I'll start off by saying that in general I'm not that keen on pop culture mash-ups. I prefer my Star Wars, Superheroes, Dune and Thundercats neatly compartmentalised and separate. Every so often, something happens and my willpower drops. I end up painting a RT pilot as Buck Rogers. Or a space pirate and weretiger as an alternate universe He-Man and Battlecat.
For no particular reason, I recently dropped my guard and ended up doing something I hadn't really intended, and is firmly in mash-up territory.
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| Notorious bounty hunters MJ MkFlay and The Doc |
This pair hopefully need no introductions, but just in case they're based on Marty McFly and Doc Brown from Back to the Future Part II. The Doc started out as a standard Confrontation Bounty Hunter. I converted him to have his pugilist stance using some bare plastic Confrontation ganger arms.
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| You can just about see that I added a pistol to his empty left holster. |
It wasn't until I came to paint the figure that I realised the likeness to Doc Brown (I've also subsequently found out I wasn't the first to pick up on this!).
After finishing The Doc, it was inevitable that I was going to make a Marty McFly. After some deliberation, I dug out a Citadel Judge Dredd perp (Kneepad Jones).
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| I removed the pistol from the right hand and pushed the right arm away from the body. A bit of greenstuff imitated Marty's Nike Air MAG sneakers. |
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| The hoverboard was made from some shaped and bent plasticard. I also had to sculpt a new right hand and hair at the back of his head (the original model had a ponytail). |
MJ MkFlay got a paint scheme to evoke Marty's look. Not entirely movie accurate, but close enough to give the right sort of feel!
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| The board pattern is simplified from the movie prop. |
All in all, I like the results, even if they are a bit of a diversion from the usual feel of my figures. I enjoyed making and painting them, which is the most important thing I guess! Plus it gives me the excuse to take fun pics like this one:
So frikken cool! I have that Bounty Hunter somewhere in my stash... What a great homage.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dai! He's a fab sculpt - I wish Roy Eastland had done more for GW. His faces are really characterful.
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ReplyDeleteThanks!!
DeleteNow we need a Robo-Biff for an adversary. "McFly, I thought I told you not to come around here again!?"
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely we do! I did try to see if I already had something suitable, but nothing immediately came to mind 😕
DeleteVery cool - they look great - well done!
ReplyDeleteThanks Kym!
DeleteLovely work, as ever! Who knew that in an alternate universe, Marty McFly was played by Cillian Murphy!
ReplyDelete😄😄 it's the cheekbones isn't it?!
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