Quirks Customs

Tony Mamaluke, Bubba Ray Dudley, Reverend D-Von

Tony Mamaluke - a Marty Jannetty
Bubba Ray Dudley - Bushwhacker Luke

Reverend D-Von - Bushwhacker Butch..... This was Dan Quirk's very last custom. It was originally painted to match the Bubba Ray figure pictured as a tag team set, during summer of 2002 D-Von Dudley changed gimmicks to Reverend D-Von and Quirk re-painted this figure

All comments and opinions are welcome, but I happen to think they are well made works of art.

Does Curt Hawkins mention these figures that are now mostly in my possession??

Well apparently WWE superstar Curt Hawkins was a fan of these customs...

The whole interview (20-30 minutes) is dedicated to the subject of wrestling figures. Customs are mentioned, and Curt brings up what I believe is this board (not by name). Anyway, I will have to go back and listen to it but he talked about either buying or wanting customs from this guy and years later realizing their paths had crossed as professional wrestlers. It wasn't until later that he realized who he was but by then he had already passed away.

I just had to register with this site based on seeing this thread through a Google search I did this morning about Danny.

I'm shocked at the negative views on his figures that this thread is giving. You have to remember that Danny was working his custom figures before Jakks had made their first line of WWF stuff, so there wasn't much around to use for customization purposes. And the biggest aspect about Quirk's Customs was that these were being made to play with. Sure, the paint is rough and using certain figures to represent new (then) wrestlers required a lot of suspension of belief, but Danny was one of the first guys to take the older Hasbro figures (Which were hard to get during those early/pre-eBay days) and sacrifice them to make the guys he wanted to play with. A lot of the custom figures today are great, but putting Danny up against a customizer who gets to use heads from the Jakks line and accessories like cloth tshirts and who's only making figures to display and not play with is dubious.

I only have one or two of Danny's photo's saved still because I liked the formulas he used, but I have a few figures I made that I copied from his website and even still some that I asked him to make for me. Hell, Danny was just a normal kid back then and was very approachable when you wanted help making stuff. I constantly emailed him and asked questions as well as even sending him some of my figures for him to take apart and put back together based on my own recipes; funny story was that he didn't watch WCW and he didn't have any figures based on their company and so when I wanted to make guys like Jericho and Goldberg and Sting they were all foreign to him.

Last night I came across my large box of customs that I haven't seen in 10+ years and I never took my own pictures of my figs since I didn't have a camera or a scanner back in the day. But if anyone's interested in seeing my stuff, which used Danny's recipes, and stuff that he even assembled for me, I could spend a day taking photo's and uploading them here.

Here's his second Hardy Boyz recipe that I really liked Jeff's pieces and save the image of for all these years:

It took me a bit, but I got them all photo'd and uploaded to my Photobucket account... Should I just post them here or make a new thread? Should I overload everything with 57 pics, or should I just paste them as links?

I don't wanna do anything that's gonna have a mod delete them.

I'll just take a chance and post up as many images I can. I organized each figure by what company they worked for at the time that I made them (and not necessarily when/where they debuted or changed their look at). Danny only made ECW and WWF figures, so most of the WCW stuff has nothing to do with him unless noted.

A lot of the earlier figures I had I would have to send to Danny so he could shave down pieces and disassemble the figures for me. After awhile, I started getting comfortable doing it on my own and would just email Danny about what recipes he would recommend for certain wrestlers. But I always sucked when it came to using paint sealer, so a lot of these figures have messed up bubbles all over them. And after so many years, all the paint started to chip off anyways, combined the dust from the box that I stored these in, so these are definitely war torn =/

ECW

Al Snow (Mr. Perfect w/ April O'Neil head (TMNT))


Justin Credible (Virgil) I originally had this painted as D'Lo Brown, based on Danny's recipe, but scraped off the paint and redid him as Justin


Raven (Texas Tornado) I shaved down the tops of his boots, but didn't paint them. I have no idea why...


Rob van Dam (Mr. Perfect) I shaved off all the hair into a pony tail based on Danny's recommendation


Sabu (Fatu head with Owen body)


Sandman (IRS head with maybe an Owen body? I don't remember) I tried drawing a tshirt design, but it came out sloppy. So after awhile I just painted it grey to match his WCW attire


Taz (ECW Taz figure head with Bushwhacker body and someones legs) Last figure I made


Tommy Dreamer (Big Bossman 2 head with Roddy Piper body and Honkey Tonk legs)


WCW

Booker T (Papa Shango - I shaved down his top hat completely)


Chris Benoit (Beefcake 2 - I tried painting his face with enough brown to hide his smile) *Danny's recommended recipe from his ECW days


DDP (Jake Roberts - Originally painted with black and blue colors, but changed to his red and black Wolfpac colors)


Dean Malenko (Razor Ramone)


Goldberg (Warlord head with Sid Justice body and Warlord legs) *Danny helped assemble this for me by shaving the mask on the head down and taking apart/putting back together the body pieces


Hollywood Hogan (Hogan 3)


Jeff Jarrett (Big Bossman 2 head and Macho King body) *Danny had this recipe ready, but didn't make it since JJ left for WCW soon after JJ cut his hair and changed his attire


Ric Flair (Ric Flair head on a Jake Roberts body) *Danny suggested recipe


Scott Steiner (Scott Steiner)


Sting (Beefcake 2)


Terry Funk (Jake Roberts) *Danny had a Chainsaw Charlie recipe that I copied, but when Terry left for WCW I made his WCW attire with the same figure


WWF

Bad Ass Billy Gunn (Michaels head on a Hogan 1 body)


Bossman - Corporation (Bossman 1 head on a Bossman 2 body)


Bret Hart - '97 Hart Foundation (Bret Hart 1 figure)


Cactus Jack (Jim Duggan 1)


Jeff Hardy - incomplete (This would have been my last figure, but I couldn't figure out how to connect torso and legs)


Jim Neidhart - '97 Hart Foundation (Jim Neidhart figure)


Ken Shamrock (British Bulldog figure) *Danny scraped off the dreadlocks for me


Kurt Angle (Rick Martel head on a Macho King body)


Rhyno (Jim Duggan figure) *Danny's ECW recipe spelled the WWF way


Road Dogg Jesse James (Sid Justice head on a Rick martel body)


The Rock (Tatanka figure)


Stone Cold Steve Austin (Warlord head on a Macho King body) Danny scraped off the mask and assembled this figure for me


Triple H (Tatanka head on a Macho King body) *I don't know where this came from. Danny didn't use clay, and I never tried it. Maybe an eBay buy I did???


X-Pac (Jake Roberts figure) This was originally my Chainsaw Charlie figure, but I scraped off the paint and made XPac

You are absolutely right Gangrel-Brood. There weren't hundreds/thousands of customizers around at that time. There were just a few wrestling figure customizers. Some were doing the Hasbros and some were doing the Jakks BCA figures. That was it. There was no such thing as real scan heads. Sculpey was never used. The amount of people to gain advice from was extremely limited and even though those people were generally pretty helpful they didn't necessarily bring a wide range of different ideas and experiences.

Quirk wasn't THE best but he was up there and did more customs than most others around at that time. There is a certain pioneer aspect to his legacy that needs to be respected.

not bad very good Ideas