Urban Saboteur

very cool pic Rich, love the way I had to expand my window to see the whole thing :tongue:

impressive that you've managed to track down the likes of Supes, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter and Hal already. Who are the obvious holes in your collection, as far as you're concerned?

I just added a link above to a 50 or so second video i shot this morning, it is really dark in the living room but lighter than my bedroom, that was actually taken in the morning so it's as bright as i can get it for now.

Erm.. good question, obvious ones are Nightcrawler & Thor, Beta Ray Bill, Apocalypse, Doctor Octopus, Blade, Punisher & Bullseye, Classic Green Goblin, Juggernaut, Kingpin, Moon Knight & Taskmater.

Then I guess from DC I'd want Killer Croc, Clayface, Aquaman, Nightwing, Powergirl & Shazam.

I've got now pretty much what i wanted in the Darkstalkers/Street Fighter releases,(Pink chunners is on the way) the rest is from MvC and those arent released until end of this month and i have them on Pre-Order

Rich

Got these in the mail yesterday from Buttheadsmate :biggrin: thanks man!!

I should have a short video up soon showing these figures in my collection, for the time being here is a picture, I took it this morning.

And Video here: Minimate collection so far

Let me start by saying, I'm a little indifferent to this news at the moment, but i dont want to post anything too negative, i'm still catching up with all the DC/Marvel stuff I want, plus, I actually haven't ever read the TWD comic or watched the tv show so I know absolutely nothing about the characters, i'm not a big horror or zombie fan so I can't see myself investing in this line (that could change though), I mean i've not seen the actual toy product yet in full so i think the smartest thing here would be for me to wait and see full pictures of the 1st release, if theres a character in there I want then sure i'll get them.

Keep in mind that i dont know all that much about the MvC3 stuff and my strength, albeit it mediocre lies with the SF and Marvel characters, i only ever played the first Resi Evil and the rest of the capcom characters i'm lost on, but i still invested in that line because i thought some of the minimates were cool looking, my best example was Arthur & Dante, never played either of those games and knew very little about them but because the Mates were well made I got them.

Finally, alot of you on this forum really seem to want this line/release, and judging by the response its overwhelming this line will be popular, the idea of an end of the world scenario where a few survivors are left battling hordes of zombies really seems to of caught on and to see everyone geniunely excited about this product can only be a great thing for DST and this forum.

Awesome news.

Rich

From Facebook!

"And I ran, I ran so far away. I just ran, I ran all night and day." - Flock Of Seagulls

My favourite one yet, see this is kinda of what i was going with on the ABC-Poison Arrow thing :biggrin:

You know every time I log onto facebook or this forum to check your series, i think.. "Eric can't possibly do better than the day before"

And everytime you prove me wrong, I Love it!

:biggrin:

Rich

:laugh:

"This relationship is killing me... literally"

Lmfao.

Nice work with the Love series.

Rich

Scored this recently and it arrived this morning, i've been re-assured the Pink Chun-Li is on the way to me at some point in the next 2 weeks.. now.. wheres that variant emblem Bison.. :tongue:

I ain't 'fraid of no ghosts.

They seem to really like your shoes.

It's not the shoes they are looking at, all 4 ghosts have a 'foot fetish'

He's going to be on my 'To do' list of customs as well now

From DC I have on the list.

Mr.Freeze

Poison Ivy

Two Face

Mad Hatter

Scarecrow

The Atom

Azrael

I dont think any of those have been made, surprised Mr.Freeze, Poison Ivy, Two Face and Mad Hatter never got into the DC line, especially because of the appearances those characters made in the Lego Batman videogame.

I've made customs of all those guys save for the Mad Hatter and Azrael. :biggrin:

I've got Az on the back burner, though... I think you can do him with a Hand Ninja hood and Mr. Sinister's cape (maybe with some modification). Haven't figured out how to do his chest, though, but a decal may be the way to go. Anyway, I have made a face decal for him (this is modified from a picture I found on DeviantArt). Hope this gets you started:

Hey thanks!

I wont be doing the customs above for a bit yet, they are on my to do list as well, right now i want to concentrate on the 10-11 or so customs i have planned as i setup a webpage to display them all when they are finished. I'm at the stage where i'm pending deals or i have 1 character with arms and legs but no torso or the other way round, one character i'm working on i have his torso and waist which i've started painting but not got the arms for yet

I'm making progress though, and as with each week that passes and new shipments come in i'll eventually have the 10 character customs i wanted to post up, once i've finished these i'll do 4 or 5 DC/Marvel ones and begin working on the list above, so even though i wont be working on Azrael now, when i do come back to him i can use this thread and your previous customs as a good source point.

I'm going to drop by your customs thread now and check out the others you made.

Rich

i made an azrael some time ago as well as azbats check my customs thread page 4

Thanks, I just posted up a question in your customs thread

Something isn't quite right here, because Punisher was the one who I was sending a message to, and he informs me he didnt get notification of my first PM but only realised i'd sent him a PM after I sent the second as a follow up and it only then notified him after the second one came through.

Any chance you could share the recipe for what parts you used on Azrael? I used to have the DCSH version and had a few comics with him in that i liked. :biggrin:

I'd appreciate if you could post up which minimate parts you've used to make yours.

Nice job on Azrael too, it's not likely we'll get him made.

Rich

He's going to be on my 'To do' list of customs as well now

From DC I have on the list.

Mr.Freeze

Poison Ivy

Two Face

Mad Hatter

Scarecrow

The Atom

Azrael

I dont think any of those have been made, surprised Mr.Freeze, Poison Ivy, Two Face and Mad Hatter never got into the DC line, especially because of the appearances those characters made in the Lego Batman videogame.

