tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8080259778121048042012-02-16T10:36:20.027ZWarrack's Custom Legends I make new figures from bits of old toys, models and other tat. It's as simple as that.Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.comBlogger671100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-7927219117841189222011-09-03T23:36:00.001+01:002011-09-03T23:37:16.553+01:00

Here's the ever popular attention getter:VenomI don't know about the rest of you, but I've always felt let down by the official Venom figures. They just didn't fit my image of Venom. But how are toy companies meant to know what's going on in my head!? I want the moon on a stick!My idea of Venom is from his early days. I actually first heard of Venom when I played Spider-man on the Megadrive/

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My next custom is this big bruiser:POSTPost was an X-men villain who also ran as one of the Heralds of Onslaught. I don't pretend to understand what his mutant powers are, or why he's called Post. I just assume it's all down to him being a product of the 90's.His size fluctuated in his few comic appearances, but I was asked to make him more in line with his first appearance in X-men #50 where he

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I've never really liked the ML Dr. Strange figure. The cape just swamped the figure. I've wanted to make a Dr. Strange figure for a long time, but just never seemed to get round to it. I did attempt to make one after my success with Swarm's cape, but it didn't work out.So I went back to the drawing board and finally decided to do another costume for Stephen.This is Dr. Strange in his trench-coat

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This is Dormammu in his Indefensible costume, made famous in recent months by Marvel vs. Capcom 3. I really like this costume and have made a custom previously of him in this style. This custom is far more controlled than the old one, and I've slightly altered some of the costume elements to suit some general ideas I have about the character.His skirt... thing... I dunno what it's called was more

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This is the brand new Venom, Flash Thompson. When I first clapped eyes on the redesigned Venom I was seriously not impressed. It looked like a cash in on Deadpool (urgh) but then when I found out who was under the mask/symbiote, it really interested me. Flash is Peter's original enemy. Flash idolises Spider-Man. Flash wants to do what's right, but is the symbiote going to be able to twist his

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My next custom is something that's a whole lot simpler than the last couple I've produced, but no less special to me:FirestarSpider-man and his Amazing Friends is perhaps my favourite cartoon of all time. I think it's what got me interested in Marvel super-heroes so much in the first place. Every week there was a great new bad guy doing what they do best, and there were also great cameo

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My next custom actually pre-dates Onslaught, and was an entry into the Bug Off! Custom Contest over on FigureRealm. I couldn't post him anywhere else until the contest was over, but here he is.SwarmSometimes I'm a victim of my own convictions. Take this guy for example, Swarm. I made a decision late last year that I would enter the next Figure Realm contest, no matter what it was. I wanted the

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Some of you may have noticed that the YouTube videos at the bottom of the blog have vanished. Well, you can now find them over on the sidebar, and you'll be happy to see more videos popping up. I've really been pushing Warrack's Custom Legends' YouTube channel, so you can see videos of some of my recent customs up there, along with some comedy vids and shorts giving you an insight into my hobby.

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Onslaught (version 2)This is my second version of Onslaught. (Click here to see my previous version.)The last one was a commission and I was really proud of it, so I was gutted when I had to let it go. Soon after I made that (in Summer 2009) I started recreating one for myself.Yeah, it got sidelined for a while.Anyway, he's back, and not in a horribly scripted Jeph Loeb, horribly drawn Rob

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Well, happy new year, everyone! 2010 was a pretty successful year for my customs. I started it off with something that was a little unusual for me with a Jem custom, before rustling up some quick customs of Red Skull and Iron Man, and doing something that I'd wanted to do for a long time: make a light-tent so I can take better photos of my work. I then moved onto doing what I consider to be a

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I've recently come across a great technique! I can't take credit for it, so want to draw your attention to JinSaotome. He's a fellow customiser, and chances are that if you've found me online, you'll know about Jin. He's considered one of the greatest action figure customisers. Anyway, I like to be a bit experimental in the techniques I use, but Jin came up with a great technique that I'd never

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I'm delighted that Doppelganger has been selected as Featured Custom of the Week over at The Fwoosh. The Fwoosh is my main go to for action figure chat and to see what other customisers are up to. It's a great resource so I'm always happy when I get some recognition there. I've had quite a few of my customs chose to be the Custom of the Week, but still it's always nice when something you've put

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The Carnage custom figure that I was asked to make earlier this year has proven to be very popular. He might even challenge Spider-Carnage for being my most popular custom. Anyway, here's Carnage again. He follows the same recipe as the original but with his axe hand replaced with a claw with tendrils emerging from it.

