This year for my friend Doug’s birthday, my wife and I hooked up one of the best customs that we’ve ever worked on together.
About a year ago I found Doug’s signature flight jacket on ebay … only it was a 1/6 scale version. Instantly I thought, my god I must make a Doug toy.
Then, about [...]
Coming at’cha! Gundum fused Optimus Prime!
I made this “kitbash” fig from an Optimus bust and old Gundum kit and two pencil lead cases (the thighs). He represents a sorta Cybertron Optimus Prime. I imagined that basic tractor trailer look that Optimus always has, but thinner and little more dynamic than the old school fig.
So, for this year’s Comiccon (July ‘07) I did this Proto-Lobster Johnson.
Essentially I was chatting with Mike Mignola at some event, and I mention how I loved the Blackhawk design and additionally how cool the “Lobster Johnson” take was. At some point I also mentioned how I wanted to start making limited edition 12″ [...]
Here’s a Robin Custom I made. Everything is made from other toys. Super-deformed Teen Titans Robin head, Daredevil Mego sized costume, Ghost in the Shell boots, gloves from a Paulo Parente Dust figure and a belt from a 6″ Dark Knight Returns Batman. The cape I made from an old leather coat (with some armature [...]
To my delight, I’ve finally found the Vincent Price Fig from Neca. It’s old and limited but I got it! The face sculpt is so amazing. it reminds me of Alfred from Batman. Or The flash from the JSA Liberty Files Elseworlds comic
Unfortunately his clothes were a huge disappointment, so I made some new ones. [...]
Here’s birthday gift for a dear friend of ours
He’s sort of a variation of the Bushman design (which is based off of the Goon designs from Thimble Theatre):
The finished Mr Netter!
He ended up more Punk than I originally had in mind, but aw….. well, God Save the Queen! He’s better than I imagined, I really got into this piece. It was fun to sculpt something that I didn’t directly create. Even though I had a lot of input and freedom with this, [...]
Here’s how I made Mr. Netter:
I started off with a light weight Dragon body. It’s not a neo 3 but it is one of the newer body types they have. After Removing the head I used the existing peg with a half sphere on the bottom to mount my polymer clay under structure.
From there, I [...]
I haven’t been keeping up on the blog, mainly because we’re so busy. Geez, we have all kinds of stuff going on, and it truly never ends.
What are we up to right now you say? Well, other than being kinda sick and unable to accomplish as much as we’d like to, I’m personally crafting [...]
As I assumed The Invisibles turned out to change in a radically wild direction. I sincerely was hoping that it would and thank goodness. There are some amazing stories and characters. There’s even a little homage to the EC Comics style of “Tales from the Crypt” era books.
The homage is not so much a [...]
