Silver Surfer

[Mego Magyar]

CTVT body, bald head from Doc and I made the board out of balsa wood. Silver metallic spray paint and and it was done.

[Bronxboykev]

Very Cool, at least now I know the CVTV bodies will hold the spray paint.

Have you tried the spray paint on Doc's bodies or even the female bodies from both???

[Captain Awesome]

Looks great! What paint did you use?

[Mego Magyar]

I used Rust-Oleum Bright Coat Metallic Finish - it flaked at the hips and shoulders a bit so I'm redoing it with Rust-Oleum High Heat Ultra ( Rich Metallic Semi-Gloss Sheen ) the color is the same and it seem to have a slight speckle look to it that I like. I'll see if that is tougher. I was in an automotive shop and they have a spray plastic paint adhesive to use to bond paint to plastic but it was over $20.00 for a large spray can so I'll see if this works first.

[thunderbolt]

neat, that board is perfect.

[Iron Mego]

I gotta make one of these. How's the paint holding on the head?

[TMANSTOYS]

Awesome !!!!

[Captain Awesome]

I was asking bout the paint cause I know that the Fusion spray paint for plastics won't cure properly on some plastics...like the old Famous Covers figures. I dunno how it works on the Mego type plastics. Just curious.

[Blackkryptonite]

Great job on the board! Cool fig!

[Mego Magyar]

I gotta make one of these. How's the paint holding on the head?

It holding up on the head excellent. I would suggest that if you cut the ears off ( which I did thatnks to megoknight's suggestion ) do it before you paint it. While I didn't have any trouble cutting the ears off after it was painted I would have prefered to do it before.

[mikeoz]

Nice custom! I really like how you did the surfboard.

[Chris]

Really nice figure. That's a tough one to pull off. I like your take on the figure. You could have gone a couple different ways with it but I think you went in the right direction. I love that surfboard.

[emeraldknight47]

Looks great, man! I can definitely see him in a MEGO box on the shelf right next to Thor (since they're both kinda cosmic). Now you just have to come up with a MEGOesque (but larger) Galactus!!!

[Cosmicman]

That is really, really, super cool.

[johnmiic]

It's an excellent custom. Outstanding work!

The thing that always bothered me about painting a nude Mego-like body to make the Surfer is too many of the joints show and the torso's proportions don't come close to the body type Jack Kirby drew. That's more a limitation of the Mego body sculpt than anything. Even if someone were emulating a Byrne version or Ron Lim, the Mego torso still doesn't match close enough. Maybe a less detailed Zica torso would come closer to a Kirby-like look. Still top notch work there.