Customs by Mike – Minesurfer (online) e-mail ginngrr@juno.com Web Address none

Custom Recipes:

Belts and pouches: Made from elastic bought at fine fabric stores everywhere. A snap was sewn on to the elastic. The elastic was colored with pens. The pouches were made from the same elastic then sewn into place on the belt with gold strands from a curtain tassel. Legion symbol was printed from a CAD program and glued to the belt.

Paint: All figures were primed with Krylon gray primer. Areas to be finished in bright colors were then primed again with white primer. Acrylics were used and the figures sealed with Dulcote. For shiny finishes, decoupage glue was used as a sealer.

Atmos: I know what you’re thinking. How can a sentient humanoid not have arm pits? That’s a question I’ve pondered many times, especially when I decided to make this figure. The body came from a Cloak figure and the head and arms came from one of the cheap KB Ice Man reissues. The Mohawk is courtesy of kneadatite as are his bracers and collar. The invisibility disease was simulated by dremelling big holes in his sides and filling with clay as necessary.

Insect Queen: This was another fun figure to do. I decided to go with her Silver Age look for some reason. The base is an Alpha Flight Vindicator. The head is from an Alpha Flight Aurora. The hair is kneadatite and the mask was cut from some acrylic paint that I let cure overnight. I drew her chest emblem on by hand. Her torso and legs are held together with a snap joint so that I could make the torso interchangeable with any insect torso I wanted to create. Her bee torso was made by using the armor parts of the Spider Force (?) Swarm figure and a bit of kneadatite to hold it all together. Her wings came from the Brood figure that I used for my earlier Gates figure.

Atom’x: The base for this figure was a Sunfire from the X-Men six pack. The head is a cast of a Jurassic Park figure.

The Biker Shorts or Bald Guy: Not much to this one other than sanding off Morph’s details. The head is from an X-men Gideon figure I believe.

Konk: Konk is a modified Flying Missiles Shard figure. The head is removable and encased in the plastic orb that came with the Dr. Strange figure from the Spider-man Animated Series line.