Tahu Mistika - Red Version
In my eyes, Tahu had the best visual presence of the Toa Mistika and was the real standout Toa of the wave. That said, the Metru red coloring always made it harder for me to see him as a continuation in the Toa Nuva of Fire’s proud legacy of sets. I would have loved to have added orange back to his color scheme but no BIONICLE limbs were ever produced in orange beyond 2002.
So instead I’ve opted to colorswap the Metru red elements for their brighter Mata red counterparts! This, of course, presented challenges with the mask and feet, but there’s an easy solution there.
There are a few further modifications to add the Nuva chest armor. I feel this was a necessary adjustment to fill in the shape of his armor. As well, I added the obligatory Roborider heads to his shins and added some further engine details to his thrusters. His hips now also feature a grated slope element (61409). This was a part first introduced in 2008 in Exo Force and Agents subthemes and typically only came in dark bluish gray or lime at the time. I always wanted to get the part in red for various creations back in the day, but it was never available to me. All these years later, I’ve finally found occasion to use it on a creation!
I’ve also paired him with Photok here to add a little of that missing orange armor to his color scheme.
Please consider leaving a thoughtful comment below telling me what your own experiences with Tahu Mistika have been!
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Just some quick crappy photos of my repainted Leon. I managed to damage the irises twice already, and once again I'll have to redo the left one. I am terrible when it comes to doming the irises. It's a pain in the gut, and at the same time the part of the repaint I "love" the most, on head sculpts with painted eyes. I feel they breathe so much life onto the sculpt. However, I suck at it! I had given him cleaner eye paint apps, but I managed to ruin both irises the first time I domed them. Then I redid them, and the paint apps turned out like sh1t. I had to redo a whole lot of the left eye, not just the iris, so it looks super sh1tty now. Still, i love the way my Leon is looking, so I wanted to keep trying and now I once again ruined the freaking left iris and already peeled the gloss off, so I know for sure it is ruined!
I almost feel like wiping him off completely clean, and start doing the additional mods I need, to get closer to my more accurate, more ideal version of OG Leon. Having said that, I really love him so far. So, I want to keep him like this for a while longer. I will try to fix the left iris once again, hopefully I won't f-it-up once again, although i already ruined the crappy lower lashes in the process, so who knows if frustration will win. The last photos were taken with my older phone, which sometimes does me some favors, but doesn't take the sharpest photos in the world.
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Ascending Depths Delivery service is about to get FASTER
Stay tuned for more at AscendingDepths.etsy.com
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Tomax Paoli: "Prepare for trouble!"
Xamot Paoli: "And make it bubble!"
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I’m curious, cause I saw action figure customizing on your Buy me a Coffee and want to know more about what it is?
Sure! So I collect action figures, mostly marvel ones and mostly ones made by the Marvel Legends brand but I do have a few SH Figuarts and Marvel Selects.
Anyway, sometimes I put my own together for a character or a certain look for a character that hasn't been made yet. Or has been made but is outdated or rare.
This can be done in different ways. Like putting a bunch of different parts from different figures together to create something, or using most of a figure and adding certain details either from other figures or by using 3d prints I find online.
Like I made Coulson using a Black Panther Everett Ross figure and bought a pre painted 3d head to finish it off. But I've also made a Symbiote suit Nat from the newer comics by using a Nat figure as a base, a 3d printed Spiderman head and a Jean Grey ponytail. I'm also making a custom modern comics Hawkeye by splicing together like 3 figures and using a 3d head I've painted myself
And sometimes I just update the look for a figure cuz they sometimes come out before the movies based on concept art so they don't look accurate. I did that with my Black Widow Yelena by adding her ponytail and updating her vest to the Infinity War Nat vest so they look more uniform
Or like how I updated the paint jobs on the What If Zombies because I wanted something more gory and befitting of undead flesh eaters lol
Thank you for asking, I love talking about it haha. And I hope you enjoyed learning about it too 😊
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Do you like action figure photography?
Please like or share as I post now and then do to depression and pains lol. Hmu! Any cute ideas?
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Wolf and cub.
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NOT YOUR CLASSIC UNIVERSAL WOLF MAN -- IT'S JOHN CARPENTER'S "THE THING" MEETS LYCANTHROPY.
PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on promotional shots for the sci-fi/horror-infused design of the classic werewolf, six inch action figure by McFarlane Toys, and part of McFarlane's Monsters Series 1, released in April 2002.
BRAND: McFarlane's Monsters
GENRE: Horror & Fantasy
PRODUCT TYPE: Action Figure
SERIES: McFarlane's Monsters
Sources: http://thegalleryofmonstertoys.com/90swing/mcfarlanewerewolf.html & https://mcfarlane.com/toys/werewolf.
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Robot Damashii Gundam ELS Qan[T]
By Bandai
Taken by nuo2x2 with Sony ZV-1
some guy called me out in my other Social saying Bandai never release a Robot Damashii version of this Gundam ELS, and saying my previous post was a model kit, oh well, no pic = hoax right?
so here goes a side view of that weird organic giant mech we call Gundam in action figure form, we call em Robot Damashii or Robot Spirit,...
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