Organizing Custom Figures

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I've been doing a lot of customizing lately and it's mostly been within the Marvel Universe. As some of you may have noticed that this blog's url is customgijoefigures.blogspot.com and that the key phrase is "custom gi joe figures".

That being the case, I took it upon myself to create another blogspot for my marvel custom action figures to better organize things. Yeah it probably would've been easier to just continue posting all of my customs on this site, but hey I'm a neat freak sometimes and this is one of them.

I just thought I would give you guys a heads up.

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