#custom stand

I designed a stand for my cousin a while back and a finally getting around to posting it! This is my first stand design ever, so it’s probably not the best, but I’m proud of it so here it is! Since my hand writing is completely illegible, I’ll explain it, and tell a bit about the design process.

the song I chose for the stand was Bang! By AJR, so most parts of the stand are based off of lines in the song. I started with the head design, and I looked at a bunch of pictures of stands IN JJBA to get an idea of some common themes, such as the stand eyes and lack of real hair (excluding some examples such as Star Platinum). I knew I wanted it to be a smaller humanoid hoard stand. I really liked the idea of having two mouths, because I thought it fit with the chaotic song. The line in the song, ‘I’m way to young to lie here forever, I’m way to old to die so whatever’ made me want to balance older and younger stereotypes, which inspired me to make flowing fabric almost tied in a bun on one side of the head, to imitate hair, and the other side I made hard metal as if bald. I gave the stand a metal smiley mask that retracts into pieces on the side of its head when it’s fighting, because of the line ‘so put your best face on everybody’. The smiley mask is supposed to be way less intimidating than the two fanged mouths, so as soon as it retracts and you see it’s real face you know you’re dead.

As soon as I heard the line ‘I get up, I get down, and I’m jumping around’ a spring popped into my mind, so I decided that instead of legs, the stand would have a spring that had a platform at the base for balance. Finally, I decided to make it very gun themed because the song IS titled Bang so I figured it was fitting, hence the machine gun belt and guns that come out of its arms. I drew the final stand as a whole, and here we are! Most of this process was done way too late at night, so a lot of things probably don’t make any sense at all, but its fiiiinee

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Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Stand Commission for @atomesque

In late November 2018, DarkLyte Customs announced that he will be closing his Etsy store permanently. He said he will be closing because “[s]ome big changes are happening for myself and my family (all very good). With that being said, I will not have time to continue running DarkLyte Customs like I have been on Etsy” (Source: DarkLyte Customs Facebook post, Nov. 2018). Although the store has occasionally been closed temporarily to process a backlog of orders, the exact closing date, which would presumably be in 2019, is unknown.

DarkLyte Customs Arcylic Lightsaber Stands DarkLyte Customs has made many acrylic lightsaber stands. Some of stands are basic, generic stands (with or without logos), designed to accommodate lightsaber hilts of varying shapes and sizes.

Other stands are tailored to specific lightsaber hilt models and runs. DarkLyte Customs has made custom lightsaber stands designed for hilts from: Korbanth, Roman Props, Solo’s Hold, etc. For example, the DarkLyte Customs Blind Knight Stand is designed to accommodate the specific size and shape of the Solo’s Hold Blind Knight lightsaber hilt.

DarkLyte Customs had previously also made some larger-sized lightsaber stands, illuminated with LEDs.

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DarkLyte Customs Blind Knight Stands (left) and DarkLyte Customs Illuminated LED | IMAGE CREDIT DarkLyte Customs

DarkLyte Customs Saberlok 2.0 Belt Clip | IMAGE CREDIT DarkLyte Customs

DarkLyte Customs SaberLok 2.0 and SaberLok-D belt clips DarkLyte Customs also used to make the SaberLok 2.0 and SaberLok-D belt clips. The SaberLok 2.0 was a popular Covertec belt clip alternative. SaberLok-D was a belt clip designed to secure a lightsaber hilt with a D-ring. The company stopped making SaberLok belt clips in 2017.

Although DarkLyte Customs says he is leaving Etsy, he asserts he is NOT leaving the custom lightsaber community altogether. He says that in the future he intends to occasionally release limited runs of lightsaber stands on The Replica Prop Forum (RPF) or The Rebel Armory (TRA).

DarkLyte Customs Etsy Store [AFFILIATE LINK] https://www.etsy.com/shop/DarkLyteCustoms

DarkLyte Customs Facebook announcement of Etsy store closing https://www.facebook.com/darklytecustoms

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