Amazo  Remind me never to paint stripes again.  The figure you see here was made using a Savage Land Joseph with a Super Shooters Colossus head.  The chin and head were sanded to de-emphasize the angularity of the original sculpt.  All sculpting was done with Magic Sculpt.  The “A” on his belt was cut from styrene and glued to his elastic belt.  His star necklace was also cut from styrene.  Gold elastic was used for the magic lasso.  I don’t know why I did this figure… I guess taking a shot at making the details just appealed to me.

Black Adam:  I joined the torso and arms from a Spider-man Daredevil figure to the legs of a Bishop figure.  The head is a cast of a Space Riders Xavier with Magic Sculp used for the hair and epoxy to enhance the ears.  The boots and bracers are magic sculp and the belt is elastic.  For some reason I dropped this one while painting him and his neck peg snapped off.  Apparently it was mostly “air bubble” from when I casted it.  Anyway… in lieu of cracking an almost finished custom open again, I decided to fix it with a snap joint.  I haven’t done too much of that since I discovered two part epoxy clays, but I didn’t want to crack him open again, so what else could I do?

Chronos:  Remind me never to paint stripes again.  Chronos was put together using the head from an Iceman figure with some magic sculpt added to make it fit snugly into the torso of Sunspot.  The legs came from a Pyro figure… the boots were perfect for Chronos.  The cape is of course hand sewn with wire in the hems.  The chest icon and clock hands were created in CAD and glued in place.  I can’t decide which was harder; getting his leg stripes to look right or painting the arrows on his forearms.  In the end… I’m pretty pleased with this one.

Deathstroke:   How could I do a bunch of DC villains and not do Deathstroke?  The answer is… I couldn’t.  Deathstroke here is a combination of Gambits.  The legs are from a light up Gambit, while the torso and arms are from a Battle Blasters Gambit.  The head is from a Bug Busters Spider-man with a new peg and neck sculpted from epoxy putty.  His boots were sculpted from magic sculpt as was his “armor”.  His weapons came from… what I refer to as my “Armory”… basically its just a plastic bin that collects weapons from all my fodder (I’m sure most customizers know what I’m talking about here).  The belt and pouches are elastic and his “tails” were hand sewn and glued to the back of his head.

Dr Destiny:  This one was inspired by his appearance on the Justice League Unlimited show.  The head is a Red Skull and the torso and legs are from a Black Tom figure.  The arms came from a really cheap action figure that my wife found at a KayBee outlet (some $1.00 ninja figure… looks a lot like one of the archangel figures).  Anyway… I used plumbers putty and magic sculp to create working joints at the arms, neck, and waist.  The cape and hood were hand sewn and the belt is elastic with a styrene belt buckle.  The bottom of his shirt is fabric also that has been sewn to the belt.  I’m pretty happy with this one.

Giganta:  I realized about one month before the deadline for CC 13 that I had 6 customs of the Legion of Doom completed (in one form or another).  I was also close to completing two others (Brainiac and Grundy).  At that point I only had Grodd, Manta, Cheetah, Bizarro, and Giganta left.  I was going to rearrange my entire show plan and finish the Legion of Doom.  As it turned out… I wasn’t liking how my Grundy and Brainiac were turning out.  And I wasn’t coming up with any quick fixes either… they’re on the shelf waiting for inspiration now.

Lex Luthor:  This figure was made from a Spider-man figure.  The head is a cast of the Space Riders Xavier and the left hand came from a Kane figure.  The arms came from a Quicksilver figure.  I created waist articulation for no other reason than to make the figure a little different.  The collar was made from Magic Sculp and the shoulder straps and belt are elastic.

Sinestro:  I knew I had to do a Sinestro and since I liked the Animated version so much, I decided to do it in the 5” Toy Biz scale.  The head is from an Iron Man from the Original Avengers Gift Pack.  The body is a heavily modified Ice Man II (the one from the invasion series).  I did a lot of dremelling, smoothing, and knocking off of angles on this one.  If somebody ever makes a David Niven action figure in the five inch scale, I might have to make a comic book accurate Sinestro… looks like I’ll be waiting a long time for that.