Custom 7" Michael Myers, fully poseable, with hair!

In addition to being a Michael Myers nerd, i also collect toys. I’ve never been completely satisfied with any of the mass marketed figures of Myers, so i decided to use the head from one of my Neca figures and go from there, creating my own fully poseable, hopefully color correct version.
I took apart the head, sanding off most of the pronounced U shape on the forehead of the original, and reshaped the eyes with an exacto, giving him more of the sad look he has in the film. I then repainted it in many layers of flesh tone, topped with white, and drybrushed with white and gray to give it a grimy depth. I was most proud of pulling off the hair, which was always my least favorite part of the sculpted figure. I cut and sanded the molded hair off, to try to give the head a round, hairless base, like a mask pull. After looking around a craft store for a bit, i found some brown “craft fur”, and with a little experimentation, i was able to cut it and glue it onto the head, in what i thought was a pretty accurate representation of a fully haired mask at this scale. The hair was a bit too stiff to stylize, so i couldn’t get any spiking off the side by his ears as i had hoped to, but i used watered down elmer’s gel glue to hold the hairstyle in place. I then dyed some green fabric with gray dye, and using a borrowed sewing machine, made the overall shape of the coveralls. Added the collar, then the back, and front of the upper torso covering in 3 pieces on top of that with faric glue. Glued on the ‘belt’ , the front vertical seem and some pockets, and he was finished. I’m overall pretty happy with the results, and that i finished it before Halloween! Lemme know what you think!

I even found a base figure with the correct boots!

LMAO @ myers sitting up pics :laughing: I think these are really cool, very nice bro! :drinkers:

Thanks man! I know figures aren’t everybodys cup of tea, but reworking the head of this thing really was very similar to what i see a lot of the people on here doing to revamp a mask, reshape the eyes, paint, and add hair. It was a lot of fun to do. And yeah, i am hoping to make a gif of him sitting up with proper lighting sometime, that scene in the movie is a huge reason i wanted one with leg articulation to begin with :myers

Awesome man, good job.

Thats amazing. Great craftmanship. What did you use for the main body? GI Joe or something?

ToddB

Thanks guys. The body is a heavily modified 7" Dutch(Arnold Schwarzenegger from Predator) figure, made by Neca. I dremmeled a LOT of muscle mass off of the sculpt, so that his arms would hang down in a neutral pose, and so his coveralls wouldn’t have to be too huge to fit over the body

That’s really friggin cool man!! Nicely done!

Incredible!!

Very nice work, man. I dig it!

Jake

Great job man!!! :drinkers: Very cool!

Thanks everybody!

Very cool! You put a lot of time & work into that and it paid off.

Yeah looks great for sure, thanks for sharing the photos and all the details.

i like it man! totally would buy one if it was on the market!

Thanks guys! I just wish i had a low-light photography setup. Bright light with the macro setting makes him look a lot more rough around the edges than he does to the naked eye. I’d like to eventually build some sort or house front diorama to display him with, but we’ll see if i ever get around to it