![[Merryman and Dumb Bunny of the Inferior Five] Merryman and Dumb Bunny of DC's Inferior Five (or 5.) A funny 1960s comic like they don't hardly make no more. They were revived by Phil Foglio in his Angel & The Ape miniseries, where DB and Merryman finally fell in love. Both are children of superheroes. DB is super-strong. Merryman has no powers, which is why he's dragging his mallet instead of carrying it. Bunny is made from a Xena (amazon build) with X-Men Storm hair and Bugs Bunny ears. She should have a red leotard, but pink is more appropriate. And I gave her bunny slippers because they're funny. Merryman is made from Disney's Atlantis Milo Thatch fast-food figure. I cut his hat and neckpiece from plastic card, then warped it over a candle. Also cut his mouth open and added teeth. Cut his finger loose to point. The rest is green putty. I suspect Merryman was modeled on Woody Allen. Bunny echoes the Playboy Bunnies of Playboy Clubs, and I still wonder how DC got away with that in the 1960s. Bunny will hold a r](userimages/customs/47500/47457-1.jpg) Merryman and Dumb Bunny of the Inferior Five DC Universeby claytonemeryMerryman and Dumb Bunny of DC's Inferior Five (or 5.) A funny 1960s comic like they don't hardly make no more. They were revived by Phil Foglio in hi...1 comments | ![[Shermy of the Peanuts Gang] Shermy of the Peanuts gang, Charlie Brown's oldest friend. With the distinction of appearing in the very first strip and setting the tone for oddball comment to come. Made from a Linus head and Charlie Brown winter coat body and hunting hat. Schulz drew two types of heads: round and squash-shaped. I had to widen Shermy's skull with green putty to make him look older. I also inserted thick card into his legs to make him taller. His hair is plastic string fitted piece by piece on end for a crew cut. The baseball was luckily a Christmas ornament. The bat is made from a pen. I want each Peanuts character to have an iconic prop, and nobody else had baseball equipment. I painted him and Dullcoted, then drew on the features with an .003 art marker. Shultz named Shermy after a childhood friend, but phased him out, saying, "I only used Shermy when a character needed someone boring to talk to." Hey, a boring friend who listens - pure gold](userimages/customs/47500/47227-1.jpg) Shermy of the Peanuts Gang |
![[Medusa] Marvel's Medusa of the Inhumans, then Frightful Four, then later the Fantastic Four. Project took forever, came out... OK. Had no idea how I was going to proceed. Started with the Toy Biz figure, but she has pipestem arms and a dull face. Swapped in a movie Jean Grey and Storm with repositioned limbs. Went with the original Kirby design with light magenta-dark magenta because she's here in the Frightful Four. Her costume bands are bread ties. Gouged holes in the back and head and inserted coat hanger wire bound with epoxy. Thickened it with Concrete Patch (Home Depot) because it laid on smooth like hair. Tt gave her a spidery effect. So I twisted plastic card over a candle and glued it between the hair extensions, then trimmed the ends like hair. Coated all with many layers of Patch. (She's wicked heavy.) Painted in orange, various tones, then tried a brown wash that stuck, so left it as a topcoat. Results are - there. The idea is she'll be strangling Invisible Woman, an](userimages/customs/46500/46329-1.jpg) Medusa Marvelby claytonemeryMarvel's Medusa of the Inhumans, then Frightful Four, then later the Fantastic Four. Project took forever, came out... OK. Had no idea how I was goi...4 comments | ![[Violet from the Peanuts Gang] Violet (last name Grey, who knew?) from Peanuts, standing here with previously-seen Patty. Made from a Lucy key chain. I added a insert to her legs to make her taller, since the girls are a year older than Charlie Brown. I cut the hair bumps from the back of Lucy's head and glued them at the temples. Her hair is very dark brown, not black (every painter knows this, right?) She has a plastic ponytail added with a hair ribbon of purple embroidery thread looted from my wife's sewing basket, and a slight sunburn from playing outdoors. Her tray holds mud pies made from green stuff. I've always had a soft spot for the older Peanuts characters who fell by the wayside, so plan to model Shermy to round out the cast.](userimages/customs/45500/45116-1.jpg) Violet from the Peanuts Gang |
