Custom DCUC style Shredder!

[Boy Wonder]

So I might be the slowest customizer on the planet. But I finally finished Shredder! A thank you to Wes Crayon for helping me track down some good parts to use on him, since this is very much inspired by his great Shredder customs.

Body: DCUC Wildcat
Head: Slice N Dice Shredder
Arm/leg spikes, shoulder pads: Super Shredder
Hand spikes: TMNT Shredder
Lower legs/knees: DCUC Capt Boomerang
Feet: DCSH Batman
Added athletic tape and strips of leather for the belt and forearms.

He's kind of an amalgamation of Shredder from the movie and Cyber Shredder, but I just wanted a Shredder that was easy enough to pull off for a novice like me and would look good with what I already have. He's actually 95% done, I intend on finding some decent cloth for his cape to attach to his shoulder pads. I'm really happy with how he turned out, if Playmates doesn't give us a classics Shredder, this will be good with me. I wish there was some kind of easy blank body to do some simple Foot Soldiers... might have to work on that next... maybe if I can find a bunch of Rulk Black Spider-man figures...

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[Ground Pounder]

Kewl custom! Btw, have ever tried using rit dye? Using a black rit dye on a figure could work if u wanted to make foot ninjas (assuming you wanted them in black.)

[Boy Wonder]

Hmm, I might have some experimenting to do soon. How deep does the color get? If I can just get some black basic figures and add some bells and whistles I'll be set.

Thanks for the kind words and advice:)

[TheCanadiandrome]

that thing is awesome! great job!

[Jester]

DCAU styled Shredders seem to be taking off...:P

Nice work.

[Powder]

Really cool, man. Looks great!

[Eiko]

Looks really neat well done. :)

[Lampy]

great work! it looks pretty cool. I have to admit though... not really digging the Super Shredder Shoulder spikes. regardless, i am loving this figure overall.

[Boy Wonder]

Yeah, I'd really like to find some small spikes and find a way to attach them without messing with the articulation, but we'll see what I can come up with

[Ulisses31]

Very well done I would love to see more fight poses!!

[Lampy]

Yeah, I'd really like to find some small spikes and find a way to attach them without messing with the articulation, but we'll see what I can come up with

Ok cool... What did you use for the hand blades? They look perfect. Like actual blades.

Edit: nevermind.... Read the description. Sorry

[Lordmylar06]

I really like the pics of him without the shoulder pads... it reminded me of the recent color classics reprint of issue 1. I'll be working on a DCUC scaled Shredder custom soon, I just have to finish some other things first.
Good work!

[Ground Pounder]

Hmm, I might have some experimenting to do soon. How deep does the color get? If I can just get some black basic figures and add some bells and whistles I'll be set.

Thanks for the kind words and advice:)

With black rit dye it will soak through and through if u do it right. Some custom figure sites have instructions on how to do it. You could try joecustoms.com for instructions. It's for 4" figures but I'm sure biggers would work just as well.

[Wes]

Nice work, Boy Wonder! I like that you switched the recipe up to get the double-jointed knees of the Boomerang body and the rocker ankles of the DCSH figs. I tend to like the Super Shredder shoulder armor with the leg pieces too -- with different shoulder armor, I don't like that the smooth spikes and nicked spikes don't match -- but I'd probably flip it around (like I did with my Cyber Shredder) to hide the breastplate. The breastplate would also be a good place to wrap the cape around. :)

And if you're looking for, try Walmart or Hobby Lobby! I also bought a plastic tablecloth a while back that I wanted to try cutting up to use as a cape. We'll see...

Oh, and yeah, black Spideys for Foot Ninjas. They've already got the look mostly down (depending upon which versions you want). :)

[Mr.Turtle]

it's actually really nice if the gap by his thighs somehow filled up

[psychoandy]

VERY clean painting! Impressive.

[Doomsdayninja]

Your Neca turtles pictured are SICK

[Jasper-X]

that is one bad ass shredder, i like splinter too