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Kyle Rayner, as he appeared in "Superman: The Animated Series,"
is one of the most common animated customs seen. Most customizers
use a modified version of a Nightwing head, either Mattel or Hasbro.
Generally speaking, that will work in a pinch (and I have seen some
excellent ones), but very few people make the extra effort to get
the specific details accurate.
Nightwing's
and Kyle's mask differ slightly in that Kyle's runs straight across
the top, as opposed to the "V" of Nightwing's. This was
easily fixed with Magic-Sculpt. Second, the hair is in fact quite
different. Using the DC Direct maquette of Kyle as a reference,
I dremeled away Nightwing's hair down to the scalp. I then reshaped
the top of the head and hairline, adding the appropriate single
curl at the front. The result is an accurate animated-figure scale
Kyle Rayner head.
Thankfully,
Mattel made the rest easy for me by providing their Tomar-Re figure
on the appropriate body-type, already painted. I simply swapped
heads. I did cover over the factory-painted Green Lantern logo with
a cleaner laser-printed version.
It's nice to
finally have a decent Kyle Rayner figure on the shalf after all
these years.
Casimir
Winter 2006
Addendum: Special
thanks to HutchPrime for pointing out I forgot to "remove"
Kyle's boots. Nothing a little paint and Dullcote can't fix! |