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Ghost Rider is probably my favorite Marvel comics character, read the comics all my life. Even the movies are a guilty pleasure of mine. I always wanted a Mego of him when I was a kid but it was never to be. I saw this head on eBay a few months back a scooped it up with the intentions of making a Mike Ploog inspired 70's Ghost Rider.
I was having trouble figuring out the classic 70's costume so the figure fell by the wayside for a while. Then about 2 weeks ago The Toyroom offered a amazing box for sale and it totally changed my approach to the figure. I decided to do a more modern take on Ghost Rider inspired by the artwork of Javier Saltares & Mark Texeira to echo the box art.
Ghost Rider, The most Supernatural Super-hero of them all!
The head is from eBay with paints by me
Body is a Zica Type S
Motorcycle suit & boots from CTVT
Chain & studs are from various craft stores
Rifle is from Doc Mego
Box is from The Toyroom
The head was well cast with very few air holes but there were some other problems. There were these bubbles from the rubber mold that translated into blobs of resin had to be ground out. The most prominent one I didn't notice until I started to paint the orange base color. I had to stop painting, let the head dry and grind out an unsightly blob of resin from the flames. I honestly didn't catch it until I was doing the finish painting the head.
The CTVT Motorcycle suit is surprisingly well made. I was looking for some kind of pointy stud in chrome at my local craft stores but kept striking out. Then I came across these metal "Be-Dazzle" studs with prongs on the back. They would have to be poked into the suit and the four pointy prongs would need to be folded over to secure them onto the suit. I didn't even experiment, I just put on Me-TV and by the time the episode of Star Trek I was watching was over the suit was done. The motorcycle suit is one of the best quality suits that CTVT offers. It stood up to all the pulling and poking with no trouble whatsoever. I totally expected to rip the suit at a few points but it held up like a champ.
A day later I found very similar studs to the ones I used in the scrapbook section in Jo-Anns. These had a adhesive back and would not need to be poked through the fabric of the suit, they would just stick on the fake leather. I had second thoughts about my approach and was going to do the suit over until I realized that with handling and time, the adhesive backed studs are going to fall off. The last thing I want is to pick up my figure and hear all these loose studs rattling around in the box a year from now. At that moment I was sure that my original approach was the best one for me.
I toyed around with the idea of doing a 90's Danny Ketch. But when I went to do a test fitting with CTVT black leather jacket it started to peel and fall apart in my hands. So I scrapped that idea.
The hands and front half of the torso where dyed black with Rit Synthetic dye. I cut away some of the Velcro in the front of the suit to let the chest show a bit. It looked a lot better than the Velcro showing through.
The chain is from the jewelry section of Hobby Lobby. I originally wanted to use plastic but was having a hard time finding anything usable. The metal just looked better, so I went with that.
Another inspiring box by The Toyroom
A match made in hell!
I was having trouble figuring out the classic 70's costume so the figure fell by the wayside for a while. Then about 2 weeks ago The Toyroom offered a amazing box for sale and it totally changed my approach to the figure. I decided to do a more modern take on Ghost Rider inspired by the artwork of Javier Saltares & Mark Texeira to echo the box art.
Ghost Rider, The most Supernatural Super-hero of them all!
The head is from eBay with paints by me
Body is a Zica Type S
Motorcycle suit & boots from CTVT
Chain & studs are from various craft stores
Rifle is from Doc Mego
Box is from The Toyroom
The head was well cast with very few air holes but there were some other problems. There were these bubbles from the rubber mold that translated into blobs of resin had to be ground out. The most prominent one I didn't notice until I started to paint the orange base color. I had to stop painting, let the head dry and grind out an unsightly blob of resin from the flames. I honestly didn't catch it until I was doing the finish painting the head.
The CTVT Motorcycle suit is surprisingly well made. I was looking for some kind of pointy stud in chrome at my local craft stores but kept striking out. Then I came across these metal "Be-Dazzle" studs with prongs on the back. They would have to be poked into the suit and the four pointy prongs would need to be folded over to secure them onto the suit. I didn't even experiment, I just put on Me-TV and by the time the episode of Star Trek I was watching was over the suit was done. The motorcycle suit is one of the best quality suits that CTVT offers. It stood up to all the pulling and poking with no trouble whatsoever. I totally expected to rip the suit at a few points but it held up like a champ.
A day later I found very similar studs to the ones I used in the scrapbook section in Jo-Anns. These had a adhesive back and would not need to be poked through the fabric of the suit, they would just stick on the fake leather. I had second thoughts about my approach and was going to do the suit over until I realized that with handling and time, the adhesive backed studs are going to fall off. The last thing I want is to pick up my figure and hear all these loose studs rattling around in the box a year from now. At that moment I was sure that my original approach was the best one for me.
I toyed around with the idea of doing a 90's Danny Ketch. But when I went to do a test fitting with CTVT black leather jacket it started to peel and fall apart in my hands. So I scrapped that idea.
The hands and front half of the torso where dyed black with Rit Synthetic dye. I cut away some of the Velcro in the front of the suit to let the chest show a bit. It looked a lot better than the Velcro showing through.
The chain is from the jewelry section of Hobby Lobby. I originally wanted to use plastic but was having a hard time finding anything usable. The metal just looked better, so I went with that.
Another inspiring box by The Toyroom
A match made in hell!
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