Thursday, September 16, 2010

Winged Ape From "Queen of the Black Coast" Third in a series





Hey All!
Here is my newest Conan based custom: The Winged Ape Demon thingy from the awesome Conan story, "The Queen of the Black Coast". This strange creature gives Conan and the crew of Belit's pirate ship a run for their money and comes as close as anyone (or thing) ever does to killing our beloved Cimmerian. In fact, if not for the intervention of the spirit of Conan's beloved Belit, this oversized flying monkey would have made short work of Conan. The scene in which that occurs is of course the inspiration for the cheesey scene in the 1982 Conan film in which Valeria returns from the dead to save Conan's life..."Do you wanna' live forever?" Gimme' a break. Anyway, This guy sports an original head sculpt made from Sculpey of which this is my first. I'm pretty proud of it and am looking forward to doing more of the same in the future. The body is a Venom figure with wings from a Nemesis Enforcer figure from GI Joe. The rest of the detail is sculpted on with Ave's Fixit Sculpt. I would love to know what you think. Please feel free as always to leave comments and critiques.
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8 comments:

  1. TexSeptember 16, 2010 at 5:45 PM

    The sculpted head is dead-on, eat-yer-face-off creepy, and the last shot shows him (er, it) in all it's deadly perfection.

    To quote that noted philosopher, Lord Bowler, "D-d-d-DAMN!"

    Tex
    (from the REH Forum)

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  2. MikeDSeptember 16, 2010 at 6:40 PM

    Thanks Tex! Always a pleasure to hear form you! Thanks for commenting and I'm glad you like it>

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  3. TaranaichSeptember 17, 2010 at 1:16 PM

    Awesome work! It's great to finally see the Winged One in figure format, and yours is a pretty excellent interpretation. Well done!

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  4. MikeDSeptember 18, 2010 at 9:56 AM

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  5. MikeDSeptember 18, 2010 at 9:59 AM

    Thanks Taranaich! I appreciate your taking the time to comment and for your in depth critiques. I'm glad you like the Ape. Someone over at the REH forum mentioned the idea of doing the Child of Set from "The God in the Bowl". I'm thinking that might make a cool figure.

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 6, 2011 at 9:35 PM

    Love what you did with the Venom base. The headsculpt is rediculously detailed considering the scale. Most impressive. I used the same base for an Ookla the Mok custom but stole legs from a Sabretooth figure to add height and articulation.

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  7. (S)AFEMarch 2, 2011 at 6:49 PM

    Awesome Figures! I love Marvel Legends (Before Hasbro bought them and ruined them and made them too small). Toybiz was the best!

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  8. UnknownApril 22, 2011 at 2:51 PM

    Amazing piece of work my friend just awesome.

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