About Us

The artist known as "Barbarossa" has been creating custom action figures and parts for over fifteen years. Well-known to the MOTU collector community, his work has been focused on filling the voids and expanding the boundaries of action figure lines. The launch of barbarossasculpts.com is the culmination of a career in customs, a lifetime of love for action figures, and childhood dreams coming to fruition. Barbarossa digitally and traditionally designs and sculpts his creations and offers hand-crafted full figures, heads, parts and accessories compatible with multiple action figure lines.

TLDR: This site presents the work of a single action-figure-obsessed artist who is hell-bent on filling the gaps in his favorite action figure lines and wants to share his work with fellow-collectors. We're an extremely small operation (one craftsman and one assistant) and everything that's crafted is done so by hand. We strive to make things look as impressive as possible but make no mistake, this is the quintessential mom & pop operation!

The Products
These items are intended to complement and be compatible with various action figure lines and scales. Everything sold on this site is hand-crafted. We do NOT sell 3D prints; instead, everything is traditionally-poured resin castings from hand-poured silicone rubber molds. This affords the full breadth of options in colors, materials hardness, flexibility and effects, ensuring the same quality brought to the collector community all these years.

Pieces are colored ALL the way through; not just on the surface. The resin itself is colored the base color of any particular piece; painted details are the only surface-level coloration. These pieces are as close to the look and feel of 'production' pieces as you're likely to find!

Sculpts are created in 3D with each modeled piece is initially printed in high detail SLS or MSLA/LCD/Resin. Parts are then professionally cleaned and polished and serve as prototypes to be used for the silicone-rubber molds. Sourced-pieces may include base-bodies for full figures which may be painted or used as-is, certain soft-goods and of course, various supplies such as electronics components.

Ordering

All products are hand-crafted and made-to-order (except where otherwise noted) and sold as pre-orders. Orders ship in up to 12 weeks but sometimes may take longer (we strive to deliver in less than 6 weeks when possible and stay in touch as necessary without flooding your inbox).

Full payment is collected at time of purchase. Some variation may occur from photos. Some products (mainly full custom figures) may include sourced pieces from existing items and are so indicated. Products are for ADULT COLLECTORS ONLY. This site is strictly aimed only at adult collectors. These are NOT toys for children. For more information, refer to the Disclosures page.

No generative AI is used in the creation of any of the sculpts or illustrations presented on this site.