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I've been snowed into my house here for over a week, so have had plenty of time to finish up a custom I've had lying around for ages. He started off as being a custom of The Void from Siege, and I was using the McFarlane Spidey body and extending the arms and body, but then I ended up hating Siege and The Void was beaten in a stupid way, so he just sat in a half hacked up foetal state for months.

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Phew, just managed to get this one finished before Hallowe'en so he can join in with all the flesh eating. Here he is, Zombie Giant-Man! Zombie Giant-Man is over 13" tall and is made from the Marvel Legends Giant Man figure. Most of the work on this figure went into his face. You see, I added an opening and closing mouth to this figure so that he can get into lots of undead gnawing japes! I

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It's almost Hallowe'en, so hopefully I can get this flesh eater finished by then. Here's a sneak peek.

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Here's my latest custom. This is Lady Octopus. She was a short lived super-villain who replaced the familiar Doctor Octopus when he was killed. He got better of course, and she retired or had to give him his tentacles back.  Lady is made from a Marvel Legends Maria Hill figure. I love this figure. It's such a nicely proportioned female body with hardly any sculpted details, so is easy to

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Yeah, I've not done anything on the customising front for a while now, but I'm hoping to get back into it. Here's a sneak peak of something that I've been working on, on and off (mostly off) for months.

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I recently picked up some of the MOTUC figures. It made me get really nostalgic and I decided I needed to make my favourite character from the Filmation series: The Sorceress I really wanted a classic animated Sorceress as I couldn't really understand the Egyptian influence on her design from the newer series. I also didn't like that the new Sorceress put up with He-Man's transformation

Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-13115573392081875832010-06-06T18:33:00.002+01:002010-06-06T18:37:36.467+01:00

Aaron Stack, designation X-51 from Dr. Abel Stack's self-built sequence of sentient humanoid combat robots. I copied that bit right out of Nextwave. 'Splode. I copied that bit too. Anyway, yes, here's my latest commission. He's come for you, fleshies! Machine Man Machine Man is made from a big hunka, hunka Nick Fury. ML 2 pack Nick Fury is the body  ML 2 pack Ultimate Nick Fury

Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-6693484967272794612010-04-24T21:45:00.000+01:002010-04-24T21:45:59.488+01:00

I know! What a shock that is! Oh, by the way, I've decided to do some general action figure news updates to my blog too. Just to keep it flowing. I've got some customs in the works, and one that's finished and I just haven't updated about, so still plenty happening on that front. Anyway, yeah, the Iron Man 2 figures have just come out here in the UK! They're pretty expensive actually at £12.99

Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-77696276821043241462010-03-09T21:10:00.004Z2010-03-09T21:13:14.463Z

As an experiment, I've made a video showcase of Carnage and posted it on youtube. Give it a watch and let me know what you think! Part One: Part Two:

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I think I've talked about this guy before in my Spider-Carnage post. You know, the love child of a fraudulent journalist and an alien body stocking that joined up with a serial killer? Yeah, you know the one I'm talking about now. Carnage is accessory central, but I'll get to those in a minute. I have to say that I really love this custom. Big headed to say that, but I was suprised how well

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Most of the customs I do involve a lot of sculpting. It takes a lot of time. Action figure customisers do use recipes though. If one customiser finds a good way to make a figure, then they can share it with others. I used this approach with one of my quick customs below. As I said, I do a lot of sculpting, but these customs use really minimal sculpting. They just use body parts from different

Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-62146035372011779922010-01-13T20:37:00.004Z2010-01-13T20:48:17.537Z

Here's a custom of 80's animation sensation, Jem! I was asked by a friend to make this one, along with a base. It's supposed to be Jem from her Deception music video.Jem's hair was the trickiest thing for this custom. I had to build it up in layers over a few days to get that volume! Jem has little diamanté earrings and choker. She also has magnets in her hands so that she can hold her masque and

Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-7601903087954757042009-12-09T10:50:00.014Z2010-01-13T20:36:05.049Z

I've not posted anything here in a long time. Partly because I was busy doing this batch of figures.I've submitted them in an online customising event called CustomCon. You can find out more about the Con here: http://www.joeacevedo.com/docs/customzone/customcon/customconmain.htmThey weren't originally intended to be part of CustomCon 24, but when I saw that the submission date for the Con

Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-83592063557862870612009-08-26T13:50:00.014+01:002009-08-26T15:10:10.690+01:00

I'm batting for the other team now!That is, I've just made a couple of figures from the DC Universe rather than the Marvel one.Recently there's been a resurgeance in popularity for the DC hero, Green Lantern. Partly, I believe because he finally has some decent bad guys to fight. One group of these bad guys are known as the Sinestro Corps. These guys want to spread fear throughout the universe

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The 90's were a terrible time for comics. Almost every superhero was trying to be a badass and ended up acting out of character and being all angsty.Then one bad guy came and wiped it all away. Onslaught be thy name.After years of being far too forgiving, Professor X wiped Magneto's mind clean. Magneto was left a vegetable, but this one tantrum on Xavier's part left him corrupted by his dark

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Coming soon.

