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Mike – Minesurfer (online)

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Custom Recipes: Legion Villains

Belts and pouches: Made from elastic bought at fine fabric stores everywhere. A snap was sewn on to the elastic. The elastic was colored with pens. The pouches were made from the same elastic then sewn into place on the belt with gold strands from a curtain tassel. Legion symbol was printed from a CAD program and glued to the belt.

Paint: All figures were primed with Krylon gray primer. Areas to be finished in bright colors were then primed again with white primer. Acrylics were used and the figures sealed with Dulcote. For shiny finishes, decoupage glue was used as a sealer.

Brain Globe: What can I say other than I had to make one of these. The globe is actually a Christmas ornament. The brain is an original sculpt, I think I used Premo clay. The yellow tendrils are made of embroidery floss that I stiffened up with Elmer’s glue before applying them to the globe. I frosted the inside of the ornament with some yellow pastel chalk to make it look more like the Brain Globe in the comics.

Charma: The legs for Charma were provided by a Marvel 2 Stinger figure. The head and torso are from a Savage Land Storm. I combined the two pieces using the method outlined in my “Creating Waist Articulation” article posted at The Raving Toy Maniac’s site. Other than that, this was a pretty straight forward custom.

Gil Dan: The Gil Dan was put together much the same way as the Brain Globe was. The alien inside the ornament is an original sculpt and the green gas is some pillow-type filling material that I dusted with green pastel chalk.

Singularity: Singularity’s base came from a Missile Flyers/Future Bishop figure. The head was donated from a random military figure that I found in a “loose figure” bin in some comic book store. I had to build up the neck area with kneadatite because of the angle of the original head. If I would have just put the new head in place he would have been looking almost straight down and I didn’t want that. The shoulder pads are cured acrylic paint. I’m pretty happy with the way this one turned out.

Gif Kneinepanel: Really what I was going for with the White Triangle guys was an angry, muscular, intense look. I think these three figures pull off that look rather nicely. The orange haired angry guy was put together using the left over head from the Juggernaut figure I used for Monstress’ legs. The body came from a blue Archangel III and the arms were salvaged from a Red Skull from the Web Attack Spider-man series.

Mort Imer: The white haired angry fella you see here started out as a Captain Britton I picked up in a loose figure auction on ebay. The head is from a random military guy I picked up in a loose figures bin at a comic book store. I have no idea who it is. His transuit armband was made using kneadatite as was the technology on his right hand (you can’t see it because of the picture’s angle, but if you check out the White Triangle arc you can see it there). Even though neither Gif nor Mort appeared in the White Triangle story, I didn’t think it would be too much of a stretch that the White Triangle had two members that actually looked like these two, besides I couldn’t make just one member of a group called “The White Triangle” now could I?

Lemtik Curcholg: The black haired angry dude was made using a left over Strike Force Gambit. The head, I believe is from a Zorro figure. Pretty straightforward customs these White Triangle guys were.

Mordru: The base for this figure was the Archangel II figure. I never, ever thought that I would use this head in a custom of mine. I just hated it. I kept debating what figure to use, but no solution presented itself. I was going to use a Strike Force Super Skrull for the beard, but decided the rest of the head wouldn’t look right if I did that. I thought about using a Spider Wars Dr. Strange, but I didn’t like that either. Once I sculpted the goatee on the Archangel, I knew I had a winner. If I were less of a Legion fan and more of a Justice League fan, I would have made this into an Aquaman figure in a heartbeat. Once I had the head the way I wanted it, the rest of the figure is a basic repaint with minimal sculpting. The tunic is of course hand sewn with wire in the bottom. The usual elastic was used for the belt and his belt buckle is a green rhinestone that I got in the bead section of Michaels.

Universo: For some reason, I love making the Legion’s villains. I think some of my best work is reflected in the villain figures I’ve managed to create. Universo here is among my personal favorites. His legs and head came from a Spider Wars Dr. Strange. I sanded away his hair for the more virile look you see here. The arms and torso were donated to this figure by an X-men six pack Banshee. I had to fill the torso with kneadatite so that it would fit snugly around the male peg on top of Dr. Strange’s legs, but that wasn’t difficult at all. The cape is of course hand sewn with wire in the hem for poseability. His monocle is two pieces of card bubble that were punched out with a paper puncher, glued together, and the edges darkened with a permanent black felt marker. I can’t take credit for that idea, but I can’t remember where I got it from either. It may have been posted on the RTM forum or in the customizing articles, I can’t remember.

Scavenger: Scavenger was made from a Toy Biz Iron Man Century figure. I sanded his hair away for all of the baldness you see. His face plate was donated by Cyclops from the Original X-Men five pack. His tunic and “Atom” belt were hand sewn, and I dirtied up his appearance with some dry brushing. He is a pack rat after all.