![[Ambush Bug and Cheeks the Toy Wonder] Everyone's favorite crazy "superhero" Ambush Bug and his sidekick, Cheeks the Toy Wonder. Except Cheeks is really a Cabbage Patch doll knockoff, which Bug never seems to realize. Bug is from an Indiana Jones Toht figure ground way down (he had glasses and was short). The effect left baggy wrinkles in Bug's suit, which is typical. His antenna are florist wire. Cheeks is modded from some Dino-rider figure who looked like an infant to start.](userimages/customs/44000/43516-1.jpg) Ambush Bug and Cheeks the Toy Wonder DC Universeby claytonemeryEveryone's favorite crazy "superhero" Ambush Bug and his sidekick, Cheeks the Toy Wonder. Except Cheeks is really a Cabbage Patch doll knoc...2 comments | ![[Emerald Empress] Emerald Empress of the Fatal Five, arch-foes of the Legion of Super-Heroes. And the Emerald Eye of Ekron with its eerie power. She's made from a Psylocke with Phoenix arms to get outspread fingers. The cape is Gladiator's? with the collar cut to points and bent over teakettle steam. Her jacket was made in two stages. I glued plastic string as piping to form a coffer dam, then poured in layers of white glue to build up thicknesses. It dries slowly so self-levels. The edges of her sleeves, gloves, and boots are plastic card and the rest green putty. Her jewels are from a craft's store jewelry section glued on after the Dullcote. A crooked stainless steel rod enters her back to hook her onto the wreckage behind so she's hovering, so looking down on the heroes with disdain. The Eye is from a small globe sanded down but left grainy. Its rod pierces her cape in two places with a hook to stop it. Her costume is modeled after her first appearance drawn by Curt Swan.](userimages/customs/43500/43494-1.jpg) Emerald Empress DC Universeby claytonemeryEmerald Empress of the Fatal Five, arch-foes of the Legion of Super-Heroes. And the Emerald Eye of Ekron with its eerie power. She's made from a Psy...4 comments |
![[Flash] Flash adapted from a boring stand-up Super Powers Flash. He had the same broad chest as Superman and Batman, but I figure a runner should have a lean build and oversized legs. So I split the chest down and sliced some out of the middle. I also shaved down the top of his head, which was too tall, and thinned his cheeks. And added an athletic cup because male figures shouldn't look emasculated. I shaved off the soft wing bumps and replaced with sharp-looking card. And notched the boot soles. And cut a jagged belt, which required each point to be glued down by hand. It's interesting the figure has hard plastic parts except for the hands and feet, which are rubbery plastic, probably so the feet holes can accommodate pegs to stand up. I PhotoShopped the chest emblem, glued it on, then painted and inked over it. I tried for a Carmine Infantino pose. The jagged lightning on the gloves came out poor, but I gave up trying. I've left him shiny so far, no Dull Cote, for a flashy loo](userimages/customs/43500/43399-1.jpg) Flash Super Powersby claytonemeryFlash adapted from a boring stand-up Super Powers Flash. He had the same broad chest as Superman and Batman, but I figure a runner should have a lea...0 comments | ![[Old West Undertaker] I owe it to the wife. I was trying to decide which Old West town features to represent - just the front facade hanging on a wall - when the wife said, "You need an undertaker's shop." I had been thinking "Only cowboys", but that idea lit up like a light bulb. "Oh, I could have an entire town full of all kinds of interesting Western figures!" not just cowboys and gunmen like Wyatt Earp. So saloon girls, storekeepers, kids, dogs. A lot of fun