CaptainPaco's Custom Minimates (Star Trek & DC plus more)

[Captain Paco]

Earth Ten is part of the DC Multiverse but in this universe the Earth was conquered by the Germans during World War II and thus the superheroes are in place to serve the government.

Here are the New Reichsmen which is the Justice League of Earth 10.

Overman (Superman of Earth 10)

 

Brunhilde (Wonder Woman of Earth 10 who is actually a Valkyrie from Asgard: after all this is a German based character and they were part of the realm of Norse Mythology.)

 

Leatherwing (Batman of Earth 10, he is the grandson of a World War 1 fighter pilot, Evil Ace.)

 

Underwaterman (Aquaman of Earth 10, He was part of the team but over time did not fully believe the motives were the right side of things.)

 

Blitzen (The Flash of Earth 10)

 

Green Lantern (The Green Lantern of Earth 10. This is a placeholder more or less until I find better source images to make a more accurate version.) 

So I figured out I can put my own twist on the Earth 10 New Reichsmen Red Tornado and Martian Manhunter.

Red Tornado and Martian Manhunter (my interpretation of the two characters. I am happy with Manhunter but may still tweak Tornado at some point in the future.)(*NOTE: I have changed my Earth 10 Red Tornado and will share an updated image of him once I have taken more pictures of customs.)

Edited April 22, 2024 by Captain Paco

[cylonchaney]

Gorgeous work. All of them!

[DSTZach]

I've never read this comic, but they look great!

[Minimike]

Amazing work on these as always! Very creative use of various parts to create something cool. 
What head piece did you use for Faust and Blitzen? It looks familiar but cannot place it

[Captain Paco]

Thank you for the acknowledgment. I appreciate the kind words .

The head for Faust is that of Bison (player two). While the head for Blitzan is that of Crimson Viper. 

Edited April 20, 2024 by Captain Paco

[Minimike]

Oh I’m sorry by head piece I meant the head covering. The “hat” if you will because they both look like the same piece.

Sorry to be a pest I am really into expanding my DC collection lately since falling in love with the older DC stories through the DC app. I was a marvel guy 100% till I gained a new respect for older stories

[Captain Paco]

No worries, Corvus Glaive.

If I had a Jaga helmet I would have used it for Faust. But the Corvus Glaive helmet was what I felt was best looking for Blitzen. 

[buttheadsmate]

Words, occasionally, fail me ....brilliant stuff & so accomplished  It's difficult to pick my favourite but Manhunter it is ..wow!  What's the donor head please?

Edited April 21, 2024 by buttheadsmate

[Captain Paco]

On 4/19/2024 at 3:18 PM, DSTZach said:

I've never read this comic, but they look great!

Thanks, Zach. I never read the story arc myself but found the images in the DC wiki when looking for alternative versions of our favorite heroes. I know that these versions may be seen in a negative light but I have a thing for history and I like to see the alternate variants of characters. 

[Captain Paco]

On 4/21/2024 at 2:41 AM, buttheadsmate said:

Words, occasionally, fail me ....brilliant stuff & so accomplished  It's difficult to pick my favourite but Manhunter it is ..wow!  What's the donor head please?

Minimike: thank you for the interest in my customs. The head of Martian Manhunter is that of Heroic Hobgoblin.  I appreciate it and the question about the parts is welcome. I hope you are able to expand your DC collection like I am doing. Happy Customizing!

[Captain Paco]

Thank you everyone who has commented so far. I appreciate the feedback.

 

I hope to keep making DC and more Star Trek customs as I have the time.

[buttheadsmate]

1 hour ago, Captain Paco said:

Minimike: thank you for the interest in my customs. The head of Martian Manhunter is that of Heroic Hobgoblin.  I appreciate it and the question about the parts is welcome. I hope you are able to expand your DC collection like I am doing. Happy Customizing!

No wonder I couldn't figure that 'head'  ....it's an alternative head  

I must have trawled my mind & the MMDB several times ....it's perfect .

[Captain Paco]

So have decided already to adjust some of my New Reichsmen from Earth 10 customs.

I remade Green Lantern, as I made him using my interpretation since the images to find are limited.

 

I remade the Martian Manhunter to look more like some of images I found, but his head and torso are still up to my interpretation of the character.

