The most recent DOOM game has been laying dormant on my hard drive, still waiting to be played, and this custom is going to push me to finally do it.

CBC dove recklessly into customizing, crashing onto the scene with two crackin' customs of video game action heroes. For this piece, they did something I wish I had done when I started so long ago, which is to think of existing figures as blank slates on which to build on. Working on a figure with existing details tempts us to work around them instead of addressing the inaccuracies, so the results aren't entirely faithful to the character.

"Almost" isn't good enough. If you want your skills to improve you need to practice as often as possible. Take that base figure and obliterate the surface. Grab some clay and calipers and get to work! Maybe you end up with a masterpiece, maybe you just make a mess, but keep trying.

On the flipside, any time I get the chance to cut corners and simultanously add more accurate details, I take it haha. Heads and iconic accessories are incredibly important in making a figure recognizable, it's what our eyes naturally gravitate towards first, so if you're fortunate enough to have access to a 3D printer (and a friend who can sculpt digitally...) make full use of it.