Customs

~~PWDESAI~~ · 01-16-2003, 06:16 PM

Post your custom action figures here! I'd love to see everybody's!
I will post mine up soon but they aren't done here's what i'm working on
(they are all big enough and detailed to fit in with the new line, specially manray)

Figure | Body | Head
Manray | New Leonardo | Sculpey
Rocksteady | New Hulk figure | Sculpey
SuperPoseable Leonardo | New Kinnikuman toy | New leo
Leatherhead | Juggernaut figure | Sculpey

that's it so far, i'll take pics when i finish. I'm thinking of makin bebop if rocksteady turns out ok. Anyways post all your customs here!!!!!!

~~PWDESAI~~ · 01-16-2003, 06:31 PM

Totally forgot scratch!

TMNTGal · 01-16-2003, 11:31 PM

I recently got into customizing. Mostly 12" Military Figures but I'm also planning several TMNT customs. Since Warrior Rahzar wasn't released I decided to make my own furry Rahzar. He can be seen here:

Custom Rahzar

At the moment I'm repainting an Original FootSoldier. He's completely white, once he's finished he'll probably look like the white FootSoldiers from the TMNT III Manhattan Project video game. The ones always wielding the whips.

I'm thinking of adding some chrome paint but I haven't decided yet.

Some of the next figure's I'm planning:
- Armaggon
- Sisyphus
- Dragon Lord & Wick
- Green Triceraton from Night of The Dark Turtle
- Red Triceraton from Night of The Dark Turtle

Wingnut · 01-17-2003, 07:44 AM

Rahzar looks cool furry

xZAOx · 01-17-2003, 11:17 AM

nice job!

and you have the whole tmnt 2 figure line (except for the rat hehe). im green with turtle envy!

TMNTGal · 01-17-2003, 02:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xZAOx

nice job!

and you have the whole tmnt 2 figure line (except for the rat hehe). im green with turtle envy!

Oh I have Splinter too but he's posed with my New TMNT line. I didn't want a loose new Splinter. His facial sculpt a little strange. Movie Star Splinter (furry version) is so cute, he kinda looks like a puppy.

**Kali** · 01-17-2003, 03:13 PM

Wow, that custom Rahzar looks great. I've tried customizing action figures, but the closest I've done is my chibi turtles and those don't move at all, so they aren't really action figures.

~~PWDESAI~~ · 01-18-2003, 09:11 AM

if anyone wants to know how, all you need to do is have an idea, then some money to buy the sculpey and the figure and the paints, and if you have talent it helps but i don't so you don't have to have talent to enjoy yourself and BOOM you're done.

Straight-Edge · 01-18-2003, 06:40 PM

http://www.angelfire.com/ny3/straightedge/others.html

These're my Image-based Turtle customs. I've been trying to post them for two days, but kept getting error messages.

Anyways, Leo, Mike and Raph are Next Mutation figures, modified as Erik Larsen dictated in the Image comic (my favorite print incarnation of the Turtles, hands down). These are my take on the Turtles as they eventually settle into their new looks post-Issues #23.

Leo's missing a hand, and is wearing a skull cap reminiscent of the pre-teenage turtle masks from Mirage Vol 1, #9. I figure after losing a hand, you'd have to go back to the beginning, and relearn the ninja arts from scratch, incorporating the diability into a modified fighting style. So it was perfect that the Next Mutation Leo had this kind of skull cap, as the Image Leo needs to step back from being the leader, and admit he needs to relearn his art. Leo's using Katana blades from G.I.Joe Extreme's Black Dragon figure, since the 88 swords didnt work well with this figure, and the ones NM Leo came with suck!

Raph is all kinds of messed up. Trading in his sais for the remnants of Shredder's armor (actually NM Dragonlord's forearm guards), Raph's still sporting the scars from his encounter with the Cyborgs in Issue #1. He's wearing an eyepatch over the useless eye, and has modified his mask to include the "Jim Lee" flap that covers most of the facial damage. At one time, I'd had him wearing a modified Resident Evil Nemesis' black trenchcoat, as an homage to the all-black suit he wore in an issue or two of the Archie series. It also helped add more distinction to he who is already the darkest of the turtles in the Image world.

Don's a combination of all 3 Jim Lee Turtles, plus parts from a bunch of Spawn figures. As the Cyborg armor settles onto him, Don tries to integrate it more fully, and wears a full-face mask to cover his armored-bits, and belnd in with his brother. Ironically, Jim Lee and the New Adventures figures both had Don in a full face mask, and I've toyed with the idea of meching out one of those someday.. but the larger size of the Jim Lee turtles works better for Don, who's definitely bigger and bulkier than his brothers in the Image book.

