Custom 1/12 Scale Classic Doomguy

What a great day to have eyes!

I would love to see what you did to convert it. Masterful work, he definitely looks like our Doomguy now 

6 hours ago, StalkerBlade said:

It's dead simple.

No. This is Dead Simple.

A vast improvement upon the original. 
Something that irked me ever since Doom Eternal came around is that they never seem to get the green color of the classic armor correct.  They make it this weird lime-green color that doesn't fit in with either the OG cover art or the sprites; thankfully, you corrected that.

Looks really awesome. Love the use of actual fabric for the pants and shirt, really elevates the look of the figure. The new arms and hands look way better, what figure did you get those off of?

On 9/4/2022 at 3:56 AM, Wavy said:

No. This is Dead Simple.

 This is Even Simpler.

19 hours ago, HorseJockey said:

The new arms and hands look way better, what figure did you get those off of?

The arms are part of the new body I gave it, it's a vtoys blank body. I tested it to see, and the arms actually have the same size ball joint as the original arms on the Mcfarlane body, so that means someone could just swap the arms out if they ever wanted to. They might be slightly out of scale, but it is possible.

The hands were from a set of mezco gloved hands I found on blackopstoys.com. They definitely offer a wide range of...interesting expressions, to say the least lol

I might as well go through the process I did when I modded it, so here it is:

Thanks for sharing the process, I may just attempt this. I love McFarlane figures but you absolutely put their Classic Doom Marine to shame with your customizations. Really fantastic work again, keep it up!

Would you ever consider selling one of these?  Now you're making me want to have one lol.

On 9/8/2022 at 10:01 AM, Robo_Cola said:

Would you ever consider selling one of these?  Now you're making me want to have one lol.

I actually wanted to make a whole squad of Doom marines, like a chaingunner, shotgun guy, plasma rifle guy, etc. but the super limited release Mcfarlane did with these, and me lacking a 3d printer is stopping me from even doing that unfortunately.. if these were readily available I’d definitely consider selling some or even doing some custom marine commissions.

On 9/6/2022 at 10:01 PM, HorseJockey said:

I may just attempt this.

I can post some links to the materials I used if you want, some of them took me a while to track down.

Damn, this looks amazing! Looks even better than MacFarlane's Classic Doomguy figure.

Awesome display of craftsmanship! You really captured the feel of the original Doom marine design putting the Doomslayer 

clsssic based design to shame.

Fucking awesome work, Stalker!

On 9/9/2022 at 1:25 PM, StalkerBlade said:

I can post some links to the materials I used if you want, some of them took me a while to track down.

That would be awesome. 

On 9/10/2022 at 10:23 PM, HorseJockey said:

That would be awesome. 

Sorry for the wait, just started a new job this week lol

here’s the links:

a vulger display of creativity, if you catch my drift. lol

seriously, it's really good looking.

This looks amazing, do you know if this would be possible with the Eternal Doom Slayer figure? This is exactly what i've wanted to do with the Eternal design and the Vtoys body but i never knew if it would be possible. 

21 hours ago, Ultimassassin said:

This looks amazing, do you know if this would be possible with the Eternal Doom Slayer figure? This is exactly what i've wanted to do with the Eternal design and the Vtoys body but i never knew if it would be possible. 

Well, I wouldn't say impossible, but it would definitely be a major project based off of what I know. I don't own that figure in particular, but from what I can tell is that most, if not all of the armor is solid molded pieces. The advantage that the classic Doomguy figure has is that the armor bits are separate parts that can be removed easily; if the Doom Slayer figure is solid parts, that would mean a lot of work to get them to fit onto the Vtoys body.

This could probably be done by chopping off the armor parts and drilling holes out through them so they can slide over the new body. That would be quite a job though...you'd also have to rework certain pieces so they would fit the size of the Vtoys body. Keep in mind that this specific figure is in scalper hell, so making mistakes would be pretty costly without a backup figure.

There are a few alternatives though:

I've seen some 3d printable Doom Slayer cosplay armor on some 3d model sites and on Etsy that could fit the new body if scaled correctly. But, you would need a printer, the armor model and would have to do a bit of prototyping and paint work.

The most economic alternative would probably be to replace the joints on the figure itself. I've seen some people use things like Figma joints on customs like this before by cutting the old joints out and drilling holes the appropriate size for them to peg into.

My last alternative would probably be to look into the Figma Doom Slayer...The price point isn't too far off from what a custom of this scale might cost to finish, so it's definitely worth looking into if you'd like to avoid possibly damaging the Mcfarlane figure. I made a post on here recently that showcased the figure if you want to check it out.

16 hours ago, StalkerBlade said:

 

Well, I wouldn't say impossible, but it would definitely be a major project based off of what I know. I don't own that figure in particular, but from what I can tell is that most, if not all of the armor is solid molded pieces. The advantage that the classic Doomguy figure has is that the armor bits are separate parts that can be removed easily; if the Doom Slayer figure is solid parts, that would mean a lot of work to get them to fit onto the Vtoys body.

 

This could probably be done by chopping off the armor parts and drilling holes out through them so they can slide over the new body. That would be quite a job though...you'd also have to rework certain pieces so they would fit the size of the Vtoys body. Keep in mind that this specific figure is in scalper hell, so making mistakes would be pretty costly without a backup figure.

 

There are a few 

16 hours ago, StalkerBlade said:

 

Well, I wouldn't say impossible, but it would definitely be a major project based off of what I know. I don't own that figure in particular, but from what I can tell is that most, if not all of the armor is solid molded pieces. The advantage that the classic Doomguy figure has is that the armor bits are separate parts that can be removed easily; if the Doom Slayer figure is solid parts, that would mean a lot of work to get them to fit onto the Vtoys body.

 

This could probably be done by chopping off the armor parts and drilling holes out through them so they can slide over the new body. That would be quite a job though...you'd also have to rework certain pieces so they would fit the size of the Vtoys body. Keep in mind that this specific figure is in scalper hell, so making mistakes would be pretty costly without a backup figure.

 

There are a few alternatives though:

 

I've seen some 3d printable Doom Slayer cosplay armor on some 3d model sites and on Etsy that could fit the new body if scaled correctly. But, you would need a printer, the armor model and would have to do a bit of prototyping and paint work.

 

The most economic alternative would probably be to replace the joints on the figure itself. I've seen some people use things like Figma joints on customs like this before by cutting the old joints out and drilling holes the appropriate size for them to peg into.

 

My last alternative would probably be to look into the Figma Doom Slayer...The price point isn't too far off from what a custom of this scale might cost to finish, so it's definitely worth looking into if you'd like to avoid possibly damaging the Mcfarlane figure. I made a post on here recently that showcased the figure if you want to check it out.

 

Thanks for the info, appreciate it!