Over the past week, several toy websites and youtubers have gotten to each reveal a new Marvel Legends action figure. They’ve all been Wolverine related, making many think they were going to be in a new wave. It’s now been revealed that they’re all a part of an upcoming Amazon Exclusive 5 pack box set. The set is themed around comic book Wolverine characters. The set will include: Shirtless battle damaged Wolverine, Omega Red, Cyber, Callisto of the Morlocks, and Jason Wyngarde (AKA Mastermind) of the Hellfire Club. The set is currently priced at $120.99 and is scheduled to be released December 15, 2021.
I’m back with a new custom action figure! Actual semi regular updates! Crazy, I know. Anyway, my latest custom figure is that of the silent assassin Quiet, from the video game Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain. This was a commission for a client who wanted a figure of Quiet in the 6″ Marvel Legends scale. She was really fun to make. I particularly enjoyed sculpting the hair and the bikini…BECAUSE I GOT TO PRACTICE SCULPTING FABRIC AND NO OTHER REASON GET YOUR MIND OUT OF THE GUTTER. It was a lot of fun cobbling together her harness as well. Be sure to visit the page for this custom for the full photo set and details on how it was made. And check out the Youtube video for this custom action figure to see exclusive WIP photos! Thanks for taking a look. See You next time. [INSERT A QUIET PLACE MEME HERE]
Hey everyone. I’ve got a new custom action figure to show you. This time I’ve made Dark Claw from Amalgam Comics, the hybrid between Batman and Wolverine during the mid 90’s Marvel VS DC Comics crossover event! Even if you’ve never read the comic, you’re probably familiar with the image. He has a striking and ridiculous design, and the fact that it’s Batman and Wolverine combined makes sense that he’s always been a fan favorite. This was a commissioned piece. Dark Claw is made from a Marvel Legends Juggernaut Wave Wolverine, with a whole bunch of sculpting, fabricating, and painting, with a poseable cape! Be sure to check out the full photo set and description HERE. And also make sure you check out the Youtube video, featuring a ton of exclusive WIP photos! Thanks for taking a look.
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This Dark Claw custom action figure is based on the popular Marvel Vs. DC Comics crossover from the mid 90’s. In it, two supreme beings from either universe force their champions to fight to see who has the better fighters. Sound ridiculous and petty? I miss 90’s superhero comics. It resulted in the two universes fusing together for a short time, forming Amalgam Comics. One such character that came from this was Dark Claw, a fusion of Batman and Wolverine. Even if you’re not familiar with the story, chances are you’ve seen images of the character somewhere. Dark Claw has always been a fan favorite. And why not? It’s Batman and Wolverine! Seems like a winning combo to me.
Dark Claw was made using the Marvel Legends Juggernaut Wave Wolverine as the base, with a whole bunch of sculpting, fabricating, and painting. The claws are real metal, made from bobby pins and carefully worked and sanded to get the grooves in, make them pointed, and give them a polished finish. The ear, arm, and leg fins are crafted from polystyrene and blended with Aves Apoxie Sculpt. The Belt details are also made from styrene. The mouth was sculpted over to finish off the mask detail. The shoulder cover cape from a LCBH Wrarrl cape that I sculpted on top of to get the spikes. The cape was cut from a pattern of my own, and given wires going down either side and installed in the shoulder area, so it can be posed dramatically to help give the figure more character. The rest of the figure just required a lot of black paint and a bit of yellow. It was a lot of fun giving life to this crazy 90’s throwback character. Some day I might make his nemesis The Hyena, or his sidekick Sparrow to join him.
Hey guys. I know it’s been a long time since I updated the site. I promise you I haven’t gone anywhere though. I’ve been steadily working the past year and a half on various commissions, I just haven’t had time to update the site. But I’m planning on changing that and slowly start updating regularly again. And with that I bring you my latest custom action figure, Captain America based on his look in Avengers Infinity War as The Nomad! I had to carefully study the trailer frame by frame to get this right. I also made a custom pair of “Vibranium Wakanda Battle Shields” for him to wear on his forearms. These are based on the shields he’s wearing at the end of the trailer. Cap is up on eBay right now, so if you’re interested in owning this custom, just CLICK HERE to bid. Also be sure to check out the full page for Captain America so you can read the entire description on how he was made. And be sure to check out the Youtube Video for exclusive WIP photos. I’ll see you guys later, and I promise it won’t take a year and a half haha.
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Captain America is back, but since the events of Civil War he’s changed. He’s now a fugitive on the run. He no longer has his shield and no place to call home. He’s ripped the star from his chest and the Avengers symbols from his shoulders. He’s rolled up his sleeves, let his hair and beard grow out, and now he’s The Nomad. Finding refuge in the city of Wakanda, he’s given two Vibranium Wakanda Battle Shields to help in the fight against the army of the Mad Titan Thanos!
