"70s Batman" 2022 Action Figure! The Making of a Custom Figure and Card! Cosplay Craziness!

 Along with a few other of my cosplays (seen here and here), I decided to also have my "70s Batman" cosplay scanned and made into a 3D mini-statue! Click below to follow along and enlarge pics!

Above: My actual "Bronze-Age Batman" cosplay! See more here!

Above: After the scanning of me in the suit, the 
wonderful Shrunk3D folks soon cobbled
up a detailed tiny "mini-me!" Looks great,
but I wanted to darken up those black areas...

Above: Time to use putty to mask off all the non-black
surfaces, then add a few coatings of gloss black
spray paint!

Above: That's better! Much more dramatic contrast!

I added a few paint touches to my mini-statue, such
as the gloss black areas, and an orange base!

Of course, I just had to create a custom card
as a display backer for the nifty new figure!

The "action figure" added to his custom card!
Very striking and bold! 

"Classic Daredevil" 2022 Action Figure! The Making of a Custom Card and Figure! Marvel!

Another customized figure/card set, this time using my new DAREDEVIL cosplay (see that here)! Click below to enlarge images, as you follow along!

Above: Like with my Ant-Man custom card (seen here), a dramatic
pose (for the card front)  is cobbled together in Photoshop, using various pics
of me as DD! I tried to get that sense of exaggerated comics perspective and
foreshortening! Some "posterization" effects were added, along
with other adjustments and alterations...

Above: The finished card, with all the graphic elements in place!

Above images: Daredevil prepares to be scanned for his own
little mini-me statue! The fine folks at Shrunk3D used their Kirby-esque
equipment to create an accurate action figure of me as DD!

Above: The final printed sculpt! All this mini-figure needed
was some paint applications from me!

Above: The finished figure, with paint and
minor customizations added!

Above images: The DD figure on his custom card! Works great!

Above: Sharp-eyed comics fans will recognize my pose as
an homage to this famed 60s plastic Marx DD figure!

"Classic Ant-Man" 2021 Action Figure! The Making of a Custom Card and Figure! Marvel!

 Continuing my line of custom-made action figure cards that make use of my own cosplay images (see others here and here), below is my new Ant-Man customized figure and card! Click all images to enlarge, as you follow along!

Above: Using a ton of different pics of me in the cosplay costume
(see it here), I cut-and-pasted limbs, heads, hands, and legs, all in an 
attempt to achieve a very foreshortened action pose! Once done, I used
a few Photoshop filters (to create a line-oriented "comic art
look"), and some further effects, all to get the figure I
envisioned for the card front!

Above: The original card (left), and my revised card (right)! 
I used Photoshop to add, move, reconstruct, or replace elements
for better composition.

Above: My finished card, printed on heavy card stock,
and ready for adding the figure!

Above: Now to revise the figure itself, to look like me!
To create his belt, I simply used Photoshop and
photos of the costume, to reconstruct the unique belt
for printing (at a very tiny size), to then place upon the
figure!

Above: The original figure (left), and my finished, customized figure (right)!
Ant-Man's blue accessories were painted black, matching costume details were added,
and belt affixed! 

Above: The finished custom card and figure, ready for display!

A great way to celebrate the amazing costume design
work of 60s comic artists Jack Kirby and Larry Lieber!