Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2008 1:33:06 GMT -5
I recently came home to Canada from NY for a visit where my entire DA Jakks collection resides.
I thought it would be a good opportunity to post my entire custom/fix up collection.
I fix up 100% of my figures with Testors Dull Coat to give it a finish that makes the figure look a little more high quality. I'd say I do fix ups to about 45% of my collection, head swaps and enhancements etc since I generally feel most of the RA figures have better heads even though they are inferior figures in general (IMO).
Lots of the following are customs and lots are fix ups but I wanted to post them all together to help you guys get ideas to do fix ups of your own to your collections (even though I'm sure many of these fix ups have been done and posted before).
Here goes...
Eddie Guerrero...
CS 17 Eddie Head, arms, shirt and belt
Ravishing Ric Rude body
"Latino" is my first attempt at decals
Eddie is my favorite wrestler so I'm really happy to have a decent figure of him. I based it off of the outfit the exclusive CS 17 Eddie is wearing, the plain red flames on black pants.
Shane Mcmahon
CS17 Shane arms, head and jersey
DA Jimmy Yang body
To make shane I carefully cut off his jersey along the right seam and shaved down Yang's chest until it fit properly. I glued the seam back together. The chest articulation is preserved beneath due to the soft plastic of the jersey.
I went for the same outfit the CS shane was wearing but added the touch of the modern gray at the temples.
Vince Mcmahon
DA Vince head
DA JBL Body
William Regal
DA William Regal body
RA William Regal head and arms
RA John Morrison hair (top half)
I re sculpted the body and bottom half of the hair to make a current Regal figure.
Modern Ric Flair
RA Ric Flair head and arms
DA William Regal body (resculpted)
DDP
CS DDP
Deluxe Classic Honky Tonk Man body
For DDP I wanted to go with the straight black tights from his early WWE days rather than the leather pants with the design
Boogyman
DA Boogyman Body
RA31 Boogyman Head and fur
Edge
DA KB 3 pack Edge body
RA Edge body and arms
I painted on his shoulder tats. Will eventually fix up the camo myself
Current Shawn Michaels
DA KB 3 pack Michaels body
DA 13 Michaels arms
CS Two Dudes with Additudes head
Batista
DA 13 Batista body
RA 31 Batista head (repainted completely)
Hulk Hogan
CS Mega Powers 3 pack Hogan head
Deluxe Classics Hogan body
Alpha Male Monty Brown (TNA)
ECW Marcus Cor Von head and arms
DA Bobby Lashley body
Matt Hardy
RA 29 Hardy Head
DA Hardy Body
Jeff Hardy
DA Hardy Body
RA Hardy head (completely repainted)
Undertaker
DA Undertaker body
RA Undertaker head
Classic Deluxe Undertaker Hat
Rodney The Piper
Classic Deluxe Piper body
CS Piper head and kilt
John Morrison
DA 14 Morrison (skin tone repainted to be more tanned, boots painted black)
RS Torrie Wilson fur
Custom coat bought off ebay
RVD
DA Kb 3 pack RVD
IE RVD head, belt and shirt
Sabu
DA Kb 3 pack Sabu (scars painted over and sculpted with sculpy, may be a bit exaggerated but I like this a lot better)
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Deluxe Classic SCSA (used acetone to get rid of his eyebrows and painted his goatee lighter shade)
Sycho Sid
DA Snitsky body
CS Sid head, vest and arms
Bret Hart
Deluxe Classics Hart body
CS 14 Hart head
DX Michaels
Deluxe Classics Shawn Michaels (repainted his hair, eyebrows and beard to be more accurate)
Two Dudes with additudes attire
I thought it would be a good opportunity to post my entire custom/fix up collection.
I fix up 100% of my figures with Testors Dull Coat to give it a finish that makes the figure look a little more high quality. I'd say I do fix ups to about 45% of my collection, head swaps and enhancements etc since I generally feel most of the RA figures have better heads even though they are inferior figures in general (IMO).
Lots of the following are customs and lots are fix ups but I wanted to post them all together to help you guys get ideas to do fix ups of your own to your collections (even though I'm sure many of these fix ups have been done and posted before).
Here goes...
Eddie Guerrero...
CS 17 Eddie Head, arms, shirt and belt
Ravishing Ric Rude body
"Latino" is my first attempt at decals
Eddie is my favorite wrestler so I'm really happy to have a decent figure of him. I based it off of the outfit the exclusive CS 17 Eddie is wearing, the plain red flames on black pants.
Shane Mcmahon
CS17 Shane arms, head and jersey
DA Jimmy Yang body
To make shane I carefully cut off his jersey along the right seam and shaved down Yang's chest until it fit properly. I glued the seam back together. The chest articulation is preserved beneath due to the soft plastic of the jersey.
I went for the same outfit the CS shane was wearing but added the touch of the modern gray at the temples.
Vince Mcmahon
DA Vince head
DA JBL Body
William Regal
DA William Regal body
RA William Regal head and arms
RA John Morrison hair (top half)
I re sculpted the body and bottom half of the hair to make a current Regal figure.
Modern Ric Flair
RA Ric Flair head and arms
DA William Regal body (resculpted)
DDP
CS DDP
Deluxe Classic Honky Tonk Man body
For DDP I wanted to go with the straight black tights from his early WWE days rather than the leather pants with the design
Boogyman
DA Boogyman Body
RA31 Boogyman Head and fur
Edge
DA KB 3 pack Edge body
RA Edge body and arms
I painted on his shoulder tats. Will eventually fix up the camo myself
Current Shawn Michaels
DA KB 3 pack Michaels body
DA 13 Michaels arms
CS Two Dudes with Additudes head
Batista
DA 13 Batista body
RA 31 Batista head (repainted completely)
Hulk Hogan
CS Mega Powers 3 pack Hogan head
Deluxe Classics Hogan body
Alpha Male Monty Brown (TNA)
ECW Marcus Cor Von head and arms
DA Bobby Lashley body
Matt Hardy
RA 29 Hardy Head
DA Hardy Body
Jeff Hardy
DA Hardy Body
RA Hardy head (completely repainted)
Undertaker
DA Undertaker body
RA Undertaker head
Classic Deluxe Undertaker Hat
Rodney The Piper
Classic Deluxe Piper body
CS Piper head and kilt
John Morrison
DA 14 Morrison (skin tone repainted to be more tanned, boots painted black)
RS Torrie Wilson fur
Custom coat bought off ebay
RVD
DA Kb 3 pack RVD
IE RVD head, belt and shirt
Sabu
DA Kb 3 pack Sabu (scars painted over and sculpted with sculpy, may be a bit exaggerated but I like this a lot better)
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Deluxe Classic SCSA (used acetone to get rid of his eyebrows and painted his goatee lighter shade)
Sycho Sid
DA Snitsky body
CS Sid head, vest and arms
Bret Hart
Deluxe Classics Hart body
CS 14 Hart head
DX Michaels
Deluxe Classics Shawn Michaels (repainted his hair, eyebrows and beard to be more accurate)
Two Dudes with additudes attire