This custom action figure was made by going through the Avengers Infinity War trailer frame by frame to make sure I got all the details just right. The hair and beard are sculpted, as are the forearms and the rolled up sleeves. The “Wakanda Battle Shields” are hand sculpted/crafted and based on the shields Cap wields at the end of the trailer. I dremeled out the star in his chest and sculpted some tattered fabric on the shoulders where the Avengers logo was. I painted the entire thing to give a real, weathered kinda dirty look and now Cap is finally Nomad!
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Don’t forget to check out the video I made for this custom action figure near the bottom of the page to see some exclusive WIP (work in progress) photos and more!
The Marvel Select Thor Dark World figure is cool, but I wanted to give him a better looking cloth poseable cape. I made my own pattern for it, carefully measured of course, and cut it out in this really great red material that wasn’t too heavy and looked nice for the scale. I used some hemming tape to wrap some bendy armature wire down each side of the cape so it could be poseable. To attach it, I cut off the cape clasps from the Thor figure, and dremelled a hole in each side. The cape was then threaded through, including the wire. I then hot glued it down to the shoulder pads, and carefully reattached the cape clasps. A little paint later to touch everything up, and now Thor is ready to fight with a much more regal looking poseable cape!
Hey everyone. I know, I know, it’s definitely different from my usual custom action figure subject matter. However, when I was contacted by a groom to be, wanting his friends’ likenesses put on Avengers bodies as a gift for being in his wedding, I couldn’t resist. I loved the sentimentality, and it was nice doing something different. Not only that, but some time after, I was contacted by one of the former groomsmen who wanted to get the groom his own Avengers custom action figure, with him as Nick Fury! Again, I couldn’t resist. It made sense to complete the set, as it were. If nothing else, this project certainly helped me hone my hair sculpting skills. If you want to check out the full photo gallery, complete with a full description on how each custom was made, CLICK HERE or the photo below. And be sure to check out the Youtube video I made for these, which has exclusive WIP (work in progress) photos! And if this is your first time here, do check out the Custom Action Figure Archive, where you can see every single custom action figure I’ve made up to this point. Thanks for looking, and remember that Mint Condition Customs is where toys become Interactive Art!
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This set of custom action figures was a commission from a groom to be who wanted to give these to his groomsmen as gifts. He and his friends are Marvel fans, so he requested that I recreate their likenesses as members of the Avengers. The new Hulk head came from a wrestler figure, whose name I forget, but he looks like a 19th century strong man. I had to shave his mustache, and sculpt an entire head of hair over his bald head. The new Cap head started out as a DST Angel head. I pushed the hairline up some and gave him a new hairdo. The new Thor head came from a TNA Eric Young, with sculpted beard and resculpted hair. The new Iron Man head came from a Stargate Teal’c. I removed the forehead symbol, gave him a mustache, and hollowed out an Iron Man head, cut out the face plate, and stuffed the new head inside, so you could see his face.
Some time after this, I was contacted by one of the former groomsmen wanting to get the aforementioned groom his own Avengers custom action figure. Since all the other spots were taken, he felt it was appropriate to turn him into Nick Fury. His head started out as a TNA Sonjay Dutt. I sculpted on his beard, resculpted the hair, and gave him an eyepatch. It’s maybe a bit of a weird set of custom action figures, but I enjoyed doing something different and I really liked the sentiment behind it. If nothing else, I certainly honed my hair sculpting skills!
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His name is not “Agent”. He is Agent Phil Coulson. It’s terrible that he never got the Marvel Legends treatment, so I decided to make one myself. I wanted to be as accurate as possible with this. The body is a Movie Masters Alfred with the arms and legs from a Marvel Legends Professor Xavier spliced on for the double joints (with minimal sculpting to blend the legs), and the head is a shrunken down cast of the Hot Toys Agent Coulson head from fellow toy enthusiast Ross Barrow. Using this cast ensured that the likeness to Clark Gregg would be as perfect as you can get. I printed out a Coulson S.H.I.E.L.D. name badge at hi-res and laminated it for a full “Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.” effect. I gave him a removable bluetooth earpiece, removable sunglasses, glock pistol, walkie talkie, set of 8 “vintage” Captain America trading cards (courtesty of John Mallamas AKA Jin Saotome), and the Destroyer Gun he uses against Loki in The Avengers. It’s a mix of several fodder gun pieces, made to look just like it jumped off the screen, complete with an illuminated effect in the barrel to make it look like it’s ready to blast! And now Agent Coulson is ready show that he doesn’t lack conviction to any threat S.H.I.E.L.D. faces!
