Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Ongoing projects of interest


There are some interesting ongoing projects currently happening in the mego community. Check out some of the interesting series of customs coming from the group.

thetoyroom is working on a set of figures based on Crisis on Infinite Earths. This has potential for TONS of neat customs.

for more visit here...http://www.geocities.com/thetoyroom


bobbait is working on the X-men. So far so good Bob!


Dave Mc (howdy) is continuing his tear through the Star Wars universe.

for more visit here... http://megomuseum.com/gallery/DaveMcs


Ron Baglio is slowly but surely completing the characters from DC's Kingdom Come.


for more, visit here... http://megomuseum.com/gallery/Bagmonsters-Photos

Joe Centenio's Superfriends project is out of sight!

for more visit here...http://megomuseum.com/gallery/album01

Thomas Meuleman is working on a set of customs from the 60's Batman TV series

for more visit here... http://megomuseum.com/gallery/Batman-1966

Thomas is also working on Classic Movie Monsters



for more...http://megomuseum.com/gallery/Classic_Movie_Monsters?page=1

Starbuk's been working a really cool Land of The Lost project for a while now.

for more visit here http://www.starbukz.com/customs/

KC1 is working on the Star Wars cantina scene.

for more visit here http://megomuseum.com/gallery/KC1-customs

Paul Riggs (Merlyn1976) is working on a set of Infinity Gauntlet figures.

For more visit http://megomuseum.com/gallery/album123

Bryan Bossart is putting together a set of 8" scale Kiss figures

http://megomuseum.com/gallery/album05 for more.

Paul Clare has a few lines going. Paul's recreating the old west.

http://megomuseum.com/gallery/Westerns

He's also jumping into space...

http://megomuseum.com/gallery/TNG

and more space...

http://megomuseum.com/gallery/StarWars

Austin and Paul are working on "The Many Faces of Spiderman

The following falls under the Mego-LIKE category. Thunderbolt is putting together a set of 9" Famous Cover type Classic JLA figures.

For more visit http://hometown.aol.com/tjhanus/page1.html

I'm sure there are more I'm missing. If so, let me know. tigersbonemachine@yahoo.com

Custom Mego Galleries




Check out these cool custom galleries and see what some of the members of the mego community are creating. Enjoy!

Merlyn1976's
http://merlyn1976.blogspot.com/

megowgsh's
www.reproheads.com

Starbuk's
http://starbukz.com/gallery/

ABMAC's
http://exit3.i-55.com/~abmac/index.html

Megojim's
www.knockknocktoys.com/customs.html

thetoyroom's
http://www.geocities.com/thetoyroom

anarchy28g's
http://www.actionfigureart.com

Wrathdemon's
http://megomuseum.com/gallery/Cat-Damons-Customs

thunderbolt's
http://www.toymania.com/custom/Galleries/Thunderbolt/thunderbolt2.htm

drwhofan74's
http://members.cox.net/drwhofan74/customfigures.html

Paul Evan's
http://members.socket.net/~pjevans/customs.html

Captain Dunsel's
http://www.megomadhouse.com/customs.html

Kosmic Kenny's
http://megomuseum.com/gallery/Kosmic-Kenny-Kustoms

Thomas Meuleman's
http://megomuseum.com/gallery/My_customs

Illegal-Mego's
www.megomuseum.com/gallery/Illegal-Mego

Dave Mc's
http://customs.tigersbonemachine.com/

http://megomuseum.com/gallery/DaveMcs?page=1

Al Bigley's
http://www.albigley.com/toyspage12.htm

Ed Nagy's
http://megomuseum.com/gallery/Eds-customs

Christopher Nunnally's
http://mysite.verizon.net/christopherrivers/index.html

Jeff Brennen's
http://jeffwildstar.freeservers.com/

Paul Clare's
http://megomuseum.com/gallery/Customs

If you have a cool custom gallery you want to show off, let us know tigersbonemachine@yahoo.com

Friday, March 17, 2006

Merlyn's Custom Workshop Resources





Paul Riggs has been working to put together a large group of resources to aid the customizers in the mego community. Bravo Paul!

Here's the list of useful stuff you may need.

1. Need a certain emblem? (courtesy of various sources) http://megomuseum.com/gallery/Emblems

2. Looking for the right pattern? (courtesy of Coz) http://megomuseum.com/gallery/Patterns

3. How to restring a body and other useful repair tips (courtesy of various sources) http://megomuseum.com/gallery/Body-repairs

4. Fixing broken bands, fixing leg splay, emblem removal and other useful repair tips http://megomuseum.com/faq/faq08.shtml

5. Useful info about the different bodies (courtesy of Coz and Buk) http://megomuseum.com/gallery/Coz-body-charts

6. Color Chart (gives the various colors in hexadecimal notation and color name) http://www.nutrocker.co.uk/colorchart.html

7. Head case a listing of Mego heads and what figure they belong too http://www.megomuseum.com/docents/faces/index.shtml

8. Rob Chatlin's FAQ sheet (a lot of useful info here) http://megomuseum.com/faq/index.shtml

9. Original Museum front page and link to the old galleries http://www.megomuseum.com/site/index.shtml

10. Brian Heiler's Foreign Mego http://www.foreignmego.com/

11. Thunderbolt's Boot Tutorial http://megomuseum.com/gallery/Thunderbolts-Boot-Tutorial

12. Hair rerooting tips at Nick's Toybox http://home.freeuk.net/pewty/tips/reroot.html

13. Hair styling tips at Nick's Toybox http://home.freeuk.net/pewty/tips/styling.html

14. Plastic surgery's molding tutorial http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dunes/9981/FAQ/Molding.html?200624

15. Picture posting inside of a post... http://www.megomuseum.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=7&topic=6840

16. Taking the blue out of an RC head... http://www.twinpines.com/Remove-Zit-Info.html

17. Mego sized decals...including iris for eyes and tattos http://www.archertransfers.com/catalog.html

18. Albert/Corellian Corvette's giude to restringing Gaberial figures http://www.albertpenello.com/mego/gabrielrestring/

19 Removing a T2 kneepin via Captain Dunsel http://megomadhouse.com/images/howto_kneepinremoval.jpg

20 Cast-A-Way Custom Cards http://megomuseum.com/gallery/Custom-Cards?page=1

Captain Dunsel's how to page. Here you will find many helpful tutorials and guides, including
Captain Dunsels Sculpting power point
Dave Mc's Painting tips power point
Captain Dunsel's Mold Making tutorial
Captain Dunsel's plastic casting tutorial
JP Kempo's Knee Pin removal technique
3-A-Megos' Degraying heads tutorial
Cory Woods Neck Plug reference guide
and more!
http://www.megomadhouse.com/howto.html

If you have any additions you would like to submit please PM Merlyn1976 or email his with pictures and/or links to pictures... Thanks to all who have donated their time and effort in helping me gather all this info Paul - priggs@ma.rr.com