Customs by

Mike – Minesurfer (on-line)

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ginngrr@juno.com

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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.

Legion Flight Ring: Made in a CAD program and glued to the appropriate finger.

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.

Stands: All stands were treated the appropriate icon. The symbol was made in CAD and decoupaged to the stand. Stand was sealed with Dulcote.

Andromeda: The head is from a Dark Chylde figure and held in place with a snap. The rest of the figure is from an Alpha Flight Aurora. Her “ flaps” were made from elastic with details sewn in place. Small lines in the figure were filled with model filler and sanded smooth. Boot cuffs were made from super sculpey. I also “dusted” her fleshtone legs with a brown pastel in order to match her tan face a little better.

Ferro: The mask is super sculpey. The head is from a Cloak figure. The body is an Ice Man from one of the reissue KayBee waves.

Leviathan: The body is a Giant Man from the Avengers Six pack. The head came from a Dominick Hascek (?) hockey figure and is epoxied in place. The shoulder and kneepads were made from hot glue attached to elastic. The elastic has snaps sewn on it to keep it in place. The glue was filled with model filler and then sanded smooth. The wristbands are just elastic sewn end to end. Giant Man required extensive filling, dremelling, and sanding. Small files were used to create the six pack found on most superheroes.

M’Onel: Bug Busters Spider-man body with a Bruce Wayne head. Can’t remember the line the head came from though. The cape was hand sewn with wire sewn into the edges for poseability. The little thingies on the cape were an acrylic bead that I cut in half, painted, and sewed into place.

Night Girl: The body, head, and legs were from a bald-headed Elektra figure. I couldn’t bring myself to use the stiff arms that originally came with the Elektra figure. I replaced them with better-articulated arms from Storm in the X-Men six-pack. The beehive is super sculpey, the cape is hand sewn and held in place by a snap. The star is a piece of confetti that my wife had hanging around and is glued onto the cape. Her “ owl” chest emblem was created in a CAD program and decoupaged in place.

Superboy: Bug Busters Spider-man body with a Superboy head epoxied in place. Hand sewn cape with wire installed for poseability. I was trying to duplicate his 1970’s look with his cape. I like the edges, but probably have a little too much cloth in the back. Chest emblem was created in CAD and decoupaged in place.

Supergirl: The cape and skirt were hand sewn. If you can’t tell, I try to use clay as little as possible in my customizing. Cloth allows me to retain articulation and is less likely to become damaged when a figure falls off of the shelf. The skirt was sewn to the belt. The head is from a Dagger figure and is held in place by a snap joint. I used a re-issued Rogue for Supergirl’s torso and arms. The legs are from a Magik figure. I was able to create waist articulation in this figure using cured epoxy.

Thunder: Head is from a Robot Wars Jubilee. The gap in her glasses was filled in with clay and hair sculpted over to create the headband look. The head is attached to a Dagger body by a snap joint. The cape is hand sewn with wire at the bottom for limited poseability. The yellow on the cape is fabric paint (a suggestion from my wife). The cape rope is from a curtain tassel.

Timberwolf: This figure was such a pain, but it really shouldn’t have been. A Super Nova head was epoxied to a Bug Busters Spider-man body. I started painting him in the most recent version paint scheme, but this figure begged to be an older version. So I scraped off all of the paint with an exacto knife, sanded him down again, primed him, and painted him over. Pain pain pain pain pain pain pain. It’s hard to tell but I dusted him with brown and black pastel chalk to make his paint scheme less static. The chest wolf is decoupaged on, and has little orange eyes that are hard to see in this picture.

Ultra Boy: The old Bug Busters Spider-man body with a Battle Blasters Gambit head epoxied in place. The chest emblem was decoupaged in place. The bracers and boots were made from clay. This is one of my earlier belts. I got better at hiding the stitches.

Note: All heads that were “epoxied” in place, still retain articulation at the neck.