Custom Dick Grayson / Robin the Boy Wonder has a strong new body!

[darklord1967]

Vest Tunic:

After some trial and error experimentation, I was able to create a pattern for Robin’s leathery vest tunic (in Adobe Photoshop) that had a nice, tailored fit on the “Athletic Boy” body I developed.





Fabricating the vest was a bit involved, and even painstaking, and yet it was also a lot more fun than I anticipated it would be.

I printed out the vest pattern, and then very lightly coated the back of the page with spray adhesive. With the light tack consistency of maybe painter’s tape, I adhered the paper pattern to the back of the red fabric I selected. With my trusty, sharp cuticle scissors, I cut out a perfectly clean vest, which I then sewed into a wearable garment.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Wow, really nice!!!

Chris

[darklord1967]

Here is a size comparison of the 9Art "Athletic Boy Hero" Dick Grayson / Robin The Boy Wonder with the 9Art "Heroic Adult Male" Bruce Wayne / The Batman:

[comicmike]

another moment in time where i can not stop staring at your wonderful work

[Neutron X]

Too Cool! Love what you have done here! Can't wait to see it all painted up and dressed.

[JediJaida]

You put a lot of thought into this. It's very nice and a lot more realistic than the Mego body.

Even the smaller teen body is too built to be believable for a supposed teenager.

I can't wait to see what else you do with this.

[PNGwynne]

Fantastic, looking forward to seeing him costumed.

Have you considered adding a sculpted torso for characters like Kamandi? (Although, I think Kamandi is age 14/14, so a "teen" body would work.)

[boss]

I love it.

[darklord1967]

I never thought the MEGO / Figures Toy Company approach to an athletic young boy hero (standing on left) was ever particularly convincing.

I therefore developed something... a little different (standing on right) for my 9Art custom Dick Grayson / Robin The Boy Wonder.





My upcoming custom Robin The Boy Wonder stands in perfect proportional height to the other character body types I have created for this line of custom figures. And he exists in accurate scale height when compared to a real life little boy of about 12 years of age.

The nude figure stands EXACTLY 6.375" in height. In 1:9 scale, that translates to a real-life boy standing 4' feet, 9.375 inches in height.

Stacked up against MEGO / FTC, the numbers are very revealing:

MEGO / FTC heroic adult males (who all stand the same height) are actually NOT 8 inches tall as advertised. When nude, the characters actually only measure 7.75 inches in height. In 1:9 scale, that translates to a real life man standing 5' 10" in height. While this might be acceptable for an averagely built character like Peter Parker / Spiderman, it does fall a bit short for heroic Olympian male archtypes like Superman, Batman, and Captain America.

The FTC "Teen Hero" body pictured above next to my custom measures 6.75" in height. In 1:9 scale, that translates to a real-life teen standing just short of 5'1" in height.

The 9Art "Athletic Boy Hero" body which i have developed is an all ball-jointed body (no bungee construction). It features 28 points of articulation for exceptionally dynamic posing. As a solidly constructed figure with tight, sturdy limbs, ABH features body parts that are solid (not hollow). This gives the figure unpresidented density, weight and posing / standing integrity.