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To those people who have heard this story before (or even worse been subjected to my PowerPoint presentation on the subject) - my apologies for the background info.
For years I wondered why Mego made an Ivanhoe figure in jousting armor:
Clearly the headsculpt is Robert Taylor, who played Ivanhoe in the 1953 MGM film of the same name, but the armor the Mego figure wears is nowhere to be found in the film:
Then I saw MGM's 1954 follow-up to "Ivanhoe" from Director Richard Thorpe, "Knights of the Round Table", also starring Robert Taylor, this time as "Lancelot of the Lake". As soon as Lancelot came on the screen I realized what Mego had done:
I wanted to make a Lancelot figure from KOTRT as Mego might have made it, so all of the parts, except for the plume and red coathardie pieces, are vintage Mego parts. So after taking the helm, boots, head, shield, and lance from Mego's Ivanhoe, and combining it with the chaimail sleeves and pants from Mego's Black Knight figure, adding a new custom made red coathardie, and finishing it off with the sword and sword belt from Mego's Lancelot, I got this:
The picture makes the red coathardie look more pale red than it is in person, and I need to get a better red plume for the helm. Also the lion rampant on the chest needs some redesign to be brighter, and I would like to loosen up the sleeves to add the shoulder armor from Mego's Black Knight. But my wife told me I am a perfectionist, and that I should put those corrections in a future version of the figure (since she knows I am just going to keep remaking it until I am happy with it) and just post it here. Needless to say I did as I was told
I'll probably make another run at this custom, but I have several others on my plate before I can come back to it, so I guess it will have to do for now.
Thanks,
Derek
For years I wondered why Mego made an Ivanhoe figure in jousting armor:
Clearly the headsculpt is Robert Taylor, who played Ivanhoe in the 1953 MGM film of the same name, but the armor the Mego figure wears is nowhere to be found in the film:
Then I saw MGM's 1954 follow-up to "Ivanhoe" from Director Richard Thorpe, "Knights of the Round Table", also starring Robert Taylor, this time as "Lancelot of the Lake". As soon as Lancelot came on the screen I realized what Mego had done:
I wanted to make a Lancelot figure from KOTRT as Mego might have made it, so all of the parts, except for the plume and red coathardie pieces, are vintage Mego parts. So after taking the helm, boots, head, shield, and lance from Mego's Ivanhoe, and combining it with the chaimail sleeves and pants from Mego's Black Knight figure, adding a new custom made red coathardie, and finishing it off with the sword and sword belt from Mego's Lancelot, I got this:
The picture makes the red coathardie look more pale red than it is in person, and I need to get a better red plume for the helm. Also the lion rampant on the chest needs some redesign to be brighter, and I would like to loosen up the sleeves to add the shoulder armor from Mego's Black Knight. But my wife told me I am a perfectionist, and that I should put those corrections in a future version of the figure (since she knows I am just going to keep remaking it until I am happy with it) and just post it here. Needless to say I did as I was told
I'll probably make another run at this custom, but I have several others on my plate before I can come back to it, so I guess it will have to do for now.
Thanks,
Derek
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