Not to say I never liked what the TOTS team was able to do, because I absolutely LOVE this mask and I definitely look forward to the new Psycho mold that was revealed over the weekend. It’s because I love this mask that I wanted it to be everything that I thought it could be. And so, with all the TOTS overhauls, retools, conversions, and everything else that peeps have been doing to this mask and posting up recently, I thought I’d go ahead and post what I’ve done with mine.
Back in October 2013, I’d been away from MM.net for almost a year and the mask that got me back into the Myers mood was when I stumbled across the TOTS website and found their website and of course I ordered the mask immediately. It was the best Michael Myers mask I’d ever seen mass produced and I couldn’t call myself a Halloween fan if I let the chance pass me by to purchase one of these masks. The delivery time was great, I got my mask within two weeks and just in time for the week of All Hallow’s Eve. This is how it looked right out of the box:
I loved the mask, easily the best Myers purchase I’d ever made, and as far as noses go, I think I got the creme of the crop if I do say so myself. The neck, however, always bothered me for some reason. Again, not complaining, but just a personal issue I had with the mask. I’ve seen other indy masks with necks like it and I’ll admit I never liked it there either. Just a personal preference, I guess. Anyway, first chance I got I took a can of latex friendly spray paint and resprayed the neck, giving me a bit of a H1 look to the mask. I also gave the mask a hair cut. The hair was far too long and with the length came it’s proneness for falling out easier. Certainly didn’t want ol’ Myers getting mask pattern baldness. So, haircut and then I started searching tips to flatten down the hair. The best advice I got was taking a spray bottle of water and covering the hair in a plastic bag overnight. Here’s the results from that point:
Still, it was an H2 mask, and it was sculpted as an H2 mask, so I begun over a month of researching different masks, different looks, and looking for a way to combine them that would bring out my ideal H2. Using images, I tried my best to replicate what I saw with simple acrylic paints. This was what I first came up with:
Still too H1, right? Yeah, thought so. I wasn’t getting the look I wanted and so I went back to the drawing board. Scrounging around my basement, I found a box of old art supplies. Within it was several tubes of Liquitex Acrylic paint including flesh tones and several variations of grey, and a bunch of fancy artsy brushes that proved vital in getting the look I wanted. Well, now I was cookin something and with all that hard work and perseverance I give you my retouched TOTS:
