Miscellaneous Gallery - Other Fan Art

Last Updated: 12/26/22
Singulari-Tree added.

Everything else that's done as fan art, but doesn't fall into one of the larger categories. Just chronological order for now, every so often I'll peel some out and give it its own category if I've made a lot.

Kid Kid (The Goat): It's that lovable goat from Acclaim's Quantum and Woody, kitbashed into a toy! I bought a cheap bag of barnyard animals, fished out the one goat, made him a cape from part of a plastic bag painted white, and painted the toy to look like the real thing, Kid Kid. 7/22/97 (Note: he was later officially named Vincent Van Goat, and later got a real figure.)
Harry Potter: The base for this was a Stealth Voltron "Pidge" figure from Trendmasters, the face of which was already nearly perfect. After searching around for a better body, I gave up and massively resculpted the armored Pidge body into Harry. This includes fixing the badly made hands and using putty to try and make clothing for Harry. CLICK HERE for a closeup front shot of just the figure. The yellow is actually not that bright, it's an artifact of the digital camera. I made the cape from a bit of velour ribbon, and the Quidditch broom from the end of a card-holder available at the florist's counter at a local grocery store. I sanded down the shaft with my Dremel so that it would fit in Harry's hand, and managed to get a nice woodgrain pattern as a side effect. I based the outfit on the cover of the first novel, CLICK HERE for a comparison shot. I made this figure as a late Christmas/Anniversary gift for my sister, Carole. 12/29/00
Lego Godzilla: Mostly just assembled from existing pieces in my collection (green is HARD to find!), but I reshaped the wolfman head from a Lego Studios set into a Godzilla head. I wish they'd make one of these for real. 5/29/05
Mimi from Reality Check!: I took a Dale Arden action figure and rebuilt it into Catreece's sister, Mimi, from the comic Reality Check!, published by Sirius (the creators can be reached at tavicat@aol.com). I chopped off a bit of the hair in back and added bangs with Sculpey to duplicate Mimi's hairstyle, then added ears, expanded the eyes (the toughest part to get even close to right) and chopped at the nose and mouth a bit. Using a part of Princess Thundra's (another Flash Gordon figure) tail as a base, I built Mimi a tail. Finally, I used some bits of copper wire and a glue gun to add whiskers before painting the whole thing. I also painted the symbol on a hoverboard for Mimi. 3/7/98 (Reality Check is currently on indefinte hiatus as of June 1999.)
Zak from Army Ants: Army Ants is a comic self-distributed by Teddy Bear Press which is sort of like G.I. Joe with insects. Zak is the unspeaking ninja warrior type in the mold of Snake-Eyes. The base figure I used was the G.I. Joe keychain wetsuit guy. I wasn't able to get Zak's outfit reproduced exactly without giving up the poseability which was the whole point of using a G.I. Joe, so I settled for a variant outfit. I added the head, wristbands and boots with epoxy putty, and had to lengthen one leg, since the figure's lower legs were of different lengths! The antennae consist of balls of putty on the ends of plastic rods. While you can barely see it, I resculpted the hands with three fingers each. I built the machete/sword from a Rota-Point toothpick. Almost the entire figure is repainted, despite being originally black, since I had to cover up over the inevitable white mess left by the epoxy putty. While I was at it, I painted over the rivets and screws. 10/8/98
Gunner, Phil and Sarge - More Army Ants, made from knockoff GIJoe-style figures called The CORPS! (specifically, Gunner from Junkyard, Phil from Shark and Sarge from Gunner O'Grady). Made basically the same way as Zak, but with more practice behind it. I built up the fingers a bit more to counter chipping putty. I made Gunner darker because the base figure was black, but I think the color suits him. Similarly, the original uniforms were dark grey, so I left them that color, fortunately having paint that matched the color (I added the camo pattern to Gunner's pants, though, as well as tattoos that don't show up in this scan). All joints still move except for Sarge's head, which I had to glue in position because his neck was caucasian fleshtone, and paint over it would rub off. Click here for an image of the trio from behind. 1/24/99
Iron Servo with Crowcannon: I took a 10" Space Armor Spider-Man (Iron Man with a Spidey head) and a Pokemon candy dispenser to make a new body for Tom Servo of MST3K. Solo shot of Iron Servo. "I'm HUGE!" quoth Tom. Crow's fate was to be crumpled into a block and act as the Crowcannon, Iron Servo's deadly sarcasm blaster. Closeup of the Crowcannon. 1/6/01
- 2015 touchup: After more than a decade of being moved around the country, taken to RiffTrax and so forth, the paint was getting a bit dinged up. So I fixed it as best as I could, and the Riffing continued.
