Raphael as Shredder Custom
 

Originally done for Patraw's contest last spring/summer, I don't remember the specific reason/reasons I didn't enter it. It was going to be part of a larger work; I didn't finish my custom Yeti (made from an extra Big Foot I had) until it was too late.

One of Ninjinster's customs made me think of this (I guess because mine is better :twink: ) so I thought I'd post these pics. Sorry for the poor picture quality-- these were taken with a cell phone-- I may post better ones if there is demand.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...tech/Raph6.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...tech/Raph5.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...tech/Raph4.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...tech/Raph3.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...tech/Raph2.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...tech/Raph1.jpg


There is no extremely complicated recipe behind this custom, it's just very time-consuming. It must have taken between 12 and 20 hours to complete, and by the time I was done I didn't care if I ever did another custom ever again.

Ingredients:

One 2K3 Raph (accessories unnecessary/optional)

One TMNT Movie Shredder (accessories unnecessary/optional)

One Movie III Samurai Raph helmet

A lot of cutting, super-gluing, and painting went into this.

To be fair, dude, my Raph/Shredder was my very first attempt at anything close to figure customization... :p

I like yours. It's got more of an Image Raph feel to it, whereas mine was based on 2K3 Shredder-Raph.

I was just kidding about the first part. Honestly.

I wouldn't have said mine has more of an "Image" feel to it (but then, in contrast to your's, I could see why you might say that).

The helmet is sitting too high on Raph's head, no doubt due to the size of the turtles' melons in general, but other than that, I think it looks good. I like the extra sashes/ribbons elements in particular.

Really? Two people gave this a 1?!?

The helmet IS sitting too high on his head-- that was one of the few things that REALLY bothered me about how this custom came out.



The nice thing about doing extremely time consuming customs is you get new ideas as you go along. If you look at picture 4, I made new bandanna tails out of Model Magic, but I didn't want to throw the old one away and I didn't think I'd ever use it for anything else, and got the idea to use it as a second "belt-tail."

I was quite surprised by that too. But not offended. It isn't like either of them had enough nerve to comment in this thread (I don't think either you or Patraw gave me a one).

Thanks.


I'm aware of that, it was something I really wanted to do, though.


I had to cut out part of the front of the Shredder armor, but if I remember correctly, no glue as necessary. The armor just "snaps" on. It's not so tight of a fit that it's trying to pop back off, but it is nice and snug to the point that it would take some effort to get it back off again.

I'm not giving it a numerical rating -- something about that just rubs me the wrong way -- but it looks pretty great! If you're looking for criticisms, the helmet's the only thing I'd really change.

Great Idea, I like the way you pulled it of :), if the pictures were better I would have give more point, but is an 8 :)

I think its great. Helmet does sit a little bit high on his head but other than that, Nice!