This
custom was inspired by two really talented customizers on
fwooshnet.com
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Industrial and
Dustin Baetz. Indy came up with a
great
recipe, using a ML Bullseye to keep him playable. Dustin captured
the
old warrior look that I wanted, and went crazy with the kinds of
costume details I wanted.
I
didn't have a spare ML Punisher head - both guys had used it to great
effect - so I had to improvise. The head is a cast of the Ninja
Wolverine from the new X-Men line. I shaved down the mutton chops
and most of the hair and then resculpted the jaw and hair. I
hollowed out the inside of the head and attached it to a nub that used
to be Bullseye's head.
The costume details were mostly brought over from the original
figure. I did add some of the costume seams using bead
string. The strap on his arm is plastic lacing with some extra
capsules from the belt, which had to be trimmed down to fit the
narrower waist. The zipper tag is a sliver of plastic lacing with
a Sculpey ring. I must be getting spoiled by the durability of
Apoxie Sculpt, because I attempted to fiddle with the zipper tag after
it was done and snapped it in two. I did manage to glue it back
together (I still had to take pictures, after all) but it's not quite
as round as it used to be.
I ended up using the original legs and lower arms from the ML
Fury. The legs on the original fury attach at a swivel
mid-hip. To attach them to Bullseye's ball-jointed hips, I first
built up the socket using Oatey's, and then sculpted over that with
Apoxie Sculpt to smooth it out. If you look too closely, you'll
see I was a little messy, especially on his left hip. The lower
arms were just cut off from the original figure. I added a socket
to attach them to Bullseye's arms - that gives them a "spinning meat"
swivel on the forearm.
Finally, the gun is from Dr. Doom, since the original was too big for the new, smaller torso.