Squidbob Thulhupants: From a Dork Tower strip (titled "Are You Ready?") where Igor has a nightmare combining Cthulhu and Spongebob Squarepants. I made this from a Spongebob candy dispenser and some Milliput. It has gone over very well, even resulting in an offer to bear my children. Alas, she was several time zones away.
Captain Marvel android: After getting one of the movie-version Mr. Fantastic toys, I decied to repaint it as an updated version of the 1960s rip-off Captain Marvel, an android who could split apart and control his bits remotely. May 2005.
JLU Orion: I hacked up the legs and reposed them so Orion stands better on his Astro Glider. December 2007.
Attacktix Tigger: I didn't do much to the actual Tigger PVC aside from rebuild the tail, but I built a log-shaped launcher so Tigger IS the missile. December 2007.
- Tigger!
- Closeups of the launcher
- "Work In Progress" pic
Attacktix Winnie the Pooh with Piglet: Okay, so I got more of those Disney PVCs and hacked up a Chief Chirpa Attacktix to make this one. December 2007.
- Finished Piece: With both Piglet and beehive ammo.
- Work In Progress
Attacktix Domo-kun: A Domo PVC modded with a rocket pack that a missile can plug into. Doesn't fire very far, but it hits hard. Domo-kun is the mascot of NHK, a Japanese TV network. August 2008.
Gurren Lagann Beedrill: A small Beedrill figure reposed, repainted, and given Gurren Lagann sunglasses. December 2008.
- Poster version
- Comparison to unpainted
PokeFavre: A Brett Favre figure given a custom Pokeball and new badge (attached temporarily as suits him). Ironically, this was made in early February 2009, before he retired from the Jets too.
Halo Kitty: Mega Bloks has the Halo license, and in early 2011 also got the Hello Kitty license. So, of course I had to cross the streams and make Halo Kitty. Pistol comes from one of my Halo Blok sets, the helmet is a My Little Pony bicycle helmet modified very extensively. The Hello Kitty head turns out to be hollow rotocast plastic. March 2011.
- Various views
- Versus a Halo Bloks Covenant baddie
- Comparison to Kat (whose armor I used as a basis for this design).
Loper Dalek: A "Dalek: the Supreme" Character Builders minifig repainted in the University of Nebraska - Kearney "Lopers" colors, with eyehook added so it can be worn on a chain around my neck. January 2012.
Sabine Wren tagging a very sleepy Stormtrooper. I got one of those two-packs for Sabine, and I decided to make her a small paint sprayer and then dyed the trooper that came with her and painted it up. Spray and run! February 2015.
Doctor Dinosaur! Based on a Jurassic World raptor toy, with a lot of putty and styrene bits. Outfit based on his clever disguise from one of the Atomic Robo Free Comic Book Day stories. Work in progress, the brilliant plan enacted! May 2015.
Captain Phasma chromed Mk I: I used AlClad chrome for this, with touchups in black and red. I wasn't really happy with the uneven chrome, though. October 2015.
Legion of Super Crystal Gems: I got a lot of doubles from the blind-bag Steven Universe chibi figures, so I decided to paint some of them up as Legion of Super-Heroes characters. As one does. I also have a lot of Warmachine figures fashioned after Steven Universe characters. And a couple of Transformers.