Nice pics! But if you need a Juggernaut, you should go with the Excalibur version. I'm not a huge fan of all of the slip over parts, but it looks better than the puny Wave 5/Darktide versions.

Wow!!

That is waaay better, much thanks for that link!

*runs off to amend Wants list* :biggrin:

Nice, I was checking out some of your links yesterday, and you have quite the eye for photography!

oh thanks! :biggrin: I'm self taught and alot of the stuff i think of or have done in the past i've picked up from Flickr and friends. I'm still learning though

Rich

Today I was inspired a little by the Darktide cartoon posted on metacafe that buttheadsmate posted up a link to,

So I decided to do, 3 one-shot photos of an X-Men scene, which i thought i'd share here.

I don't yet have Juggernaut from Series 5. So as a substitute I put Sabretooth there, seems to fit well with the scene I was making.

Rich

Awesome Work, You lucky lucky people!

As always I'm late to the party, having just seen Artmates Series 2 on facebook and here, I wanted to comment on this as well.

Awesome work Luke, great idea and well executed.

Rich

*applause*

Very nicely done mate, :biggrin: I didn't see Artmates Series 1 but if these are anything to go by i'm sure they were awesome.

:biggrin: I just got these 3 in the mail this morning!

These belonged to a friend of mine on flickr/facebook, for weeks he was saying he wouldn't sell but he's moving onto collecting Hot Toys, and decided finally to sell them, relieved that he thought of me first, although the constant wagering by me for the last few weeks 'may' of been an influence, :tongue:

Both Cyborg Superman & Justice Lords Superman weren't even marked down on my priority 'wants' list, i'd of probably got round to getting them in the end but this opportunity to get them was too good to miss.

I also made a new folder on flickr, it's one i'll be putting all my customs in.

I put together two random mates from the parts i have spare to make this photo, the folder name came from my friend as we discussed on facebook how great the mates are for swapping and customs, and he came up with that word which i've borrowed.

Rich

I noticed today is a special day for one of our forum members, Liam aka Infinite Fathom,

Liam stepped up recently and helped me get a Ronin figure for a custom, hopefully they'll be plenty of you stepping forward today to join me in wishing him a happy birthday.

Happy Birthday Mate!

Now because you're 18 it's customary for everyone to chip in and get you a stripper?

Hope you have an awesome day... and maybe get a new minimate or two?

Rich

Looking at the original figures compared with those in the 4 packs they are all discernibly different ,different enough for someone to actually realise after very little examination. I think that we can safely say that this isn't news but I wasn't aware until now that the differences were so distinct. M.Bison for example is shown in the Database with each version having a peaked cap with a gold coloured flash above the peak ,on the 4 pack version he has a very definite badge on the peak. That's not conjecture it's a fact .

This one is a surprise to me. I'm going to have to venture into the catacombs to retrieve one of the 4-packs and set up an M.Bison photoshoot.

Good Idea :tongue:

And Urban Saboteur, I'm sorry to hear the Minimate Database does not meet your expectations.

That's okay, I'm used to people disappointing me by now, *sigh*

however you can make up for it by doing that M.Bison photoshoot and coming back on here and updating me when its finished.

Cheers.

Rich

Oh thanks

I didn't know Mega Bloks done a FF set, it be nice to see some assembled pictures of the lab. I'm going to spend a couple of days sourcing some images for the floors that the Fantastic Four occupy as well as work on the actual reception area of the Fantastic 4. This will definately be a lengthy and challening build. :biggrin:

Rich

They're not the easiest Minimates to obtain but they do appear on ebay & they I'd concede that you have to be a complete completist nut to make having them worthwhile .

Or a complete nut fullstop?

I think I might just qualify under rule 2 bullet point 4

Awesome lighting!! :biggrin:

The beams of light down the left side of his face, the right side of his shoulder/arm look really cool.

Hi,

Being that my knowledge of certain characters history and the Marvel Universe is pretty sparse I was looking through my Minimates this morning, I was going through them when I came across my Magneto & Cyclops Minimates.

I only have 1 version of Magneto, and because there had been so many released I didn't really pay attention to which version it was until this morning.

The two versions i have of Cyclops are the Ultimate Version and the Darktide version, i've noticed that the Darktide Cyclops uniform is black with Yellow x's on,

which is similar in style and design to the Phoenix & New Wolverine 2pack.

So my questions are, Is Darktide a storyline that ran in the Marvel Universe and designed certain characters to be really angry?

I ask because alot of them have teeth showing on the minimates, I thought I might have Darktide Wolverine but he's just got a regular grin, so he's the two pack New Wolverine that came with Phoenix.

Secondly, if Phoenix came with Wolverine as 'New' Wolverine, why isn't Phoenix referred to as 'New Phoenix'?

Is there a Magneto that is considered 'Classic'? I have this Darktide version

which was won off ebay, I do like him, but if I remove his helmet i think it was stuck down with something, it's left red marks on his face where his helmet used to be, whilst it's not noticeable at all with his helmet on, I know it's there.

As always I'm hoping someone can shed some light, maybe offer up a small summary of what Darktide Is/Was, and why I should have these characters.

I really only want the characters in classic uniforms, at least thats how this all started, I mean i currently have 2 Cyclops Minimates and neither of them look like the Cyclops I remember as a kid I do like the Classic Wolverine I have, although I suspect when I get Wolverine from Wave 28 he'll become my default.

Thoughts? Opinions?

Rich