As a customizer who is also an MOTU nut, one of the highlights of this year’s Power-Con was being able to check out all the great customs by He-Mike and masterenglish. Click through for more pics of the custom figures on display at masterenglish’s booth.
I love this transformation of the Draego-Man body into an Evil Black Knight. By removing some of the fins on the Space Ace helmet, masterenglish tranformed it into a really great looking Knight’s helm.
The inclusion of a bat winged steed completes the character who has a bit of a Frazetta ‘Death Dealer’ vibe.
This guy is called Kunckle-Head and features a Fisto fist with a Beast Man claw tip that I couldn’t quite get a good angle on. The thing I love most about this one is masterenglish uses the roboto arms in a new way. It looks like he has techno parts bursting from inside his body.
Instead of looking completely robotic, there’s a really gross cyborg feel to him.
I like the look of this Wind Raider repaint — stealth-raider.
This guy was called Toma-Hawk and sports a completely new head sculpt. I love the bright blue on this guy.
This guy is masterenglish’s take on a fandom-created character called Cact-Eye. He’s meant as an opponent for Rio-Blast and, as created, can shoot the spikes from his body as an offensive weapon.
I love the paint job on this one. The brown highlights on the light green areas have a cool organic feel to them that lend a bit of realism to the unreal color scheme.
On the right, you can see a newer custom named Blizzlor, a yeti-like creature made from Grizzlor. Masterenglish removed the fur from his Grizzlor figure, created a pattern from the fur, and cut out a new fur piece from some white fur bought at a fabric store. The final effect is way cooler than I would have expected a Grizzlor repaint to be.
The guy on the right is called Voo-Doo, and I was really impressed at the burlap sack pattern detail sculpted over most of the body. It’s such tiny, precise detail work that I can’t imagine doing anything like it.
This guy is called Obeast and is one of my favorite masterenglish customs. He’s based on a Marvel Legends Blob figure. I just love the color and design of this guy. MOTU needs some Trolls and Orks!
This character is called Hand-Some and is based on some Mattel design work from the Power and Honor Foundation book. The character in the book was just a guy with big hands, but masterenglish decided that maybe it would be cool if he could add a lot of different attachments.
The attachments are all magnetized for easy part swapping. One hilarious addition was boots so Hand-Some can easily stand on his hands.
Joe Amaro had a couple of his custom figures on display at masterenglish’s table as well, including the above amazingly massive Ram Man. He also had a new character based on some Ralph McQuarrie concept art for the Masters of the Universe movie.
This concept was created as a sort of low-budget idea to replace Orko in an economical way. Joe sculpted this figure in a 3D sculpting program and was able to test out different ideas for paint jobs on his 3D model before applying the final to the figure. It’s a pretty amazing looking figure in person, and he is a cool little guy that adds some nice size variation to Joe’s MOTU collection. No word on whether or not Joe is going to sell copies of this figure, but I would buy one if he did.
He-Mike also had one of his new figures on display at masterenglish’s table, the above Gy-Gor variant. This guy is based on some cool Gy-Gor concept art from The Power and Honor Foundation book. The armor fabrication on this guy is so insanely smooth and professional looking. We’ll have more He-Mike pics up soon as he also had his own booth at Power-Con. Keep an eye out!
