Customized toys

[Darediva]

Anybody here do customs? I'm pretty much a novice customizer, but I have fun doing some Mighty Muggs, since they never did a Daredevil Mugg. Currently working on a Shadowland costume DD, waiting for the issue to come out so I can get some details.

Let's see your custom toys!

[Station]

Customs are pretty cool! I collect mostly 1/6 scale figures now, but there are a ton of awesome customisers in that community. I've been working on a redskull off and on and someone just made a DIY mad max that I'm having a hard time not getting. Once I have some done, I'll post some pics. I'm also making some custom display cases.

[nacho]

If you don't count head-swaping GIJoes 25 years ago, these custom Revoltech Transformers are my first real custom attempts, so I don't pretend they are perfect. For these, I experimented a lot with minor sculpting, molding & resin casting parts, painting etc. I certainly learned a lot that will go into making future customs better. But, these are what they are, good, bad, or otherwise.

[nacho]

[nacho]

[BillETM]

That Shockwave is too cool

[nacho]

Thanks! Honestly, I really didn't know what I was doing, so I made it up as I went. But overall, I thought it turned out pretty good for a first effort.

[Dezreavey]

[Johnny M]

I always wanted to give it a try, but I dont think I have the the creative talent or time needed to do anything worth talking about.

[nacho]

[BillETM]

[Darediva]

Shadowland Daredevil minimate:



And in a very spoiler-filled pose here:

I made the chest part in photoshop and printed it onto an address label, since I don't have any decal paper right now, and painted a spare minimate in acrylic enamel, swapping out the head from the armored Daredevil minimate that came out earlier.

[Darediva]

Nice job on the transformers, Nacho! Lots of fun, isn't it?

[Johnny M]

[nacho]

[bigraj]

Been dabbling in customizing for over 2 years, probably close to 3, at this point. It's mostly simple repaint and parts swaps, but I've started to do a little sculpting. Here's some of the more recent projects:

Modern Luke Cage. Started as a WWE Elite R-Truth figure from Mattel, using a Brother Devon figure from Marvel Toys TNA line.



Some Lantern customs - This guy is unnamed, but he uses the DCUC John Stewart body, Hal Jordan forearms and fists, and a DCD Warlord head:
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Here's one with the variant AOA Weapon X head. It's on a wrong-torso GL body from the Abin Sur/Hal Jordan 2-pk.


And this gal uses an ML Sue Storm head. From one of the boxed sets, IIRC. Figured her large eyes (compared to DCUC figures) and strange hair gave an alien-enough appearance.


A Sinestro Corps member using the movie Colossus head and some silver paint on his hands and neck:


And this guy, who I think I'll call Na'gol (real creative, I know), makes use of the AOA Weapon X figure. Did a little fur sculpting on the backs of his hands to help out the overall look:



The DCUC Wave 9 "blue" Wildcat was clearly purple, so I decided to blue him up. First, I mixed up a little of Testor's Model Masters Dark Blue with Tamiya's Flat Blue and did a heavy drybrush all over.


Then, I mixed some of the Testor's Dark Blue with some Testor's Flat White, and did a lighter drybrushing over the darker blue. Got a little sloppy in a couple of areas, but I've seen worse from toy companies. I'm happy with him.


This guy's almost a year old. I traded for a DCD Tomar Re to put his head on a DCUC GL body, but needed to do some serious work before it would look decent:


Had to dremel quite a bit of the neck and then add green stuff to hold onto the neck peg.

[Dezreavey]

Darediva - That looks really cool!!

[BillETM]

Hey bigraj do you have a pic of all your Green Lanterns? I think that would be cool.

[bigraj]

Here's the ones I could dig up real quick. I've done a couple of other SC Corps members since. I'll have to look for the updated display pics when I get home.

[Johnny M]

Awesome stuff. Can you go over the supplies you use? Isnt there a special clay for the sculpting? What kind of paint? etc.