Hi everyone, Craig Warrack here with another of my custom action figures and this
time it's a whopper! He's mean, he's partially green... he's got a lot of
suspicious fan art. It's the main villain from the Mario games...
It's Bowser! This figure took me over a year to make so I won't detail the
inspiration, research and customising process in this video. I'll save that for
one of my workshop videos. I'll... um... just have to make that video first of all, so
please do bear with me. Oh! I know! If you want to be notified when that video goes
live, hit the subscribe button! Anyway here's Bowser! He stands 16 inches tall
from his toes to the tip of his horns and weighs about the same as a newborn
human baby. When you put him next to Mario, his size really hits home. (Mario
you don't stand a chance.) I made him this big because I wanted him to be a
companion piece to the Ganon figure I made 5 years ago.
Bowser is hand sculpted and painted and here's a little side-by-side of what he
looked like before I customized him for this design of Bowser I really wanted to
make him less cartoonish and more monstrous I focused on realizing the
textures of his height horns and skills I also wanted to play around with the
chimera design of the character being some kind of combination between
traditional Eastern dragon and turtle and a vaguely humanoid form
I also played around with why this character was always portrayed with this
well as caused by the Spade bondage gear on I'm not king shaming the guy you do
you big guy but it's certainly a head scratcher when it comes to
reinterpreting the character but what I came up with is that these bonds are
actually manacles the suggestion being that he was once held prisoner and bound
in chains unlocking the monocle around his neck a lock bearing the crest of
Princess Peach toadstool maybe that explains why he saw inter captioning her
and conquering the Mushroom Kingdom maybe they were the ones who started the
whole thing by holding him prisoner just a different take on that story God
had his Trident so I didn't want Bowser to turn up unarmed so he has this giant
battle ax this is a nod to the axon the drawbridges that he guarded in the video
games and the design is a combination of various great ideas that were kindly
sent to me by my followers on Instagram the axe is decorated with ones from
Mario 3 lava cracked metal a possible banner and chain chomps with possible
chains part of the original suggested design was for it to include these
macabre Koopalings skulls bound together by chains I couldn't actually work them
into the ax design and practice but I created them as separate accessories for
him to hold what's the story behind these accessories well I guess that
butts up for debate Bowser has interchangeable hands he has these
grasping hands and these open fists designed for him to hold his axe because
the axe saw elaborate it's not possible to slide it through the fists but I have
used magnets to allow the fest to separate and close tightly around the
handle of the axe articulation wise Bowser has all the articulation you'd
expect from a modern action figure and maybe a little bit more Bowser's head
articulates at the top of his neck and at the bottom he also has articulation
in his jaw and his tongue is also flexible he has rotation at the shoulder
his arms move up this much to the side there's rotation at the top of the bicep
there are double jointed elbows that been this far there's rotation at the
wrists and also hinges Bowser has a diaphragm joint the bends side to side
forward and back all around and also rotates it's worth pointing out here
that there is also articulation at the point where Bowser shell joins to his
bike so that it can pivot and move slightly making sure that it doesn't
inhibit the rest of his articulation he has articulation at the hips he can kick
him this far forward and a little bit back and out to the
site he also has rotation at the top of his thighs he has double jointed knees
that bend this farm rotation in the middle of his calves hinges and swivels
are his ankles and two articulation his tail is also articulated with five ball
joints so that's a quick look at my Bowser custom I hope you guys like him
and hit the like button but remember he's not for sale and I don't take
commissions I just like shading my work with you and hopefully encourage you to
try your own hand at customizing action figures I've been asked if I'm going to
make a Mario figure to go with them or some other Nintendo characters but I
have no particular plans to do so at the moment if you want to see a custom of a
particular Nintendo character or any other character why not give it a try
yourself no one can make your ideal figure except you you can check out my
other custom action figures here on my channel and if you liked Bowser maybe
you'll get a kick out of my previous Nintendo custom of Ganon where ever you
go from here though remember pour on the power bye bye