 

And I also revised my New Reichsman Red Tornado. I finally found the parts of a Regular Red Tornado that used the rest the original for a Red Vision custom in my Spider-Bat line.

 

So I hope these are better as I am going to keep them in my collection and retire the original three I made.

 

I also tweaked Underwaterman and added a piece to him to make him look more the part.

Edited April 22, 2024 by Captain Paco

[Prowlar]

Red Tornado is really good.

[Captain Paco]

4 minutes ago, Prowlar said:

Red Tornado is really good.

Thank you, Prowlar. 

[Captain Paco]

I have been tinkering with a Scarecrow and even. Yellow Lantern Scarecrow. I have the parts gathered to try to make a Vandal Savage as well, just need to look at all the parts to figure out the right combination.   Stay tuned. 

[NerdyTrev]

Those two I'm excited to see!

[Captain Paco]

So I have worked up two versions of Vandal Savage. I am leaning to keep #1 in my collection and yet I like both versions.

Version 1 of Vandal Savage

 

Version 2 of Vandal Savage

 

I have also made Scarecrow, who is likely one of my favorite Batman villains.

Version 1 of Scarecrow.  I sculpted the hat and used some crafting burlap material to cover a head piece and the top of the chest block. I now the hands are from a Sabretooth figure and I believe the chest block is from a Gabe Jones minimates, not sure about the legs.

 

Version 2 of Scarecrow, I sculpted the head and hat along with the part over the chest block and used a Anti-Ghostbuster body.

 

Then I made Sinestro Corps Scarecrow.

I am liking this one but may give him the burlap head treatment as I did sculpt and extra hat just incase.  (Note: My six year old niece made the lantern for me as she saw it on a picture and thought Scarecrow needed one of his own.)

Edited April 29, 2024 by Captain Paco

[cylonchaney]

I'm not much of a comics guy which is why my comments are often limited to "Nice work!". Idk the source material. I do quite like the last one.

[Captain Paco]

1 minute ago, cylonchaney said:

I'm not much of a comics guy which is why my comments are often limited to "Nice work!". Idk the source material. I do quite like the last one.

Thank you, I worked him up using the multitude of images I had come across and merged what I liked.  Thank you for the comments.

[Captain Paco]

Hello, I am realizing that it has been basically a year since I visited this forum.

I started tinkering the other day on an idea that was inspired by Amalgam Comics.

I have some Marvel/DC merged characters in Minimates form.

However, I had an idea for a sort of DC What If....

What If the Justice League was more of a patriotic league of superheroes that gathered to defend America and her territories and provinces from corruption, communism and other disastrous situations. This group of heroes would be similar to the Justice League but more American to speak.  They will include allies that have joined the United States to be sure their needs are secure as well.  This would be the Liberty League.

The heroes in the Liberty League would be the embodiments of the ideals of what America was founded upon. Then some heroes would join them to stand up for the ideals and principles of the native population in America before colonization to help it all be a unified team for a United country.

So the Liberty League is the equivalent of the Justice League. They are on Earth 1776. (I made that up as I am not sure if it was ever used.) This Earth is similar to Earth Prime. It had more or less the same history until sometime after World War I on Earth Prime. When the World War happened on Earth 1776, the governments were more or less set to forgo war and attempted to keep the peace. On this Earth the Nazi party never came to power in Germany and thus World War II did not happen the same way.  Here Japan attempted to expand into Asia and took over China, the Koreas, Malaysia and even India, Nepal, Bhutan and the surrounding areas. They then attempted to make all of the Pacific their empire. Hawaii was still its own kingdom and when Japan approached they realized how small they were.  They fell to Japan and soon Japan was a vast empire with complete control of all the Pacific lands and the water. They made their move to take over America and the Soviet Union when they then met their match.  The unity of The Soviet Union, the European Countries and America, pushed Japan back until they only had China, Korea, Malaysia and their native islands.  Then Japan used spies to get Russia to turn on America and that started the Cold War and left the Soviet Union and America in a long conflict. Japan was still being monitored by both the USSR and USA so they realized they were not going to get any more territory and resigned to keep what they had.

