I forgot that I wanted to post this in here, so sorry for not doing this earlier. Last year I finally collected the classic Mego KISS line and then went about getting their instruments correct.
I found a few sellers with the right scale guitars, which is where Paul's Flying V came from and only required adding a more accurate strap.
Ace's was a Pick Ups miniature guitar that I repainted and added the extra details.
Gene's bass was a neck and strings from an axe bass model, I then sculpted the body to be his Spector model from this period.
The last thing was to make Peter's drum kit. This became a real labour of love, firstly finding out the correct pieces and then working out how to fabricate them. I found some excellent resources online and then set about making it up piece by piece. I'd ordered a few other miniature drum kits off eBay to use the metal stands for the drums I made by hand. I used any tubing I could come across that was the right size then went about sculpting/tooling/moulding all the metal pieces for the clamps. I made every piece as accurate as possible, which really tested my resourcefulness. The cymbals were a bit problem but I eventually found different hand and finger cymbals made up the numbers, and it's a nice bonus they're made of metal and 'ting' nicely if you hit them. As I've been an ardent boombox collector for many years I had a lot of spare antennas I had no particular use for that then got repurposed into the cymbal (and drum) stands. I fashioned some Lego pieces into mounts to finish them off and found the perfect shaped fishing sinkers to use as counterweights. The gong is a real miniature gong I sourced online and then made the frame from plastick tubing. It was a good 3-4 months work from go to whoah and I'm into it more than a couple of hundred dollars for all the pieces I bought for it but I'm really pleased with the end result, especially with the rest of the band.
I did a photoshoot for them all together that really tied it all together.
It gave me all my KISS toy wishes at once from when I was a kid who had only a Paul Stanley doll.
Definitely one of my most satisfying collecting/customising experiences I've had.
I found a few sellers with the right scale guitars, which is where Paul's Flying V came from and only required adding a more accurate strap.
Ace's was a Pick Ups miniature guitar that I repainted and added the extra details.
Gene's bass was a neck and strings from an axe bass model, I then sculpted the body to be his Spector model from this period.
The last thing was to make Peter's drum kit. This became a real labour of love, firstly finding out the correct pieces and then working out how to fabricate them. I found some excellent resources online and then set about making it up piece by piece. I'd ordered a few other miniature drum kits off eBay to use the metal stands for the drums I made by hand. I used any tubing I could come across that was the right size then went about sculpting/tooling/moulding all the metal pieces for the clamps. I made every piece as accurate as possible, which really tested my resourcefulness. The cymbals were a bit problem but I eventually found different hand and finger cymbals made up the numbers, and it's a nice bonus they're made of metal and 'ting' nicely if you hit them. As I've been an ardent boombox collector for many years I had a lot of spare antennas I had no particular use for that then got repurposed into the cymbal (and drum) stands. I fashioned some Lego pieces into mounts to finish them off and found the perfect shaped fishing sinkers to use as counterweights. The gong is a real miniature gong I sourced online and then made the frame from plastick tubing. It was a good 3-4 months work from go to whoah and I'm into it more than a couple of hundred dollars for all the pieces I bought for it but I'm really pleased with the end result, especially with the rest of the band.
I did a photoshoot for them all together that really tied it all together.
It gave me all my KISS toy wishes at once from when I was a kid who had only a Paul Stanley doll.
Definitely one of my most satisfying collecting/customising experiences I've had.
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