- Brainidot 5: The main physical mods were to remove the outfit details that conflicted with a jumpsuit, and add a force field belt. Querulous Dot. September 2016.
- Bouncing Steven: The happier mold of Steven clearly said Chuck Taine to me. Just needed to turn the flip-flops into boots. October 2016.
- Sensor Garnet: Futurevision would normally suggest Dream Girl instead, but I reallly like the Sensor Girl costume and went with that instead. Mix of Apoxie Clay modification and a donor cape from a Mage Knight figure. October 2016.
- Power Amy: Based on Power Boy, given the skin color. I removed her whip, added a collar and belt.
- If I ever get a spare Pearl (unlikely at this point), I'll probably make a Saturn Pearl. I've got a spare Steven with shield, which could probably be Cosmic Boy. No indication that there will be a second series of these, though.
Captain Phasma chromed Mk II: I got a Molotow chrome marker and tried that, with a little touchup with black and red paint as before. Much better results. November 2017.
Chrome Bender: Yeah, having more fun with the Molotow. Now his metal ass is very shiny. January 2018.
Porgtrooper! Someone suggested that Stormtroopers were really just suits of armor full of Porgs, so I did this. Out of the armor, and various ways of being in the armor. January 2018.
Lego Flowey: I realized that a blindbagged "Flower Mascot" minifigure with the head replaced by a skeleton head was pretty close to being Flowey's evil face from Undertale, all it really needed was to have the flower petals painted yellow. Which I did. May 2018.
Koffing: I got a bunch of cheap vending machine Pokemon minifigures, some of which weren't the right color. The Koffing was gray (and not the right kind of bluish gray for a Shiny) and had rotten printing of the eyes and crossbones. So I fixed it up and added a Lego stud attachment for a flight base. December 2018.
Blue Jerboa Ranger: I picked up a clearanced Torra Doza from the Star Wars: Resistance toy line, and when I got it home I noticed that her chest armor looks like a robot rat of some sort. I was originally just going to paint the chestplate to emphasize this, but the factory paint was sloppy enough that I ended up repainting almost the entire figure, albeit in pretty much the original colors (with some bits added or moved around)...and then I built her a weapon that could attach as a tail, because mission creep. July 2019.
I Am Elemental Oblivion mod: When toys break and I can't fix them back to something like original state, sometimes I "fix" them in other ways, such as giving an energy cannon arm to this broken I Am Elemental figure. December 2019.
MiracleShagg: In college, one of my roommates (Michael K. Anderson) did a series of parody comic strips for the college alternative newspaper (the Pundit), using the Scooby Doo gang. First was The Green Knight Returns, in which Shaggy took on the part of Dark Knight Returns Batman. Then Watchdogs, where Scrappy Doo was the Ozymandias replacement in a Watchmen parody. His plan for 1992 (which as far as I know never got past the planning stage) was MiracleShagg: A Scream of Flying. The premise was that Shaggy and Scooby were experimental subjects who were given psionic powers, but the powers only really kicked in when they were terrified...so they were conditioned to be easily frightened. Fred's their government handler, taking them around the country to test them out in any scary situation he could find. That's why all their disguises and stuff worked, psi powers. I did a drawing of a Miracle Man sort of variant on Shaggy's usual outfit back in 1992, and when I got a spare Shaggy figure from the Scoob! movie line (they only sold in two-packs, and I wanted the Dyno-Mutt that Shaggy was packed with), I knew I had to paint the MiracleShagg details on. May 2020.
Singulari-Tree: In 2022, since I didn't want to clear table space for my sad little Dollar Tree Christmas Tree, I jammed it into a lamp stand pole I'd been keeping around after the lamp died, in case I found a use for it (like, putting a tree on top). A friend commented that it looked like a Fortnite gathering tool, so I grabbed a cheap Dollar Tree holiday display set and used the tree from it to build a gathering tool. I gave it to Singularity since she was the most holiday-colored one I had (I had passed on the gingerbread men set when I saw it at Ross). So now it's the Singulari-Tree tool. December 2022.