work ahead. Anyway, had a black suit from a cheap Wyatt Earp (not the Sideshow). Picked out a random head with piercing eyes (later recognized it's Sean Connery as James Bond). Stacked up a top hat by cutting a wine cork into his head to get a core, then steamed a brim and jammed that down around his head, then rolled a tube of plastic around and wedged in cotton balls to get the round shape. Wrapped the hat in masking tape and painted with gray-black then some dark purple for that "rusty" look. Used](userimages/customs/42500/42450-1.jpg) Old West Undertaker Jonah Hexby claytonemeryI owe it to the wife. I was trying to decide which Old West town features to represent - just the front facade hanging on a wall - when the wife said...1 comments |
![[Mademoiselle Marie] Mademoiselle Marie, DC's French Resistance Fighter of WWII, oft-time ally of Sgt. Rock in 12 inches. Marie was part of the ill-advised Dreams & Visions line where DC figures got GI Joed. Gorgeous figures, but way overpriced, so a quick death. The Marie doll didn't look anything like the comics, with thick hair, a voluptuous body, and blue eye shadow. Part of Marie's appeal is she looks almost like a girl fighting the big bad Nazis. So I swapped in a slender body and some head that looks vaguely French, a good likeness. I had to paint her skin (she was jaundiced) and reposition her bangs, then Dullcote. I cut off all the snaps and sewed the clothes close to her body. Then changed her Thompson for a German-captured machine gun and ammo pouch, which is sewn to the belt. Her one stick of dynamite was too long, so I cut it to scale and painted it pink-red like real dynamite. Vive la France!](userimages/customs/42000/41532-1.jpg) Mademoiselle Marie DC Universeby claytonemeryMademoiselle Marie, DC's French Resistance Fighter of WWII, oft-time ally of Sgt. Rock in 12 inches. Marie was part of the ill-advised Dreams & Vi...1 comments | ![[Angel and Ape] "Who are they? What are they?" Angel and the Ape. 1960's funny comic from DC drawn by Joe Orlando, hilariously revived in the 1980s by Phil Foglio. Sam Simeon is a gorilla passing as human and a cartoonist. Angel O'Day is a judo expert. They're detectives. Angel is some reposed fast-food figure (Megara from Disney's Hercules?) I used paper clip wire to hold Concrete Patch for her pointy hair. Her mod dress is coffee filter paper dipped in white glue laid over a plastic hoop skirt. The dress is copied from a vintage 1960s mod design. No idea why her hair is white. Angel actually never uses a gun, but I figured she needed it to look like a detective. Sam is a TMNT Sgt. Bananas gorilla body and a Dollar Store gorilla head. I had to build his left foot (the one that shows, naturally) from scratch as it wore a shoe. His hair is doll hair patched with white putty. His tie is a picture of a real vintage tie, printed on a color printer, then cut and rolled to size. H](userimages/customs/41000/40694-1.jpg) Angel and Ape DC Universeby claytonemery"Who are they? What are they?" Angel and the Ape. 1960's funny comic from DC drawn by Joe Orlando, hilariously revived in the 1980s by Ph...6 comments |
![[Jonah Hex in 12 Inches] Jonah Hex in 12 inches. Bought the DC Direct Movie version, didn't like the changes, so changed it back. Ground Jonah's eye and cheek bigger, ground off the goatee, repainted all, including fair hair. Lost the duster and substituted a Civil War coat. Cut off one holster and added a Russian belt (distressed with a brown marker) to hold the belly gun. Swapped in blue pants (painted with acrylics) and added pleather conchos to his boots. Gummed his hat on with poster putty. Compare the box art to the Tony Dezuniga (RIP) cover. He could be broader in the chest. Wrapping his chest with duct tape would do it, but those tiny buttons are a pain.](userimages/customs/40500/40485-1.jpg) Jonah Hex in 12 Inches DC Directby claytonemeryJonah Hex in 12 inches. Bought the DC Direct Movie version, didn't like the changes, so changed it back. Ground Jonah's eye and cheek