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This model goes way back, with the figure finished in 1969! I was modeling a lot of comic book characters back then and converting anything that would give me additional subjects. This one started out as a Monogram race car driver that was manufactured when slot car racing was getting real hot and all the kit companies were producing cars and plenty of accessories and figure sets. I added the gun, belt, collar and helmet to the basic figure. The helmet was vacuum formed in clear plastic, and there is a human head inside that can be seen if you hold the figure a certain way in just the right light! I originally had this figure mounted on a very simple square base, one of many styles that I used over time. Twenty-five years after I finished it, I decide that it would be very nice to have all my 1/32 scale and similarly sized figures on one uniform style base, so I went about creating new bases for a lot of old figures. Being larger than the original, the new base allowed for a good amount of scenic detail. Since the AIM Agents were created by Jack Kirby, I tried to give the added equipment the “Jack Kirby look”, which consisted of lots of detail on strange shapes that had no symmetry and defied any sort of logical, functional layout! Most of the bits I used came from my box of Japanese robot spare parts. Figure created in 1969, base completed in 1994.  |
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I second that, and can't wait to see them!
I grew up with the Aurora kits, so your kit holds a special place in my heart's coolness scale. It also trumps me by a decade for thinking I made the first custom action figure when I was 12! I cut the head off of my second farmboy Luke when the X-wing Luke came out in the second or third wave in 78 or 79, hollowed out the helmet of the pilot, and shazam, a Luke X-wing pilot with a removable helmet like 20 years before Kenner or Hasbro would release one. Kids are visionaries! Well done!!
Now, even though there were a multitude of custom comic book heroes created from plastic kits before the debut of Star Wars, you shouldn’t downgrade your Luke Skywalker head swap. Model kits and action figures are totally different approaches to hero imagery and accomplishing a first in one shouldn’t preclude a similar distinction in the other. Your Luke is certainly one of the earliest action figure customs that I’ve heard of.
Yes, I’ve done many action figure customs, but my earliest ones scrapped the articulation and became posed statues on scenic bases. Many started as cheap, generic junk that got reworked in original creations, not established characters. I didn’t start retaining the articulation until 1988, when I began assembling a maintenance crew to service my G.I. Joe vehicles for a planned video. So, you have me beat in some respects!