Re: Joebizz34's Customs, Re-Paints and Kitbashing
Ok I know there has been a lot of Jason Goes To Hell going around lately but I too have been finishing one up. My goal is to do every single Jason so he was next up for me.
This one was tricky. I did actually cheat on this one and replace the Sideshow body. You know that my thing has been to try and improve each Jason "as is". However this one really needed a new body. He was too thin and too hunch backed looking with that rubber spine they put on him. The head sculpt although not bad, was too small looking and not detailed enough. Overall it just didn't look intimidating enough.
Now I have to give someone else credit for this custom as well. I originally picked up this one from my good friend FAL5E. He, like me, felt that the figure needed a make over. So he actually was the one who dyed the clothes the correct blueish gray color and weathered him up with blood stains. He repainted the head and knife which all came out very nice. I bought this figure off him back in December just after Christmas time. I loved what he had done with it, but we both felt that it still needed some more TLC.
So once I took him home, the wheels starting turning.
Since I didn't have a replacement head sculpt, I decided to work with what I had and re-sculpt around the head to add more meat to it and make the head look bigger. I swapped out the body, cut off his forearms and glued it onto the new body surrounded with some apoxie clay to secure it for good. I have FAL5E to thank again for giving me some of his apoxie clay to work with. The belt was missing so I replaced that along with sculpting out the heart completely from scratch since FAL5E didn't have the heart accessory that comes with him. Maybe that was an exclusive piece??? I kept the feet and part of the shin from the SS body and attached it to the new body to extend the legs out and increase his height. Then I weathered up the clothing more adding additional rips, blood stains, gloss varnish, and some battle wounds peaking through here and there.
All and all I am very happy with the end result and after showing FAL5E this figure in person, he too agreed that it was much improved and finished. He gave me his blessing to not only share it, but to give him credit for the role he played in improving this figure. This was a joint effort between himself and I to complete this figure.