bigger, ground...1 comments | ![[Gorilla Grodd] Gorilla Grodd, AKA Super-Gorilla Grodd. Easy cut, repose, fill, paint. I liked the yelly face but wanted more action, so tilted him way back for a "Come and get me, heroes!" or "I will conquer the world!" or just a primal scream. I filled the gaps with scrap plastic and then Concrete Patch (Home Depot) roughed in shaggy. The prop rod is offset under one shoulder blade so hidden by his leg when viewed from the front. Painted with dark gray, then progressively lighter grays here and there, until a final dry wash of very light gray in highlight spots. Also painted on nipples. I like that he's big as a mountain, very scary, and that's in addition to his super-genius mind control.](userimages/customs/40500/40484-1.jpg) Gorilla Grodd DC Directby claytonemeryGorilla Grodd, AKA Super-Gorilla Grodd. Easy cut, repose, fill, paint. I liked the yelly face but wanted more action, so tilted him way back for a &...4 comments |
![[Captain Fear] Captain Fear. Obscure historical figure from DC comics created by Archie Goodwin(?) and Walt Simonson. Fero was a Carib Indian when his tribe was enslaved by pirates. Leading a revolt, he took the costume and name "Captain Fear" to fight pirates. He was returned to life by Brian Azzrello and Cliff Chiang in Doctor 13: Architecture and Mortality, a fun parody / homage / defense of obscure DC characters. Except the authors missed Fear's Carib origin and instead made him a Caucasian with a wicked hokey Jamaican accent. He sailed a ghost pirate ship across the sky and lusted after Infectious Lass. Here I used a Powhatan (Pocahontas' dad) head and a Chap Mei Blackbeard body. He wears the traditional Carib bowl haircut with long queue braided from embroidery thread. I replaced the rubbery cutlass blade with scrap metal. The hat was gouged off a PVC Yosemite Sam. His neckerchief is real cloth stiffened with Zap-A-Gap. The feather in his hat is shed from a mourning dove p](userimages/customs/39500/39455-1.jpg) Captain Fear DC Universeby claytonemeryCaptain Fear. Obscure historical figure from DC comics created by Archie Goodwin(?) and Walt Simonson. Fero was a Carib Indian when his tribe was en...1 comments | ![[B.C the Caveman from Jonny Hart's Comic Strip] B.C. the caveman from the Jonny Hart daily comic strip. Quick and dirty, this was a “Can I pull this off?” attempt. He was on my list when a Kermit the Frog surfaced in a box. I cut Kermit’s head to drop his upper lip WAY over his lower lip. The pear-shaped body I reversed to give B.C. his stoop. The legs are Kermit’s lowers. The arms are from a small knock-off guy, as are the hands. I built up this eyepits and brow with Concrete Patch (gray caulking), embedded half-rounds cut from a pen for ears, then laid on plastic string for hair. I sunk small nail heads for his eyes, which may not be right. In the comic strip they’re just black dots. His fur is Tyvek from a post office envelope cut any whichway and glued on. I did a fast job laying on Patch to fill out the legs and arms, so it was lumpy, then figured, “Hey, he’s a caveman,” and left in the lumps. The spear is a chopstick and plastic chunk tied with shreds of jute twine. I](userimages/customs/38500/38232-1.jpg) B.C the Caveman from Jonny Hart's Comic Strip |
![[The Mad Thinker and His Awesome Android] Marvel’s Mad Thinker and his Awesome Android, which he gleefully admits he stole from Reed Richards. Proving that even the junkiest figure can be put to good use, the Android is based on a horrible X-Man Beast. As the WIP pic shows, I ground down his tiny head to become a neck. The head is the torso of a MIB fast food toy. I cut the body across and elongated with layers of card, then drilled into the tops of his thighs and socketed in dowels to make him taller. I then then padded the tiny waist and pelvis with layers of duct tape. I ground off all the straps and junk, fused four fingers into two and added crunchy fingernails, then cut the iron boots short and made chunky toes with nails. I