WONDER WOMAN (Brave & Bold #018) Recently, I played a team I called “Diana’s Wardrobe,” in which I tried to fit on a variation of every costume Wonder Woman’s worn in HeroClix. The only clix’d costume not represented is her current one because no one actually owns that figure yet (it’s debuting at GenCon… [Read more…]
May 23, 2011
Decades ago, as a wee boy, I watched “Battle of the Planets” every day at the Kinder-Care. To say they left an impression is a bit of an understatement. To this day, once every few years, I get Gatchaman fever. Last year, after designing some dream dials for the characters, I decided to mod an… [Read more…]
May 16, 2011
V Nova (Supernova) This dial best represents Richard Rider just prior to the events of Annihilation…right down to the mid-dial Hypersonic Speed. But it’s woefully underpowered for Nova Prime. Fortunately, there’s a solution. Similar to my earlier Black Widow custom, where I took a Gambit dial to better represent her powers, I used Hammer of… [Read more…]
May 9, 2011
Whoa, it’s been WAY too long since I did one of these. Part of the reason is that I’m running out of mods to write about. But enough with the procrastination. Time to wrap up this, my first regular feature, by early June. AIR-WALKER (Hammer of Thor) There’s nothing that needed fixing on this sculpt.… [Read more…]
April 18, 2011
MARVEL BOY (Hammer of Thor) The dial and sculpt only sort of matches the character’s Rookie state. But…WAIT. This is supposed to be the VETERAN? And he doesn’t even CALL himself Marvel Boy anymore! Ugh! I can’t do anything about the horrible, horrible dial. But I could at least fix his outfit. Here’s what I… [Read more…]
February 28, 2011
Sorry for getting this up so late. Technical and scheduling difficulties. Vet MOCKINGBIRD She was never a great favorite of mine, even though I’m a big fan of married characters in comics. (Hmmm. Maybe there’s a subject for another blog.) Her HeroClix version seemed overpowered andshe was dead, anyway. But then she came back in the… [Read more…]
February 14, 2011
CAPTAIN AMERICA (Avengers) There was once an excellent painter at WizKids who decided to cross over into sculpting. He was less than entirely successful. Attempting to recreate this beefy, heroic he-man: …he produced this elephantiasis-headed 101-pound weakling: Anyway, just as I wrote some weeks ago that a pair of characters made it onto my favorites… [Read more…]
January 31, 2011
Been quite a while, eh? Other features took over the site for a while, but now My Custom Mods is back! And it just so happens that this is one of my most ambitious mods of the series yet: BLACK WIDOW custom Normally, this is where I put a pic of the original figure —… [Read more…]
December 20, 2010
Veteran STARMAN (Cosmic Justice) I’ve never liked the “standing on the flight disk” pose in HeroClix. Ones like this are even worse. So when WizKids did away with the flight stands, I decided to do away with his. Used hobby knife to cut him free from flight stand. Snapped off flight stand. Glued him to… [Read more…]
November 29, 2010
Veteran DRAX (Supernova) While the Rookie and Experienced versions of this character both bear the “Destroyer” tagline and the Wing symbol, the vet version not only lacks both, but he has a radically different appearance: He’s actually physically smaller than his more hulking Destroyer incarnation, but as initially drawn in the Guardians of the Galaxy,… [Read more…]
June 6, 2011
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