Custom Lego The Thing: R.J. MacReady

"Yeah, fuck you too!"

 

Just remembered I had finished this.

 

And yes I made three separate figures.

 

I watched the thing on Halloween and I absolutely loved it. the practical effects are breathtaking and Kurt Russel is great as always.

 

For the hairpiece, I modified a Han Solo hairpiece.

 

The beard is sculpted.

 

The hood is from the TLG Scarlet Spider.

 

The jacket is made from a Lego pirate sail, the with the fur collar sculpted with ProCreate. the TNT sticks are levers.

 

The Flamethrower is made from a BrickArms spy pistol with another one glued on, then some other piece that I'm forgetting. It's attached with some lego string, and the two main tanks are made from two cylinder 1x1's, bars and 1x1 flat studs on the bottom, and procreate the round the top and smooth them out, the smaller one is all procreate, and the gunmetal tube is from some bad apple headphone I had lying around.

 

The pants pockets are made of sails as well.

 

I used a mix of Testors paints and Craftsmart to paint this.

 

The base was a colossal pain in the ass to make, but I think its a cool addition to the figure. It's made to look like Mac's petri dish from the blood test scene. The main base is a Minimate base, and the sides were some action figure plastic I used a heat gun on to bend it around the base. The blood is Tamiya paints transparent red.

 

All in all, I think this turned out to be one of my better figures.

 

What do you think?

 

Done