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  • enyawd72
    Maker of Monsters!
    • Oct 1, 2009
    • 7904

    FTC Scarecrow headsculpt redux...

    Not feeling the demonic look they went with, so I whipped up my ideal Scarecrow design...

  • ThePlayerOnTheOtherSide
    Guest
    • Feb 27, 2014
    • 1035

    #2
    Someone posted a picture of the cover of Joker #8 on FTC's page. The likeness on the cover is almost a dead-wringer for the head sculpt. Although I'll admit if you wanted Super Friends, it's not exactly the same.

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    • enyawd72
      Maker of Monsters!
      • Oct 1, 2009
      • 7904

      #3
      Originally posted by ThePlayerOnTheOtherSide
      Someone posted a picture of the cover of Joker #8 on FTC's page. The likeness on the cover is almost a dead-wringer for the head sculpt. Although I'll admit if you wanted Super Friends, it's not exactly the same.
      I just checked out that cover...well, I stand corrected. I'd never seen him look like that in the comics, but there it is...
      I'm gonna pick that issue up.

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      • ThePlayerOnTheOtherSide
        Guest
        • Feb 27, 2014
        • 1035

        #4
        I think in this case 'Mego style' for a lot of people means 'Super Friends'. So I get it with Scarecrow. Also, with the way the sculpt looks it seems like it would be easy to darken in the eyes a bit and make them more in line with what he looked like on the Super Friends. I won't, but for those of you that really want that look, seems like a few small tweaks could get you closer.

        Will be very interesting to see how they handle his costume.

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        • PNGwynne
          Master of Fowl Play
          • Jun 5, 2008
          • 19444

          #5
          I love your version, D--kinda Schaffenberger, not so wrinkly. I do not like the "smile" on the FTC one.
          WANTED: Dick Grayson SI trousers; gray AJ Mustang horse; vintage RC Batman (Bruce Wayne) head; minty Wolfman tights; mint Black Knight sword; minty Launcelot boots; Lion Rock (pale) Dracula & Mummy heads; Lion Rock Franky squared boots; Wayne Foundation blue furniture; Flash Gordon/Ming (10") unbroken holsters; CHiPs gloved arms; POTA T2 tan body; CTVT/vintage Friar Tuck robes, BBP TZ Burgess Meredith glasses.

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          • enyawd72
            Maker of Monsters!
            • Oct 1, 2009
            • 7904

            #6
            Originally posted by PNGwynne
            I love your version, D--kinda Schaffenberger, not so wrinkly. I do not like the "smile" on the FTC one.
            Thanks Scott...I always envisioned Scarecrow's face as looking like a burlap bag stretched tightly over a skull. And I think the downturned mouth looks more menacing than a smile...but that's just my personal taste.
            There's nothing wrong with FTC's sculpt. I'm warming up to it after seeing some of the 70's source material presented here.

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            • PNGwynne
              Master of Fowl Play
              • Jun 5, 2008
              • 19444

              #7
              Originally posted by enyawd72
              Thanks Scott...I always envisioned Scarecrow's face as looking like a burlap bag stretched tightly over a skull.
              Alex Ross thinks that way, too--a skull-like gas-mask underneath, no doubt.

              As Player noted, deco can also enhance or mitigate the texturing.
              WANTED: Dick Grayson SI trousers; gray AJ Mustang horse; vintage RC Batman (Bruce Wayne) head; minty Wolfman tights; mint Black Knight sword; minty Launcelot boots; Lion Rock (pale) Dracula & Mummy heads; Lion Rock Franky squared boots; Wayne Foundation blue furniture; Flash Gordon/Ming (10") unbroken holsters; CHiPs gloved arms; POTA T2 tan body; CTVT/vintage Friar Tuck robes, BBP TZ Burgess Meredith glasses.

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              • wayne foundation 07
                Time to feed the cat
                • Dec 30, 2007
                • 5705

                #8
                Awe man dude that's so awesome , that frowny mean face is over the top. It screams out Super Friends to me . Your talent continues to just blow me away.

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                • ThePlayerOnTheOtherSide
                  Guest
                  • Feb 27, 2014
                  • 1035

                  #9
                  Scarecrow's sculpt is definitely sinister and that's what makes it look a bit out of place with the existing Megos. But I think once we see it alongside Ras, and the '70s style' Batman and Robin that it will seem like a better fit.

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                  • PNGwynne
                    Master of Fowl Play
                    • Jun 5, 2008
                    • 19444

                    #10
                    Originally posted by ThePlayerOnTheOtherSide
                    Scarecrow's sculpt is definitely sinister and that's what makes it look a bit out of place with the existing Megos. But I think once we see it alongside Ras, and the '70s style' Batman and Robin that it will seem like a better fit.
                    Ach, IDK--for me not quite sinister enough, and too woody.

                    It's difficult to assess without seeing a final paint scheme and the costuming. I'm assuming FTC chose a more textured & expressive sculpt because the costume is fairly plain.
                    WANTED: Dick Grayson SI trousers; gray AJ Mustang horse; vintage RC Batman (Bruce Wayne) head; minty Wolfman tights; mint Black Knight sword; minty Launcelot boots; Lion Rock (pale) Dracula & Mummy heads; Lion Rock Franky squared boots; Wayne Foundation blue furniture; Flash Gordon/Ming (10") unbroken holsters; CHiPs gloved arms; POTA T2 tan body; CTVT/vintage Friar Tuck robes, BBP TZ Burgess Meredith glasses.

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                    • captact
                      King of Super Queens!
                      • Aug 19, 2007
                      • 1997

                      #11
                      Not always did Mego base their figures on Super Friends....just look at Catwoman,... based on a comic issue, Iron Man with a nose....also based on a comic issue, Penguin with those ridiculous pants showing his socks,..also based (wrongly) on a comic arts POV and angle,..maybe if they chose a pic of him walking,..he'd have his pants at least like the Joker's pants,..or all the way down like those of the Wizard of Oz....

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                      • PNGwynne
                        Master of Fowl Play
                        • Jun 5, 2008
                        • 19444

                        #12
                        Those aren't socks--they're spats Mego was trying to acknowledge. You're perhaps correct though about the influence of the Infantino art.
                        WANTED: Dick Grayson SI trousers; gray AJ Mustang horse; vintage RC Batman (Bruce Wayne) head; minty Wolfman tights; mint Black Knight sword; minty Launcelot boots; Lion Rock (pale) Dracula & Mummy heads; Lion Rock Franky squared boots; Wayne Foundation blue furniture; Flash Gordon/Ming (10") unbroken holsters; CHiPs gloved arms; POTA T2 tan body; CTVT/vintage Friar Tuck robes, BBP TZ Burgess Meredith glasses.

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                        • EMCE Hammer
                          Moderation Engineer
                          • Aug 14, 2003
                          • 25679

                          #13
                          If you have a beef with the sculpt, your beef is really with DC. Anything that isn't a straight repro has a much more stringent approval process. There won't be any smiling oven-mitty sculpts on characters that break new ground.

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                          • madmarva
                            Talkative Member
                            • Jul 7, 2007
                            • 6445

                            #14
                            ^that's great news.

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