Any ideas on tinting the heads?

[megoscott]

I I finally got a set of the Retro Heroes. Dismembered them and put them on EMCE bodies so they'll blend as much as possible with original Megos. Any thoughts on giving these guys a nice Mego suntan? Their pale flesh is distracting to me.

[David Lee]

Funny you should ask... I plant to dunk them in tan dye this weekend to see if I can match our Cast-a-Way Body myself... I'll let ya know how it turns out. ie. how long to bath them to achieve a DOC MEGO/VINTAGE/CAT tan...


-Dave

[D!n0-M@n]

Awesome! I'm curious to see how this turns out.

[sprytel]

When I painted my first custom, I kept getting frustrated that I couldn't get the skin color "right". But then my wife said to me, "honestly, you're painted head has a much more realistic skin tone than that Captain Kirk head." I couldn't see it myself until she pointed it out to me and forced me to look past my nostalgia, but she was right... the Mego skin color is really kinda unnatural. The Mattel color is more realistic really.

Sadly, despite it all, I still would prefer it that fake Mego color. Old dogs/new tricks and all that jazz... But I can understand why they wouldn't want to create new toys with that skin tone.

[megoscott]

Cool, let us know how it works out, David. I'm also pretty sure Green Lantern should have painted eyes, the white eyeballs are too modern for my taste.

[Brown Bear]

I'm starting to think Mattel shoulod start selling just the outfits to us collectors.

[noelani72]

my thoughts exactly. MegoMeet will be full of tearing apart figs and modding I bet.

[rche]

Funny you should ask... I plant to dunk them in tan dye this weekend to see if I can match our Cast-a-Way Body myself... I'll let ya know how it turns out. ie. how long to bath them to achieve a DOC MEGO/VINTAGE/CAT tan...


-Dave

Hiya Dave,

What type of dye are you planning on experimenting with?

[PNGwynne]

I was thinking about dyeing them as well. I use Rit dye, and was planning on mixing brown & orange...

But I need extra figs first. Looking forward to Dave's results.

[David Lee]

I was gonna give it try tonight but was out of TAN...I'll pick some up at lunch tomorrow and give it a go after work...

-Dave

[drmego]

The skin color is PMS 162 - DC prefers that color for caucasian flesh.

Mego started out lighter in color, then "malibu tanned" as the years
went on.

[The Bat]

Mego started out lighter in color, then "malibu tanned" as the years
went on.

That's an excellent point Paul! Me...I don't mind the color. Most of my Customs are painted a similar color...so the Mattel/Megos blend right in.