Godiva from the Global Guardians, along with former teammates Fire and Ice.

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I need some yellow vynyl material for a cape. Does anyone know a good place that still carries vynyl material?

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Here is a recolor of the template done by Boyblue on his site.

My backstory is this is a robot built by Professor Ivo, but with a yellow lantern actually installed in it to power it. Ivo, like his alternates, is working on the Amazo Project, but this Ivo never makes the leap to putting all of the powers into a single body, so he builds an entire team of robots of the JSA. His first was the Reverse GA Flash that Jay Garrick destroyed years ago. It was his test run, no pun intended. He rebuilt it and sent it to retrieve another "dead" robot:

(This is why I need a DCIH Superman.) With the tech gleaned from this robot, which is also reprogrammed and reactivated, he builds the rest of the team, but is unable to duplicate the Green Lantern or ring. A fortuitous arrival of a Weaponer from Qward nets him a yellow lantern which he installs inside the robot for it's power source. This then is the new Injustice Society of America which defeats the JSA, but is in turn defeated by Infinity Inc., which Ivo failed to anticipate. The robots are deactivated, Ivo goes to jail, and all is forgotten, while the yellow lantern fear entity slowly exerts control over it's host form, eventually becoming the Yellow Lantern of Earth 2, reactivating the other robots as it's near-mindless, obedient team, now renamed the Injustice Society of Earth, and begins to terrorize the JSA, Infinity Inc., and all of Earth 2.

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Occasionally in the course of doing research for a custom figure I will discover something that was not immediately apparent. Such is the case now. I was looking at Star Saphire and trying to come up with other possible Corps members when I realized that, for Fatality in particular, it would be possible to reuse everything but the head and just repaint the figure with new lines to represent the variance in the costume. If you have the body and limbs and only need to sculpt and cast a new head, isn't that a cost cutter? It continues to amaze me as to the extent that Mattel totally botched this line, and with each exposure it becomes even more impossible to justify the lie that someone else, i.e. the 4 Horsemen or the factory in China, is responsible. MATTEL IS RESPONSIBLE! Admit it, deal with it, fire the idiot who did it, and move on.

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So I was in TRU today, which by the way has Thor figures, and looking at wrestling figures, because they have bare feet, which is a pain in the @$$ when you need them on a custom and can't find any, especially the females, and I started thinking about back in the day when I started doing customs and what I would have used to make a set of original X-men. So here is what I came up with. Obviously I am not going to do this now, there is no point, but what if...

Marvel Girl= Obvious, Mego Wonder Woman, sand the hair, depending on whether it is the full head or pointy mask, a little putty on the body, and paint.

Beast= Comic Action Hulk, the bent knee one, sand the hair and legs and repaint.

Angel= Aquaman with wings from a Mattel Flash Gordon Vultan.

Cyclops= Captain America, sand smooth and add visor.

Iceman= Robin and lots of putty.

Mimic= Same Hulk as above and Vultan wings.

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how do you paint symbols? liberty belle was amazing

Years of practice and very small brushes. I actually had to do that one 3 times before I liked it.

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I know some people print them and put them on. maug paug? not sure how to spell it

Modge podge. You ca also print them out in the size you want and take your paper to a copy shop and have a decal sheet made. I would suggest as many as you can fit on the page that you think you might need for economic reasons.

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This is my Yahoo group. I have posted a pic there I cannot post here...

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I'm eventually going to start decoupaging my emblems on--Modge Podge is good, and I use Matte medium and Molding paste too--I just can't find good ones online.

The best way to go is to make your own emblems in Adobe Illustrator, so the quality is sharp. I need to try to do that that whenever I have the time, then collage them over my painted-on emblems. And if I, or someone, can make some good emblems on Illustrator, they can be shared with other customizers.

Well I did get 1 new GL figure today. I finished my custom of Brokk, seen here with Kreon, Lysandra, and Leezle Pon.

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Brokk looks great. I love the idea of making GL aliens out of household items. What did you use for his "head" and neck? What is Leezle Pon? Is that the microscopic organism guy?

Brokk is a plastic Xmas ornament from Hobby Lobby, brown pipe cleaners looped thru the hook hole and folded in half, then wrapped in paper tape (medical supply). I cut the neck off of a small green balloon and rolled in for the point where the tentacles start.

Leezle Pon is the small pox virus Soranik Natu used to save Guy. This is his appearance in the splash page of all of the GLs coming out from OA, before they made him amorphous. I used a small piece of pipe from a hobby store I had lying around from another project. Wooden dowel would work as well.

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My Corps, so far.

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