GI Joes

Custom and original 3 3/4 inch GI Joes from the 80's and early 90's.

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Before and after painting of the Critters figure I got from Etsy.

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The first image is how it looked when I bought it. I added the logo to make it look more like it did when it was originally sitting inside a McDonald’s in the early 90’s. One of my favorite Happy Meal toys.

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A different take on the Wolf Man

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A different look for Count Orlok.

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Horror Hosts on display with their VHS tapes

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I really wish they would have done all figures and no vehicles. Someone should definitely do a crowd funding type deal to make the McDonald's style figures of Robin, Joker, Two-Face, and Poison Ivy. If it's successful, other characters could be done too.

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Freddy Krueger Custom GI Joe

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The making of a nightmare... Freddy Krueger custom GI Joe

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A display case I bought and assembled to show some of my custom figures.

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Sleeves the Clown

Bio: Sleeves the Clown

He’s called Sleeves for two reasons. The first is for the irony, since he never has sleeves on his clown suit. The second reason is because he always has a trick up his proverbial sleeve to help get him out of any situation.

Born with a boring name, to a boring family, he went on to go to a boring school, and get a boring job. Desperate for some excitement, Sleeves began playing practice jokes at the office. The jokes started small, but quickly escalated, and became an obsession, this lead to his firing. Out of work and angry that his humor wasn’t appreciated, Sleeves began dressing as a clown to make money… but not in the way you may think though. This clown started robbing banks. He targeted locations that had wooded areas near by, and would make his getaway on a dirt bike he had stashed in the woods. One day after one of his robberies, he ran into a group in the woods. This group were the Dreadnoks. And it wasn’t long before Sleeves was invited to join their group.

I did this head a couple of years ago and laid out the body parts I wanted to use and then just left it sitting as I didn’t have a clear vision for it. I noticed it the other day and decided to just use the paints that I had, and see what would happen.

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I'm not a fan of colorized figures for black and white films. So I was disappointed that there was going to be two NECA Dracula variants but only one was going to be in black and white. But after getting the black and white version, I quickly realized it would be pretty easy to convert the colorized figure to black and white with just a little paint, and using spare pieces from the black and white figure. I just painted the red cloth piece, and gold medallion around his neck, and painted the candle to get rid of the yellow/orange.

Worked on The Invisible Man as well, may have to paint the bandages though...

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Creepy eye shot

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When Roy Burns heard about Jason, Roy Burns aspired to be like Jason. But when Jason heard about Roy Burns, Jason aspired to be like Roy Burns.

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The making of "Them Damn Enchiladas" death scene from Friday the 13th Part 5.

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"Them Damn Enchiladas" death scene from Friday the 13th Part 5.

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I am currently working on my most involved custom piece since the one I did of Jennifer's death scene from A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 3.

This custom piece is based on a weapon that NECA included with a figure. We never see the villain hold this weapon but we see it being used in the movie... So it would only make sense to have the complete scene represented and maybe the victim from the scene if I can pull off a radical figure customization. If not, the scene piece will still work with the original NECA villain figure.

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Using the NECA’s Ben Tramer mask and Roy Burns body, I made a quick custom Michael Myers.  I just cut off the sideburns and excess hair, carved in new hairlines where I cut and painted the hair brown.