This pic makes me wish I had a giant house.Obviously, the big reason I do digital stuff is that I don’t have the room for playsets, dioramas, and backdrops. (Or the money or the skill but mostly it’s the room). And that’s fine.
But we recently dug out a couple of Palisades Muppet Show playsets we got in the early 2000’s, and they’re a surprisingly good sacle for 1:12, and then I got the Haulathon Shredder.
I’ve been waiting for this Shredder for a year. As you may recall, a year ago, I hunted down the Pizza Box turtles as “my” set of Turtles. I have a Mirage Casey Jones and Splinter, I have a cartoon Bebop and Rocksteady, and all that was missing, really, was a Shredder, an April, and maybe a Foot Soldier. And now I have a Shredder.
And oh, what a Shredder it is. NECA occupies such a wide range for me. WHen I love them, I love them so much, but when they fail me (cough cough Ardeth Bey) it’s like a betrayal. Well, no betrayal here. Double elbow joints. Double knee joints. Solid construction. Incredible paint Accessories out the ass. No price gouge. We’re back into Vincent Price territory here and I couldn’t be happier.
He has three heads (masked, helmeted (above) and normal head. Tons of hands. A weird gun. A floppy disc, a book, a fuckin’ chef’s hat like Michelangelo’s from last year. The helmet adornment is swappable - there’s one with some gems or some shit in it on one of the helmets and you can put it on the other one. And a framed photo of his mother. I couldn’t ask for anything more, I don’t think. Does Cartoon Shredder regularly use proper weapons? I assume not or they’d have been included.
As I’ve been doing more of recently, I’ve been taking advantage of Cathy’s extensive assortment of tiny things, so the cabbage is an eraser and the bowl and leaves are from the mini-stuff blind balls she’s been hooked on of late. And holy shit, once I took the picture, all I had to do was pick the angle I liked best, crop, and do a little touch up on the corners and it was done.
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