teabelly83
Super Freak
After something like 2 years of gathering parts and funding this project i can finally show my finished Ghostbusters. These are my personal grail pieces and to finally have a set of Ghostbusters 1/6 figures is a great feeling. This project cost me quite abit of money which again was a reason it took so long to finish to but it was worth the wait.
I originally bought the mattel 12" figures but like most people were very disappointed with them interms of the quality, they were more for kids then high end collectors and the sculpts were pretty bad, especially Ray so after seeing so many great ghostbuster sculpts on the board i picked my favourites to create a set of Ghostbusters that i would be more than happy with.
Headsculpt wise i decided to go with Rocco's Egon, Spenser's Winston and Snyderman's Ray and Venkman. all did some nice jobs on the sculpts but i went for my personal favourites out of the bunch ive seen. ive heard snyderman is doing egon and winston too soon so i may even upgrade to those oneday.
Costume wise, i only kept a few minor things from the original mattel figures, but those i did keep i customised anyway, but i kept the main suit, the radios, the belt gizmo holder, the packs/traps etc, and the gloves. The suit i redyed to give it more of the a movie look, rather then the bright clean colour it was originally on the mattel figure. I also repainted the pack straps a darker green so they look more like the movie straps. I also shortened the pack hose so the thrower wire wasnt as long.
The belts are fabric web belts i bought from monkeydepot or somewhere like that, i repainted them more of a light grey colour like they are in the film, and then custom made the leather straps with keychains and hooks for the belts. For the main belt gizmo i used pieces of red wire and cut up pieces of a circuit board and made a gizmo for each belt. I painted the silver stripe on the radio's aswel like in the movie.
The boots are leather boots and i added the zippers to them too so they look more movie styled. Egon has long foot pegs and i padded them all out to give them more of a realistic shape, i especially added little podge's to Ray and Venkman like in the movie.
Elbow pads were from mando and i custom made the straps for those.
Headsculpts were all painted by Steven Giunta and look so much better in hand.
I just need to add the ecto goggles to Ray and add alittle paint to Egons PKE metre wings and maybe some stand decals.
I'll try get better photos very soon but this is how they are looking so far..
I originally bought the mattel 12" figures but like most people were very disappointed with them interms of the quality, they were more for kids then high end collectors and the sculpts were pretty bad, especially Ray so after seeing so many great ghostbuster sculpts on the board i picked my favourites to create a set of Ghostbusters that i would be more than happy with.
Headsculpt wise i decided to go with Rocco's Egon, Spenser's Winston and Snyderman's Ray and Venkman. all did some nice jobs on the sculpts but i went for my personal favourites out of the bunch ive seen. ive heard snyderman is doing egon and winston too soon so i may even upgrade to those oneday.
Costume wise, i only kept a few minor things from the original mattel figures, but those i did keep i customised anyway, but i kept the main suit, the radios, the belt gizmo holder, the packs/traps etc, and the gloves. The suit i redyed to give it more of the a movie look, rather then the bright clean colour it was originally on the mattel figure. I also repainted the pack straps a darker green so they look more like the movie straps. I also shortened the pack hose so the thrower wire wasnt as long.
The belts are fabric web belts i bought from monkeydepot or somewhere like that, i repainted them more of a light grey colour like they are in the film, and then custom made the leather straps with keychains and hooks for the belts. For the main belt gizmo i used pieces of red wire and cut up pieces of a circuit board and made a gizmo for each belt. I painted the silver stripe on the radio's aswel like in the movie.
The boots are leather boots and i added the zippers to them too so they look more movie styled. Egon has long foot pegs and i padded them all out to give them more of a realistic shape, i especially added little podge's to Ray and Venkman like in the movie.
Elbow pads were from mando and i custom made the straps for those.
Headsculpts were all painted by Steven Giunta and look so much better in hand.
I just need to add the ecto goggles to Ray and add alittle paint to Egons PKE metre wings and maybe some stand decals.
I'll try get better photos very soon but this is how they are looking so far..
Ain't nothing like that feeling when getting your grail complete and in your possesion! Great job brother! 
