Need help finding Weapons & Accessories for Customs

Posted in Custom Workstation

Greetings All!

I have been so HAPPY finding this website and the growing number of websites like this one and The Facebook pages hosting similar material! I have been a collecting for such a VERY long time and in the last year I have been collecting Aves Apoxie Sculpt, over 400 vials of Testors, Citadel, Tamiya and other acrylic paints! I've still been collecting during this time and in the last year I've added 2,000 figures to my already 8,000 MS, ML, MU, DCUC and added WWE Elite, UFC, MMA, TNA WCW for the purpose of customizing. I've been perfecting my techniques between 60 hour work weeks, 12 hours of graduate classes and the most understanding and supportive partner/husband the world has ever known! I wish I'd have done a B.A. In Arts to make my hobby a living but my younger days reading Marvel/DC in the 80's and early 90's lead me down a career path of 7 science degrees and trying to better humanity through science!

My infuriating frustration in the world of customizing is finding weapons and accessories for the 6in figures found for ML and DCUC. I have searched the 1/9th scales, the 1/10th scale, and 1/12th scale figure sites, ebay, amazon, even what other artists have created on the Shopways store for 3D printing and still I have no luck! I have found and used some of the Gears of War weapons which have have been great! The most furious is that 12 in figures like the 1/6th scale G.I. Joe characters or the Sideshow Collectibles 12 in figures have numerous options available to them. Hell, as a collector of the 1/18th scale (3.75in) G.I.Joe figures as a little boy and even now they have a variety and numerous range of weapons to them. I have been collecting and kit bashing 1/6th scale ninja and samurai since high school and even they have uniforms and HIGHLY DETAILED weapons, accessories and armor and yet the MS, ML and DCUC figures are still limited almost 20 years behind what their current sized cousins have readily available to them!

With my current rant over and I stepping down from my soap box...I was DESPERATELY hoping other customizers might have hidden in their toolbox a site, retailer or even artist that can take rough sketches I have and put them in 3D software and print them on their 3D printer? I know it's an expensive route, but I really do want to find some genuinely awesome weapons for my customized figures!

Thanks in Advance for helping this custom newbie!
UFGatorAlumni