Favorite shelf

Killer shelf plastichunter. I like all the unpainted heroes you have mixed in.

Thats actually a bootleg Ninja Arashi. Heres what he looks like complete. The licensed one is made by Bandai, Bullmark didnt make one.



Speaking of, here's my current favorite shelf. Just got the giant size Majin Sai a couple weeks ago.

 

Beautiful shelf, XVivaHateX!

 

Damn Jordan - who's that grandpa gorilla in the top right? He's new to me, but the crazy skull-with-hair-&-long-teeth knight takes the cake for me.

Connel - whats up with the smallish Barom you've got? He looks silver, pewter, or bronze-ish - no? He's not ringing a bell with me.

 

Thanks Randy, the gorilla is the ninja monkey Mashira. Those silver heroes Connel has are bootleg train station toys from the 70's sometimes called Pori figures. By the way you got me mixed up with my buddy Jordan (Geekabilly). Im Jonathan, we've spoke a few times on flickr over the years.

 

Really the auction I was looking at was mislabeled it had Arashi as a Bullmark release.. Also it wasn't complete with the red vest, but it had the helmet, which I love... I'm a sucker for things with masks... Maybe inspired by my boyhood, M.A.S.K. collection...

 

Damn Jonathan that shelf has all the toys I've been looking at lately. I just recently got outbid on a Mashira monkey on YJ. Next time I'll know to go a little higher.
Randy, the blow mold bootleg heros are one of my guilty pleasures lately. They are fairly inexpensive when you can find them. One problem is that the vinyl is super thin and often parts of them collapse in on themselves (especially the toes) but I just love the look.

 

Something old, something new, nothing borrowed, something boobed.

 

i don't think there's e person on here that doesn't love a shelf full of boobies!

 

Lovely Masked Rider collection.Condorman is top of my wants too.For once I show no interest in boobies.

 

The new floating mountain shelf I made for the living room, fully inhabited... many recently-arrived faces here...

 

That is pretty crazy

 

That's about the coolest shelf I've ever seen, and they all look so right in their mountain lair. Great work ungawa222!

 

Wicked cool shelf. How's it made - if you don't mind saying.

 

That shelf/playset is the coolest thing ever!

The moon is a great touch too. Love the whole concept!

 

Thanks, guys!!

EFH, I picked this molded hard plastic display piece up off the street in downtown Montpelier about 12 years ago. A fancy toy store there was getting rid of it- it had been a display system for a particular European brand of small, realistically sculpted vinyl animals... I forget the name of the company... Schylling, maybe? Anyway, I brought it home in all its minty green, hole-y (the animals had been superglued to the shelves, and the store had ripped them all off before putting it out in the garbage, breaking many small jagged holes through) glory with a vision of exactly what you see here in my mind. I had (as ever) a pile of projects already in progress and no good storage place for this thing (it's about 3' wide by 2' deep) in the house, so I promptly threw it up in the rafters of our woodshop... where it remained largely untouched for the ensuing decade or so, collecting layers of dirt and insect carcasses.

Finally, this past spring, my ex was cleaning out our old place (it was not high on my priority list to grab the plastic mountain from the woodshop rafters when I left), came across it, asked me if I still wanted it. The time was right, at long last, and I began slowly working it- chiseling off mounds of old glue, puttying cracks, adding various sculptural details, and hiring my good woodworker buddy Mark to cut a custom-contoured board for it to rest on. Painted it all a nice flat black (with some lightly sprayed blasts of grey and white on the skull/wart outcroppings); mounted a couple o' brackets on the top side of the shelf (hidden by the hollow backside of the mountain); put it up on the wall, loaded it with my beloved colored plastic freaks, and Bob's yer uncle.

I've had it up for about six days now, and I think I've rearranged the toys five times.
My girl walked into the room the other night, did a double take, and said, "Oh... you moved all the animals again..."
I love this woman... she naturally calls 'em animals, which is, in a way, how I imagine them... and so very perfectly fitting, given the former purpose of this piece of real estate they're now occupying...

 

I'm pretty sure the company was Schleich...

 

^^^ I agree cool shelf!!!! makes em look more alien on that type of display rather than just a plank. on another planet!!!! nice...

 

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Yes... just checked their website... yes.

 

WOW that looks awesome!

 

Fantastic looking shelf ungawa222! All the new inhabitants look great on it.

 

^Awesome Boob Guys ElvisFromHell.^

 

I’m getting some questions on this Gary:



… so here’s his deal: he’s a Yamanaya glow exclusive from 2002, lightly customized and well-traveled.
When I got him, he had a scratch on his lip; I sent him to Paul in 2006 for a lip fix, and while he had him, PK took the (very welcome) liberty of adding some sweet blue accent sprays all over him. In late ’08, during my big sell-off, he was purchased by the great scottygee. Scott was kind enough to sell him back to me earlier this year. When I got him back, I did the eye customization; cut out his molded eyes and replaced them w/ Hazel Green Glastics, then drybrushed some black chalk pastels onto the rims. The eyelash lines you see are actually part of the sculpt (and, I’ll say it again, this is one of the top three Garamon sculpts of all time… it is just phenomenally well-executed, very special)- the pastels just settled into them and made them more apparent.

 

the shelf:
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the column:

 

that shelf rules! and awesome what you did with the sloth riser.