Here are the customs I've made so far, using the Marvel Universe and X-Men Origins: Wolverine figures.


I've posted these first ones before, so they may look familiar to some.

Wolverine and Gambit:

Wolverine was a simple head swap, using the brown costume Wolverine figure and the head from the X0:W Logan figure.
The Gambit was given Col. Dovchenko arms (from the Indiana Jones line) and the coat from a DCIH James Gordon figure. Gambit will soon be updated with new feet, and ankle articulation, as well as either painted gloves or new hands.


Weapon X:

The thing that bothers me about almost all Weapon X figures that get made, is they always sculpt them with a feral snarl, or "roaring" face. In the book, Wolverine almost always had an unchanging expression on his face. He was usually so "out of it" or under someone else's control. He was not the ferocious beast that the figure makers keep sculpting, he was an indifferent, programmed, killing machine.
So I decided to make a modified version of the new Hasbro Weapon X figure.
I used the Weapon X figure, with the Logan head. I wish his hair was longer, but it was a trade off for a more accurate facial expression. I went for the scene where Wolverine was brought in from training (decapitating a bear) and they removed his helmet, but left all of his other battery packs and gear hooked up. He still had pieces strapped to his face, and his belt was in place. Then he went tearing through the guards. One of my favorite parts of one of my favorite comics.









Here is a shot of Weapon X with a modified Logan figure. The coat and gloves on him were inspired by numerous comic appearances of Logan wearing such outfits.




Captain America:

I really liked the Marvel Universe Ultimate Cap figure, but I felt that his arms were a little too short, and his hands were a little too small. So in comparing his limbs to the SHS/MLS Cap figure I decided to see how well they would combine. The boots were very simple. Just removed and swapped boots. No mods required. For the gloves, I just cut the gloves off of the Showdown Cap, and drilled a socket hole in them, and popped them right on the arms. It also added some articulation, as now not only does he have a wrist swivel, but he has the Showdown figure's tilting wrist too. I am really pleased with the way Cap turned out, a nice blend between the Ultimate look, and his classic look.




Madripoor Wolverine / Patch:

After using the battery packs and gear from a second Weapon X figure to make my cutom version more accurate, I needed a project to make sure the left over figure didn't go to waste. So I decided to do his Black costume, from his Madripoor Patch days.
The figure is a Weapon X figure, with a Showdown Logan head, comic pack Crimson Guard feet, and Strike Mission Wolverine hands. I will probably swap his head for the one that is coming out on the unmasked yellow costume Wolvie later this year, as I like the sculpt on that one a bit more.









As always, comments and critiques welcome, and thanks for looking!

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Those look cool I was really not wanting to get those but man I might have to get some.

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This just goes to show how cool these figures really are and i think you made some awesome customs with little effort, super work on them all.

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hmmm idk, i like wolverine in the yellow and really dark, dark, blue almost black.

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i like that headswap on brown wolvie! i'm doing that too! (also, the paint apps on my brown wolvie's head are horrible)

i really like the new head on weapon x too!

i like what you did with the cap, but the difference in the red colors is a little jarring -

all in all,

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I like what I see.Not too into weapon x wolvy but the others work well.Swaping out upper arms is done by boil and pop isn't it??? I haven't tried it yet but I have the figures

The difference in reds is mostly due to the flash.
To the naked eye the red on Cap's torso actually matches the Showdown boots and gloves, better than the ones that came on the figure.
Pictures with the flash turned off, show it better.




The shield doesn't match up perfectly, but that doesn't really bother me too much. I don't imagine Cap repainting his shield to perfectly match his uniform any time there are subtle color changes. Plus I can always switch it for the Showdown shield, which more closely matches the red on the figure, if it starts to bug me too badly.



With the X-Men Origins: Wolverine figures yes. I used it to swap Gambit's arms and to remove the Weapon X figure's arms, while I dyed the body black, to make the "Patch" Wolverine.

Though I've heard that it doesn't work with the Marvel Universe figures.


Thanks for the feedback, everyone!

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These are all really great mods, and I will incorporate many of them, I am sure. The only one I'll probably leave alone is Cap, and that's just because I can live with his figure straight from the box more than any of the others I have opened up so far

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very cool man. they all rock.

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I really liked the "Patch" era of the Wolverine comics that ran from Marvel Comic Presents 1-10 thru Wolverine 1-16, or so.

With the X-Men pressumed dead he tries to use his claws as little as possible, so he doesn't give away his true identity. This leads to him doing things a little differently and actually finding different ways to get his goals accomplished, instead of just hacking and slashing through everything and everyone. His friends and role in Madripoor was also really cool, in a kind of Casablanca kind of way. Very different stuff from what had been done with the character up until that point.

Liking this time period so much, and already having done the black costume version of Patch, I decided to do the plain clothes version too.

The Indiana Jones figures came in quite handy for this, as his clothing closely resembled Indy's outfit.
I mixed and matched parts from several Indy figures, to keep his overall height in scale to the other Wolverine figures.

The legs are from a ROTLA Indy. These were the shortest legs I found.
The body is from KOTCS Indy. It's ball joint fits the Wolvie head without any mods needed.
I'm not really sure which figure the arms and jacket are from. Each version had slightly different colors, and sculpts. I found the pieces in one of my parts bins. The puzzling bit, is that I only had one set of these arms and jacket, and they don't match with any I've used on other figures. I can't for the life of me think of any jacketed Indy figures that I only got 1 of.
Anyway, the feet are from the Logan vs. Sabretooth figure, and the hands are from the single pack Logan figure, with the claws filed off, as is the head.

