Craig Norris
South Wales born. West London living.
Fine Art Degree educated with a passion for wrestling figure customisation and collecting.
An interest that in its initial instance was sparked in the mid 90's after being gifted Hasbro figures of Jake 'The Snake' Roberts and 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan by a friend. Then was truly ignited when I, along with my brother, began collecting wrestling figures in order to both recreate and rewrite the storylines that we saw every week on WWF programming.
With this, the NWF was born.
It was during this time that the seeds of action figure customising were planted. The desire to create characters from tv that were unobtainable in figure form. By anyone's standards, these were hack jobs that were barely passable as the real thing but with enough paint applied here, and imagination there, they did the job.
Fast forward to present-day and both collecting and customising is as big as it's ever been. Not only for me personally, but across all four corners of the globe. Figures and parts are more accessible than they have ever been due to the saturation in the marketplace; there is a vast array of skills and techniques to learn as well as plenty of places and people to learn them from. Not to mention constant inspiration. Numerous sources of weekly wrestling, with wrestlers reinventing themselves and their attires on a frequent basis. Plenty of fodder (pun intended) for us creative types to choose from.
Feel free to browse through the catalogues of both my personally created customs as well as my personal figure collection. I hope that they provide you with the same intrigue and inspiration that I find when I immerse myself into this hobby.
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