Solomon Grundy gets his new boots!

[Cosmicman]

Finally after years of letting my Solomon Grundy figure stand on the shelf with big fat brown shoe-feet (I put sculpty over a Famous Cover's Hulk doll's giant feet and it really looked stupid.) I have been wanting to fix this issue for years and finally I just went for it. Awhile ago, someone (not sure if I am allowed to say names but I'm done holding grudges) gave me this idea along time ago with G.I. Joe boots and I decided that Solomon Grundy would be wearing them.

[GaryPlaysWithDolls]

Not a bad idea. I used Bratz boy shoes on my Bane and will on my (similar to yours) Grundy.

[Cosmicman]

My uncle is the one who I thought was the only man on the planet Earth that customized Megos in the 1980s, boy I had no ****ing clue that there were hundreds of people doing it.
I sold my entire collection in 2003 after I met a devious woman who convinced me that my Megos were not something a grown man should have.
Well, beleive it or not after I sold all of them (they were ratted and bad anyway).

A few days later, had a dream about Megos and having them all again and the next day I got up and called the infamous DR. MEGO aka Paul Clark on the phone and expressed my desire to recollect or at least make customs so that my youngest could experience the whole Mego thing.

So, Paul shipped us a Custom Green Arrow. Very, very ironic how Green Arrow was later the main cheese that Mattel would make to kick start the whole lineup. Is it a sign? No...but it is something that makes me smile from time to time when I think about it.

Gary, when I first started modern MEGO customizing (2004?) I took on a lot of bad habits. I was making costumes from white material and painting the outfits.
What I didn't know was a year later the figures would become immovable.

Yes, that was a really, really dumb *** move. So I did some research and talked to some of the great customizers of Mego-Land and I began researching material, sewing, measuring, stylnig and lots of neat other little hand things.

Then as I progressed and started buying colored fabric and sewing it together with other colored fabric my customs started to come alive and take on a whole new meaning and to top it off I went back to my old High School art teacher (no BS) and she helped refresh my memory on sculpting.

So, give or take another year or so I have my daughter on my side now and she is into the Mego thing after somebody on here sent her a stack of Mego cards. (It may have been somebody on Mego Central that I met...I forget) but whoever it was, was pretty cool.
I am happy I met Dave McCormick and he said, "you should check out this board"....and I came over here and I have been here ever since.

I started finally making real looking costumes...I actually went back and spent a day cutting off the "painted on" costumes. Talk about a long, process. I did all the cutting (even though my daughter wanted to) I was afraid she would cut herself.

I spent five months redoing all my costumes with my modern way of making body suits and sewing fabric. The painstaking nightmare finally finished with the Black Panther. He was the last of all of the crap customs I started/painted on. Cutting that horrid black painted outfit off the Black Panther and replacing him with a fresh fabric outfit was the final Mego custom I had to repair and once he was done I started back with my "custom machine" as one member called me on here.

Today, I would like to think my work is on a much better level. Some people would probably disagree but I am not here to please them. The people that pat me on the back and tell me they like my stuff and work that really makes my day. It's not an ego thing with me, it's just a good feeling of karma that helps to push me forward and make more. I just want to keep making customs until I run out of room or I am taken away like some sort of Alice Cooper video...me in a straight jacket and a Ultron custom mego hanging from my mouth.

Don't mean to rant GaryPlayswithDolls but this came pouring out of me. You rule!