[Mordiganne]

The Universe is expanding.... (pics to follow in next post)


I meant to post these before the hiatus but I hadn't yet finished the last figure for the team which is the black pants Drax. I completed him a couple of weeks ago, so now's as good a time as any to post this team. I made the two Infinity Gauntlets. One is just a straight repaint. The second was made once I realized that Hasbro never made a closed fist Gauntlet for Thanos which makes no sense, especially since it's Thanos! Once I get around to making a planned Thanos upgrade the gloves will go to him. In the meantime, they'll remain under the watchful eyes of the Guardians. So, anyway, onto the rest...


As with most team batches I'm just going to list them all and, with some exceptions, brief notes:

Adam Warlock - Outside of his Infinity War look I'm not fond of any of his looks, including his GotG looks. I made this figure as more of an homage to the A:EMH cartoon than anything.

Mantis - I only made Mantis because she's part of the team. Outside of the MCU exposure,I'm not sure what her powerset is, but I'm pretty sure she's not a heavy combatant so I put her on the under-articulated most recent female buck. Did a fair bit of sculpting to get her look. She could use some modifications in time, but that's something for the future. She's good for now.

Jack Flag - Updated Jack to give him a more accurate uniform. I adjusted the chest paint to just the line and shoulder stripes. I also added some sculpt to the boots. Minor changes, but they make a big difference in how the figure looks.

Star-Lord - I didn't do much to upgrade this figure. Painted and glossed the helmet and added sculpt to the boots. I painted up a second pair of his guns so he has one inert pair and one active pair. Added some buttons and the sculpt on his boots. Spats I believe they're called. Dunno. I have an unmasked head but it doesn't fit on the neck and there's not enough plastic to mod it without destroying it. Still deciding what to do with it. Edit: Snipped the rest of this, had nothing to do with Star-Lord

Drax - This guy took me way too long to put together. I originally had something else in mind entirely before option to go this route. All of the red was repainted and a green wash applied to add some depth to the figure. I haven't decided what to do about his knives yet. I haven't found a pair that I like yet and don't care enough to make them myself...yet. Time will tell. The knives will finish Drax.

Gabe - Gabe was the first one completed for this batch, but that's really only because I had all his parts on hand and gathered when I got bored and decided to make more figures. This was just painting with a slight mod to get the head to fit. Wait, I lied, I had to mod the neck. Completely forgot about that. As mentioned before with this buck once you take off the collar there's a peg that holds up the neck. If you cut that off and reattach the neck it drops it down and leaves a more normal looking neck. (Takes practice and a strong glue. If you try it, have both!) Oh yeah, he's supposed to have a white triangle right above his belt, but it looks stupid so I left it off. I have a very limited exposure to who this guy is and that's mostly centered on him getting smoked by a Phalanx possessed Blaastar. I only made the character because I wanted to flesh out the Guardians roster a bit more. So he's now part of team Red & Blue. Thankfully, they're almost done after this batch.

Bug - Bug took considerably more work than Gabe did. Not only did he get a neck drop, but I had to attach all of those antenna(?) to his arms, legs and head. They're all flexible but I didn't care to bend them just to bend them so they're sticking out straight. I also had to take the pinheaded Star-Lord helmet and use that as a base to sculpt over to try and get Bug's unique look. It's ok... I'll be redoing the head sculpt at some point, but I'd have to have absolutely nothing else to do with my time before that happens. So, be a while... Outside of that, a standard Night Crawler parts swap and paint job later he's done. I did make some mods to his outfit since I try to give every Guardian a unique red trim to their outfit. Only one left for what I consider my "core" Guardians team and that's Mantis.