Ok, I'm burned out on DC customs for a while - time to start adding to my Marvel ranks.
Hasbro's Jean Grey was so close, but not close enough. The body sculpt was awesome (swivel-arm battle grip elbows!), but the pea-head and big shoulders just didn't work. At first, I thought she just needed a new head, but then I realized that the way the neckpost jutted forward was the main culprit in her hunchback appearance. So I went ahead and chopped off her neck and gave her a ROC Scarlett one that was repositioned to "sit" straight on her shoulders, rather than hunched over.
If only I could match the metallic blue a little better. Gonna have to re-paint the whole thing, I guess
Then I figured it was time for a Rogue. I'm sure Hasbro will give us one eventually, but I've been wanting to make one for a long time, so...
I wanted to give her a jacket, but none of the cloth jackets fit right (no doubt due to Jean's hunchback), and sculpting one was going to be too big of a chore, so I went with a more spandex-y look instead out of laziness.
I built Gambit here a couple of months ago - the head was the only thing worth a crap from the W:O figure, so I slapped it on an extra ROC CC torso and added some ACE legs. A decent combo of movie and comic looks, I think. And since I could really give a crap about the character, he got more attention than he deserved from me, anyway
Cyke's just a repaint of the Secret Wars Comic Pack version.
So then there's the vision. That "LASER BLAST" Daredevil body just sucks all the way around. I can't believe they're still using the damn thing. Finally, it was too much to bear - I couldn't stand having Mini-Vizh, so I went ahead and made my own out of a Guardian fig. Wish I still had some Model Masters Pearl Green Metallic (or whatever color it was) - that would have been a perfect green for this guy. But he'll do for now.
Hasbro version:
Head is a place-holder to give you an idea of scale:
So then I decided that Vision needed his brother around. Took my Warpath fig and chopped him down just like I did with Superman -- gave him a Chap Mei head and a new paint job and and think he turned out alright.
I have no intentions of making a Scarlett Witch, for those of you who might be wondering. I'm sure we'll get a factory version eventually, and I might pick one up then, but I honestly never liked the character. I mean, here she is, able to change the whole Marvel Universe around just because she happens to be having a bad day, and she still bores the "LASER BLAST" out of me. I don't know what it is about her, but I've just never cared for her. Time for Vizh & Simon to start banging some other chick
That's all for now - Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
