HeroClix Repaints

Last Updated: 3/8/09

Atomic Robo added.

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MARVEL - Various
    This section covers Marvel HeroClix either massively touched up or rebuilt into other Marvel characters. Or, I suppose, DC HeroClix rebuilt into Marvel characters.

• Dr. Strange - Blue mask version, as seen in old issues of his own title, and recently in The Order. I Dremeled down his head and a bit of his chest.
• The Captain - From around #330-350 of his first self-titled book, Captain America gave up his costumed ID and assumed a new one as The Captain. The costume later passed on the John Walker, Cap's replacement during that era, who became USAgent. I did only a little modification of the mold on this figure, adding a belt buckle and fixing the mold of the mask (the WWII cheek pieces were retained for the modern day mold, accidentally). I used a Rookie Captain America because, well, it's my own spare at this time. And because it looked like someone had sneezed when painting this one. Cap's larger than life...or at least, larger than most HeroClix, being made on a bigger scale.
• Kingpin (Michael Clark Duncan) - A simple repaint of the Kingpin figure. It actually looks more like it SHOULD be the movie version played by Michael Clark Duncan, heh. Painted for a figure painting contest at a local store...you had to buy the figure there as part of entry, so I got a booster rather than follow the lead of everyone else and do a Warhammer figure.
• AIM Elite Agent - Another entry in the contest. I took a rookie Bullseye, cut off the head and replaced it with a piece of plastic rod (carving a notch in it for the eyeslit). I'd contemplated resculpting the figure into a movie version of Bullseye, but the pictures I could find all had him in a long coat.
• Black Knight on Valinor - A friend disliked that A) Black Knight came on an Atomic Steed, and B) he got so many Danielle Moonstars. So I put Dane on Dani's horse.
  • From front.
  • From right.
  • From above (slightly to front).
  • From above (slightly to rear).
  • From left.
• Arnim Zola - Just a paint touchup. I found the original panel the sculpt was based on, and did what I could to make the figure look correct. I also used some neon pink to get a glowy effect.

• 1990s Black Lightning - A putty job, turning the current BL figure into the leather outfit worn in the Isabella/Newell series of the 1990s.
• The Mad Mod - A Teen Titans cartoon minifig glued to a new base and painted to look better (out of box it had horrible paint apps).

• Lex Luthor - The man who's superpower was keeping the Legion of Doom idiots from killing each other. That, and a massive spycamera network. Built using a veteran Blue Beetle's body and dial, and a Puppet Master head, with putty added for the collar. The head's a bit freakishly big, but the collar helps.
• Bizarro - The simplest of the lot, I just carved off the S from the front and back of a rookie Superman, carved off the spit-curl and messed up the face a bit with a Dremel. Then I repainted the symbols and the exposed bits. Remember, the Legion of Doom version of Bizarro did not have the "Bizarro #1" medallion.
• Toyman - Don't blame me for the costume design, it's not my fault. There are almost no skinny male Heroclix (I did consider doing a boob whacking on a female fig, but had no suitable ones), so Toyman's been abusing steroids or something. The base figure is Constrictor with the coils cut off. The shoulderpads were made from Squadron putty, the mask is a mix of putty and tiny bits of plastic sheeting. The teddy bear by his feet is the Ben Grimm puppet I cut from Puppet Master's base. I'm worried that the mask won't survive transport.
• Giganta - Built from a She-Hulk figure. I used putty to make the skirt, but was at a bit of a loss regarding the ankle and wrist bands. Putty would be a pain...and I realized I could cut up bits of plastic tube, Dremel the edges rounded, then cut once and snap into place, regluing once on. I had to do some other minor mods, like Dremel away the glove and boot lines, and try to make the feet look a little more like bare.
• Scarecrow - This used the Puppet Master I was hacking bits from for the other projects. Since I took away his head for Luthor, I gave him a Bullseye head I had left over from the AIM Elite Agent project, just to have something to lay putty on. This used more putty than the rest of the Legion of Doom put together, turning the apron into a coat, adding the collar, the hat, the straw hair and a few bits of straw jutting out other places. For the rope belt and ropes hanging from the arms, I used 32 gauge wire.
• Captain Cold - Another veteran Blue Beetle (I got several of them, now down to one). I made the hood and various ruffs with putty. The goggles I made by Dremeling down Beetle's goggles and connecting them with putty. It wasn't until I was painting this and Luthor that I realized how strongly the Blue Beetle pattern was molded into the figure. In Luthor's case I ignored it, here I tried to make the jagged ice pattern more or less fit the Beetle pattern.

• The Heroic Wendts - A friend of mine was redecorating his den/home office in a superhero theme and was thinking of getting people to create artwork of his "self character" Doc Blue, as well as those of his wife and child (Magenta and Jester). Within minutes of his mentioning this to me, I had picked out base figures (T.O. Morrow, Huntress and Toad) and was off and running. I went for a pulpish power level here. Only minor mods for Doc Blue and Magenta, but I built a poofy shirt and hat out of putty for Jester.
• Manitou - Crucible City MUX character of a friend of mine, made from a She-Hulk (Rookie) base with extensive putty additions. Drawing.
• Myrmidon - My Crucible City MUX character. The clickbase is rookie Nightwing, the figure is the Mage Knight Immortal Zealot with the crest taken from the Mage Knight Infantry Captain. Putty used for the tunic and visor. In my original character drawing, the tunic was draped over the left shoulder, but I had to cover up a big shoulderpad on the right shoulder of the Zealot. Myrmidon does not have Nightwing's ranged attack, but he does have a "move by" ability that I suppose could be used to represent the ranged attack...jump in, attack, jump back. Drawing.
• The Bride - Uma Thurman's character from Kill Bill, in her motorcycle suit from vol 1. Based on a Sydney Savage figure from IndyClix. She's not barefoot in the scene where she has that outfit, but I figured it would be more in keeping with the spirit of the character to have her barefoot.
• Atomic Robo - Lobster Johnson with some putty adds and other mods to make the pulp-ish robot hero and star of his own comic. Unpainted. February 2009.