While recent Mega Joe builds have focused on getting the GIJoe motor pool filled out, Cobra was hard at work on some new hardware too. Not to be outdone, they needed an upgraded HISS tank to replace the sad Kreo version. While the scale is a bit on the large side, I wanted it to…
Category: Custom Toys
G.I. Joe – Mega Bloks: AWE Striker
More MB Joe vehicles! Don’t ask me why, but the AWE Striker was always a favorite vehicle of mine. It didn’t have much use in a battlefield setting, but for small recon teams and harsh terrain, it made a tad more sense. My grandfather had a street-legal dune buggy when I was a kid, and…
G.I. Joe – Mega Bloks: Killer WHALE
After a healthy break to focus on some other priorities, the long winter gave me ample time to get motivated to pick back up with the Mega Bloks G.I. Joe motor pool project. I had barely begun on the base of the WHALE when I took some time off from customizing, and I wanted to…
Articulated Icons – 6″ Feudal Series
When I learned of The Fwoosh’s attempt to make their own line of Marvel Legends-esque figures, I was intrigued. This was quite an undertaking that had the potential to be great or a spectacular mess. They wisely made the figures distinct and tried to build their own mythology, yet simultaneously made the figures modular and…
Revoltech Transformers – Wheeljack
Continuing the revoltech G1 love, Wheeljack proved to be exceptionally difficult to make in revo form, as his proportions in the cartoon shift substantially from what a real car would. His chest and feet become car parts that are completely different scale from his legs/shins. I ended up casting parts from two different sizes of…
G.I. Joe – Mega Bloks: MP Joes
If you haven’t guessed by now, I’m mildly smitten with Mega Bloks figures customized as GIJoe characters. Their size, range of motion, details, gear, and overall fun-factor absolutely dwarfs that of LEGO and Kre-O minifigures. I’ve created my own Joes and Cobras you can find here and here. I’ve also had a go at some…
Revoltech Transformers – Springer
Deviating from my previous work on Season 1 characters in revoltech form, I decided that the official Hot Rod and Ultra Magnus figures needed some reinforcements. This was my very first attempt to sculpt or shape anything harder than mild curvature, and at such a small scale, it was challenging. Making that helmet from nothing…
G.I. Joe – Mega Bloks: MOBAT
What can I say, tiny Steeler looked lost without his trusty tank! The Call of Duty line of bricks produces a really great A-1 Abrams main battle tank, but it’s far more modern than a Joe MOBAT, and it’s decked out in a desert tan camo scheme. That just wasn’t going to work. And while…
Revoltech Transformers – Shockwave
Continuing our series of custom Revoltech Transformers characters, here we go with Shockwave, the quiet Decepticon strategist. You don’t know who’s side he’s on…. besides his own. Despite the order that I’ve presented them in, this figure was my very first custom toy of any kind (if you don’t count disassembling and rearranging GIJoe figures…
G.I. Joe – Mega Bloks: VAMP & Stinger
After customizing over 80 tiny GIJoe and Cobra figures from Call of Duty, Halo, and other Mega Bloks licenses, I decided they needed some wheels. Kre-O’s GIJoe brick vehicles redefined the word “disappointment”, so that was a no-go. The Call of Duty construction line has a wide variety of genuinely impressive military vehicles, many of…
Transformers Backgrounds
Displaying all of your hard earned plastic acquisitions is a rewarding part of being a toy collector. And few toys make a better display than Masterpiece Transformers (and their third-party brethren). Near-perfect representations of the characters we watched on TV and played with in the living room floor many moons ago, MP TFs are complex,…
Revoltech Transformers – Mirage
As I explained in an earlier post, I wanted to make additional characters in a line of highly articulated, non-Transforming figures that died well before it’s time. Autobot Mirage, everyone’s favorite blue F1 car, was my second figure. Collecting is half the Battle!