new toys

is it cool and neat, or lazy and fucked up, that i can take a bunch of pictures of some new toys, transfer them from my camera memory card, edit and resize them, and post them, without leaving my desk chair? i mean, it’s a nice chair, but seriously!

this guy is made largely out of the preda-crawler figure from the third xevoz two-pack, with some bits from his pack-in, cryo-katana, and the brain-head thing from the omega sentinel, a tru-exclusive alpha ranger repaint with extra robot guy parts. the gun in his hand is the wierd ‘brass knuckles’ part that every single xevoz figure comes with. most of them are ugly opaque colors, like yellow, but one character came with one in transparent blue. trans blue = space gun. actually, i’ve got two now in trans-green, so maybe when i get the gunfighter he’ll have twin space guns.

the white skin and black mech parts on the base model struck me as intensely reminescent of Blame! which is largely why i bought it. i want to get a couple others so i can make some more intentional blame mods. i could easily enough make something like the netsphere guardian than met killy and cibo on the tower.

this guy was made out of most of the parts of a single dune stinger figure. lacks the red clawed feet or a tail. i like his design a great deal. when i finished building him, i decided he was a worthy opponent for the walker guy. he had a tail at the time, which gave him an advantage, but the robot can shield himself with one of his legs…

i’m thinking about combat strategies for my xevoz. the me = lame.

in any case, he was the only serious rival to mr space gun, until i found a bunch of stuff on clearance after christmas, including another dune stinger and another mantis/ninja 2pack. the ninja will maybe become killy. i tried to make an alternate construction for my second mantis and second dune stinger, but it became more interesting to combine three figures into one. now space gun has his work cut out for him. he has the advantage of three heads and a gun, but he’s going up against eight bladed appendages and a deadly stinging tail. needless to say, this would be a totally awesome fight.

mantii here was a little top heavy, so i reinforced his waist joint by wrapping a rubber band around it. he’s got some flex and can rotate but he won’t fall over. he has become part spider, part scorpion, part mantis, all weebl.

goddamn. i really really wish this line had lasted long enough to make a girl. and a bear. of course, from the stuff i missed and need to snag on ebay, i’ve still got a mummy with stargate-esque anubis helmet, an old west gunfighter, an eagle-man, a futuristic soldier, and a big gorilla. still, i wish i’d snagged more of them on clearance. if i’d realized the line was dying… there’s always ebay, but these were popular enough with those who got the concept that i don’t think they’ll come cheap.

on a completely unrelated note, the guys who make tech deck mini-skateboards put out a line of 12″ figures, licensing official skate clothing labels and putting them on super-articulated, hong kong urban vinyl styled bodies to create their ‘citizen urban icon’ line. most of the clothing was crap, with the exception of the orange guy in camo pants and a black obey giant t-shirt.

but i noticed they were about the size of the big blast hellboy, and there was a red one. further investigation in the form of $19 at freddies brings us to this work-in-progress shot…

he’s got a big pot belly, his feet and right hand are way off from mignola-accurate, and the big blast skin is a slightly darker red. but then, mezco has the mignola hb license, so they may make this entirely invalid as an accurate work anyways. so who knows what he’ll look like in the end. mignola hb doesn’t wear camo pants either. i think i’ll end up taking a loose approach, and just modifying the figures enough to make them recognizable.

wait, figures? as in plural?

as if fate wanted me to make custom hellboy figures, they also had a big beefy yellow guy and a skinny blue guy. roger. abe. damn. if i can figure out a way to make the orange one look like liz, my head will literally explode with joy.

hellboy needs a transplant of the right hand of doom, head, and maybe tail from a spare big blast figure. he’s already stolen that guy’s belt, gun, and sword(a big mignola-esque stone one!) and with those camo pants, he mostly just needs a coat. that could be sticky. the big blast coat was a crappy soft cotton. i want an olive or tan ww1 canvasy trench coat, but i’ve had little luck tracking down a dragon or bbi or whatever figure with one of those.

abe just needs tight black trunks and a utility belt, plus arm/leg fins and gills. plus a new head, no idea on that at the moment. roger needs a new head, his heartplug, his codpiece, and a big vest. i may have just solved that one. more later.