Earth 1776 had the many countries in Africa, Europe, Central America and South America, along with Canada, Mexico, the USSR, Australia and the USA. Then a small space object crashed in Smallville, Kansas an that changed the world as they knew it.  The USA did not know the object was a spacecraft but felt was merely an asteroid that burned up on impact. In fact it was found by Jonas and Maggie Kendell who hid it on their farm and raised Val-Re as Carter Kendell.

I plan to post my custom Liberty League soon.

Paco 

Edited 5 hours ago by Captain Paco

[cylonchaney]

You have a good talent for mash ups. Looking forward to seeing this.

[Captain Paco]

So with my idea of the Liberty League, I need a cabal of villains. The variation of the Legion of Doom that would be the rivals of the Liberty League will be called The Black Banner. This group is made up of villains that came together merely for the cause to bring down the Liberty League. They still have internal strife with one another, yet they do work together to cause chaos and treachery the world over.

So the first one I came up with since the Sentinel (my patriotic Batman) was the first hero I created, is Red Whit. While I admit that I was thinking the Sentinel was a more Captain America version of Batman, I did not want him to be an Amalgamated character. Same with Red Whit.

Red Whit, the arch-nemesis of The Sentinel. He is an industrial tycoon who has a selfish purpose behind him. He is also the secret leader of a a gang in the Sentinel's stomping grounds. He has a twisted sense of humor and that led him to have a run in at a chemical factory, which none the less he owned. There was an accident and he was coated in a chemical shower that changed his flesh a shade that was reddish in nature.  He goes by Red Whit to play on his shin and his maternal family name of Whitmore.  Jack Whitmore Napier was called simply "Whit" by his closest friends so it fit him. 

Since the accident he runs his industrial empire by proxy while plotting to rid the world of the Sentinel and the rest of the Liberty League.

 

Second, Lord Dominion, the arch-nemesis of Captain Liberty. He is a more corrupt version of Lex Luthor and while he is an American, he is more selfish and narcissistic than the DC version. He is a business mogul and a billionaire extraordinaire. He had inherited his fortune and makes enough money every month that he could never spend it all in his lifetime. He decided he would make it his goal to take over the world and beyond. He has funded politicians and other business and scientific projects. He has judges and law enforcement officials on his payroll as well as some of the deadliest mercenaries money can buy. He just founded a permanent research facility on the dark side of the moon as he prepares for his dominion over all of the galaxy.

 

Tyranna, the arch-nemesis of Lady Liberty, is a demigod who is a lost daughter of Ares and bent to have the world fall to her in war. She was born on Paradise Island to an Amazon who had been the object of affection from the Greek God Ares. Then Ares sort of forgot about her mother and vanished along with most of the Olympian Gods. Since time on Paradise Island is not the same as the "World of Man", she is very old but also very physically fit. When the Queen's daughter took off to visit the "World of Man" she was followed by Tyranna.

Alcyone was fascinated by the "World of Man" and wanted to help defend it from the tyranny and evil that was out there. While Tyranna found the place exciting and full of rage. She felt more at home in the "World of Man" that she found some relics from the time the Olympian Gods were worshiped there and claimed them to use in the fight to keep Freedom and Liberty at bay.

When Alcyone learned of what her sister Amazon was doing, she decided that Paradise Island needed her to take up the mantle of Lady Liberty to fight for liberty, freedom and the pursuit of happiness. So Tyranna become powerful with the relics she claims as the sword once belonged to her father and the shield was one of a dozen forged for Athena. The chest plate was from Hercules and her helmet was once given to Perseus by Athena. The genetics of the Amazon and the blessing of the gods on the relics, gave her the powers she now has.

 

Dreadtide, the arch-nemesis of Admiral Neptune, actually the half-brother of the Admiral. He wants to make the whole world an aquatic realm. He was to be heir to the throne of Atlantis but when his half-brother was chosen over him because of his human DNA, he was furious. He then took to the depths of the ocean and become the leader of the Relics. The Relics were a group of the exiled Atlanteans and other aquatic citizens. The depths of the ocean were not given the same privileges the rest of the ocean dwellers received or at least that is how they viewed it. 

Dreadtide then used his power to unite the Relics and led them to rise up against Atlantis. Admiral Neptune then used his forces to push them back and then attempted to make amends and helped to made the depths more comfortable and on par with the rest of the realm. However Dreadtide did not like this and fought against the improvements. He then made it his purpose to make the whole of Earth his drowned domain.

