More vintage repaints

[notebook]

here's some repaints i did..

screwloose and joe eyeball
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3037/2749935890_29d745c757.jpg

black raphael..i'd like to do an accurate stump wrestling costume one day with blue highlights and no bandana and pads if possible. but he's wearing both under his black suit in a few anels of tmnta #8. he's still cool with me tho
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3152/2749935958_a85ef26862.jpg

trident pink foot soldier. in turtles in time these guys keep blocking you. mad annoyng.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3117/2749101027_942ddd9d1d.jpg

foot clan group shot
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3096/2749101121_c5a20d9a30_b.jpg


more + bigger pics here..http://www.flickr.com/photos/sewerlair/

i'm thinking of doing a stump wrestling mike and archie repaints of slash and hothead at some point...

[Patraw]

The Screwloose/Joe Eyeball repaints look good--it's a shame Playmates always left the little buddy accessories without paint apps.

Yeah, the black suit Raph doesn't look right with pads, etc. If you had the patience, you could sand them off. An alternate, unmasked head, without bandana, would be cool too.

The Foot repaints are nice, but, a gloss finish doesn't look right on what's supposed to be clothing--I would have went with a flat tone.

[Spitfire]

Wow you and Tokka should talk.

[shuriken]

That was really awesome. I really like the foot figures.

[notebook]

thank you for the comments.
how do i sand an action figure? manually or with a device what grit?
tokka is supercool. i dig his rising son donny.

here are some more repaints.
this is a green triceraton.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3244/2794416877_0ec3b72c99.jpg

here's slash, repainted archie style. (i actually ouched him up a bit after taking this photo)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3112/2794416347_abf97f0652.jpg

this one i'm still working on. it's my first custom since i did a little cutting and mixing up of limbs. it's stump wrestling mikey. the head and body are next mutation donny, and the arms and legs are next mutation raph's.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3119/2794416519_533e004da7.jpg

heres a birthday party foot soldier.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3131/2788409012_336a185b6f.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3294/2787554603_a17e0474c8.jpg

more photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/sewerlair
to come...

[Jester]

Liked the Slash and Stump Asteroid Mikey...great work.

[Patraw]

If you're going to do some heavy duty sanding, a small power tool, like a dremel or drill, would probably be best (you need the right tips/adaptors for that). I suppose you could use a larger machine, but, unless you removed the limbs, etc., it'd be very difficult, if not impossible, to get to the smaller nooks and crannies. If it's just light work, then doing it by hand is probably the way to go.

I really like the green Triceraton, I think the color works better than their traditional orange (reptiles and green just go together). The Slash and Stump Mikey also look good.

The Foot's paint job is too garish looking for my tastes.

[notebook]

here's finished archie versions of slash, warriordragon/othead, and stump asteroid mikey, plus a couple others.

slash (with palm tree)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sewerlair/2827897721/

stump asteroid mikey
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sewerlair/2828732768/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sewerlair/2828732460/in/photostream/

warrior dragon/hothead
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sewerlair/2827896121/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sewerlair/2828733474/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sewerlair/2828734570/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sewerlair/2828734470/

thinking of doing an archie repaint of man ray/ray fillet one day. in the meantime, here's old toon baxter stockman the fly

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sewerlair/2827894925/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sewerlair/2828731694/in/photostream/

and a quickly reapinted general traag
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sewerlair/2827894369/

[Ninjinister]

Amazing stuff, Aden!

[shuriken]

Cool Traag and Baxter, I think they all look awesome.

[notebook]

thanks for all the kind words evrybody.
i'm finding that customizing is like collecting...no real end to it.

so here's some more new ones-

here's an archie style scumbug custom
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sewerlair/2845160057/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sewerlair/2845993412/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sewerlair/2845159843/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sewerlair/2845993338/in/photostream/

stump asteroid donny- not as awesome as tokka's but it's playmates vs. neca after all.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sewerlair/2845147803/

i redid the stump asteroid mike to make him more comic accurate.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sewerlair/2845981198/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sewerlair/2845147719/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sewerlair/2845993602/

zach
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sewerlair/2845962796/

irma
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sewerlair/2841007959/

[Patraw]

Pretty good stuff for the most part; I liked the Archie-style Scumbug the best out of the lot. Conversely, Zach and the Stump Asteroid turtles were the weakest offerings in my opinion. The Cement Man was interesting as well, even if the sculpt is very basic--that's the first time I've seen a custom of him.

[TurtleManiac]

the zach and cement man characters are quite interesting as they were never made into official toys. the baxter could use a bit more work, like making physical changes to the figure to re-create his cartoon image.