I began customizing...
my figures long before Jay Boy and I started collaborating. I was customizing when I was getting "hammered" and "bashed" on other sites saying my players looked like army men and Frankenstein and everything else.
I once stepped on one of my figures in the early days of FF.COM and realize that "I could take what some see as a negative and turn it into a positive". This meant that while most were highly critical of my softer than traditional plastic, for what I wanted to show, it made customizing even more easy. I then took my knowledge of engineering, especially in metallurgy, and concluded ways of taking our product plastic and heating it and then re-cooling it to shape whatever I wanted.
I showed this process to my good friend Jay Boy. He then came to my house and I showed him many ways to enhance the figures. He showed me some of his methods as well. I think we stayed up about 50 straight hours just hanging out.
But out of necessity and "rage", I took a negative and turned it into a positive. I now produce well over 1,000 different custom figures and it came from knowing sites and people thought so bad of what I was doing. I have DVDs that show people how to do the same thing. Not many vendors or people would be willing to give back after being slammed so negatively.
Old School, my friend, while your memories are fond, mine are not so fond. But what I did was for the good of the game. And now, guys are customizing all over the country using the figures that many criticized and are doing an outstanding job with them. I don't think customizing players hurt teams but enhance the overall miniature football experience.
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