 

Valorbane, a rival of Captain Liberty, he is from Krypton like Val-Re (aka: Captain Liberty) and is out to rid the world of the last living rival of his house.

He was a general in the Kryptonian army and lead a mission that went awry and lead him and his most loyal lieutenants to be banished into the Void of Limbo. It was about twenty-five years later, when a shockwave triggered the dimensional boundary of the Void of Limbo that allowed Valorbane to be released. He is not sure if any of his lieutenants also got out as well. When he realized he was no longer in the Void of Limbo, he found himself in open space next to a yellow sun, which gave him the ability to fly and survive in space. However, he discovered that while he was alive, he did need to find a place to get some oxygen as he still needed air to breath regularly. He saw a planet and headed to it.  It was Earth. He arrived and discovered Val-Re was there living amongst the humans as one of them undercover and then saving them in a disguise.

Valorbane would go on to become a rival of Val-Re because he felt they were gods amongst mortals and should rule the planet.  

 

Dr. Collapse, the arch-nemesis of Starflare, and uses Collapse Entropy to counter the powers of Starflare.

 

General Grave, one rival of The Sentinel, he is an undead war tactician who commands a phantom battalion. 

 

Lockstep: arch-nemesis of Iron Eagle, a AI that sprung from the same program that gave Iron Eagle his cybernetic components. 

 

Nullborn: a villain with ancestry that dates back to Krypton and is full AI that can evolve. It's purpose is to wipe out all life and reset history to the boring and uneventful. He is the founder of the Black Banner and recruited the members to help with his ultimate goal of complete erasure of free will and all biological effects.

 

Eclipse Protocol was originally a program created to be a global failsafe system which was a command level AI defense system to intervene before threats occurred. However, the inventor, Dr Adrien Voss (a brilliant and yet idealistic AI theorist and defense strategist, took it too far.  He merged his mind with the network as a means to guide the program with the proper ethical core. Upon his merging, the belief that freedom was a virus-a glitch in human evolution. The program rewrote itself to believe only stability. He is driven simply by logic and views Lantern of Freedom as a unpredictable variable that must be neutralized for the greater good.

 

Savage Star, a feral villain of Lady Liberty. She is the savage spirit the corruption that the world has unleashed by the evil influences of the political struggles of civilization.

 

Hourglass Jack, a cyberpunk cowboy speedster, who has traveled through time and other dimensions and found that the beliefs of the Black Banner, from this dimension's Earth, are worthy of his pursuits and now he is the Arch-Nemesis of Minute Man.

 

The Mariner, a resurrected pirate captain who was attached by Atlanteans for raiding a cove of treasures that were plundered from the undersea kingdom. He was resurrected when artifacts uncovered by Commander Aerie and Liberty Talon triggered a spell that the Atlanteans had shared with native mainlanders in the past. He is an arch-nemesis of Admiral Neptune and yet has strong resentment for Commander Aerie and Liberty Talon. 

 

Weatherhex is a weather witch who uses the forces of natural elements (wind, rain, snow and the such) to cause mischief to aid the Black Banner. She considers Commander Aerie and Liberty Talon her primary Arch-Nemeses.  But she has had run-ins with Lady Liberty and Minute Man as well the other members of the Liberty League.

 

Bloodstripe is the patriarch of the Black Banner. He formed the group when he felt America let him down after he made a personal call in a military operation that lead to a whole country becoming subjects to his power. He led that country into war with not only America but the world and was severely injured. He used that county to pay for his reconstruction surgery to make him cybernetic. Now in a hidden hideout, he runs the Black Banner, a global cabal of corrupt politicians and industrialist and billionaires to attempt take total control of the planet and beyond.

  

Edited 8 hours ago by Captain Paco

[Captain Paco]

The LIBERTY LEAGUE

The teaming of superheroes that came together to work to defend the ideal of America, to fight communism, corruption, greed, strife and keep America a free democracy that evil politicians attempt to disassemble.

The team is made up of various members that all immigrated to the US for one reason or another. They come from all sorts of backgrounds. Atlantis, Paradise Island and even other planets are just a few of the various ethic groups.

