April, 2001

    Here you are looking at a photo of a friend of mine.  When he graduated from law school, I decided to make a custom action figure of him out of a 12" G.I. Joe figure, including customized accessories.

   I did a headsculpt in Super Sculpey.  I then made a mold of the sculpt in silicone and casted the sculpt in urethane resin.  Many thanks to Tung Nguyen for some ideas for a technique to attach the hard plastic head sculpt to the hard neck peg of the Joe figure.  I hollowed out the neck/head of the sculpt to accomodate the neck peg with my Dremel, and brushed a nice, thick layer of Vaseline™ onto the neck peg of the figure.  I then placed Milliput around the neck peg, and then placed the head over the Milliput, turning the head occasionally to prevent the neck peg from bonding to the Milliput.