{"id":9794,"date":"2013-08-18T15:31:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T20:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=9794"},"modified":"2013-08-19T08:31:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T13:31:13","slug":"custom-mega-bloks-sgt-forge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=9794","title":{"rendered":"Custom Mega Bloks Sgt. Forge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this custom over on\u00a0bloks.hyperboards.com and just had to share it.<a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MB-Custom-Forge-Alt-Front.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9792\" alt=\"MB Custom Forge Alt Front\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MB-Custom-Forge-Alt-Front-600x450.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MB-Custom-Forge-Alt-Front-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MB-Custom-Forge-Alt-Front-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MB-Custom-Forge-Alt-Front-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MB-Custom-Forge-Alt-Front.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>This is a masterful custom. The paint application and attention to detail is amazing given these minifigs measure between 1-2 inches.<a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MB-Custom-Forge-orth-views.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9793\" alt=\"MB Custom Forge orth views\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MB-Custom-Forge-orth-views-600x365.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MB-Custom-Forge-orth-views-600x365.jpg 600w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MB-Custom-Forge-orth-views-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MB-Custom-Forge-orth-views-493x300.jpg 493w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MB-Custom-Forge-orth-views.jpg 986w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>Notice the detail on the shoulders? On the left it&#8217;s the &#8220;Spirit of Fire&#8221; logo (see below):<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sof_logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-9798\" alt=\"sof_logo\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sof_logo-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sof_logo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sof_logo-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sof_logo.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>Given the size of the figure, that is some amazing detail! The right shoulder has an Ace of Spades card on it. Looks like that&#8217;s sculpted too, not just a simple paint job.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bloks.hyperboards.com\/action\/my_control_panel\/opt\/view_profile\/member_id\/632#Yrkane\">Yrkane<\/a>, the customizer of this excellent minifig shares with me the details of what parts made up this custom:<\/p>\n<p>He was made from stock and modified parts from:<br \/>\n\u2022 a masked Marine<br \/>\n\u2022 Marvel Loki<br \/>\n\u2022 Arctic Pelican pilot<br \/>\n\u2022 H4 Marine<br \/>\n\u2022 the head of a rescuplted Marvel Captain America<br \/>\n\u2022 Yrkane also used shaped styrene to add finer details that aren&#8217;t already on the Mega sculpts<\/p>\n<p>Wow, that is an impressive list of custom parts to make just one figure. But then when you have the results Yrkane did with this one, I&#8217;d say it was <strong>WELL<\/strong> worth it!<\/p>\n<p>Now if only MEGA Bloks would make a Sgt. Forge minifig!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><strong>-Sal<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this custom over on\u00a0bloks.hyperboards.com and just had to share it.This is a masterful custom. The paint application and attention to detail is amazing given these minifigs measure between 1-2 inches.Notice the detail on the shoulders? On the left &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=9794\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fan-art-and-other-non-written-media","category-bloks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9794"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9813,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794\/revisions\/9813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}