While "Model Officer" was the title of my Star Wars: Empire #35, I'm using the phrase more literally this time. While I have dabbled with art now and again, it only took me a couple of attempts at sculpture to decide that my talents lay elsewhere. Leave it to those who can!
One who obviously can is Dayton Allen, a Florida commercial artist and hobbyist who has been keeping the Knights of the Old Republic comics team posted on his progress with rendering our favorite renegade Mandalorian, Rohlan, as a custom action figure.
Readers have seen a little more of Rohlan each issue lately – he's first seen in a cameo #6, heard in #7, and unmasked in #8. Dayton first showed us his take on a masked Rohlan figure a few weeks after #7 came out – and, following #8, he added new details for the character's face and backpack.
It's a hobby for Dayton — he's got more online at his site — and the work looks great to me. It was fun when my and Steve Ellis' design for Crimson Dynamo became a Heroclix figure; this is pretty cool, too!