Wired.com has an article up on people who sculpt their own custom action figures:
A dedicated subculture of craftspeople have been frankensteining, kitbashing, boiling-and-popping, sculpting and painting one-of-a-kind figures for years. Their efforts are bringing to life characters that don’t enjoy enough of a following to justify mass production — think the 1950s Batman foe the Killer Moth — or which, like the Watchmen figures, are tied up by copyright and creative differences.
“We all started customizing because there was a character we were in love with and nobody made the dolls,” says Scott Rogers, a Los Angeles hobbyist who’s been building figures since 1992. “Or the one they made didn’t look right.”
At 39, Rogers has a day job, two young children, two college degrees … and bins of spare torsos and limbs from years of taking figures apart and reassembling them to get a certain look.
Be sure to check out their custom figure gallery, which features the Hellfire Club set in the picture above … come to think of it, why isn’t there a Hellfire Club box set?
August 17th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
I didn’t know that Spider-Man foe “The Chameleon” was a member of the Hellfire Club.
August 17th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Ugh. was that sarcasm or do I have to point out that is a Hellfire mercenary?
as for “why isn’t there a Hellfire set?” How about “why do all of Marvel’s figures have to be super-articulated and thus SUCK?” DC makes good figures, the new Doctor Who ones are nice… but Marvel sucks so bad I don’t own any.
August 17th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
I didn’t know that Spider-Man foe “The Chameleon” was a member of the Hellfire Club.
Me-yow! Well, to each their own. Those are some amazing customizations, says I.