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  • Relic
    Banned
    • Jun 24, 2012
    • 1408

    #16
    I would only settle for a Spock head because i am not rich. Anyone is free to do or make whatever they like. My suggestion was merely that, a suggestion. Anyways, no harm no foul. Zan will make a very cool Mego however it is executed. I cannot wait to see pictures when he is done.

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    • dr_cyclops
      One eyed, wonder
      • Dec 17, 2009
      • 2138

      #17
      Originally posted by ScottA
      I would have Austin enlarge the Wonder Twins DCUC heads. Those sculpts are pretty good.
      I like your way of thinking, and would like to subscribe to your 'Newsletter'.

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      • comicmike
        Persistent Member
        • Sep 22, 2009
        • 1824

        #18
        I sold mine on eBay back in 2005. I went back to the original style guide, and made my Twins on 6-7" Teen bodies. Jayna is to Wondergirl-scale, but I spliced her body together with other parts to keep her fully poseable. Zan was always animated on the TV cartoons with a bigger chest and arms, so the pics enclosed show his torso as spliced together between a Titans waist & an 8" chest, while his upper arms are 8" ones. I did mine on a dime too, so i used Green Arrow-themed velvet gloves (airbrushed purple), and Catwoman-themed collars (but also velvet to match). I airbrushed the swatch on the body stockings, as well as the boots & belts. The black detailing-lines are just fine-tipped permanent marker, and I ran them through the sewing machine. When the costumes are turned inside out, they actually looked like they had been printed only on one side, just like original Mego body-stockings. I printed on thin iron-on material to make the yellow boot details, as well as the belt-buckles & chest emblems. I ironed on the emblems with each a thin piece of material cut in smaller triangles, so only the emblems edges would iron-on to grip to the chests (to make them appear like puffy 'heat-sealed' ones, like the Kid Flash & 12' Magnetic Batman emblems). Zan's head is an acetone-shrunken Robin, then hair was sculpted with Sculpey III & boiled in hot water. I sealed the clay-edges to the solid head with Krazy Glue, then sealed with nail polish, then painted with acrylics (matte skin, satin-to-gloss black hair). I used the same formula for Jayna, but her base was a smaller classic Barbie-like head (from a sewing- / or cake-store), that I cut the rooted hair off & acetone-shrunk; then I sculpted on her stylized hair. Both were painted in 70s Mego styles, with that grey-to-tanned skin (but I upped the hue to an orangy-tan, similar to their skin-swatch on the TV episodes), so they'd look like painted rubber blow molds. I hope they help inspire some of your ideas.





        Last edited by comicmike; Sep 17, '13, 12:30 PM.

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        • Captain Awesome
          Career Member
          • May 27, 2012
          • 559

          #19
          Man! Those are pretty cool!
          Courage is being scared to death but saddlin' up anyway. - John Wayne

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          • almitysufx
            Persistent Member
            • May 27, 2004
            • 1290

            #20
            Popping in on the party a month late but I always liked these figures. This pic is snagged from huedell's shelf pics because I don't have any on my laptop. I know Jayna's head was WW, I think I sculpted the Zan head and the Gleek is my sculpt. The suits were made with iron on transfers before I started doing silk screening or fabric printing.

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            • Brown Bear
              Still Old School
              • Feb 14, 2008
              • 7063

              #21
              comicmike.....those are freakin' incredible!!! I'd love to have those on my shelf. WOW.
              Check out my website: Megozine Covers - Home

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              • bleit1701
                Career Member
                • Jan 1, 2009
                • 837

                #22
                I want to do heads eventually but these are my suits

                suitSFwondertwins.JPG
                Better late than never.....

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                • Relic
                  Banned
                  • Jun 24, 2012
                  • 1408

                  #23
                  I will be ordering a costume for my beater Mr Spock very soon.

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