H-Man's WCW Galoobs - The British Bulldog - Pg 10

[H-Man]

Mar 11, 2017 19:59:40 GMT -5 spydermonkey said:

Belts look great, what material are they printed with? Cant wait to see more

Many thanks! I think it's acrylic. Lots more to come. :-)

[Deleted]

Can you enlarge the belts for bigger figures? Or did you design them to just be printed at a certain size?

[crashholly2002]

those belts looks amazing, i bet they'd look great on Mattels

[robbutler01]

AWESOME!!!!
following you on insta

[vandamin8or]

Your creativity is off the chart. I will be following you on Instagram. Great stuff

[H-Man]

Its been a long time coming (Started in December 2016) and lot of messing around with sharp tools and really messy Chemicals, but here they are... THE ROAD WARRIORS!
Lets face it, they should have been in the original WCW Galoob line up, and I have no doubt that they would have been if they had not left for WWF in late 1990. So it was always my intention that one day I would create my vision of what we might have got.

A lot of thought went into the individual build of these figures and how they would look on their own, as well as posed together as a team. I experimented with poses of each figure so they can be posed together in a way reminiscent of Photography of the late 80's early 90's era, with Hawk stood upright at the back and Animal Lower down at the front.

Not only that, each figure had to be playable in a way that the user / Player can re create their individual signature moves sets as well as being able to execute a final Doomsday device when combined.


And finally, I decided to go the whole hog and provide removable Black Rubber Spiked Shoulder Pads. Because lets face it, without that Gimmick it just wouldn't be the Road Warriors.
Hope you Enjoy looking at these guys as much as I have taking the time to research the Road Warriors and finally realize this Iconic Team in The Galoob Format. What A Ruuuuussssshhhhh!

If you want to see more of what i'm up to when i'm developing my custom figures, come and follow my Wrestling Figure Workshop here:
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Road Warrior - Animal

Here sporting trademark Spiked Shoulder Pads, Mohawk & Facepaint; Animal is a power House of a wrestler and I wanted to ensure that not only was that reflected in the figures physique & look, but also by using a pose that could allow for his signature Power slams Suplexes' and Flying shoulder Tackles in Play. (Because they are meant to be Toys afterall!)









Without shoulder Pads...











Road Warrior - Hawk

The idea for this Hawk figure was a no Brainer, he had to have a pose that looked like...well that pose Hawk would always do. With his tongue out of course.

It Just so happens that is also a perfect pose for Flying Clotheslines and Jumping Fist drops, well in the WCW Galoob Universe anyway.

His face paint is his most iconic Red and Black Combination; trust me it took a long time to decide which face paint themes both of these figures should have!









Without Shoulder Pads...

[robbutler01]

Saw these on your Facebook and instagram pages. Absolutely spot on and awesome work again. I did custom Road Warriors, cant mold my own like you do so used a Sting and an Arn with some reworking.
Keep it up.
Still hoping you'll be selling those US, IC, tag and wcw belts you did soon!

[sps]

Follow you on FB and absolutely love these, they are fantastic. Love to get some of your custom Galoobs someday if you ever decide to take orders for them.

[H-Man]

Jul 26, 2017 10:25:49 GMT -5 robbutler01 said:

Saw these on your Facebook and instagram pages. Absolutely spot on and awesome work again. I did custom Road Warriors, cant mold my own like you do so used a Sting and an Arn with some reworking.
Keep it up.
Still hoping you'll be selling those US, IC, tag and wcw belts you did soon!

Thanks Rob, Glad you like them! The belts are coming along, infact I have some new designs still to show...admittedly they've taken a bit of a backseat to the Road Warriors recently though.

[H-Man]

Jul 26, 2017 13:15:18 GMT -5 sps said:

Follow you on FB and absolutely love these, they are fantastic. Love to get some of your custom Galoobs someday if you ever decide to take orders for them.

Thanks man, I'm working on it!😀

[Jay]

Amazing work!

[The Violent Gentleman]

Great job. Love the background, too.

[H-Man]

Jul 27, 2017 10:08:52 GMT -5 The Violent Gentleman said:

Great job. Love the background, too.

Thanks very much, that background has served me well!

[Lebowski]

Absolutely fantastic work!

[H-Man]

Jul 31, 2017 5:23:37 GMT -5 Lebowski said:

Absolutely fantastic work!

Thanks man, glad you like them!

[RedDevil]

Just looking through this thread - I'm astounded how good these are; the resemble on Mean Mark is extraordinary. Absolutely amazing work!

[H-Man]

Aug 22, 2017 12:46:10 GMT -5 RedDevil said:

Just looking through this thread - I'm astounded how good these are; the resemble on Mean Mark is extraordinary. Absolutely amazing work!

Thanks Bro!!!!!!!!!

[gazwefc]

I can honestly say this is one of the greatest things iv ever seen. Id always wanted a whole wwf roster from 1989 (the year i most fondly remember as a child) and from 1996 (the year i re-stsrted to watch wrestling after a 4 year hiatus). The fact you could potentialy create yourself a figure of any wrestler you want is amazing.

Im assuming you could also create entrance ways/stages as well which would be awesome.

[robbutler01]

Where's your pics of the new luger you did? Your Instagram is great but don't punish the forum fans on here lol

[H-Man]

When I was a Kid there were two larger than life guys who to me (at that time) pretty much WERE WCW. Stinger, and of course... "The Total Package" Lex Luger!

It is worth mentioning now that this custom is different from all the others i have worked on; All of my previous customs have been of WCW Wrestlers who I felt should have been included at some point in the line. However, Lex Luger was featured in the original WCW Galoob line in 1990 but as much as I tried to convince myself to like that Figure, I never could.

The pose Galoob had chosen for the original Line you will remember had his arms set in a downward position, which to Galoobs' credit did have a sort of "Flexing" thing going on about it.
In play you could use the figure to DDT, Bulldog & shoulder tackle to your hearts content. But that's what bugged me...That move set was not Lex Luger. Luger's real life (albeit limited) arsenal was Forearm smashes, Running Clotheslines, Jumping Elbow drops & and most importantly the Torture Rack. So that was my brief for this rework; Make Lex Luger, more like Lex Luger!

So here he is sporting a Yellow and White colour scheme which harks back to both 1989 (face) and 1991 (Heel) eras of Lex's Career, as well as a WCW united States championship I've been working on...






A more accurate move set comes from this arms being raised in a Flexing pose... (Note my first prototype of a WCW World Championship belt)



It took a lot of time to work out the perfect center of Gravity to ensure this Lex Luger Custom can hold a number of different figures in the Torture Rack position unsupported.



Hope you like my take on a WCW Galoob Lex Luger, always interested to hear what you think as well as what or who you think was missing from the WCW Galoob Line in general... and many thanks as always to Wfigs members keen interest, feedback and input into my customs. HMan