Miscellaneous Gallery - Marvel

Last Updated: 6/20/25

Guy Gardner (Justice Gang) added.

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Mostly older stuff, these are mostly modifications of Marvel action figures into other Marvel action figures.

The Guardsman: A Guardsman toy from the Toy Biz "Spider-Man Techno Wars" assortment, which was really just a half-assed repaint of a cancelled Iron Man toy, repainted to better resemble the true Guardsman suit. Very little physical modification done, I just filled in the holes for armor pieces, glued the elbows and knees closed and painted the sucker. The chest is rigid plastic, so the chest lamp would have been too hard to remove. 7/21/97
Guardian: James MacDonald Hudson, in the costume John Byrne designed for him (as opposed to the current noseless wonder). The base is a Quicksilver toy from the Mutant Armor line, which itself is a modified Spider-Man figure. I sliced and filed off most of Pietro's hair, then built the Guardian suit's helmet out of Sculpey modeling compound. Then I chopped off the left hand and replaced it in a less dopey pose (it was a webslinging hand with the fingers pulled in, and it looked like the figure was trying to give you the ringer with a closed fist), cementing it in place with more Sculpey. Next I filled in most of the joints with Sculpey, since I was going to have to fuse them anyway to avoid having blue plastic showing through. Finally, I used a half dozen or so layers of white paint and two coats of gloss red to put Guardian's costume on. 11/20/97
Vindicator: Heather MacNeil Hudson, in a modification of her Alpha Flight v2 costume. I replaced the dippy headpiece with goggles (as I expect the comics version will soon, although I'd guess the real article will have amber goggles...so sue me, I don't have amber paint) and painted the maple leaf properly. The base for this project was a Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew) figure. I used a glue gun to fuse all of her joints other than shoulders, having found Sculpey problematic in my work on Guardian, above. And a good thing, too, because when I worked at curing the Sculpey for her wristbands, legbands, shoulderpads and goggles, I discovered that the plastic used in Spider-Woman's limbs had a rather low melting point. I eventually used this to my advantage, bending the figure's arms away from its body so that I wouldn't have to worry about paint scraping off from fingertips sliding across the figure's legs. One detail that doesn't really show up in the scan is that the figure's hair has yellow highlights as depicted in the comic. 1/13/98
Captain America: This is one of the 10" Marvel Universe toys. As it is sold, it's a particularly cruddy Captain America. It seems to be a Fantastic Four-style costume body with a really bad Cap head stuck on and a somewhat indifferent paint job. I made the following repairs: added glove detail with putty, added boot swashes with putty and foam, added chainmail texture to chest and shoulders with putty, reattached the mask's wings at the proper angle (they had stuck out at 45 degrees!), removed about a millimeter or so of excess chin, added a belt buckle with putty, repainted the A on the mask properly, gave him irises (he'd had blank white eyes) and eyebrows, and repainted the whole figure to be consistent. I couldn't fix the overly-belligerent expression, I'm not that good yet. The figure remains fully poseable, although the neck's a bit stiff now. 3/19/99
Daki Pez Dispenser: In the Black Panther "Marvel Knights" comic, there's this lunatic named Achebe. At one point he starts wearing a hand puppet called Daki which is a caricature of himself. I looked into making a Daki hand puppet, but decided it was beyond my resources, so I settled for a Daki Pez dispenser, made from a C-3PO Pez dispenser and a bunch of Milliputt epoxy putty. 9/6/99
Unicorn Attacktix: The old-school Iron Man villain, who has never really gotten any love from toymakers. Built from M02 Punisher with Microman hands and the flamethrower from the Iron Man movie "Mk01" armor.
- Rough cut: Just carved down Punisher, swapped hands and stuck the blaster the to flattened top of his head.
- Ready to paint: Shows all the putty work.
In March 2011, Mega Bloks released a blindpack set of Marvel figures. Of the first eight packs I grabbed, seven were regular Iron Man. D'oh. So, of course, the only rational response is to repaint them. I dyed one black and then painted it black and chrome as the mysterious sixth ranger (TetsuBlack, secretly Ezekiel Stane, who initially sought revenge against Tony Stark for his father's death, but then teaming up against the Mandarin). The others got metallic red coats and then accent colors (even the one that looks unmodded is in fact fully painted over). TetsuGold is Tony Stark, TetsuPurple is Bethany Cabe, TetsuGreen is Happy Hogan, TetsuBlue is James Rhodes, and TetsuPink is Pepper Potts. Weapons all taken from Lego figures. TetsuBlack has a chromed knight's sword, neither pic has a good angle on it.
- Team Shot
- Comparisons to unmodded (I later got a War Machine from the blind packs.)
7-11 Destroyer: A straw-topper I picked up while in Boston on a job interview. Once I saw the movie and noticed that the movie Destroyer is all shiny (the comics one is dull metal, which the straw-topper does pretty well) so I chromed it up. I also added some panel line fill to simulate the "internal furnace" effects the movie Destroyer exhibited. I briefly considered sticking this on a Monsterpocalypse base, but ended up deciding against it. May 2011.
Atomic Skull: More or less the Silver Age Atomic Skull from DC, an old Superman foe. After getting several extras of the Red Skull and Thor blind-bag Mega Blok minifigs, I decided to make something with them, and came up with this neon-colored horrorshow. And with the leftover parts I made Office Space Thor. October 2011.
Armored Magneto: Combined pieces from a Mega Blok Magneto and a Halo minifig, then painted it up to be more unified. Consider it a Nu52 style update. December 2011.
Refrigerator Magnet Agent Coulson: A blind-bag collectible Agent Coulson "Chibi" with a hole drilled in his head, a magnet inserted, and the paint touched up. May 2012. (Years later I realized that he had essentially been "fridged" to motivate the Avengers.)
Killgrave: A Tenth Doctor figure repainted in a purple suit as Killgrave from the Jessica Jones Netflix series. February 2016.
Guy Gardner (Justice Gang): From the 2025 Superman movie toy line, shockingly good for an $8-10 six inch figure, but it had some edge sloppiness and I just think Guy needs oranger hair. June 2025.