covered him with Home Depot Concrete Patch, a bargain at $4 a tube. The first tube had grit, but the second was just a smooth gray caulking. The stuff is terrific, easy to apply, sets slowly for sculpting. Get it smooth and you won’t need to sand. (Obviously I didn’t go fo](userimages/customs/38500/38058-1.jpg) The Mad Thinker and His Awesome Android Marvelby claytonemeryMarvel’s Mad Thinker and his Awesome Android, which he gleefully admits he stole from Reed Richards. Proving that even the junkiest figure can ...1 comments | ![[Chameleon Boy] Chameleon Boy of the Legion of Super-Heroes. This is Cham’s “Booga Booga!” attack from a recent comic, asin, “Let’s throw everything at this guy and see what scares him!” So he’s morphing into a dragon (headless from the spares box), or a robot (Treasure Planet?), or a warty monster (Spawn creature), or something with tentacles (Biker Mice from Mars and Avatar tails steamed over a tea kettle to bend). Oh, and he’s got a moray eel bursting from his chest (had half a ray from an educational kit, then edged it around with polo shirt cloth stiffened with glue). And he’s elongating his neck (Tarzan’s leg) so it stands above the other changes. His antennas are green florist wire thickened with epoxy. Painting was a Pain. I kept dabbing other parts while trying to get close. The color scheme comes from a minor scandal on an old Legion letters page. Readers asked, “What happens to Cham’s uniform when he morphs?&rd](userimages/customs/38500/38057-1.jpg) Chameleon Boy DC Directby claytonemeryChameleon Boy of the Legion of Super-Heroes. This is Cham’s “Booga Booga!” attack from a recent comic, asin, “Let’s thr...4 comments |
![[Robot 12, Monster Killer] Robot 13, Monster Killer. Obscure mini-series from Blacklist Studios, very gritty and epic. Check it out.
Robot 13 is not a steampunk robot, but rather an "alchemal" robot fashioned in Ancient Greece to fight monsters. In flashback he's a shining gold and bronze hero. Then he fell into the ocean for 2,000 years to be dredged up in 1939. The shine is gone, and he's a stripped-down mess. And, we learn, the robot's "magic" central processing unit was some guy's head. Never daunted, R13 picks up where he left off, hunting down squids and a Cyclops, whom he kills by basically slamming a fisherman's hatchet into its skull till it stops moving.
He's made of scrap. His torso is a plumbing fitting and a wine cork on a GI Joe pelvis. His skull is from a kid's toy glued inside a 1-inch acrylic test tube that took two years to find while he waited on the back of the shelf. He's lit by a torch lifted from a kid's castle. Wires trail out the back, and I just left the](userimages/customs/37500/37346-1.jpg) Robot 12, Monster Killer | ![[Charlie Brown and the Kite-Eating Tree] Charlie Brown and his nemesis, the Kite-Eating Tree. CB is from the Peanuts Christmas Pageant Set. I shaved his arms to fit close, padded the shoulders, then a simple repaint with a frowny face. I tried marking his features with a "colorfast" pen, but it smeared, so I had to wash it off and paint by hand. The tree is from the woods with more branches grafted on, placed in a socket and wrapped with cloth to thicken the trunk. The leaves are fake ones cut small from Michael's. The string is tough thread. The base is cut from a CD case. The tree is scabby and lean, but then it's a Charlie Brown tree.](userimages/customs/37000/36968-1.jpg) Charlie Brown and the Kite-Eating Tree |
