Making my Man of Evil: Part One

It has been a busy month of cleaning up and helping my daughter finish her designs for the spring fashion show, but now I am back to cleaning and working on my personal projects. I have decided to make a version of the “Man of Evil” based more closely on the back story used for the Adventure Team animated show pitched and rejected in the 2010’s. That means that the young Sebastian York was a member of the Adventure Team and the older Sebastian York worked for M.A.R.S. Even though the goal is to integrate the two characters, stories will have to be told as one version or the other, so that means two figures.

For the young Sebastian York, I started with the Australian Jungle Fighter from the Timeless Collection. For the older version, I started with a “Vince” head from Cotswold Collectibles. I knew I would keep the original body from the Australian Jungle Fighter, and build a customer body for the older York (more on that later). Since the Collectors Club version of the “Man of Evil” has chestnut brown eyebrows, I painted the hair and eyebrows to match.

For the older York, I needed to strip the hair, eyebrows, and right eye off with some acetone. New eyebrows, a scar, and a jagged white spot where his eye was completed the face. I painted the hair white and then went over it with a wash of black paint to pull out some hair texture details (because so much of the skin was visible through the white hairs when I did Adam Savage). The result looked like an angry Victor Garber!

I still needed to add flocking to match the look of the club’s version. I am still not good at estimating the mixes for flocking, and the fibers I purchased from Flockit seem to be shorter and not as thick as the ones used on the original. I also accidentally but it too much black on my first attempt and had top compensate by adding all of the white I had left and a bunch of gray to tone down the black.

So, on the technical side, it takes about 6 prams of 2 mm flocking to cover a GI Joe head (including some reasonable waste) I wound up mixing 7.5 grams of white, 0.6 grams of black, and 2.1 grams of gray to get the look that I used. Knocking that down to a 6 gram batch that recipe would be 4.5 Grams of white, .4 grams of black, and 1.1 grams of gray. But if I wanted a better match I would 9 gram batch of 3 mm flocking at 8.6 grams of white and .4 grams of black.

Don’t forget to pose your bad guys with a Kubric Stare,
And keep making this world a better place!

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