Kit-bash of the Day

[renegade]

They look great...shame they have to DIE!

[jho2]

Security Guards Star Trek-
a tad pricey for head swaps I guess...
took no more than 10-15 mins to snip-n-pull off the gold braids from the cuffs

Three Scotty Repros (18.00 each from Dr Mego)
Galahad repro, Will Scarlett repo (full doll 4.99 each - ebay)
Shazam head original (10.70 off ebay)

[spamn]

Here's Arcade the owner of Murderworld and all round pain in the arse of the Marvel Universe.

http://i896.photobucket.com/albums/ac165/renegade37076/006-5.jpg

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Recipe time........

CTVT Body-3.00 (switched out fearless fonzie hands)
CTVT Ralph Malph -1.33 (repainted hair brighter red)
CTVT white suit-3.00
CTVT Al Bundy shirt-2.00 (dyed green)
CTVT white shirt-2.00 (cut and glued to vest size)
CTVT white shoes-2.00
Craft foam tie-.17?

Total Cost $13.50


I still need to put red stars on his shoes and take a Zorro hat and paint it to look straw and make a white cane. Hope you like and perhaps build your self.

Awesome! Malph is a perfect head for Arcade!

[renegade]

Arcade X-men Villain

Here's Arcade the owner of Murderworld and all round pain in the arse of the Marvel Universe.



Recipe time........

CTVT Body-3.00 (switched out fearless fonzie hands)
CTVT Ralph Malph -1.33 (repainted hair brighter red)
CTVT white suit-3.00
CTVT Al Bundy shirt-2.00 (dyed green)
CTVT white shirt-2.00 (cut and glued to vest size)
CTVT white shoes-2.00
Craft foam tie-.17?

Total Cost $13.50


I still need to put red stars on his shoes and take a Zorro hat and paint it to look straw and make a white cane. Hope you like and perhaps build your self.

[renegade]

Taking Pics even as we speak.

[apes3978]

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[renegade]

It's the weekend, let's throw those parts together and take a few pics

[spamn]

Sorry,heres the breakdown,the hat,holster and shirt are original Mego Wild Bill Hickok,not sure of the cost on those.The coat is i believe from the Wizard from Mego WOZ,I dont know the cost on the clothes because i got them out of my parts box.The pants are off a Classic TV Toys Fonzie.The gun is not Mego and i have no idea what line it is from,but it looked good so i used it.The body is Castaway 7.00 and the boots are also Castaway 2.50.The head is Mego "Chopper" from the Starsky and Hutch line.

Nice! I see the resemblance to Redlegs!

[piecemaker]

Piecemaker...will you post the RECIPE and the costs involved? Perhaps where you got the parts?

Sorry,heres the breakdown,the hat,holster and shirt are original Mego Wild Bill Hickok,not sure of the cost on those.The coat is i believe from the Wizard from Mego WOZ,I dont know the cost on the clothes because i got them out of my parts box.The pants are off a Classic TV Toys Fonzie.The gun is not Mego and i have no idea what line it is from,but it looked good so i used it.The body is Castaway 7.00 and the boots are also Castaway 2.50.The head is Mego "Chopper" from the Starsky and Hutch line.

[renegade]

Thanks MS, thats high praise from the one and only Mego Spidey. I've always aspired to your level of quality.

[renegade]

Piecemaker...will you post the RECIPE and the costs involved? Perhaps where you got the parts?

[Megospidey]

Really, really like that Speed Racer custom. Couldn't wait to watch it every day when I came home from school.

[piecemaker]

He's my lame contribution to this thread,not what i originally intended to do (couldn't find all the parts for him).Anyway here he is,just a generic Cowboy Badguy.Chopper makes a great badguy in any era.He kinda reminded me of Bill McKinney as Redlegs in The Outlaw Josey Wales

[piecemaker]

This was discussed in a whole thread somewhere in the forums, but a kitbash is a type of custom that uses off-the-shelf parts and mimimal craftsmanship to finish.

Where to draw the line? Well, IMO a REAL kitbash is something that requires little to no effort, just a repurposing of existing factory-made parts that requires no dremeling to fit together. Something a kid could've assembled if they had the parts.

In the Speed Racer Case, making custom stickers and dyeing is an intermediate effort, but one that requires very little specialized knowledge, skill, or equipment to do (depending on how the stickers are made - are they strips of colored tape? lasercut computer printed images from photoshop? hand cut sticker paper of a printed font?) In this case, just about anyone could print out a red 'M' onto sticker paper, so it's closer to kitbash than a hand-crafted one-of-a-kind artpiece of a custom detail.

Kitbashes are separate from more detailed customs because they don't have hand-sewn/screenprinted outfits, custom painted heads or parts, and original sculpted/cast parts. But even that line is a little blurry if you didn't do any of the work yourself. Though in my mind - SOMEone did, so it's still less of a kitbash.

But hopefully this makes it a little clearer.

Thanks, thats an excellent explanation.I have an idea for a Quickie Custom Kitbash.......well it will be quick when i dig through a few boxes and find all the parts i need. I'll post him here when i get him done.

[renegade]

Great Job Spamn, Lets keep the recipes cooking!!