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Customized TMNT movie action figures
ok, so basically I had a set of utterly horrendous tmnt movie figs. The mask ties were missing, they had no weapons or belts, and a lot of paint from masks/eyes/shell was worn off. I made new belts/straps from leather/vinyl, sculpted new mask ties, crafted new weapons from wood, twine, thread, and other brand sword/sais. I also did a few head swaps to better match the characters personalities. Finally I gave them all a fresh coat of paint that actually looks a little more realistic. I never could stand those ugly spots! i also gave them a Domino's pizza box which was ironically made from the (clean) cardboard of a REAL Domino's pizza box. i used markers to reproduce the logo. Let me know what you think :)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...YZIE/tmnt1.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...aphMikey-a.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...aphMikey-b.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...eoDonnie-a.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...eoDonnie-b.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ZIE/Donnie.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...YZIE/Mikey.jpg |
Looks really good, nice job, like the weapons
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Wow, those look great man! Awesome job.
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These are amazing. Oh my gosh.
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That Dominos Pizza box just sells it for me!
Although, if I remember, weren't the action figures based more off the 2nd movie. In which case, the TMNT should be eating Pizza Hut! |
Looks great man, nice job getting rid of the Movie 3 spots :-)
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Great job on the customization! There is one thing though that caught my eye; are you going to wrap somehow Raph's prongs on the sai? If not that's cool :). Still awesome no matter what :D.
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Awesome. But who has who's head? http://tmnttoys.com/92figures/movie/movie.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...YZIE/tmnt1.jpg Hmmm. Raph was Leo, Mike was Raph, Leo was Mike, and Donnie stays Donnie. :D (Thanks to TMNTTOYS.com for the image.) |
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Leo - Mike Don - Don Raph - Leo I'm pretty sure... |
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Wow , these look really good ! Great job .
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Good to see ya here! I've already told you how much I love these customs, but it wouldn't hurt to say it again... They really are fantastic and make me want a set of super-articulated movie turtles...
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freaking amazing! do want! lol! :D
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These are REALLY solid. I'm gonna have to score a set of Movie TMNT to see if I can top this, although, I'm honestly not sure if I could!
These actually may be my favorite straight-repaint customs on this board. The ONLY thing that bothers me is the "TCRI" ooze canister. For movie-accuracy, it should say "TGRI." If you don't mind me being nit-picky. :) |
Navin Johnson, Donnie, koschei, Cowabunga Carl, Bmaga123, Jester, TMNT Canadian - thanks so much guys :)
Oldmanwinters- I loved the domino's box as well. While I saw all three movies in the theaters, the first one will always be the best in my opinion. I wanted to base them on the first movie. Leonardo87- thanks! I tried to wrap them but it made them look too thick and odd, so I left them as is. Good catch ;) Slap-Happy- for all who are curious here is the make up: Raph- Leo's head, mikey's legs, raph body. Leo- Mikey's head, with the rest leo. Mikey- Raph's head and legs, mike's body. Donnie- all Donnie. Koenne- thank you! Discogod- hey whats up brutha! Yeah, I took your advice and checked out the boards here. They are great! I've always been a big turtle fan since the 80's, just never got involved with much of the online fandom of it. Up until now I was just into my tmnt comic collection, movies, toons, art, and action figures. My passion for the turtles burns as feverishly as it did when I first laid eyes on them in 1985 :) Psychoandy- thanks man! As Mikey would say, "Go for it!" I'd love to see your rendition. Yes they are pretty much a straight repaint, HOWEVER I did hand make leo's sword sheaths, mikey's nunchucks, don's bo, and all the belts and mask ties. The sculpts were so damn good I found no need to modify any of it, minus the head swaps I made. In all seriousness, they are probably some of the best children's action figure toy sculpts that I have ever seen. Sure there's companies like neca, sota, and such, but they are geared more towards the adult collector. HaHA, you caught the TCRI/TGRI swap! I don’t mind your nit-pickiness at all. I totally get where you're coming from. While I LOVE the movie, I love the original comics even more, hence I stuck with the true origin of the ooze :) Thank you everyone for taking the time to comment on my work. I hope you enjoyed viewing them as I did making them. I don’t know when, but I have plans for making "artist's" versions of the turtles sometime in the future. There are 16 artists for vol 1 of the turtles (not including inkers or lavigne/brown). I counted Eastman and Laird twice since they really have two versions. The earlier version (neca's version) and the later version like what I feel was a peter laird pioneered version starting in issue #12 (his first solo issue) and continued to progress until what you see in issue 50, which is more the standard now (IMO). At any rate...i will probably start off with a matt howarth version as I thought his take was very unique and interesting. You can see his style turtle in issue 41 and the one shot, the haunted pizza. |
....just another post to express how much I like that great awesome work!!!! They look nice!!! Thanks for sharing!!!! :tgrin:
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yes, same here...I wrote it in another thread already and just discovered that these movie figures had their own;)....so, congratulations, amigo!they are truly well done!I love the color job and I think you matched the faces just right....I especially enjoy looking at raphael here for some reason...
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These might be my favorite repaint customs ever. If there is any chance you'd make more of those weapons for sale, please pm me!
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These look way better than the originals. Great paint apps.
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