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I remember buying the fortnightly (and later weeklyMarvel UK comics of Secret Wars, Thundercats, Transformers and Action Force in the 80's and they would often have a back up strip of a non-toy based comic. One that springs to mind is Power Pack.Power Pack are a little bit of an oddity in the super-hero world as they are a team of school kids. They aren't teenages, and keep their super lives a

Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-91317486941891548592009-04-08T09:32:00.009+01:002009-04-08T10:29:43.282+01:00

I was commissioned to make a figure of Marvel Comic's version of the hero Hercules. Toy Company Hasbro have already released a figure of him, but he was pretty unpopular with fans.Hasbro's Hercules, in my eyes, while being a pretty decent figure with good articulation, paint and sculpting, was just 'off' somehow. His proportions were a wee bit weird and he had a big grin on his face. Now,

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Another commission here. Hulk is the biggest (but not the most complicated) figure I've made so far. He's 11" tall and made from the Pitt. I had to resculpt his head, hands, feet, and nipples (oooh!). I really enjoyed working on the head. At this bigger scale it was easier to manipulate the clay. It took a LOT of green though.

Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-13487672463866804112009-03-10T16:30:00.005Z2009-03-10T16:46:13.733Z

As I said below, a fairly simple custom. After Mysterio I wanted to keep this as easy as I could. I think he came out great and I was very happy with his expression.WIPAll of Scorpion's ridges were filled with putty then sanded. This took forever and was totally boring. I wish they would release this body sculpt without the ridges, but ah well.With the fin running from his head to his arse it

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I was recently commissioned to do a Mysterio custom.It really didn't go well at all. It was similar to my Dormammu custom but the hot glue wasn't playing for me, and I had to call it quits in the end.I was pretty disappointed but there's really only so much stress with LEDs, hot glue and battery packs that one guy can take.BLEUCH! I think if I'm going to be dealing with that stress again I'm

Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-70705378940078731772009-01-09T22:28:00.004Z2009-01-09T22:55:21.780Z

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls. We are proud to present the 1st Place winner of the FigureRealm Gender Bender Custom Contest:Okay, so maybe my Photoshop skills are lacking, but hey, 1st place!I'm actually totally delighted. I wasn't really expecting to win, but deep down, was really hoping. There's no prize for the contest, just recognition.Mysteria is my female take on Mysterio, the

Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-67785736753861152352008-12-27T20:51:00.002Z2008-12-27T21:10:25.684Z

One of the sites that I post my customs on is FigureRealm.comIt's a very well organised site, especially for custom figures. Every so often they hold a contest and invite customisers to come up with new figures based on a certain theme.In the past they have had Medieval, Supernatural and well, you get the idea. Anyway, the most recent contest is Gender Bender. It asks you to make a version of an

Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-21339479627973813752008-12-01T15:14:00.003Z2008-12-01T15:30:32.444Z

Wow. This came out much better than I had expected.I finished Spider-Carnage at the weekend and am very happy with how he turned out. It was almost torturously boring to paint all the webbing on the costume, but I think it came out really well and I am happy with his finished heads and paint job.The customer seems really happy too, so I will be sending him away anon. Wish I could keep him

Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-88553750578918377052008-11-26T13:37:00.022Z2008-11-28T15:10:01.629Z

I've been commissioned to make a figure of Spider-Carnage.Here comes the science bit. Concentrate.At one time a bad guy cloned Peter Parker. Years later, Peter retired from being Spider-Man and the clone (Ben Reilly) took up the reins. He redesigned the Spider-Man costume a little until he eventually fell foul of Carnage.Carnage... who?!Well, here we go. At one time Venom (the evil Spider-man who

Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-64885532659623104882008-11-26T11:58:00.003Z2008-11-26T12:30:02.502Z

Quasar is another character from the Annihilation series that has been the focus for my custom figures. I didn't make him as he got killed pretty early on and a female Quasar took his place.Well now he's back to life as an Obi-Wan style sparkly yellow ghost thing.I tried to capture this by using transparent limbs and drybrushing him with gold. I also added a wee drop glitter on him to give him

Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-35325033463356205272008-11-26T11:50:00.003Z2008-11-26T11:55:45.437Z

Dormammu got custom of the week on TheFwoosh.comhttp://www.thefwoosh.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1174&Itemid=1

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Lord of the Dark Dimension, the dread Dormammu! I'm going to get this off my chest right away. I absolutely hated making this guy, but I had got it stuck in my head to make him months ago and he was something I had to get out of my system. Dormammu presented 2 major challenges for me: 1) His head is on fire, and this is always difficult to convey in figure form. There wasn't really any already

Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-14170597856801364682008-10-17T14:38:00.003+01:002008-10-17T15:04:33.316+01:00

I've not posted here in a long time, but I had made another figure before I took a break. Nova Nova was the hero of Annihilation so I couldn't just leave him out. He's not a very interesting custom, but my challenge here was to get 3 working LEDs into his chest. The circuit I finally used was home made. I didn't have to use a resistor as the power supply was low enough. I didn't quite manage to

Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-44022715653052001962008-05-29T15:19:00.006+01:002008-06-03T22:34:19.326+01:00

I've taken a break from Annihilation and made this Phoenix Wright figure.His body is Marvel Legends Professor X. I had to redo the front of the jacket to cover that waistcoat and bring the lapels further up onto the chest.The head and hands are X-men Classics Iceman. I changed his mouth and added eyebrows. His spiky hair is clay supported by cocktails sticks. The eyes were interesting. The anime

Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-831747841125824512008-05-04T20:41:00.005+01:002008-05-05T15:11:30.907+01:00

"Hi Craig,I recieved Great Ultron yesturday and all I can say is OMFG. As soon as I opened it my jaw dropped. Without a doubt this is the best custom I ever bought. Excellent work your skills make Great Ultron look too awesome. The wires in the midsection blew me away dude and I like how you make the cape. Here are some pics of Great Ultron with my collection. My girlfriend also said you did an

Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-84117357677660459272008-04-25T22:12:00.002+01:002008-04-25T22:19:27.903+01:00

By airmail. That's how Ultron Mk. 2 finally went across the sea to his commissioner. After I said I was finished with him, I emailed the customer to show him some photos.You can see from the photos below that I just took quick shots of the piece on my worktop. Well that didn't seem to go down well and the customer suggested touching up some of the paintwork and adding a couple of more details. I

Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-13899927175640486152008-04-20T00:07:00.004+01:002008-04-20T00:17:51.181+01:00

I finished the commission. It took a long time, but I have been a bit busy the past couple of weeks. And Mario Kart hasn't helped.Anyway, here is Ultron Mk. II. (He's the one on the left.)

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Last night I received my first commission. I'm not going to reveal how much it was worth, but it's for a reproduction of my Ultron.I've visited other customiser's websites and if they accept customs they always tend to have the disclaimer that they do not make reproductions. Most just say that they find it tedious to do the same work again.We'll see how I get on, but let's just say that I think

Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-67158034012538729442008-04-05T14:09:00.008+01:002008-04-07T07:30:00.496+01:00

One of our Japanese friends sent us a couple of Spider-man figures at Christmas. They were really cool, and had this kind of robotic look to them. I decided to make one of these figures into Ultron... or Great Ultron as he insists on being called.

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I've finally finished Annihilus. I'm really happy with how he turned out. As I'd hoped, his wings open and close. His cosmic control rod lights up when you press the button on his back.

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The comic book story that I've been making the characters from is called Annihilation. The main villain in it, is this guy, Annihilus. The design you see here is how he's basically appeared since the 60's.In Annihilation he had a bit of a redesign to make him more fitting for a major bad guy.I think I prefer him this way. He's much more insect like with distended limbs and joints all over the

Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-33689066318474770412008-02-20T22:11:00.005Z2008-02-20T22:31:40.470Z

Now this was a difficult one. I had very little information to work with to make this figure. Adam Warlock has been around for years, but he is always reincarnated in a different form. He's just recently been reincarnated and there are only a couple of images of him out there. He first was just a naked gold guy, then he just had a plain black costume on.However, on the cover of a couple of comics

Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-63327392891177323172008-02-12T20:42:00.002Z2008-02-13T09:15:58.201Z

I've put Drax up for auction on eBay. It's all very exciting.Click here to go to my auction.And now we play the waiting game...

