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

Custom Recipes:

Belts: Made from elastic bought at fine fabric stores everywhere. A snap was sewn on to the elastic. The elastic was colored with pens.

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.

Batgirl: Whenever you have an extra Classic X-Men Box set sitting around, take the Marvel Girl and turn her into Batgirl. She’s the perfect base figure. The cape is of course cloth, with all types of wire sewn in for poseability. The cape took forever to make. I easily have more than eight hours wrapped up in making that thing. After the cape was completed, several details were filled and sanded smooth and her bat ears were made from Magic Sculp. The belt is colored elastic with a sculpey bat-symbol glued onto it.

Mary Marvel: This is the end result of the figure I was working on in my “Creating Waist Articulation” article posted over at the Raving Toy Maniac website. Cheap Rogue torso and arms were joined to the head and legs of a Magik figure. The skirt, belt and cape were all hand sewn and colored appropriately. The hair is kneadatite. I was going to do the entire FKATJL lineup for this con, but alas time did not permit.

Spider-Boy: I’m not sure if I saw somebody else do a version of this figure or not. Anyway, Superboy from Superman line was the base figure. This is basically just a repainted figure. Not much to talk about.