![[Pirate Ghost Ship Diorama] A pirate ghost ship diorama, really a platform for the DC Silver Age oddballs featured in Doctor Thirteen: Architecture & Mortality originally published as a backup in Tales of the Unexpected. This protest comic was a nostalgic look and subtle dig at the "architects" bent on rewriting the DC Universe by getting rid of silly characters like Infectious Lass, Doctor Thirteen, Captain Fear, and a Nazi gorilla. A laugh riot for Silver Age fans. And it got the author (Brian Azzrello) in trouble for portraying "giants" like Grant Morrison and Dan DiDio in a poor light. Among other silliness, the oddballs sail the skies on Captain Fear's ghost ship. Check it out. This ghost ship is squashed together from an Imaginext set picked up cheap. I took the front of the ship and loaded on all the elements from the back: sails, cannons, crow's nest, companionway, captain's door. I added a few dowels and strands of string as rigging. I end up with a dense model only 10 in](userimages/customs/37000/36538-1.jpg) Pirate Ghost Ship Diorama DC Universeby claytonemeryA pirate ghost ship diorama, really a platform for the DC Silver Age oddballs featured in Doctor Thirteen: Architecture & Mortality originally pub...5 comments | ![[Black Canary from First Wave] Black Canary from FIRST WAVE - except she never made it into the comic. She was intended to join Doc Savage, Blackhawk, Rima, and others as shown in advance sketches, but the series was canceled after five issues. (Gorgeous art, way-too convoluted plot.) First Wave was a retro-1950s predecessor to the DCU. Azzrello pictured Black Canary as a slum kid of Middle Eastern descent who took on local thugs. Here I've cobbled her at 16, just starting out. She wears a Goodwill leather jacket, Catholic school gym shorts and knee socks, steel-toed shoes held on with clothesline, and baseball blacking as a mask. And ultra-blonde hair because it's a cheap wig. The bat is wrapped in barbed wire and streaked not with blood, but car paint. So far she's just trashing cars of pimps and racket goons, with the occasional ambush knee-cap.
She's made from a Wow Girl (cheap sport-action dolls from Wal-Mart), Indiana Jones cult-priest legs, Mutt's jacket, and spare hands. The bat is from Starting L](userimages/customs/36500/36185-1.jpg) Black Canary from First Wave DC Universeby claytonemeryBlack Canary from FIRST WAVE - except she never made it into the comic. She was intended to join Doc Savage, Blackhawk, Rima, and others as shown in ...2 comments |
![[Mercury of the Metal Men] Mercury of the Metal Men getting stomped by a rogue Rock'em Sock'em Robot. This is actually strategy to make the robot slip and fall. Part of a larger diorama to come. Mercury is the DC Direct figure cut apart and attached to a chunk of old printer cover with the footprint cutout. I stretched his arm and neck by piecing in plastic tubing from the hardware store stiffened inside with coat hanger wire. I also cut his jaw open and fashioned a throat and teeth, because Mercury is always yapping. The rounded blobs are just white putty. I found the best sanding tool was a stiff rotary white brush in the Dremel-equivalent. (I use a Weecher grinder because a Dremel is too heavy.) I painted him with Testor's Red and Testor's Dark Metallic Red alternated and sometimes mixed. Mostly it's Mixed as a base coat, Dark in the hollows, and Red for high spots. The R-S Robot is just a leg so far. I wanted the Metal Men to battle one red and one blue robot. I glued a left blue leg to a right](userimages/customs/36000/35913-1.jpg) Mercury of the Metal Men DC Directby claytonemeryMercury of the Metal Men getting stomped by a rogue Rock'em Sock'em Robot. This is actually strategy to make the robot slip and fall. Part of a larg...5 comments | ![[Peanuts Snoopy, Woodstock, and Patty with Doghouse] From the Peanuts gang, Snoopy and his doghouse, with Woodstock and Patty. From the Christmas Pageant set where Snoopy is a sheep, and Woodstock is "baby Jesus".
Snoopy is a simple repaint with a little S tail added. I laid on the acrylic paint thick to resemble fur. He has a coat hanger rod in his foot through the roof and a block underneath.
Woodstock got new wings and feet from scrap, then a clear plastic wire to hold him aloft.
The doghouse roof came from some pre-cut wooden model. The walls are tongue depressors from the craft store cut with a small X-Acto miter box (90 or 45 degrees). The doghouse is usually all orange in old Sunday strips, but I added white for variety. The name over the door is styled after one comic that showed it.
