The Lazy Customizer Presents: Lara Croft, Tomb Raider!

[spamn]

I hate work.

This custom, which basically amounts to a head swap and dressing a figure, still required the use of power tools and sharp things to get the head into the FC torso.

Too much work.



End results are nice, though. I know I'm not the first person to use those overpriced Tomb Raider plastic statues to make an articulated Famous Covers Lara Croft, but I found this in my storage locker and wanted to share.

Recipe:
1 crappy Tomb Raider plastic statue head + background.
1 female Famous Covers body
1 set of clothes from a generic outdoorsy type figure. Might even be a dollar store special. Though I'm pretty sure the boots are boy figure boots - girl figures usually have dainty Barbie feet.
1 set of holsters and guns from a McFarlane Escape from New York Snake Plisken (I thought he was dead?) figure

I never considered this to be completed because I saved the hands from the statue - it had fingerless gloves and molded weapons in one. But because I'm lazy, I never attempted to try a hand swap. That would have been even more effort, dontcha know.

I have two more of those plastic statue thingies, and I'm trying to decide if I want to Ebay them, or keep them for future attempts. I have a great 9" base body that's a lot more feminine than Ms. Man Hands here, and I'm tempted.

Sorry for the crap pix - all I got is a cellphone camera.

[Meule]

I take it putting all that on a Mego female body is way too much work then?

[thunderbolt]

^^^ It'd be too big, too. Surprised no one has shrunk that head for Mego use.

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

She looks great. How bizarre, I was only last night thinking about doing a custom Lara...

[spamn]

^^^ It'd be too big, too. Surprised no one has shrunk that head for Mego use.

I'll take your word for it, though I'm tempted to see - this head looks good where it is, but the mego gal heads are big too. But you're the 9" guy.

As far as it being MORE work to put on a mego gal, it would be, because this head has a relatively thick neck and a solid super long neck peg. Figuring out how to marry it to a mego-ette torso would be a lot more work than drilling room in an FC torso for said neck peg.

[toys2cool]

She looks hot man,though I'd hate to get kicked by one of those boots

[spamn]

She looks great. Wish the pics were more clear.

She looks great. How bizarre, I was only last night thinking about doing a custom Lara...

Thanks folks. The backdrops really help in presentation. If I can get it together in the next few weeks I may try to do something with this:



I hope to get a new camera by christmas, so future pix will look a lot less crappé.

[spamn]

She looks hot man,though I'd hate to get kicked by one of those boots

Come on, you know you'd just thank her and meekly ask for more.

... Or maybe that's just me.

[mego boy CA]

cool looking laura. congrats! hard work pays off!

[mikeoz]

Very cool. The clothing is perfect.

[GUYx1]

I'll take that one step lazier. I did the same thing, but used the outfit from a lara croft prototype. The proti I had had this ugly resin head and the head on the playmates fig was too good to pass up.

[Meule]

I'll take that one step lazier. I did the same thing, but used the outfit from a lara croft prototype. The proti I had had this ugly resin head and the head on the playmates fig was too good to pass up.

Pics please

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

Ja, pics please Guy!

[GUYx1]

Sorry Took me awhile to get a photo.

[Meule]

She looks great, but how will she get out of that predicament?