darkseid and catwoman are awesome, your best baddies so far

This is the mask I am referring to...

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That Darkseid is AWESOME!!!!! Nice job on Catwoman as well. You are on a great run here man, keep em coming!!

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Dang - this'll teach me for not dropping in more often - there's WAY too much stuff to comment on all at once. So I guess I'll just jump around with a bunch of random thoughts:


Darkseid kicks much tail. I used a similar recipe for mine, but yours is SO much cleaner and really pops.

Supes & Bats are both winners - Superman especially - I was concerned that the DCIH head would be too small, but it works surprisingly well with that body. It honestly looks like a factory figure (well, if Hasbro made DC figs, anyway.)

The Tomar is one I've been waiting on - I was hoping somebody would bash the Mattel bits onto a better body and it looks great. I don't care for the movie head (but that's not your problem), but knowing that the body works so well with articulation gives me hope. What did you use for his knees/elbows? I planned on picking up that pack myself the same reasons as you, but the lone Target that had one didn't have it on clearance, sadly. But Tomar has always been my favorite non-human GL, and I've been wanting to make one for a LONG time, but never had a good recipe. That might have just changed.

I loved your original Grundy (still do) - which is probably why I'm not that enamored with the new one - I still see too much Hulk in him - maybe it's the head. Some extra hair on the sides or some "rotten" bits on the exposed flesh on the body might do the trick. As-is, he seems a little "clean" for a zombified swamp dude.

But really - all of these are winners. If the DCIH heads weren't too small to fit in with my customs, I'd be stealing every one of them. As-is, I'll probably only be stealing 80-90% of each one

Awesome stuff as always, Spinny!

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There's a Star Wars Pirate that has some Catwoman like goggles. I forget his name, but he's from the clone wars line and came with one of those laughing monkey lizard thingies.

Sorry, meant to comment on the actual customs too, oops. I love the Catwoman, but not a fan of the hands. I've never liked the microman hands and how they flow with the other figures. But that's just me. I love the rest of the look.

I'm not sure on the big blue guy, I don't know enough about him, but I think he looks cool. Same with the Hulk looking guy, not sure what he's supposed to look like, but if you're going for the Grey Hulk look, you nailed it.

The Green Lantern guy looks awesome. I saw the crap in the stores and like someone else said, this is wat Mattel should have brought out. Cant wait to see more.

Any plans for Azrael, Nightwing or Robin(or did you do them already? I love your figs so far)?

Absolutely love how everything turned out. Seeing these DC customs really makes me sad that we have nothing even close to this quality in the 1:18th scale. I'm especially impressed with Darkseid, since I never thought that melding realistic and cartoon parts would look good, but you pulled it off spectacularly.

Thanks for the comments on these, guys. They're all quite helpful.

I think I've found some decent goggles for Selina. I'll post pics when I'm done monkeying with them.

Meanwhile, here's what I've been working on the last two days:

At first, I'd planned to use the Steve Rogers head for Arthur, but after seeing the super-cool version of Aquaman Robulus posted yesterday with that noggin, I knew I needed to do mine a little different. Once again, my son came to the rescue with the great idea. I asked him how the figure was looking and he did his best impression of the character from The Brave and the Bold cartoon: "Outrageous!" That's when I knew I wanted a bearded, burly Aquaman.

Here's a shot of him with the rest of my growing Justice league, (you'll also see my new Hal Jordan head in this pic and, if you look closely, the raised bat-symbol on Bruce's chest):

What do you think? Does he work in context?

Oh, and chief...

Those pieces came from a Super Hero Showdown black Spidey figure. They had the spindly quality I was looking for.

I like the ideas to swampify or zombify him more and may be going back at those. Bigger question, though: If I were to give him shoes, would that get rid of some of the Hulkitude?

I actually think that would go a long way. Not sure if swapping out the feet completely or just sculpting over them would do the trick, though. Even with the bigger body, huge-ass shoes might look odd. Maybe grafting on some Thanos-ish boots onto Hulk's cankles?

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I wasn't that into Aquaman until Brave & The Bold, and I think you did a great job capturing it.

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Kids have the BEST imaginations & see things we would otherwise overlook... (Customizers on the whole DO have amazin' visions for creative adaptations, but would do even that much MORE by recapturin' the boundless fantasy we experienced w/ the simplicity of just playin' w/ figures as we did in our youth) Arthur is lookin' good - seein' the DC stuff here from U & Robulus - has me wunderin' if some of those Capt.America figs w/ the platemail armor mesh type designs could possibly work for a reimagined version of Aquaman???

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Aquaman's head is either a tad too small or the torso too big, otherwise great work.

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Aquaman looks good but I do agree his head is a little small for the body.

Great group shot of the JLA there. I like them all. BTW that Aquaman head would work really well for an Ollie Green Arrow I think.

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That is a great Brave and the Bold version of Aquaman.

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So I went back and did this tonight:

I think I like him better with the clodhoppers on.

Also took a close up of the face so folks can see the detail work there:

And, while I was taking pics, I decided to get some updated catwoman shots to show off her final paint accents and new goggles:

Here they are up:

What do you guys think? Improvements?