Patty (the original, not Peppermint Patty) was a Lucy keychain in a winter coat and beret. I took her apart, ground the coat round, and jammed down a water bottle neck for the skirt. I also cut the coat arms down to short sleeve](userimages/customs/36000/35757-1.jpg) Peanuts Snoopy, Woodstock, and Patty with Doghouse |
![[Hunter Emery] Hunter Emery, my son. A Christmas present. Caught in his typically sardonic pose, looking over his glacier goggles. Holding a rolled up comic and a bag of Cheetos. Wearing one of his historical tombstone rubbing T-shirts and baggy jeans. Head is from an animated Ghostbuster Egon Spengler for the goofy smile and little round glasses, then split up the back (ouch) and widened with wedges and the hair ground down and replaced with green putty. Torso and arms are from Chuck Norris (the kid is huge). I wrapped the legs with rubber bands to get bulk, then laid on T-shirt material with white glue, lining up the seams. T-shirt is made from handkerchief linen and white glue. For the comic and Cheetos, I captured the pictures, then dropped multiple copies into Microsoft Word. I resized them from 0.6 inches, 0.7, 0.8 etc. up to 1.5 inches printed in color, then picked a size that looked scale. I glued the front-back of the Cheetos bag around the edges with white glue, then stuffed with](userimages/customs/36000/35614-1.jpg) Hunter Emery Originalby claytonemeryHunter Emery, my son. A Christmas present. Caught in his typically sardonic pose, looking over his glacier goggles. Holding a rolled up comic and a...6 comments | ![[Doc Savage Diorama - WIP] Doc Savage Diorama. A work in progress. I'd built Renny and Monk, so needed a base, so needed villains. The base is half of the roof of the Ghostbusters HQ with a Batman(?) door screwed on. I'll put a granite cornice all around and dress up the tar and wood eventually. Pulp villains always manage to look sinister and silly at the same time. I was trying to match bad guys like The Green Bell and The Inca in Gray's minions pictured. Mine is the Three-Headed Cobra, because I had three cobra heads in the fodder box. He's a Power Ranger (so there's a nice Oriental riff) draped in coffee filter paper robes and Painkiller Jane's cape and pirate boots. He holds a "Death Staff" which is just a shock rod (made from light sabers) connected to a power pack under his cape. The Mindless Minion is a generic 5-inch guy draped in coffee filter paper stiffened with white glue. He wears goggles cut from round tubing with a green wash inside. His insulated hood and outfit are painted](userimages/customs/34500/34448-1.jpg) Doc Savage Diorama - WIP Pulp Charactersby claytonemeryDoc Savage Diorama. A work in progress. I'd built Renny and Monk, so needed a base, so needed villains. The base is half of the roof of the Ghostbu...3 comments |
![[Loki] Loki, Thor's vicious half-brother, son of a Frost Giant. Retrofitted closer to the original Jack Kirby design, sort of. I stripped off the clunky armor plates and cape and reset the horns to jut forward. His scale armor is cut from a Tyvek envelope and glued on. The cape and skirts are chamois car-polishing cloth stiffened with glue. His helmet-ponytail is plastic string again stiffened. I painted his face pale with a green tinge for an evil look, and dabbed his eye pits red with a 0.3 mm marker. The belt, perhaps too big, is the shank of a Green Lantern ring painted with a Kirbyesque rune. I cut the legs at the knees so he squats in a snakey pose suitable for a god of evil.](userimages/customs/34500/34381-1.jpg) Loki Marvelby claytonemeryLoki, Thor's vicious half-brother, son of a Frost Giant. Retrofitted closer to the original Jack Kirby design, sort of. I stripped off the clunky ar...0 comments | ![[Thor] Thor from the early Avengers box set. Cut and reposed. I added a skirt to his tunic cut from a FedEx plastic envelope. The cape is someone else's steamed over a tea kettle for shape and screwed to his shoulders. I also ground down the oversize hammer head. A good trick is to mix baby powder in the paint for a grainy texture. Testor's grainy Steel and Silver metallic paints improve the helmet and metal bosses and buckles. I was going for a Jack Kirby pose. Can't improve on the King.](userimages/customs/34500/34299-1.jpg) Thor Marvelby claytonemeryThor from the early Avengers box set. Cut and reposed. I added a skirt to his tunic cut from a FedEx plastic envelope. The cape is someone else's s...1 comments |
