Axel Pressbutton:
Head: 2005 Clone Wars Mace Windu
Torso/Right arm: Comic Pack Hawk
Left Arm: Iron Man MkII
Abdomen/Groin/Upper Legs/Knees: Animated Clone Wars Assassin Droid
Feet: Wall-E Eve
Left arm additions: SW lightsaber blade, plasticard
I first made a custom of Axel Pressbutton way back in the latter half of 2005. I was happy with the result, although I have always wanted to go back and redo him with better parts, especially the legs and feet. When I saw the Assassin Droid legs and the Wall-E parts, I knew I had the right combination. Used a different Mace Windu head this time, though and 25th Joe parts. Seemed somehow appropriate using Sam Jackson again. In case anyone is wondering, this is the head I was asking for advice on about a month back. This time I also made a custom of his partner the Laser Eraser, Mysta Mystralis.
The wonderfully psychotic Axel Pressbutton as originally brought to life for the British comic Warrior, then reprinted by Eclipse comics.
Axel Pressbutton was originally a kind, gentle mild-mannered man who worked as a florist. One night, while he was stock-taking, he was attacked in the cellar by Vegan Green Fungus, which keeps the victim alive and talks to them as it eats them. By the time the shop owner found him, his groin, legs, left arm and part of his torso had been ingested, but he was still alive. But his mind had completely snapped, turning him psychotic with a complete hatred of all vegetable matter.
Surgeons operated on him and turned him into a cyborg. Someone with a dark sense of humor, noting that he could no longer have a sex life, substituted it with a button on his chest that when pushed, would mildly stimulate the pleasure centers in his brain. Unfortunately, they got the wiring wrong and it often overloads his pleasure centers, causing him to go into a frenzy, unable to distinguish between friend, foe or salad.
He decided to pay back the universe by becoming a mercenary, and substituted a two and a half foot long titanium cleaver for his robotic left hand.
Mysta Mystralis, Laser Eraser:
I meant to make Mysta Mystralis, the Laser Eraser when I did my original Axel Pressbutton figure five years ago, but I never got around to it. Mainly because I could not find a suitable figure. This time around, I noticed that the 25th anniversary Scarlett head looked very like the illustrations from the comic. I was originally going to sculpt over a Marvel Universe Black Widow figure, but in the end I went with it being an LBC by recolouring an Agent Helix figure and fixing the Scarlett head on.
Mysta Mystralis is the clone of a highly skilled warrior who lived 1,000 years before her time. She was trained from 'birth' in unarmed combat and every kind of energy, projectile and bladed weapon imaginable until she became one of the most lethal forces in the galaxy. She now plies her trade as a 'Laser Eraser', and assassin for hire, with her partner, the psychotic Axel Pressbutton.
The little blue creature in the pictures is Zirk, last of the Intergalactic Bubble-Bellies. He is a powerful telepath, and a pervert of a high order. He likes things....wriggly. He might not have many physical bodily needs, but he tends to sweat a lot.