Mikey's a straight repaint (the book didnt last long enough for Erik to figure out how to handicap him, I guess)... but I modified his nunchucks (1988 version) and included a grappling hook for those PC parents who forced him to hangup the chucks later on in the cartoon series.

~~PWDESAI~~ · 01-18-2003, 06:53 PM

cool straight edge!

Mine should be comin soon now, thanks for everyone that replied!

xZAOx · 01-18-2003, 08:18 PM

yeah straight edge (are you really? like hxc/metal bands? hehe), nice figs. the next mutation make nice bases for the image figures, but i hate the wraps on the legs and arms and stuff.

hurry up pwedasai! show us what ya got! IF YOU DARE!!!

i dont know what that means.

Shellfox · 01-18-2003, 08:19 PM

at some point was Rahzar an old MOTU Grizlor? Anyway looks great

TMNTGal · 01-18-2003, 08:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shellfox

at some point was Rahzar an old MOTU Grizlor? Anyway looks great

Nope. I bought some brown furry material, it's almost exactally like's MOTU's Grizzlor. Some Hobby stores and Walmart sell those small sheets of faux fur. It took me a while to find that solid brown color with long enough fur. I measured Playmate's Rahzar figure and cut out a pattern that when sewn together, would be kind of like a tight fitting suit with hood. Once I finished sewing the pattern together I put it on the figure. I poked a small hole in the belly area of the material so his chest armor can go through and stick back onto the figure. I also made small holes on the hood so Rahzar's ears can fit through them. Afterwards I trimmed the fur in several places until it looked the way it does in the photo. I also used a little Barbie comb to brush and style the fur.

Thanks, I really like the way he turned out too.

Straight-Edge · 01-18-2003, 09:40 PM

I'm more into punk rock these days (even more specific, punk covers of oldies, ala Me First and the Gimme Gimmes)... but there was a time I got heavy into the NYHC scene.. the honest-to-god no drinking/drugs/sex thing.

I've reformed a bit in my latter days, indulging in the drink for a while (after my fiance and I split up)... but the only thing straight-edge about me these days is the no vices thing. I don't go in for the scene.. some of that music is *really* loud

As for the figures, the arm and leg wraps actually work for me. Considering I needed forearm wraps for Raph, and Leo needed that one arm bandaged, using the NM turtles allowed those add-ons to blend better into the overall uniformity of the group. I was tossing around the idea of redoing them with the new figures, but there'll be too much to mold/modify, and I'm aready doing a straight repaint set of the new figures as the Mirage turtles (all red bandanas, and energy weapons, from their Triceraton adventure in Issue #6... also as an homage to those small metal figures made available before the toy license.)
Anyway, I did these figures about two years ago, maybe more... the Image book was just ending around the time I busted open my Jim Lee figs for the Don custom that started it all. In fact, the Don figure is the oldest by at least 6 months, and he really looks it. Three repaints (the other three have softer, bendy plastic that the original paint I used on Don didn't adhere to), and two failed blackwash processes have left him looking a little crap-tastic.

If I ever try my hand at these again, I'd redo Don first... but I think I'll leave well enough alone.

~~PWDESAI~~ · 01-19-2003, 03:24 PM

alright rocksteady is just being finished painted, so is scratch. Leatherhead needs his arm fixed and then to be started painted. Then when those 3 are finished i'll move onto Bebop and finish clawful (motu).

Btw tmntgal did i ever say how good your customs were? I think i forgot, i like em though good job

Wingnut · 01-19-2003, 03:50 PM

TMNTGal i just love furry Rahzar

**Karpo_007** · 01-19-2003, 04:10 PM

ALltough I dislike like the Image, I must say those custom figures looked cool. MAybe it's time someone did Mirage customs?

~~PWDESAI~~ · 01-19-2003, 08:27 PM

I dunno since the statues are coming out i don't think i'm going to.
Here's my rocksteady for the new line, he was made with sculpey and a hulk the movie figure.

TMNTGal · 01-19-2003, 09:46 PM

Straight-Edge nice job!

Thanks PWDESAI. Love your Rocksteady! I'm looking forward too seeing the rest of your work.

Thankies Wingnut! It's fun brushing Rahzar's fur.

I may modify a Tokka too. I always wanted his shell full o' spikes. It was lazy of playmates to reuse Slash's mold for Tokka.

~~PWDESAI~~ · 01-19-2003, 09:52 PM

Thank you tmnt gal, yea i think you should keep up with your customs too, I love that rahzar with fur it looks so real.