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I'm trying to organise selling some of my customs over eBay. It's the first time I've sold things there, so it's a little daunting and complicated for me.There is a group called C.A.S.E. (Customiser Auction Sales on eBay)This seems to be a group of custom auctioners who link to each other's auctions and promote each other. It seems like a good way to see what's out there and to increase traffic

Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-33873411637859889282008-02-08T18:07:00.003Z2008-02-13T16:17:01.378Z

Here is the finished Wraith custom. I'm very happy with the results. Check the Wrait folder in my custom gallery for more pics of him.

Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-32340503829161146182008-02-07T14:53:00.000Z2008-02-07T15:06:51.657Z

As I mentioned before, I have been posting my figures on a site called TheFwoosh.They have a feature where they highlight the best customs put up on the forum that week.My Moondragon was their featured custom of the week, so I'm delighted with that.Now, I may consider putting her up on ebay, but I'm not sure how to work that at all. I may give it a try with a lesser custom, like Drax first of all

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This is the figure that I started with. £2.99 out of Poundstretchers! Bargain.Anyway, this is Iceman. I chose this figure as he is more or less a total blank slate. He has not emblems on him or clothing. He's just a basic body.Now, there were a couple of problems with this.1) I wasn't too happy with his hands. He has a strange pointing finger on one hand.2) The balls that make his shoulders are

Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-34790603616358513502008-02-03T21:56:00.000Z2008-02-07T13:31:44.094Z

I'm working on a figure of Wraith. He's not really a character that I'm into, but it's interesting to be trying to work on him. This is his description from Wikipedia: Wraith (Zak-Del) is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe. His first appearance was in Annihilation Conquest: Wraith #1 in Annihilation Conquest.The character was created to mimic the sensibility of western movies,

Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-41262708543033385672008-01-26T22:20:00.001Z2008-02-07T10:25:50.545Z

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I've been posting some of these pics on TheFwoosh.com and I've been gettin positive feedback. It's nice to see. I'm not too sure how to get my images on Fwoosh so I just do an img link to these pics. The posters seem to want bigger photos though, so I need to find some way to get them over there.

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Quasar is Moondragon's lover. I just HAD to make her. I was going to use the same Rogue body that I used for Moondragon, but I chose to use the Wasp instead as I didn't want them to have too similar a body type.Quasar was quite simple. Mostly a repaint and some detailing. Her cape is made out of a papier-mache that would make Neil Buchanan proud. It's very rigid but won't snap as easily as it

Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-18305584842808582372008-01-25T11:58:00.001Z2008-02-07T16:20:03.402Z

This was a tough one. Moondragon is a character that I've liked for a long time, because she is such a total bitch. It is difficult to find good female figures as the female form is difficult to articulate while keeping its feminine look.I thought that this X-men Rogue figure had a good sculpt. Of course I had to remove the hair and all the detailing on her costume, and replace it with

Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-67041743307116874152008-01-25T11:53:00.000Z2008-02-07T16:13:25.365Z

Drax was an interesting one. I had bought a figure on sale and didn't really know what to do with it. After I'd made Thanos, it made sense to make Drax. In comics, Drax is created to kill Thanos and pursues him across the galaxy. Drax eventually punched Thanos's heart out. Drax was made from the torso of a Street Fighter Adon character, and the Punisher's trousers. I think I also used the

Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-8070478889754054672008-01-25T11:30:00.000Z2008-02-07T16:07:23.708Z

Thanos was the first custom I'd attempted in years. I made him out of the grey Hulk here (which I hated as a figure cos of his Frankenstein head).I think Thanos turned out well, and this was the first time I had used a Dremel to smooth out the details and etch new bits in.I had to totally redo the head and hair. I tried to build it up from the teeth so that it would have depth and expression.

Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-46644976979349399012008-01-24T14:58:00.000Z2008-01-24T15:04:17.137Z

Well, it's been about 6 months since I last posted. Good to see that I've been keeping up with this. Ha ha.Anyway, I've been making a few more customs, but not really at the rate I would have liked to. I now have customs of Drax, Moondragon and Quasar to join Thanos. I also repainted a Doctor Doom so that he doesn't look like a plastic coated tyrant.Again, I'll put photos up once I take some. I'm

Warrackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086552120571809999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808025977812104804.post-39228966363896674242007-07-29T23:22:00.000+01:002007-07-29T23:28:40.689+01:00

I have just started work on Thanos of Titan (not Thanos of Skegness as he is often confused with). I was not very satisfied with the Marvel Select figure they had of him. After some deliberation I decided to make him in his recent costume rather than that blue and gold thing he's been saddled with for years.I am having a blast creating him from a Galactus series Hulk figure, and it's got me

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