How much is too much? My first custom creations.

So, one down, a few thousand to go!

     There's always a bit of debate among collectors.  Some were happy with the two hundred (+ Specials) that were made, some gave up long before getting those, and others wanted more.  Maybe one or two more; favorite characters who were not included.  Maybe a dozen or so, the characters who were needed to round out and fill teams that were officially begun.  New Mutants, Guardians of the Galaxy, a Lockjaw for the Inhumans. Maybe fifty more would have been ample, or a hundred?  The truth is there is no right number of characters to include in a collection of figurines encompassing the length and breadth of the MU.

    A non-comic literate friend of mine looked at my collection the other week and was amazed at the number of figurines there.  "They are all actual characters?" he asked.  "How many more would you have to make to get them all?"

    I chuckled.  "There are thousands.  There have been dozens of comics released every month for fifty odd years, that's just a fraction of them."

    Of course, you wouldn't necessarily want every two bit villain or sidebar personality that ever appeared to be recreated as a figurine.  The only thing that ever really matters in deciding where the collection should end or how much of it you need is significance.  That's an individual quality.

    I've not yet read the Exiles, so Blink leaves me a bit cold.  Yet she got a release relatively early.  But she was probably worthwhile and relevant to those who did.

    In jotting down my own list of characters I would have wanted to see, I reached fifty very quickly and without too much thought.  I've started to make a dent in that list with my own creations, even as it evolves and changes over time.

    So, here's to melting metal and cooling it down into something neat:

Paladin

He's just a neat looking guy, distinctive and was rocking that whole merc attitude long before Deadpool came along.

Warlock

A lot of fun to make, tedious to paint, and high on many want lists.  I went for a friendly, amiable look here as I remember him from the early New Mutant books.

Eon

Quirky and definitely one of the more unusual character designs in the MU, I like how this one came out.  The impetus to sculpt him came about from a want to create some of the Marvel Pantheon.

Nimrod

A villain I remember very distinctly from my early days of buying comic books (circa Uncanny X-Men 200).  I always wanted to include him and try to create a figurine which stood out as much on a display shelf as he did on the printed page.  He's a seminal John Romita Jnr design.

That's it for this post!  More to follow.  I hope you like the blog, and my custom figurines.  Please feel free to leave any comments, critique, discussion or any other notes you want to in this blog...