for the alien, or perhaps spikes coming from the back of his head. I tried to make them with sculpey, but they kept breaking. So, I tried to use the Crayola Model Magic but I couldn't get the right shape. I ended up slicing up a Princess Leia skirt and gluing it to the back of his head. I'm not totally happy with the result, but I'll leave it for now.