Great job on sculpting the hair and beard!

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Thanks! Now I can't look at Retaliation again, haha!



Thanks, man! Super appreciate it coming from a living legend like you!

Remember this book?




This was the book which I discovered another Action Man Space Rangers story almost two years ago. The villains from that story were right in line with my theme for the Time Enemies. They were known as the Margax.





They seemed to be a futuristic alien race of gold clad warriors and worshippers. They had everything from grand cities, spacefaring war vessels, a variety of starfighters and advanced weapons. They were ruled by Chylon, The Brain-Being who was just a giant brain they also worshipped. Not a very smart guy either going by the story.

From this story way back in 2020 I chose to make a Margax Worshipper:



At the time, I refrained from doing yet another warrior because I had so many of them. That changed after I decided to make the Margax Worshipper not only the employer of the Time Enemies, but also the One True Queen of Margax called The Luminary. Often, when you have a leader of a particular faction, you'd require followers to further accentuate their authority. This is when I realized a Margax Soldier was finally necessary:











Note the golden rings on his neck. I used 5mm wire and bent it in the shape around a cylinder of heat shrink. Came out beautifully. With a bit more fine painting, it could even be perfection.



I haven't come up with a name for him yet, but after two years of deliberating, we finally have our third representative from the Margax race! Unlike the previous Margax, the outfit for this new one takes cues from the soldiers on the streets and from the soldiers Jake Hardy and Rom battle in the hangar bay in the provided images above. He was built using the BFS mouse head, Canceled Jurassic Park Tattooed Mercenary body and feet, ROC Ripcord legs and knees, and accessories from both G.I. Joe and BFS.

I imagine him to be this sort of enforcer who used to head up the field missions for her. He is extremely competent and loyal to the Margax cause. He wears this golden helmet which only exposes his eyes. You can imagine him as the Action Man of Margax. He's multi-faceted as almost any kind of warrior he needs to be. Anyway, he's not 100% finished. Still has some spots that require cleaning up. Was a fun one though.

Did some sanding to get it to be a bit more smooth but left some parts of the armour and helmet to appear beaten in battle.





The Margax HATE Action Man for what he did to their homeworld. Their entire motivation is revenge. To that end, the queen of their people has an agent in her arsenal. He is the Margax equivalent of Action Man! Highly skilled in multiple skills, exceptionally resourceful and deadly in a fight. Better to fight fire with fire.







For now, this brings me to the end of this project. Looking at doing work on an pair of OC ideas I've had lying around since 2020. Hmm...

these customs are so unique. im so glad you laid out the whole source material. the sanding/smoothing really tightened that head/mask up. he looks perfect with the queen.

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Okay, so first I know nothing about Action Man, but as I've said before I appreciate this thread as the deep dives you take are incredible. The custom is great. Awesome job on the sculpting too.

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Thanks! Can't believe I actually did him though. I wasn't sure I wanted to add yet ANOTHER guy to the set but here we are.



Thanks! This thread could do a butt load more of these deep dives if I had access to more junk parts and figures. At the moment I am looking at other ways as I'm very close to running out of bodies.



Here's OG 80's Torak in his box which doubles as his secret lair/lab and... Wait, wait, wait!



What is THAT?!!

I blame myself for snooping around these parts constantly looking for shreds of details from the past. That robot shocked me. I mean I knew about it for years but did nothing about it because I did not know a proper way to introduce it and how to integrate it with Torak. After the Margax Agent project, I finally found a way to make the robot and how to integrate it with Torak.

It started with a fabric glue cover, its pin and a pen ink cartridge cut into segments -



and these parts eventually became this:











The colour of titanium silver was chosen as it is, what I believe to be, the colour intended in the artwork. They can't use an actual silverish colour, so they used a sort of 'white/blue shine' to indicate a silverish look. You can see that on other devices in the room as well. I don't imagine they'd look like that in real life. I took that literally when translating it.

This beast of a fabric glue cover turned psychotic robot assistant has 4 points of articulation: 2 points at the shoulders and 2 more in the wrists. Painstaking effort went into getting the wire on her shoulders to appear as close as possible to the box art image. I tried to make the central antenna appear the same but could not keep the 3 tiny pieces of a sewing pin glued securely on the primary pin. So I left the pin as is for now until I can solder them on or something.

The hands come from Mega Bloks figures. They fit so snug and easily into the pen ink cartridge cylinders that glue was not necessary. In addition, they allow her to wield Lego or Mega Bloks weapons.

