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Saturday, January 12, 2008

Custom Action Figure: Gotham By Gaslight Batman




Just one of many outstanding custom 1:6 scale action figures by Steven Spenser Ledford. You can read a feature on him here:

Ledford first begins a figure by sculpting the head, which can take anywhere from eight to sixteen hours. "When doing real people I pay special attention to sculpt the character they portray and not just the likeness of the actor," he adds. Next, he chooses the appropriate body for the figure. "I usually use a standard Dragon body, (which) in my opinion, is the most adaptable and inexpensive," says Ledford. He also says he's changes the body structure to better match the character when necessary.

Next comes the fabric outfit or costume. "This is the most time consuming of the process with looking in fabric stores or over hundreds of clothes at thrift shops trying to find the correct color, texture, weight, or pattern. Some times I print my own fabrics in various ways (as) the correct fabric can make a good figure into a more realistic and natural super figure," he says.

Finally, here's the Wikipedia entry on Gotham by Gaslight.

Custom Action Figure: Animated 1939 Batman, Hush, Batgirl Beyond

Bill's Customs features a large selection of customized DC Comics action figures, and a few other random characters. Here's three animated-style figures. Follow the links for more photos and "recipes."


1939 Batman.


Hush.


Batgirl Beyond.

Custom Action Figure: Animated Bat Sentry



"Jin Saotome" has completed an incredible selection of customized action figures. The Bat Sentry is one of his most recent creations. It's both cool-looking and fairly easy to complete. Pick up a Shadowtek Twin-Blasters Batman (Ebay link) and some black paint, and head over to this page for instructions on making your own Bat Sentry. Or you could just buy the actual figure Jin made. Note, this is NOT the figure you need.

If you're looking for a far more challenging project, here's a Bat Sentry that closely resembles the Bat Sentry as it appears in Kingdom Come. It's largely based on a Marvel Legends Sentinel.



You can see more photos of the finished Kingdom Come Bat Sentry here, and see several in process photos here.

If you've fallen in love with the Bat Sentry design, but want something cheap and fast, there's several Heroclix models available at Ebay.