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And now, onto Pussycat (as played by Leslie Gore). I am cannibalizing lots of leftover bits and pieces now. Pink leggings are still in transit from an eBay purchase and I had three choices for the base figure.
A quick hair trim and some orange hairspray. While I had the pink paint out, I also lengthened the ears on a little white dog toy - and painted him pink - to create... Pinky Pinkston's Apricot.
My newly arrived Japanese "Mediacom Toy Corporation" Kato & the Green Hornet turned out to be 9" tall each, a little taller than expected (and advertised on eBay). "Figures Toy Company" uses the regular 8" Mego-style figures for their "Batman '66" line, So, cannibalising a retro Mego-style Captain Pike (from "Star Trek"), I was able to make Kato more in scale with 8" Robin and 9" Green Hornet. Kato's head was swapped out onto Pike's body, the hands painted shiny black, the jacket sleeves slightly shortened with hemming web, and his tiny cuff buttons moved.
Killer Moth came together so quickly that I didn't get any progress pics. A "Happy Days" Richie head, with Classic TV Toys' grey jumpsuit, black boots, black utility belt and two-piece green suit (jacket tucked in). The hat was created in quickset putty and the yellow "wings" are from a remnant of yellow satin left over from the full-size Robin cape I had made in 1988!
Batman and the Black Widow. My latest custom came together so fast I didn't get progress pics. Black Widow utilises a Grandma Walton head, her leggings and shoes, a spare torso and a red-trimmed, cut-down robe from Ghost Face of the "Scream" movies. (I was planning to pose Mrs Green with Verdigris, but I'd already applied her lipstick, and there were no plain green dresses around the place!)
Calamity Jan uses a Supergirl head, red bows in her pigtails, a "Star Trek" Starfleet Sciences uniform, white boots and belt bought online, and white duct tape for the fringing.
Creating one of Penguin's most eccentric G.O.O.N.s, "Octopus" (Victor Lundin). All I need to do tomorrow is reduce the size of the lettering on a photocopier and affix to the black sweater with double-sided tape. Hemming web was used on the sweater (made for 10-12" figures) to fit an 8" Lex Luthor figure. I have a black bowler hat ready for him.
When I first ordered a Martha Kent head to use as a base for a Ma Parker custom, I was struck wondering if she could also become an Aunt Harriet Cooper. Recently, I came across the faceless Fembot 8" figure from the "Six Million Dollar Man" retro series. I had a chance to buy that figure while on an overseas holiday, but the dowdy brown dress did not remind me of the 70s Fembots who had impersonated Oscar Goldman's secretary, Callaghan, nor the sexy "Fembots in Las Vegas", so I left her on the peg! This week, I realised I could make use of the Fembot brown dress for Aunt Harriet and put the Fembot into a spare purple Dinah-Mite jumpsuit I had on hand.
Aunt Harriet's fur stole was actually the tail of a $2.50 child's mouse costume (ears on a headband, furry bow tie and tail). The little brooch (below) was originally on Martha Kent's pink dress.
