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Jonny
Quest, from a Jurassic Park kid. The kid already carried a
backpack, flashlight, and belt computer, so it was perfect for
Jonny. I'm working on adapting the Indiana Jones and the Kingdom
of the Crystal Skull playset as a lost Aztec temple for the entire
Quest crowd.
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The
Silver Age Teen Titans. See details below. They stand on an
old Aurora Mummy set. Nails in their boots hold them in place so
they can be removed. Speedy could be paired up with Green
Arrow, for instance. Wonder Girl is raised on a rod slotted into
a stone.
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Robin
the Boy Wonder modded from some Xyber-9 character. I couldn't
make the original bare legs costume - it's too embarrassing - so
cobbled a later intermediate model. The cape is Animated
Superman's cut down.
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Wonder
Girl of the Teen Titans. The body is a reposed Nadia Comenic from
Starting Lineup. The head is a generic sport girl from Wal-Mart
with doll hair glued on. Her clothes are brown coffee filter
paper soaked in white glue and shaped as it dried. The sandal
ties are embroidery thread. The lasso is some thick goldish wire
from a craft store. The stars on her trunks were made in
Microsoft Word, printed in different sizes in gray, then glued on.
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Aqualad modded from a Spy Kid. The belt buckle is a miniature horse tack buckle of brass cut down.
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Speedy,
Green Arrow's sidekick, adapted from an old Gilbert Lone Ranger.
I shaved the cowboy hat down and added the brim. The skirt to his
tunic is thin plastic card. The bow and arrow are Hawkeye's.
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Kid
Flash of the Teen Titans modded from a Spy Kid. I liked the
lightning bolt rising from his belt line, from when his costume was
still new.
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Conrad, who goes by Black Cross,
a wild indy comic from Chris Warner. Like a Mad Max. The
kooky cowboy boots are part of the story. He's modded from an
Extreme GI Joe. He stands on some Heavy Metal rock star's
base. I added the grave marker, his own, as a "black cross".
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The
start of a Legion of Super-Heroes diorama. Ultra Boy is adapted
from a GI boxer. Timber Wolf is a PVC Venom body and a Tarzan
head. Shrinking Violet is some smaller scale female from a junk
box, who was a lot more stacked and had to be shaved down. The
base is some space toy. I'm working on an Emerald Empress to
float up alongside Timber Wolf. Violet will face off with
Mordru. Ultra Boy has has hands full.
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My
only 12" custom so far. Prince Valiant, made from Marx Viking
Eric. I glued the joints, then primed with Krylon to bond to the
slick white plastic. Still, you have to be gentle or the paint
scrapes off. The helmet, with the horns lopped off, is fastened
with brass brads driven into his head. The fuzzy wool leggins
were gray paint dabbed with dryer lint while still sticky. Since
the plastic spear shaft bends, I cut off the spear head, then set it in
a metal cuff cut from a soda wrapped around a dowel. The spurs
are from Elite Brigade.
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