I made the hands easily removable and used a pair of Weapon X hands as "clawed" replacements. I also made 2 heads for him, which are interchangable. One has just the eye patch, and one with the patch, and a hat and cigar added. The hat is from the KOTCS Indy and the cigar is the tip off of an Indy whip. I'm not 100% sold on the hat, but I'm worried that a non-removable Indy hat, might look too small on his head.

Reference picture:



Patch:
























As always, comments and critiques are welcome, and thanks for looking!

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Very, very nice. I too am a fan of Patch, and this custom is very cool. I don't mind the hat at all, and it really adds to the character.

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Some new WIP's and an update to my Captain America.

I big thanks to unknownsoldier13 for making me aware of the Tri-Gate Creations classic Cap head, and of course a big thanks to Tri-Gate for making it!

I just have the eyes left to do, and frankly doing them scares the hell out of me.





I was also messing around with alternate Wolverine heads, and decided to try the Toy Biz Showdown head on the new Hasbro brown costume Wolverine body. I liked it so I repainted the yellow to match up with his costume, and also modified the hands to be easily removable, so I can swap them with a pair that has the claws trimmed off.










I always liked the Wolverine and Kitty Pryde mini-series where Wolverine has to fight his old mentor Ogun. Recently I had heard about Marvel having him return in the form of a spirit that could "posess" people. They eventually got rid of him, again, but I wanted to make a newer version of Ogun in a new body.
I liked the Tri-Gate head, so I decided to use it as an updated to Ogun's original red demon mask.
The base figure is obviuosly a Ninja Viper, and he uses a red Ninja backpack. I cut the arrows off of the pack, and drilled a couple of small holes in it, to hold the nunchucks. They are removable.
I also used the Ninja Viper swords, and cut and filed one down the the same length as the Storm Shadow / Red Ninja short sword, to fit in the pack correctly.

I still need to remove his Cobra symbol, and I want to do something with his lower arms, but I'm not sure what yet.






Juggernaut is one character that I don't think has had, what I would consider, a "perfect" figure yet. So I decided to quit waiting, and make one myself.

While I really liked the Toy Biz Showdown version, he was too small for me. I prefer to use the movie sized Hulk. So I like to have my other large guys match up relatively, in size. I never thought of the Thing being at the same strength as the Hulk, so his Showdown and new Marvel Universe figures work just fine for me. Juggernaut however, I always thought of as being able to hold his own against the Hulk. At least for a while. So his figure needed to be bigger.
The older Toy Biz Juggernaut figures were ok, but not great. I don't mind slightly "ape-ish" proportions on Juggernaut, but some of the figures were ridiculous. On some figures the articulation also left a LOT to be desired. The new Spider Man series Juggernaut was too big, and I really didn't like the way his helmet looked, when it was on his head. It made him too much of a "bullet head", and overall just didn't look right to me.

I used the legs and waist from an X-Men vs. Street Fighter Juggernaut.

This gave him good sized legs, with some nice big feet for stability. The articulation isn't great, but it's good enough for me. I never thought of Juggernaut as being as agile as Spidey, and frankly he always seemed like he would rather stand tall and a hit, than dodge around. So the t-crotch and jointed knees were adequate enough.

I added the torso and arms of the new Spider Man series Juggernaut.

These gave him a better scaled torso and arms, and added a lot of upper body articulation. He now has ball jointed shoulders and elbows, with wrist swivels and retains his mid-torso bend.

I still have to do some filing to make his helmet (also from the X-Men vs. SF figure) sit down all the way, completely covering his neck / shoulder flesh. I am also planning on painting his torso "ribbing" to match his boots, and I am going to add a belt that will cover the joint where his torso attaches to his waist.

Height-wise he is now only about a half inch shorter than the movie Hulk figure.







As always comments are critiques are most welcome, and thanks for looking!

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I'm loving that you're inspired by a new line, and I dig all of this. All of the Wolvie mods are superb. The Showdown head is a big improvement over the one it comes with. I'm curious as to how Trigate's Wolvie head looks, also.

My only critique would be on Juggernaut, and that's simply that he comes off more cartoony than all your other customs. But your work was top notch, and it sounds like he fits what you want perfectly, so take that critique with a grain of salt...especially since I can't offer any good advice along with it.

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Great job all around - and a nice bit of turd-polishing to fix the problems with the Wolvie figs. Especially dig your version of Weapon X.

Cap looks friggin' awesome - can't wait to see him finished.

My only critique with the whole lot is that Juggy seems too big for my tastes. Although the MLS version is too small, so I can certainly appreciate what you're trying to do. I thought about picking up one of the Spidey Juggy yesterday to try him out -- I may have to now, and see if I can make him fit in with my MU guys.

Cool stuff!

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I got one, when I got my other heads from them. Unfortunately it looks like it is too big to go with the current, smaller Wolverine figures. I'll try to get some comparison pictures tonight, if I get the chance.
I can totally see what you mean. Especially with the Toy Biz legs. Their 1990's sculpts weren't exactly "super realistic".
Perhaps I will see if I can do some texturing on them to help them out.

Just a word of warning, my Juggernaut is about two inches shorter than the Spider Man Juggernaut.

It is taller than the Hulk movie figures, and is even taller than the movie Abomination. It's a really big figure! That was why I shortened mine.

Thanks for the input guys!

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