Part way into the process of illustrating Pack of Heroes, I really wanted to have some 3 dimensional representations of a few of the characters I was busily creating. Customizing action figures is one of my favorite hobbies and I was itching to make a series of one-of-a-kind, custom-made, Mego style Pack of Heroes action figures. I also thought they would be great to feature in the exhibition and promo video for the project on Kickstarter adding to the idea that the heroes in the game were a group of comic book characters that have been appearing in their own comic books and merchandise for a number of years.
The above group of photos detail my progress creating the Doc Feelgood Action Figure.
I really wanted to pull out all stops with Doc Feelgood (and Big Walt) and created an all new Mego styled body which was a hybrid of the standard and muscular bodies from Classic TV Toys. I really like the chest and arms of the muscular body, as they are a more beefy and Superhero-like than the standard body, especially when the character isn't wearing a shirt but I feel the legs and feet are a tad too hulky and don't lend themselves well to wearing shoes or standard mego sized pants. I started by removing the legs of both bodies before cutting down the hip portion of a standard body to insert and glue inside the lower portion of the muscular body (as seen in the top right photo) creating a smaller hip socket to snugly hold the smaller ball joint of the standard legs. The rest of the photos show the decoration of Doc Feelgood, from his blue star shaped chest hair to his custom made spandex pants.
In this group of photos I was creating a custom action figure of Zombie Lad! He is my personal favorite of all the Pack of Heroes characters and I really wanted to do the drawing justice and give him a few skeletal limbs. For this I once again used two Classic TV Toys bodies this time the standard body in blue and the skeleton. Combining the two took a little bit of sawing, drilling and gluing, but I was really happy with the results, the boney leg really gives him a great zombie like lurch. I wanted the head to have a real 1970's charm so Zombie Lad looked like he could have been part of Mego's Mad Monster Line. I used a cast of the 1963 Phantom of the Opera Aurora Model head by Dr Mego as a base and then sculpted on some hair and Zombie Lad's trademark curl. The addition of a few paint apps really bought the head to life....or death.
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