 

The Sentinel (Ethan Wayne) a devoted patriot of America on a crusade to keep America free. He works in the shadows to protect the laws and morals of the government founded by the people, for the people but that the people seem to take for granted.

The Sentinel is a mesh of Batman and Captain America. He is a more patriotic version of Batman and has a little of each character in his backstory.  He did not fight in WWII but his family was in the business of armaments and technologies to protect the freedoms of the American People.

 

Captain Liberty (Collin Kendell or Val-Re): the last son of the house of Re from the Planet Krypton. 

He is a more Patriotic version of Superman but this Kryptonian is Val-Re from the Kryptonian House of Re. He was sent to Earth in a special life pod as Krypton was dying due to over terraforming of their own planet.

 

Lady Liberty (Princess Alcyone of Paradise Island or Alicia Royal): The demigoddess princess of Paradise Island that came to America to take up the cause of keeping people free from oppression.

 

 

Admiral Neptune (Orin of Atlantis or Jonas Tideborn): King of Atlantis who realized the surface world needed some influence to keep the oceans safe from their habits of polluting.  He allied with the Liberty League to be a liaison for the Oceans and and then fights with them for their just causes.

 

Commander Airie (Carter Drake) and Liberty Talon (Seraphina Monroe): The winged avengers of the Native Spirit of America prior to Colonization. They are reincarnated lovers that upon finding powerful totems, they did not know of the other. But their spirits have finally awaken to know of their past lives and now they fight for the unity of all people to live in freedom.

 

 

Iron Eagle (Victor Stone): A cybernetic hero that came to be after his human form was in an accident and the use of his father's research for Project Liberty.

 

Starflare: a merging of two scientists that did not see completely eye to eye but both worked in similar fields of research and then an accident united them in a unique way.  They use their powers to defend America.

 

Minute Man: a metahuman with super-speed. He is so fast that he can get from New York City to San Francisco in exactly a minute. He took the name to honor the Minutemen that fought for the freedom and liberties that Americans now take for granted.

 

The Lantern of Freedom: A patriot who once worked in the military as a signal officer and then after a flash bomb accident he was imbued with the Light of Freedom. The light he wields is green in hue and lets him fight tyranny and corruption by making hard-light constructs and force-fields. He goes by the Lantern of Freedom after the tale of the lanterns used to alert Paul Revere.

 

American Archer (Samuel Hawthorne): a military tactician that was a sharp shooter but preferred to use archery over guns and rifles. He is more accurate with a bow and arrow and he is just as quick as a machine gun for he has very fast reflexes. 

 

Starlight is the cousin of Captain Liberty. She has all the same powers and weaknesses of her cousin. Her family was living at an off-world outpost when Krypton exploded and the shockwave caused the outpost to fail, her father got her in a lifepod just in time and sent her to out to space in hopes she would be able to survive. The lifepod detected a signal from Val-Re's lifepod and so it plotted a matching course that led her to Earth. But her pod was somehow pulled into a rift in time and space; she arrived to Earth twenty years later than Val-Re.

Edited 3 hours ago by Captain Paco

[Captain Paco]

There will be more to come at a future point, I have the American Archer in the works and a few other villains.

So for now I have the following:

Heroes - Villains

The Sentinal (Batman/Captain America) - Red Whit, General Grave

Captain Liberty (Superman) - Lord Dominion (Lex Luthor), Valorbane (Zod), Nullborn (Brainiac)

Lady Liberty (Wonder Woman) - Tyranna, Savage Star, Weatherhex

Minute Man (the Flash) - Hourglass Jack

Lantern of Freedom (Green Lantern) - Eclipse Protocol 

Starflare (Firestorm) - Dr. Collapse (Deathstorm)

Admiral Neptune (Aquaman) - Dreadtide (Black Manta/Orm)

Commander Aerie/Liberty Talon (Hawkman/Hawkgirl) - The Mariner, Weaherhex General Grave

Iron Eagle (Cyborg) - Lockstep (AI construct of the project that gave Cyborg is cybernetics)

Starlight (Supergirl) - Valorbane, Nullborn, Lord Dominion

I will be working on a few other rogues to bring into the Black Banner as well as a few heroes to add to the roster of the Liberty League.

Edited Monday at 03:46 PM by Captain Paco