Post by glorbes on Jun 20, 2007 17:33:15 GMT -5
FLASH GORDON!
(Sorry fellas...this is cut and pasted from my Fwoosh posting)
First, here's a treat for everyone:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQVLFn2PTzY
This project has been percolating for a while. First, Joshua Izzo's Flash Gordon made me think that I'd like to take a swing at the character, as well as his fiendish nemesis, Ming the Merciless. Then, I saw Steven's Flash Gordon customs from the film...I considered this another tip towards my tackling the characters. More recently, I saw Fwoosh member grinman's fantastic take on Flash that drew heavily from the Electric Tiki statue...and that pretty much sealed the deal.
The base figure is a Bullseye with a heavily reworked Gambit head. I sculpted the hair and the the top part of the head gear. The shirt is fabric, leather, and plastic tubing (for the decorative circles).
The ray gun is a combination of a Jango Fett accessory and a Nick Fury pistol. The sword is one of those drink garnish decoartion thingies that's bee repainted...I bought a box of them from the dollar store, and I was dying to use one.
I was trying to combine the original comic version and also reflect some of the Buster Crabbe attitude as well...I also loved how Gambit's smirk echoed the Electric Tiki statue's sculpt so closely. He's pretty simple, but I'm happy with how he turned out.
MING THE MERCILESS
Ah, the cruel dictator of the planet Mongo, seeking to command the entire universe under his iron rule. For my Ming, I decided to base it more on Max Von Sydow's appearance in the cheesefest movie from 1980 than the more classic version portrayed by Robert Middleton in the serials.
The base figure is a movie Green Goblin. The head is a Plan B German soldier...I dremelled him bald and I also sculpted the beard from epoxy putty. The costume is layers of fabric and leather, and the large collar is styrene. The staff is a metal rod with the sword hilt from a Samurai Spawn figure.
While the 1980 movie is not considered to be a great work of art, I do like the idea of Max Von Sydow playing the cruel Ming, and so I decided to borrow elements of that design for my custom.
ROCKET SHIP
How's Flash supposed to get around? Why, his rocket ship of course! Thanks to a coworker's suggestion of large juice bottles, I finally had a starting point to develop this project.
The basic fuselage/body is made of two large format juice containers. I removed the bottoms and attached them end to end. The nose is a funnel. The fins are styrene. The secondary engine thingies running along the side are made from some miscellaneos plumbing parts. I primed it, sprayed it with metallic silver paint, and voila! A really big rocket ship.
A scale shot:
The window is blister card plastic. I built up the sides of the window with styrene so that the window would rest on a flush surface.
I really wanted this to feel like an old fashioned toy, and decided to build up the inside with a %@#! and various controls.
I used parts from a Weapon X Wolverine accessory, some Omega Red tentacles, and some printed decals for the guages and dials. I may expand the detailing in the back of the ship, especially if I make Dr. Zarkoz and Dale Arden.
Let me know what you think, and thanks for looking.
(Sorry fellas...this is cut and pasted from my Fwoosh posting)
First, here's a treat for everyone:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQVLFn2PTzY
This project has been percolating for a while. First, Joshua Izzo's Flash Gordon made me think that I'd like to take a swing at the character, as well as his fiendish nemesis, Ming the Merciless. Then, I saw Steven's Flash Gordon customs from the film...I considered this another tip towards my tackling the characters. More recently, I saw Fwoosh member grinman's fantastic take on Flash that drew heavily from the Electric Tiki statue...and that pretty much sealed the deal.
The base figure is a Bullseye with a heavily reworked Gambit head. I sculpted the hair and the the top part of the head gear. The shirt is fabric, leather, and plastic tubing (for the decorative circles).
The ray gun is a combination of a Jango Fett accessory and a Nick Fury pistol. The sword is one of those drink garnish decoartion thingies that's bee repainted...I bought a box of them from the dollar store, and I was dying to use one.
I was trying to combine the original comic version and also reflect some of the Buster Crabbe attitude as well...I also loved how Gambit's smirk echoed the Electric Tiki statue's sculpt so closely. He's pretty simple, but I'm happy with how he turned out.
MING THE MERCILESS
Ah, the cruel dictator of the planet Mongo, seeking to command the entire universe under his iron rule. For my Ming, I decided to base it more on Max Von Sydow's appearance in the cheesefest movie from 1980 than the more classic version portrayed by Robert Middleton in the serials.
The base figure is a movie Green Goblin. The head is a Plan B German soldier...I dremelled him bald and I also sculpted the beard from epoxy putty. The costume is layers of fabric and leather, and the large collar is styrene. The staff is a metal rod with the sword hilt from a Samurai Spawn figure.
While the 1980 movie is not considered to be a great work of art, I do like the idea of Max Von Sydow playing the cruel Ming, and so I decided to borrow elements of that design for my custom.
ROCKET SHIP
How's Flash supposed to get around? Why, his rocket ship of course! Thanks to a coworker's suggestion of large juice bottles, I finally had a starting point to develop this project.
The basic fuselage/body is made of two large format juice containers. I removed the bottoms and attached them end to end. The nose is a funnel. The fins are styrene. The secondary engine thingies running along the side are made from some miscellaneos plumbing parts. I primed it, sprayed it with metallic silver paint, and voila! A really big rocket ship.
A scale shot:
The window is blister card plastic. I built up the sides of the window with styrene so that the window would rest on a flush surface.
I really wanted this to feel like an old fashioned toy, and decided to build up the inside with a %@#! and various controls.
I used parts from a Weapon X Wolverine accessory, some Omega Red tentacles, and some printed decals for the guages and dials. I may expand the detailing in the back of the ship, especially if I make Dr. Zarkoz and Dale Arden.
Let me know what you think, and thanks for looking.