Dr. Dome and his Domeoids... in three dimensions

I meant to post this earlier, but with the press of holiday responsibilities, and a healthy helping of procrastination, I didn't get to it until now.

About a month ago, I stopped in at Mirage Studios -- I think it was to print out my Christmas cards -- and I unexpectedly ran into Jim Lawson, who was showing two people around the studio. They were Rick Dries, a fellow Jim had been corresponding with, and Rick's young son Jake.

Rick works in the Coast Guard, but he is also a very talented sculptor of custom action figures, a number of which he had brought with him to show to Jim. Given that our paths had crossed in this random fashion, I got to see them too. I wish I'd taken photos of them all -- RIck had made some very cool "artist's versions" of the Turtles, the most memorable of the bunch (to me, at least) being the "Eric Talbot" Turtle, which captured Eric's style quite effectively.

But Rick had also brought with him three other nifty non-Turtle sculpts, which he graciously gave to me. These are of characters I created when I did issue #15 of the original TMNT comic book series -- Dr. Dome and his Domeoids (two of them, in fact). I think RIck said he used an Incredible Hulk action figure as the basis for Dr. Dome (but radically transformed, as you can see), and the Domeoids were built from scratch.

Pretty impressive work, in my opinion. You can see more of Rick's work here:

http://plasticplayhouse.deviantart.com/gallery/#

Thanks, RIck! -- PL

Triceraton by Tokka

It's a sad, almost inevitable fact of life that during the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, some things fall through the cracks and don't get attended to in as timely a fashion as they should. So it was with this cool gift I got from "Tokka" (aka Dave) last month. He fashioned a wild-looking custom Triceraton -- I think it is based on an existing figure of some sort, customized with additional details in some type of sculpting medium, and painted in Dave's unique style.







The figure has been sitting in my office at Mirage since I got it, and I've been meaning to post photos of it, but it just kind of got lost in the swirl of things. Dave, here's a belated "Thank you!" -- PL