Halloween Challenge - October 2016 (x21)

[MsBig]

*********I will be giving a prize, either one of my *for sale* custom figures or a box of figure parts, whichever the winners prefer, for my favourite one or two pieces!********

**********Also prizes from msperoxideluv for a general favourite and a Spike or Dean Winchester themed favourite.***********


Halloween Challenge - October 2016

You are invited to participate in the Halloween Challenge this year. This is a cross-genre challenge - a single challenge thread for both Joss and Non-Joss properties. Just anything Halloween themed, spooky, or macabre.

*********Note: This challenge is open to anyone, even people who don't usually customise figures. You can enter any kind of craft that you have made for Halloween. Please include info on how you made it.********

Send the customs to MsBig. I will then reveal the customs in a Halloween Challenge during the whole month of October. Kind of like an advent calendar, where a new custom is revealed every 3-4 days, depending on how many we have in total.

********You can continue submitting entries until the end of October!********

Feel free to post any comments in this thread.


Advent Calendar Gallery

***SPOILER WARNINGS - If you haven't seen "Stranger Things" Season 1 or "Game of Thrones" Season 6***


October 1st - "Alien" Caught-in-Her-Underwear Ellen Ripley




October 2nd - Teen Titans "Raven" (Monster High Style)




October 3rd - "Game of Thrones" Ignoble-Ending Tywin of House Lannister




October 4th - "Stranger Things" Eleven vs. Demogorgon




October 7th - "Monster High" Lily Munster




October 8th - "Game of Thrones" Feeling-Her-Age Melisandre




October 9th - "Penny Dreadful" Beloved-Know-Your-Master Vanessa Ives




October 10th - Haunted Baby Doll




October 15th - Nina Cortex and Uka Uka




October 16th - "Game of Thrones" The-Bear-and-the-Maiden-Fair Brienne




October 17th - "Supernatural" Dean Winchester in Hell




October 22nd - Laylamon: Digimon Fusion




October 23rd - Evil Gumball Machine




October 24th - "Game of Thrones" Hold-the-Door! Hodor




October 25th - Scarecrow




October 26th - "Bride Of Frankenstein" Monster High Doll




October 27th - "Penny Dreadful" Lily Frankenstein (Season 2)




October 28th - "Supernatural" Demon Dean




October 29th - "Reptile Boy" Machida




October 30th - Buffy’s Shadow Caster in a Jar




October 31st - "Supernatural" John Winchester (Yellow Eyed Demon) and Passed out Dean

[msperoxideluv]

OMG Sash, I was just going to PM you about this. I will be happy to again pick my personal favorite and give them a gift for their hard work. Or maybe more than one- Best Overall fave and Best Buffy/Supernatural.
The gifts could be general Halloween, Buffy, Supernatural themed, Spike/Jensen -it might depend on the custom... LOL... If OK with you Sash. However, I am in as Halloween is my fave holiday. And I want to encourage forum members to keep customizing! It is an ART. And I am happy to support in my small way. Rock on customizers!

[Roadie]

I might be doing a commission for another large diorama but if I have the time then I will definitely try to make some things for this again

[msperoxideluv]

I hope everyone will give this a shot~! It's so much fun. And with all the Halloween stuff available (at least in US), let your imaginations run wild!

[Customizer452]

I'm so excited! Its like the good old days! This is going to be epic!

[msperoxideluv]

Bring it on everybody... October is just next week~!! That's actually pretty scary!

[MsBig]

Keep them coming, guys! You can continue submitting entries until the end of October.

[MsBig]

Here's the first entry from me:


October 1st - Caught-in-Her-Underwear Ellen Ripley









Alien (1979)

• After sole-survivor Ripley blows up the Nostromo and then undresses for hypersleep on the escape shuttle, she realises that the alien has followed her on board!

I'm keeping her for a while, but she will be in a 10 day auction on eBay from 14th November 2016

Recipe - Thanks for the Parts!

• Spacesuit Ripley figure, Alien3 Ripley torso and arms, and Alien Warrior parts (NECA Toys)
• Lost Shannon legs (McFarlane)
• Deluxe Buffy hands, axe, and wall stand (DST)

Sculpt - Halloween Special, October 2016

• Repositioned and reshaped body parts to a defensive position
• Sculpted hair, vest-top, and underwear
• Added metal effect mesh, hanging spacesuit, and Alien body parts to stand

[Customizer452]

Wow! I love her! Great work! Both sexy yet tough! I love the stand and the concept with the Alien coming around it! Amazing!

[MsBig]

This entry is from Customiser452....


October 2nd - Teen Titans "Raven" Monster High Style

So I have always been a huge fan of Raven, so this felt like a fun time to make a monster high doll of her. I made her from one of the random monster high dolls, I honestly do not remember her name, it’s the ghost one. Anyway, I cut her hair to resemble Raven’s shorter hair, I repainted her face completely. I designed the cape from an old black skirt, that I painted with metallic purple pain. I repainted the accessories to fit the look, and added some power ball/energy things cause, well, why not. And since I wasn’t sure if she was creepy enough on her own to be Halloween I added a extra skeleton to make it a little darker! Here she is, hope you like her!







Thanks for looking!

[msperoxideluv]

Welcome to October Everyone!! Sash as always there are few words to express how amazing your work is!! Great concept.. loved Ripley in that scene so vulnerable in her skivvies, yet so strong. Smooth sculpt and paint flawless. Just wonderful.

And Customizer 452 - I just love her- elegant yet creepy! She's really striking. Don't know much about Teen Titans..LOL.. But, she's really impressive. Tell us about the house in the back.. Did you make it? You are a gamer~!

ROCKTOBER Has Begun! Hmmm... Spike or Dean anyone? Or Glenn from TWD perhaps just throwing it out there...
This is my favorite time of the year on the forum!
Show us what you got!

[MsBig]

The next entry is from me.....


October 3rd - Ignoble-Ending Tywin of House Lannister









Game of Thrones

• 4.10 "The Children"
• Tywin finally pushes his son, Tyrion, too far and gets shot through the gut and the heart while in the privy

For Sale - £100 plus P&P

Recipe - Thanks for the Parts!

• Tywin head and Ygritte arrows (Dark Horse)
• The Crow torso and arms (NECA Toys)
• Sin City Yellow Bastard legs (NECA Toys)
• Buffy wall stand and candles (DST)
• Charmed bench (SOTA Toys)

Sculpt - Halloween Special, October 2016

• Repositioned body parts to a sitting position, assembled with pins, and pinned to stand
• Sculpted robe and the joints for neck, arms, and legs
• Printed wall and floor effects for stand




Charles Dance and Sigourney Weaver Reunited!

[Customizer452]

I love him! He looks super realistic! Love the pose and Base! Great use of parts! Love it!

[MsBig]

This entry is from Customizer452:


October 4th - "Stranger Things" *SPOILER*................



Eleven vs. Demogorgon

So I’ve quickly become a huge fan of the Netflix original show, and when I saw this scene, I just knew I had to do a custom of Eleven! I made this a mini to go along with some of the mini figures I’ve made in past challenges. Eleven was a bit hard because I needed to find a small girl face with no hair. I wanted to sculpt it all from scratch, but for the scale I just knew I my fingers couldn’t work that small. Luckily I found a mini princess and the frog figure that was the right scale. I filed down her hair, and changed the arms, from the waist down she is all an original sculpt. Same with the monster. I made the base from a Angel stands, just cut it down and decorated it to look like the school.

Here is the whole custom



Here is a close up on Eleven



And here is a picture of the custom next to a bottle of paint to show scale.



Hope you like it!

[MsBig]

This entry is from Customizer452:


October 7th - "Monster High" Lily Munster

So this is my new Monster High doll. I always wanted to make a Lily doll, especially after I made a bride of Frankenstein, and Morticia Addams for past Halloween challenges. I had a extra monster high doll that’s skin matched the official Lily figure. Then I re-painted the face and glued the hair. Then I found some material that matched her dress and that was that! Hope you like her!



Here is a Black and White, to kind of look like the original show. Just for fun.

[MsBig]

The next entry is from me....... ("Game of Thrones" Season 6 Spoiler!)

October 8th - Feeling-Her-Age Melisandre







Game of Thrones

• 6.1 "The Red Woman"
• Melisandre is feeling her age (over 200 years) after Stannis is defeated, and takes a rest from maintaining her youthful glamour

For Sale - £100 plus P&P

Recipe - Thanks for the Parts!

• Tywin head and random hands (Dark Horse)
• Sin City Yellow Bastard figure and the Crow dressing table (NECA Toys)
• Charmed floor stand (SOTA Toys)

Sculpt - Halloween Special, October 2016

• Altered nose, cheeks, and position
• Sculpted old body and hair
• Created bronze mirror and necklace of R'hllor

[msperoxideluv]

Yikes, that last one is truly scary and saggy, Sash! LOL! Wow... amazing sculpting.. you've being doing some really creative work here.. Kudos!

[MsBig]

This entry is from Customizer452:


October 9th - "Penny Dreadful" Beloved-Know-Your-Master Vanessa Ives

I’ve become obsessed with Penny Dreadful, and I love Vanessa Ives so much! This scene changed my life and so I had to make a doll of her and the puppet! I made Vanessa from a random Barbie. I made the puppet out of a happy meal toy, and a mini doll. I made both dressed, and also constructed the stool for the puppet to sit on.

"Beloved, know your master."



Here’s a full photo of them.



Close ups of them.



Hope you like her!

[MsBig]

I don't usually have time to comment as well as make my own and organising the posting of them all, but I have to make a quick one....

Jay has been doing some great work again this year, but I think this "Penny Dreadful" piece is phenomenal. The concept is wonderful and, in the second photo, she looks just like Eva Green! It's making me want to start watching PD again!

[MsBig]

This entry is from Customizer452:


October 10th - Haunted Baby Doll

So I made this doll out of a normal baby doll. Started with scooping out its poor little eyes. (That felt creepy to do.) Then I cut out the plastic behind the eyes, so it would be hallow. I used an exacto knife to slice holes into the dolls face to make it look chipped. Then with some pastels I filled the cracks with a dark brown to make them more noticeable. Then took a dark color around the eyes to make it look more hallow. I painted the inside of the dolls head with black to give it more dimension. I finished the dolls head off with a light white pastel to make it look pale. I made the body dirty with the same pastels. After the paint job was done, I shoved a LCD candle into the body of the doll into it’s head to give it a glowing aspect to add a little more of a creepy look.

Here is the doll.



Here the doll is with the light on.



Hope you like it!