![[Fenris or Fenrir, the Norse Wolf] Saw another one go by. Fenrir or Fenris, the giant wolf of Norse mythology. One of the monster children of Loki. Prophesied to help destroy the world at Ragnarok by killing Odin, so was bound with the magic ribbon Gleipnir, and so bit off Tyr's hand. Converted from a giant two-headed wolf ridden by a knight to fight a demon, a very strange Chap Mei toy set sold at TRU. Especially weird because that wolf had the binding tape molded onto his ankles. I ground his neck down to skin to show the cruel collar abraded his neck. I added a chain for good measure, and it still contains a few weapons and mail glove from former contenders. I scabbed him all over with white putty to get that rough coat, then just rough-painted multiple layers and washes of brown, bronze, and black. His size is apparent by comparing the 5" Penguin cowering in the background.](userimages/customs/34500/34220-1.jpg) Fenris or Fenrir, the Norse Wolf Legendby claytonemerySaw another one go by. Fenrir or Fenris, the giant wolf of Norse mythology. One of the monster children of Loki. Prophesied to help destroy the wor...6 comments | ![[Asterix Village with Cacofonix's Treehouse] The village of Asterix, the Gaulish warrior, star of graphic novels, cartoons, movies, and his own theme park. I've already entered Asterix's house, so skip that. Cacofonix's treehouse is built on half an Animal Planet tree, with gaps filled with that Concrete Patch. Then a balsa wood frame, distressed craft sticks, then cardboard walls covered with logs and thatch made from weeds found by the side of the road. I stuffed cotton on the backside and soaked in white glue for strength. Painted with acrylics. About 12 inches. The treehouse and house bases nest for a tight fit. The PVC characters came from Canada. Not cheap: $8 apiece. The tallest is 2.75 inches high. The village backdrop is from a sticker book. I might add a cauldron for Getafix and a shield on a platform for Vitalstatistix, but that'll be it, I promise.](userimages/customs/34000/33699-1.jpg) Asterix Village with Cacofonix's Treehouse |
![[The House of Asterix the Gaulish Warrior] The house of Asterix, the Gaulish warrior, star of graphic novels, cartoons, movies, and his own theme park. Made as a backdrop to the PVC characters. (Not cheap. $8 apiece from a company in Canada.) Started with three layers of foamboard with cutouts so the photocopied and pasted interior shows through the windows. Glued on the balsa wood frame, distressed, and stained. Made the stones from air-dry clay, hand-fit nice and tight, but they shrank. Filled the gaps with Concrete Patch from Home Depot. Painted the stones, made the door, and laid on branches evened up with fat toothpicks. Made a bench for the window seat. Took forever. The wife's comment? "It's lovely, but shouldn't there be a light inside?" The figures are 2.75 inches, the house 11 inches. Next up: Cacofonix's treehouse next door.](userimages/customs/32500/32113-1.jpg) The House of Asterix the Gaulish Warrior | ![[Stone Boy of the Legion of Substitute Heroes] Stone Boy of the Legion of Substitute Super-Heroes. Showing his skill, which is to turn into stone. Or as he puts it, "Halt, or I'll stand still for a very long time." The only use his fellow Subs can find is to drop him onto villains. Sometimes it works, and sometimes he gets stuck in the pavement. Laugh, but he made it into a Legion cartoon. Can you claim that? Modded from a knockoff Joe.](userimages/customs/32000/31612-1.jpg) Stone Boy of the Legion of Substitute Heroes DC Universeby claytonemeryStone Boy of the Legion of Substitute Super-Heroes. Showing his skill, which is to turn into stone. Or as he puts it, "Halt, or I'll stand stil...4 comments |
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