Guy Gardner (DCD Conversion) and Superman (head fix)

You lucky viewers, today you get a double shot of awesome! First up is a Guy Gardner conversion that looks extremely simple, but took a bit of work (and shoulder joint breakage).


Look at that ugly hunk of garbage above. Thats what I get for not double checking ball joint sizes.



Much better, much better indeed.

The conversion is fairly simple (planning-wise). DCD GL series 2 Guy Gardner, DCSH series 3 Batman (or whatever 4 horseman style hips), and ML11 Wolverine are the key ingredients here.
First I popped the arms (and pulled out the clear pegs too, takes a bit of strumph) out, pulled off the gloves (and saved them), then pulled off the lower legs (pop the pin, then take em off...save the pin). The same was done with the Batman (you need the part just above the glove, so pop off the gloves, pop the pin and save them first, then pop off the lower legs, and rip off (since you dont need the waist peg) the waist/upper legs). The shoulders are all you need from Wolvie (I used them because they are a good size, they're black to avoid paint rub, and they pegs into the Batman lower arms well), just pop the torso and pull em out.
The pegs (for the glove attachment and shoulder attachment) may need some dremeling to fit, but not too much.
The waist was the hard part, since Guy has no articulation there, I had to use a cutting disk, cut off Guy's lower torso, dremel out the torso a bit, then fit Batmans torso into it (pay attention to proportion here, you may or may not need to dremel into Guy's torso more). Also don't forget to sand off Batmans underwear line, otherwise you'll have some Kyle Robinson looking shit on your hands.
Before you pull everything together, I find it easier to spray the parts that need painting (lower arms and the thighs) with some Krylon Fusion, then hit with some dullcoate to counter the shine and give it more durability.
When everything is dry, plug the parts together, glue the torsos together, and its done.





Superman is a much simpler story, being the hater of the Dan Jurgens headsculpt as I am, and the fan of mullets that I am (Longshot needs love too!) I came up with a head swap for DSCH Superman, just the DCD (James Shoop sculpt, fuck yeah) Superman head onto the body:

Hot Toys Terminator (aka time for a change of underwear)

So I ordered this at the beginning of the week, expecting it to show up today (Friday). The mail comes and…no package. At about 3:00 my sister comes home with a package in her hand saying “don’t you ever open the door?”. Stupid mailman can’t knock! Anyways, after I literally shat my pants (that’s right shat) I opened the package and whipped it out (the figure that is, I wasn’t that excited…yet). What follows is what I found absolutely necessary, an insane amount of pictures, and even they don’t do the figure justice, but at least I tried. Here goes.

That is the slipcase beside the inner package. The slipcase is highly shiny and metallic (odd for a package to be metallic, but that seems to be Hot Toys signature, and god bless them because it REALLY stands out among 12’ packaging). The inner package is a matte finish, very slick, very beautiful, and it just screams high end in contrast to the borderline cheesy slipcase.

After opening the matte box flap, there is a window to the figure underneath. Here we have the delicious inner centre of the M&M that is this figure. Everything fits snugly, the plastic is very nicely conformed to the accessories. The most fragile accessory (the sunglasses) are nicely placed so they will avoid damage.

The accessories, by god, the accessories. Simply amazing. The detail, the FUNCTIONALITY! I’ll go piece by piece. The handgun, the scope is nicely attached, and the clip comes out. THE CLIP COMES OUT!

The uzi has a collapsible stock, and a removable (with some effort, as with all the straps on the guns) strap.

The shotgun has a collapsible stock as well, and working pump.

I removed the strap on it, and put it on the minigun. The minigun itself deserves most of the money I paid for this figure.

The minigun has so much detail, not to mention 2 removable bullet belts (the only thing that could make the bullet belts better is if they were actually linked bullets rather than sculpted plastic belts, now that would cause my head to explode!).

The bullets, uzi, handgun all fit particularly well into the gym bag (stuffed with removable foam to keep its shape) and that’s a plus for me because anytime I need an accessory, I don’t have to dig around in the package, and the package can go safely into storage. Oh, and the gym bag is beautiful to display, what with the insanity of working zippers (realistic scaled zippers!). Speaking of zippers, the jacket sleeve zippers are so unnecessary that I can’t help but feel Im getting something extra out of my money. Have a look:

You may have noticed in the accessory pictures, that the eyes looked weird. Don’t worry, its ok to freak out because not only your mind, but my mind exploded as soon as I turned on the light up eyes!!!

I feel sorry for anyone who is not on the ground foaming at the mouth from the sheer amount of awesome I’ve already showed you, but for those who have made it this far and haven’t hit climax, I will leave you with shameless self-masturbatory pictures that have no purpose but to show off my new amazing (and expensive, but worth it) figure.

To recap, several points here, $120 shipped off eBay seller serpant99 , pretty and safe packaging, amazing detail, light up eyes, your own head exploding. That is all, come back next week when I pick apart my Hot Toys Kyle Reese, and show off my fast Guy Gardner custom (sorta).

The start of something new

How about instead of a custom site, I make a blog...about customs!! Simple brilliance. This will be a parallel to my other blog site, The Comix Underground (visit now and visit often, soon). Whereas that will be for my upcoming comic club in Guelph, this site will be all me baby! I'm going to head outside in the daylight tomorrow for some better shots of my customs and hopefully get to work on some new ones so that I dont seem so damn lazy.


For now I think I will entertain you with my favorite custom (that isn't mine):

Props to Levit05 who made that slice of beauty you see above. Go check out his Fwoosh Gallery and try not to like his stuff, I dare you.