Technodrome admins, do you think we coiuld make this a sticky or something so that people can get easy access to it and possibly encourage them to make customs of their own?

01-16-2003, 11:31 PM	#3
TMNTGal Mad Scientist Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 1,061	I recently got into customizing. Mostly 12" Military Figures but I'm also planning several TMNT customs. Since Warrior Rahzar wasn't released I decided to make my own furry Rahzar. He can be seen here: Custom Rahzar At the moment I'm repainting an Original FootSoldier. He's completely white, once he's finished he'll probably look like the white FootSoldiers from the TMNT III Manhattan Project video game. The ones always wielding the whips. I'm thinking of adding some chrome paint but I haven't decided yet. Some of the next figure's I'm planning: - Armaggon - Sisyphus - Dragon Lord & Wick - Green Triceraton from Night of The Dark Turtle - Red Triceraton from Night of The Dark Turtle __________________

01-17-2003, 07:44 AM	#4
Wingnut Mad Scientist Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Pao Pao Café Posts: 1,264	Rahzar looks cool furry __________________ "I'll be what I wanna do."

01-18-2003, 09:40 PM	#14
Straight-Edge Foot Soldier Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Brooklyn, NY Posts: 139	Well... I'm more into punk rock these days (even more specific, punk covers of oldies, ala Me First and the Gimme Gimmes)... but there was a time I got heavy into the NYHC scene.. the honest-to-god no drinking/drugs/sex thing. I've reformed a bit in my latter days, indulging in the drink for a while (after my fiance and I split up)... but the only thing straight-edge about me these days is the no vices thing. I don't go in for the scene.. some of that music is really loud As for the figures, the arm and leg wraps actually work for me. Considering I needed forearm wraps for Raph, and Leo needed that one arm bandaged, using the NM turtles allowed those add-ons to blend better into the overall uniformity of the group. I was tossing around the idea of redoing them with the new figures, but there'll be too much to mold/modify, and I'm aready doing a straight repaint set of the new figures as the Mirage turtles (all red bandanas, and energy weapons, from their Triceraton adventure in Issue #6... also as an homage to those small metal figures made available before the toy license.) Anyway, I did these figures about two years ago, maybe more... the Image book was just ending around the time I busted open my Jim Lee figs for the Don custom that started it all. In fact, the Don figure is the oldest by at least 6 months, and he really looks it. Three repaints (the other three have softer, bendy plastic that the original paint I used on Don didn't adhere to), and two failed blackwash processes have left him looking a little crap-tastic. If I ever try my hand at these again, I'd redo Don first... but I think I'll leave well enough alone.

01-19-2003, 03:50 PM	#16
Wingnut Mad Scientist Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Pao Pao Café Posts: 1,264	TMNTGal i just love furry Rahzar __________________ "I'll be what I wanna do."

01-19-2003, 09:46 PM	#19
TMNTGal Mad Scientist Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 1,061	Straight-Edge nice job! Thanks PWDESAI. Love your Rocksteady! I'm looking forward too seeing the rest of your work. Thankies Wingnut! It's fun brushing Rahzar's fur. I may modify a Tokka too. I always wanted his shell full o' spikes. It was lazy of playmates to reuse Slash's mold for Tokka. __________________

01-16-2003, 06:16 PM	#1
~~PWDESAI~~ Banned Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,873	Customs Post your custom action figures here! I'd love to see everybody's! I will post mine up soon but they aren't done here's what i'm working on (they are all big enough and detailed to fit in with the new line, specially manray) Figure \| Body \| Head Manray \| New Leonardo \| Sculpey Rocksteady \| New Hulk figure \| Sculpey SuperPoseable Leonardo \| New Kinnikuman toy \| New leo Leatherhead \| Juggernaut figure \| Sculpey that's it so far, i'll take pics when i finish. I'm thinking of makin bebop if rocksteady turns out ok. Anyways post all your customs here!!!!!!

01-16-2003, 06:31 PM	#2
~~PWDESAI~~ Banned Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,873	Totally forgot scratch!

01-17-2003, 11:17 AM	#5
xZAOx Stone Warrior Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: TN Posts: 842	nice job! and you have the whole tmnt 2 figure line (except for the rat hehe). im green with turtle envy!

01-17-2003, 03:13 PM	#7
Kali Inactive Moderator Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: California! Posts: 11,101	Wow, that custom Rahzar looks great. I've tried customizing action figures, but the closest I've done is my chibi turtles and those don't move at all, so they aren't really action figures.

