Re: Horrible Customs by ourchickenshack

by **Nico** Fri Dec 30, 2016 12:11 am

Very cool Buckethead doll James clapping

and the backdrop for the little nativity figures looks great cheers

by **Commander Clint** Fri Dec 30, 2016 12:52 am

The Buckethead doll looks fantastic. As does the nativity. I was looking at the nativity closely, to see if you added any special modifications to the figures? But I didn't notice any. cheers

by **ourchickenshack** Fri Dec 30, 2016 3:52 am

Thanks Andy cheers

Commander Clint wrote:The Buckethead doll looks fantastic. As does the nativity. I was looking at the nativity closely, to see if you added any special modifications to the figures? But I didn't notice any.

Luckily the figures were already painted so all I did to them was glue sand to the bases Very Happy

I use to paint the small scale D & D lead miniatures when I was a kid but I'm not sure if my eyes could handle the tiny scale anymore lol!

by **grinchy** Mon Jan 02, 2017 12:01 am

Nice work on the buckethead doll and on the nativity scene mate, very cool, you do such great stuff

by **ourchickenshack** Tue Jan 03, 2017 7:24 am

Thanks Ian cheers

My wife does some neat stuff too , here's a Christmas tree she made out of Coke cans last year ...

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This was a Santa I repainted last year ...

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It had a really bad and worn paint job so Julie asked me to repaint it afro

by **ourchickenshack** Mon Jan 30, 2017 6:51 am

Around November our local Hastings store went out of business . I bought quite a few Walking Dead figures when they were marked down to 80% off What a Face

While I was shopping I noticed they had a bunch of the ReAction figures and a Twilight Zone Santa caught my eye because Christmas was coming up and I thought my wife would like it for a tree ornament so I bought it .

This is the version of the figure I bought :

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We thought it was odd that the figure was color and decided it would look better black and white . To us it just looked like a plain old Santa done in color so I custom painted it black and white ...

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While I was painting it I did a google search for Twilight Zone Santa and came across this eek

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Apparently a black and white version was made by Funko , making my figure the most pointless custom in the world lol!

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After finally looking a little closer at the package of the figure I bought I realized that the color variants were limited edition - the Santa we have was # 298 of 672 made banghead2

by **Commander Clint** Mon Jan 30, 2017 1:48 pm

You made the rest of the limited editions go up in value. lol!

Nicely done on the black & white custom paint job. clapping

by **ourchickenshack** Fri Mar 10, 2017 7:24 am

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My latest creation ...

Michael Myers

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Here's Mike and Jason together ...

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by **Commander Clint** Fri Mar 10, 2017 1:49 pm

Nicely done. clapping

Is that a Buck Rogers - Killer Kane figure?

by **ourchickenshack** Fri Mar 10, 2017 4:51 pm

Thanks Clint cheers

Your close - it is Killer Kane's arms but the rest is Charles Pizer from The Black Hole ...

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by **Commander Clint** Fri Mar 10, 2017 5:39 pm

I thought it looked familiar, but not, at the same time. lol!

by **ourchickenshack** Fri Mar 10, 2017 6:29 pm

I thought about using a Killer Kane for the entire custom but the Pizer figure was a better match for the costume and head . I had a very yellowed and paint worn Pizer which I only had to file the chest emblem off the torso to make it look closer . I used Kane's arms because Pizers had molded stripes on them that I would have had to file down . The thumb on the knife hand was broken so I used miliput to make a new one - the knife has been molded and glued into the hand so its not removable .

It was one of the easier customs I have done What a Face

by **Commander Clint** Fri Mar 10, 2017 6:39 pm

Nice.

Any plans to make some of the other horror film characters?

by **ourchickenshack** Fri Mar 10, 2017 6:42 pm

Leatherface and Ash are top on my list but I need to find a 3 3/4 scale chainsaw for both of them scratch

by **Nico** Fri Mar 10, 2017 6:48 pm

Michael Myers looks awesome James clapping

Great work brother rockon

by **Commander Clint** Fri Mar 10, 2017 7:02 pm

ourchickenshack wrote:Leatherface and Ash are top on my list but I need to find a 3 3/4 scale chainsaw for both of them

What about using a popsicle stick (cut to length) for the blade and then molding the engine/handle to it with putty? Might be approx. the right scale?

by **hellhippie** Sat Mar 11, 2017 12:35 am

ourchickenshack wrote:Leatherface and Ash are top on my list but I need to find a 3 3/4 scale chainsaw for both of them

my father is a lionel train collector and while I cannot stand
BORING ASS trains , they make figures to scale on different gauges of trains . you might check train dioramas for your chainsaw OR just buy a leatherface from
the reaction line and use his . im sure your leatherface will look better than funkos anyways .

by **ourchickenshack** Mon Mar 13, 2017 6:20 am

Thanks guys cheers

I like all the ideas for the chainsaw Very Happy

by **ourchickenshack** Fri Dec 22, 2017 4:31 pm

My wife is a huge fan of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation so last Christmas I started making her a Cousin Eddie RV . I didn't get it done until just a couple days ago lol!

The closest looking toy rv I could find was one that was made by Tootsietoys in the 1970's but l I forgot to take a photo before I started working on it so I had to borrow this pic off ebay ...

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One thing that amazed me about the toy was the detail that was put into the sculpt of the interior , particularly when it could barely be seen . The first thing I did was cut the roof out for better visibility and then I gave it a basic paint job ...

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Of course Cousin Eddie's RV wouldn't have been clean on the inside so I did my best to make it look dirty ...

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I also needed to make it look rusty and dirty on the outside and I made wreaths and Christmas lights out of milliput ...

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by **Commander Clint** Fri Dec 22, 2017 4:40 pm

That's fantastic. cheers

Well done. Julie must have loved it. Or has she seen it yet?

by **Nico** Fri Dec 22, 2017 4:45 pm

Very cool James bowwing

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by **ourchickenshack** Fri Dec 22, 2017 8:37 pm

Thanks fellas cheers

Commander Clint wrote:That's fantastic. Well done. Julie must have loved it. Or has she seen it yet?

She likes it but she's known about it all along . I can't really work on custom stuff when she's not around because I do it on evenings that I have a little spare time while we're watching TV . I actually had her give me a idea of what the color scheme on the inside of a RV from the era might have been . As far as I could tell you never actually see the inside of Eddies RV in the movie scratch

by **cantina_patron** Sat Dec 23, 2017 6:26 pm

Very nicely done James! clapping

by **hellhippie** Sun Jan 07, 2018 7:24 pm

I love the mike myers dude! looks great with Jason as well .

my wife loves the xmas vacation movie as well . its always on during Christmas . that's an outstanding eddie van . too bad you couldn't make an overflowing shitter pouring out the back lol!

by **ourchickenshack** Mon Jan 08, 2018 5:09 pm

Thanks Steve and Bill cheers

I still want to make some figures to go with Eddies RV but will still have to find some figures that are the right scale and then customize them What a Face

Still might make that overflowing shitter too lol!