Question about Pez heads

[stuart]

I have seen examples of customizers using Pez heads as heads for customs. What material do you use to make the neck? I know that Sculpty is commonly used, but it has to be baked. If I use Sculpty, will the baking process destroy/damage the Pez head?

[Bizarro Amy]

You can seal a sculpey piece in a ziploc bag and boil it, it cures just as well as baking, without as much danger of damaging any plastic pieces that are part of your project. Also, if you use sculpey for the neck plug, I would make a cast of it, because a clay neck plug might be pretty fragile.

[k2]

i usually fill the cavity in the head and fix up the "flat" part on the back of the head with sculpey cure in in boiling water just long enough to harden the sculpey then super glue an original neck plug on, then cast.... sounds like a pain, but making molds and casting is kinda fun if you ask me, and you can make more than one!
later
k.c.

[ozcollector1992]

I make it so the sculpy can be removed then, i just take it out and bake it...it's so much easier.
HTH

[GaryPlaysWithDolls]

low-tech neck

I've used pez dispensers for a couple of Famous covers heads. I find it very cool to combine my childhood nostalgia into one entity. I use a piece of round dowel rod, slather it with glue/epoxy, ram up the inside of the head and then after it dries cut the extra dowel off. For an FC, I drill a neck peg sized hole and stick it on. (It helps to add a little crazy glue to the neck-ball so that the head doesn't slump. I imagine for a mego, you could leave extra dowel and poke that down into the body. Or something to that effect. Both of my customs in the galleries use pez head

Good luck!

[Merlyn1976]

I use a CTVT head....cut off the neckplug and secure it in place with sculpey....

[ThatBatmanGuy]

I stopped using sculpey years ago and started using magic sculpt. Sculpey is too brittle IMHO and doesn't hold up as well over time.

Bob

[Cosmicman]

Back in the day. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY before the Internet
(1984??) my uncle and I took some skull head off some Halloween pez head. We took a stupid lame Walton head and cut the head off under the chin and carefully glued it up into the pez head. We painted it red and we technically had our first custom, it was the Red Skull. I think he used some blue jump suit or something and painted a swastika on it. It looked pretty bad *** for us at the time. I really wish we would have taken a picture because I have no idea what we did with it.
With all the great guys on here, I don't see any point in using Pez heads anymore. Most of them have recast them and made them into heads you can find through them. Whatever you are looking for, just ask. Someone probably already taken it from Pez and redesigned it to a mego styled head. That is what I like about this place.

[ramsey37]

I've used Pez heads a couple of times. All I did was dig out a crapped-out Mego or CTVT head, cut it in two just below the eyes, then let it sit in a cup of boiling hot water for a few minutes. Once the vinyl was soft, I cut an incision down the back of the head, then fitted the softened head up into the Pez head, using the incision to fold the excess head bits inward until the neck plug was even and in the correct position. Once the vinyl cooled, it stayed snugly in place without using any glue or clay.
George

[BlackKnight]

There is a product out there called Majic Sculpt.
It's a 2 part agent. Mix A & B in equal parts, it gets hard in 2to5 hrs. No Baking or Boiling. Sand as desired after being hard. I personally find it easier than Super Sculpty.