Custom Card Backs Questions

Leemcl

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I recently saw a seller on eBay selling off a collection of POTF custom carded figures. The listing was honest in that these were not original. One I really liked the look of was the Lando Skiff Guard with Falcon coin. It was over £30 so I could not justify that at the time, as it is essentially a £10-15 figure and that means the repro card would be worth around £15-20 which I can't see me paying, although that said someone did buy it for £30 and I regret in a sense not buying it, but then the bigger part of my collectors heart has no passion for reproduction stuff and I personally would prefer loose figures to recarded / repeo and while I do have a few double figures I would like to card again I am unlikely to ever do so as it seems wrong.

However, Does anyone else do their own customs for their display reasons ? If yes, how hard is it to actually get a custom card & bubble ( without ordering from Spain via eBay )

I can see making a card is not too tricky, although time consuming and no doubt expensive, but how the hell would you make a Bubble ? That seems impossible Especially something like POTF bubble, which is hardly standard ........Maybe that £30 was justifiable after all :?

My question is one of interest only...not planning on repro carding 92 loose figures with an iron or anything, so no moral arguments please :-)
 
Let the countdown begin.....

To what fellas ? I am not sure what I asked was in any sense controversial. It's not a case of commercial gain or affecting anything vintage or distracting from anything vintage. My motivation was to ask a question.

& Lando Skiff POTF being the reason for the question. this being a figure I have a focus on and was never released on a POTF card, which looked interesting when another collector seemed to have made one available on a clearly marked custom card ?

If in some sense I have said / done something wrong then apologies up front for that. But I am not sure what.
 
:) thanks Tiefighterboy

I have made my question a bit clearer, hope that helps.

As Lando Skiff was never commercially available on a POTF card what I saw would have been a custom and not a repro I'd assume.

Really did not mean to poke any hornet nests :oops:
 
Customs like those unproduced POTF carded figures can be a fun novelty item for a focus (especially if you aren't going to miss the £20-30 it costs to buy one) but ultimately they'll always look out of place in a display and they are so badly made you might as well throw your money in the bin.

If you think about it, for the price of one of those customs you could probably just add a tenner and buy a vintage MOC variant for your focus that you might not have yet (anakin sticker, coin offer etc etc) - I know which one I would rather have.

Trust me on this one, save your money :) http://starwarsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5852
 

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