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The Lazy Customizer Presents: My kind of Cowboy!
As always, sorry for el crappo pix. The next Custom I post will have better chronicling; I'll have a new camera by then. But for now:
This anonymous blonde cowboy is on a Three Stooges body, so he stands a little smaller than your garden variety Mego:
What what else is he? Well, I used to haunt Ebay and dollar stores for custom fodder, and there was a 4 (5?) 1/2 line called 'Frontier heroes' back in the 90s. They used to be pictured at the Michael Crawford's Western Action Figure Archive, but that site appears to be long gone. Here's a Wyatt Earp with horsey set from that same line to get the idear:
There were also 12" figures from the line: Here's our source figure in the 1:6 scale:
You get the idea. Super crappy, 5-point swivel joint articulated figures with removable cloth outfits and squishy heads. Here's Wyatt next to our cowboy. Wyatt could and eventually will make the transition to Mego-like someday soon:
So the heads swap onto the stooge bodies with very little effort - I might've had to enlarge the hole, but that's about it.
The clothes fit, sorta, but you really have no choice but to use Fighting Fury Pirate boots if you don't want your cowboy showing an unmanly amount of knee. At least for blondie. Wyatt's pants look a mite longer. Either way, the height difference between source figure and Stooge is quite pronounced, and I think the head and clothes might just be a little too small for a Mego proper body.
Most of you probably think they're too small for the body I put them on! I'm sure they'd do fine on a 6" Lion Rock though. But Cowboys should be tall, I reckon.
If you were less lazy, you'd make or get better pants. But I see no reason not to just get the appropriate boots instead!
This anonymous blonde cowboy is on a Three Stooges body, so he stands a little smaller than your garden variety Mego:
What what else is he? Well, I used to haunt Ebay and dollar stores for custom fodder, and there was a 4 (5?) 1/2 line called 'Frontier heroes' back in the 90s. They used to be pictured at the Michael Crawford's Western Action Figure Archive, but that site appears to be long gone. Here's a Wyatt Earp with horsey set from that same line to get the idear:
There were also 12" figures from the line: Here's our source figure in the 1:6 scale:
You get the idea. Super crappy, 5-point swivel joint articulated figures with removable cloth outfits and squishy heads. Here's Wyatt next to our cowboy. Wyatt could and eventually will make the transition to Mego-like someday soon:
So the heads swap onto the stooge bodies with very little effort - I might've had to enlarge the hole, but that's about it.
The clothes fit, sorta, but you really have no choice but to use Fighting Fury Pirate boots if you don't want your cowboy showing an unmanly amount of knee. At least for blondie. Wyatt's pants look a mite longer. Either way, the height difference between source figure and Stooge is quite pronounced, and I think the head and clothes might just be a little too small for a Mego proper body.
Most of you probably think they're too small for the body I put them on! I'm sure they'd do fine on a 6" Lion Rock though. But Cowboys should be tall, I reckon.
If you were less lazy, you'd make or get better pants. But I see no reason not to just get the appropriate boots instead!
-Tallahassee 
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