Gladiator was originally part of our group entry for CustomCon 15: Cosmic Legends.  I hate missing out on these group projects, so even though my work schedule was killing me, I found myself with some spare cycles close to the CustomCon deadline, and managed to whip a custom together.

I had to take a lot of shortcuts to make it, though, and what got shown with the entry was not quite a finished piece.  I've been able to put in some more time to get Gladiator to the finishing line.

I have wanted a Hawkman action figure for a long time, and while DC Direct has managed to make a few of them, they were either too expensive to come by, like the one from the 2-pack with Hawkgirl, or not really to my liking, like the First Appearance Hawkman. 

The Hawkman from the recent Identity Crisis line of figures was pretty close though, and I bought one a while back.  It was a solid figure - stood well and had an awesome head sculpt - and probably would have been good enough right out of the package.

I entered Caliban and Sunder (plus Callisto) into CustomCon 15, entitled X-Men Legends: Catacombs.  "X-Men Legends: Sewers" just didn't sound right.  Believe it or not, I had originally planned to enter something along these lines at last year's CC.  Callisto, who I made in September last year, was the catalyst, and I've had Caliban and Sunder here as WIPs since then.  It's become a running joke with people who see my WIP shots - poor Sunder has been sitting there, essentially untouched, for a long time.

With just two new figures here, I wondered if I should even bother entering it - compared to my own grand vision, it didn't measure up.  Ultimately, I figured that CC gave me a reason to finish.  Otherwise, these poor guys would probably still be lost behind other customs that found their way out of the WIP stage.

A few weeks ago, when I first started working on this custom, someone joked that I wasn't doing any real customs anymore, and that I'm only doing Logan mods now.  And yes, it's true, this is my third custom of Logan in the past couple of months.  I was pretty happy with the two Logans I recently made, but thought there could be one more to go.

When I managed to get the variant Logan from Marvel Legends series 11, I found it - that figure came with a cowboy hat, but it didn't really fit on the head it came with.  So I decided to make a cowboy Logan.  I'm not sure how many Brokeback Logan jokes I'll get over this one, but I hope to hear a bunch.  So get them ready!