For Valentine's Day I decided to share a couple of customs, from The New Batman Adventures Killer Croc & Baby Doll. Killer Croc was a resin casted kit that I purchased from Stew's Customs. Stew is one of a handful of artists that have continued to give collectors of Mattel's Timmverse figures new pieces by sculpting and casting resin figures of characters that weren't made into figures in the retail line. Croc has no articulation since I painted him and then glued him together. Some artists that do Timmverse or JLU customs add magnets to the joints to allow the figures to maintain movement but since he is top heavy I figured he didn't need anymore help falling over so I glued him still. Baby Doll is a piece that I commissioned the great HunterKnight Customs to do. HunterKnight is one of my favorite customizers because he takes on a lot of random or challenging pieces. Where most customizers are doing their 70th Batman custom, HunterKnight has crafted a wide variety of female and obscure characters from toy lines and teams that toy companies missed. he's quite talented, an effective communicator and an all around nice guy. He had made a small batch of castings of his competely original sculpted Baby Doll, this is one of them.
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12/10/2015 09:47:47 am
Actually this is one of my kits from GeekVariety Customs, not Stew. He makes a lot of great stuff for sure, but this ones mine.
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Freddie Colon
12/21/2015 01:09:02 am
Sorry about that! You guys both do such great, unique stuff that it's hard to keep track.
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Scott
12/21/2015 07:41:13 am
No worries, I take it as a compliment cuz Stew is without question a master. I just happen to stumble across this and thought I would drop a note. Great job on the kit btw, looks smashing! Leave a Reply. |
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