Sauron (Marvel Legends) Custom Action Figure
Custom #:74914
Name:Sauron
Custom Type:Action Figure
Toy Series:Marvel Legends
Creator:riseROBOTrise  
Date Added:July 15, 2015
Base Figure:Mr. Fantastic FF Movie/Lizard from the Toy Biz Spider-Man Series
Height:6.00 inches
Completion Time:30.00 hours
This began life as a Toybiz Ioan Gruffudd Mr. Fantastic torso, with Spider-Man line Lizard legs from the knee down, head, and arms from the elbow down. I think the tail came from the Blackheart figure. The wings are scratch built, with wire-frame infrastructure, and latex kitchen gloves cut up to form the wings, and painted on liquid latex to make it thicker in certain areas while maintaing flexibility, and veins. The head was picked because it was hinged perfectly, being a lizard and all. I built the beak and skull up from plastic sheet and epoxysculpt.

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Sieg84 -
Sunday, October 7, 2018
This is so Awesome man...I wish I could do custom like this one...
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riseROBOTrise -
Sunday, October 7, 2018
What's stopping you? You got the skills!
I might need to make another since the new BAF Sauron isn't anywhere to be found in my area.
Thanks for the comment!
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Henchmen4Hire -
Friday, July 17, 2015
Do you have a tutorial for making the wings? Like how did you get all the little ridges on there? They have a nice texture
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riseROBOTrise -
Saturday, July 18, 2015
Thank you! I have more pics, but being new to the site, haven't explored/had time to post them up as a tutorial.
Basically it's just liquid latex painted over the glove material, let to dry, and then painting on the texture, building it up, let it dry, paint on some more, until I had the texture I wanted. It sticks and retains the flex you need for wings. I originally tried a couple of other methods; cutting mesh forms, texting different materials, then in frustration and desperation gave up and did the dishes, and came upon the rubber gloves. You never know where inspiration will strike!
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Mosh -
Thursday, July 16, 2015
Excellent Sauron dude! I used some Mega Blocks dragon wings on mine, but after seeing how nice your scratch built wings look, I wish I had made my own! Awesome sculpting. Way to show the savage Land some love.
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riseROBOTrise -
Saturday, July 18, 2015
I bow to the Master of the Savage Land! Thanks for the comments - Savage Land stories were always some of my favorite as a kid, so when I started customizing I knew I wanted to tackle a few! And I had a friend who is an obsessive collector, and I wanted to gift him something unique. I didn't have access to any premade wings or probably would have gone with that - I did score a ton of them later at a Gsale, and a couple are pretty good for Sauron, but I really loved the Lizard figure as a base, so would want to find another one of those if I did another. I'm of a mind that I use whatever I've got at hand!

I did a Shanna, too, but it was a total failure, but haven't completely given up on her yet, she still is in my fodder drawer, so I might get back to her. But your Shanna is perfect, I'd have to step up my game to win that beauty pageant!
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ENulmerfigs -
Thursday, July 16, 2015
This is probably my favorite sauron, flawless head sculpt and those wings rock.
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riseROBOTrise -
Friday, July 17, 2015
I thank you! I think a lot of it comes from having the right fodder. The Lizard is perfect for that. You know when you have a piece you try to make work and it just never works, and it's frustrating - well this figure was just the opposite, a lot of fun to see all the pieces come together! Thanks for your comment.
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riseROBOTrise -
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Thanks!
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Customs by Matchu -
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Wow that's pretty amazing. Great work man!!
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