So what about that integration with Torak I was muttering about? Check this out.



Now because she'd lose every marathon she'd enter, she has to rely a little on Torak.





The little tab on her back allows her to become Torak's robotic backpack! He could do the running and she could do the gunning! My daughter adores the idea a ton. Now to find a little weapon from the Lego set the kids have heheh.



"Where'd she go?"

With more bodies, parts and accessories, I could do a deep dive into the good guys of the franchise. For now I have two OCs planned for a sort of fantasy series I have been writing about.

You made a kibble-based figure to depict an illustration of an obscure character?

Big thumbs up!!!

Love it man

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Obrigado



Haha! Thanks, thanks.

The dives are getting way too deep at this point. Like bottom of the barrel deep. I really gotta move onto a new project. Btw here's an update. It's temporary but what I did was wrap wires around the pin and I just glued them in place. That worked.

Temporary fix which will need some cleanup but not too bad either.

The wires look great. Keep the deep dive going.

I love this so much! It's art!

Your wire work is looking good. You could find some thinner stranded wire and peel back pieces and get close to that effect with no glue. I have fine steel "bailing?" Wire that gets really strong once twisted tight that might work too, but it wouldn't look as clean as what you have.

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Back with another deep dive just for you! This time from the forgotten Palitoy stable. I debated for months whether this guy deserved a custom. The reason it was such a hot debate was because the concept design seemed too close to the Zargonite design Palitoy eventually ended up going with. I realized that that was certainly not accurate.

This is the one they went with.



This is the one they discarded.



This design deserved a swing.

So I went for it. Ordered an MTF figure and a couple other G.I. Joe accessories. This is what I came up with.





Finally. The Concept Zargonite is part of my custom collection of bad guys! I haven't decided on a backstory for him yet except that he is another one of Captain Zargon's Zargonite Pirates. What's cool is that I can say "Captain Zargon and the Zargonites" and the statement makes sense! Each one is even unique!



His gimmick is his visor. I used plastic from a black soda bottle. It's transluscent but none of the lights can see through the visor to sport his eyes. It's fine. Colours came off great.

I deviated significantly from the aesthetic design. What I did keep were the colours. The one part that confused me for a long time was the red crossing over his chest. In the image, you see a small bit of it. Because of the way he's positioned, You can't get a clear view. I used images of the Action Man Space Ranger troop designs for some idea how that red bit might look. I decided to keep it simple and drape it across his chest since we'll never know what the design might have looked like. The same thing happened to me with another custom I did. When you don't have the benefit of a full view, make something up based on logic and intuition!

Perhaps the coolest part of this figure is the accessory recreation. His rocket launcher is based on the Action Man Space Rangers Space Arms weapon.



I took a rifle and a submachine gun, cut them into pieces and used putty to fill out the parts. Behold!



It's really close. I have done other renditions that got even closer, but this one was I'm particularly proud of. It's very cool to see him wielding it in the original image. It connects him to Action Man in awesome ways. I always hunt for the feedback in my previous posts and the same habit applies here. What do you think of this deep cut? Have I gone too far?

You're going to get lost if you keep going that deep. I'm always impressed that you create a custom from one existing picture of an obscure character that in this case never got made. Again not being familiar with the source material I as much enjoy this thread to learn more about the Action Man universe as to see the great customs.

Great work on his weapon btw. I know that a lot of times getting the weapon just right is just as rewarding as the custom itself.

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I believe I am already lost haha! I'm glad that the customs keep you impressed. Using single images to complete whole figures is a lot of fun. It allows one to input their own design choices in an existing one. It also forces us to use a bit of logic and intuition. Also, it's great the source material is illuminating.

It's obvious that I really, really love this project. It actually ended properly back in 2021 with the creation of Torak and the Pirate de L'espace. I didn't want it to end. So I kept digging. I've gone so deep that I literally ran out of deep, obscure figures to create save one:



I courted the Sinister Enemy two years ago but ultimately decided against it due to not being able to finalize the right colours, figure, materials, tools and skillset to bring something this big to life. This figure still terrifies me. I doubt I'll do it but who knows the future. I know that I can jump into my OC "Dungeons and Demons" project but I need more bodies and designs still. If i make ONE of those figures, I know I'll just keep going. For now, I'm just enjoying the "end" of the Time Enemies project. Besides the Sinister Enemy, there isn't another lying around waiting to be crafted. The Concept Zargonite is the last.

Thanks for the feedback!

i love the figure and the history. make the big guy! maybe find a well articulated ape or wrestler the height you want.

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