WIP: Mimic

Yellow Week continues with a character that's just brimming with the color: Mimic from Exiles.


This recipe is designed around avoiding paint rub, and little else. Still, I think the parts are going to work together. The ball joints in the hips and the shoulders won't need painting; nor the elbows, knees, ankles, wrists… everything but the ab crunch, which seems to be taking paint pretty well. I started with Street Fighters Ken in Yellow, which was available for a discount for about the last year and a half. I've got a bad habit of buying figures with yellow joints just in case: I've got two of these Kens, and three or four Pyros; and hey, I've used both of those in customs! Anyway, I had a bad experience with Street Fighter shoulders getting paint rub, so I found an upper torso with blue shoulders. The build and color combination forced me
into DCSH Superman, but that's a pretty good choice. For the legs, I was going to sculpt musculature onto the Ken legs, but decided to use Wolverine parts instead, because my sculpting still needs some work. The head is a cast of DC Direct JLA Aquaman. I'll be trying to have this done by next weekend.

I knew in the back of my head that the best base for Mimic wasn't this Frankenstein, it was Sentry from the ML Wal-Mart wave. But I hadn't done any construction in a while and was getting restless… also, it's the coolest thing in the world when someone presents a custom on the Internet with a build that you've never seen before. One can admire the craftsmanship in a Black Panther repaint, but those crazy combinations, or especially new sculpts, really get the blood up.

Hmm, those boots may have to go. Wolverine had this gimpy left leg that he passed on, and Mimic has big Beast-feet anyway. Sadly I can't think of a good way to keep the boot swivel, as the Wolverine legs have it right at the ankle.