01-18-2003, 09:11 AM	#8
~~PWDESAI~~ Banned Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,873	if anyone wants to know how, all you need to do is have an idea, then some money to buy the sculpey and the figure and the paints, and if you have talent it helps but i don't so you don't have to have talent to enjoy yourself and BOOM you're done.

01-18-2003, 06:40 PM	#9
Straight-Edge Foot Soldier Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Brooklyn, NY Posts: 139	What the heck is wrong with me? http://www.angelfire.com/ny3/straightedge/others.html These're my Image-based Turtle customs. I've been trying to post them for two days, but kept getting error messages. Anyways, Leo, Mike and Raph are Next Mutation figures, modified as Erik Larsen dictated in the Image comic (my favorite print incarnation of the Turtles, hands down). These are my take on the Turtles as they eventually settle into their new looks post-Issues #23. Leo's missing a hand, and is wearing a skull cap reminiscent of the pre-teenage turtle masks from Mirage Vol 1, #9. I figure after losing a hand, you'd have to go back to the beginning, and relearn the ninja arts from scratch, incorporating the diability into a modified fighting style. So it was perfect that the Next Mutation Leo had this kind of skull cap, as the Image Leo needs to step back from being the leader, and admit he needs to relearn his art. Leo's using Katana blades from G.I.Joe Extreme's Black Dragon figure, since the 88 swords didnt work well with this figure, and the ones NM Leo came with suck! Raph is all kinds of messed up. Trading in his sais for the remnants of Shredder's armor (actually NM Dragonlord's forearm guards), Raph's still sporting the scars from his encounter with the Cyborgs in Issue #1. He's wearing an eyepatch over the useless eye, and has modified his mask to include the "Jim Lee" flap that covers most of the facial damage. At one time, I'd had him wearing a modified Resident Evil Nemesis' black trenchcoat, as an homage to the all-black suit he wore in an issue or two of the Archie series. It also helped add more distinction to he who is already the darkest of the turtles in the Image world. Don's a combination of all 3 Jim Lee Turtles, plus parts from a bunch of Spawn figures. As the Cyborg armor settles onto him, Don tries to integrate it more fully, and wears a full-face mask to cover his armored-bits, and belnd in with his brother. Ironically, Jim Lee and the New Adventures figures both had Don in a full face mask, and I've toyed with the idea of meching out one of those someday.. but the larger size of the Jim Lee turtles works better for Don, who's definitely bigger and bulkier than his brothers in the Image book. Mikey's a straight repaint (the book didnt last long enough for Erik to figure out how to handicap him, I guess)... but I modified his nunchucks (1988 version) and included a grappling hook for those PC parents who forced him to hangup the chucks later on in the cartoon series.

01-18-2003, 06:53 PM	#10
~~PWDESAI~~ Banned Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,873	cool straight edge! Mine should be comin soon now, thanks for everyone that replied!

01-18-2003, 08:18 PM	#11
xZAOx Stone Warrior Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: TN Posts: 842	yeah straight edge (are you really? like hxc/metal bands? hehe), nice figs. the next mutation make nice bases for the image figures, but i hate the wraps on the legs and arms and stuff. hurry up pwedasai! show us what ya got! IF YOU DARE!!! i dont know what that means.

01-18-2003, 08:19 PM	#12
Shellfox Mad Scientist Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Texas Posts: 1,234	at some point was Rahzar an old MOTU Grizlor? Anyway looks great

01-19-2003, 03:24 PM	#15
~~PWDESAI~~ Banned Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,873	alright rocksteady is just being finished painted, so is scratch. Leatherhead needs his arm fixed and then to be started painted. Then when those 3 are finished i'll move onto Bebop and finish clawful (motu). Btw tmntgal did i ever say how good your customs were? I think i forgot, i like em though good job

01-19-2003, 04:10 PM	#17
Karpo_007 Inactive Moderator Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Finland Posts: 8,798	ALltough I dislike like the Image, I must say those custom figures looked cool. MAybe it's time someone did Mirage customs?

01-19-2003, 08:27 PM	#18
~~PWDESAI~~ Banned Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,873	I dunno since the statues are coming out i don't think i'm going to. Here's my rocksteady for the new line, he was made with sculpey and a hulk the movie figure.

01-19-2003, 09:52 PM	#20
~~PWDESAI~~ Banned Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,873	Thank you tmnt gal, yea i think you should keep up with your customs too, I love that rahzar with fur it looks so real. Technodrome admins, do you think we coiuld make this a sticky or something so that people can get easy access to it and possibly encourage them to make customs of their own?