Once upon a time, I wwas a regular ToyFare buyer, not because I bought any measure of toys, but because I really enjoyed those pictures of home-made action figures. These were made by people who didn't give a damn if there'd never been a fully-articulated Deadman or Melter, by golly, they were gonna make their own! And I thought I could do that too!
So I scoured yard sales and pawn shops in search of figures that looked like they could become other figures, and when I did, I attempted the ultimate action figure: Ambush Bug!
My basis: A really discolored Super-Powers Riddler figure.
My tools: A hobby knife and sandpaper.
The result before I stopped working on it due to (I believe) marital problems:
A bald Riddler!
But you can sorta see where it was going, right? The antennae were my only real chalenge (bent toothpicks?). Anyway, I can't bring myself to throw him away now, just in case I ever decide to finish my Ambush Bug with Super-Powers action! (Squeeze his legs and he writes a riddle! - well, I can't very well change the mechanism can I?)
People who do that sort of thing well: Fat Sal! Charlieman! Bill Burns! Ah man, just Google it, there are plenty more to like.
So I scoured yard sales and pawn shops in search of figures that looked like they could become other figures, and when I did, I attempted the ultimate action figure: Ambush Bug!
My basis: A really discolored Super-Powers Riddler figure.
My tools: A hobby knife and sandpaper.
The result before I stopped working on it due to (I believe) marital problems:
A bald Riddler!But you can sorta see where it was going, right? The antennae were my only real chalenge (bent toothpicks?). Anyway, I can't bring myself to throw him away now, just in case I ever decide to finish my Ambush Bug with Super-Powers action! (Squeeze his legs and he writes a riddle! - well, I can't very well change the mechanism can I?)
People who do that sort of thing well: Fat Sal! Charlieman! Bill Burns! Ah man, just Google it, there are plenty more to like.
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see this link
and this link also.
The first link is to the HeroClix figure (not an action figure though), but the second is to a successful attempt at a homemade Ambush Bug (though the maker erroneously places AB in the Legion of Substitute-Heroes Special, while he actually appeared in DC Comics Presents #59.
But really cool set of figures.