Dave's ASH Gallery - Lego ASH

Last Updated: 3/30/03

Virtual Lego Essay added.

In early February, Tony Pi pointed me at a Lego LSH page, where the Legion of Super-Heroes characters (among others) were built using a set of virtual Legos. I decided I could do it with real Legos, by cracky! So far, I've made 8 ASH Universe characters. I'm limited by the Lego people I have available, because certain parts of a Lego person scrape pretty close and I can't paint them. So, for instance, I'll need a Lego guy with a green torso and green legs if I'm to make Channel.

Solar Max: The helmet is a standard Lego helmet, with epoxy putty used to build up the chopped-down horns and the bug-eye lenses, as well as the wrists. I decided not to build up the feet, because I wanted to be able to stand him on normal Lego-style plates. The helmet is removable. I used an art pen to draw in the somewhat shaky lines (it's hard to get it to write on gloss paint).
Meteor: The first one I made, and the only one where I broke the rule that says all Lego people have yellow skin...mainly because there's so much other yellow in her costume already, and she is black. The helmet is seriously chopped down from a standard one, and is removable. I painted the peg atop her head black to represent her short-cropped hair. The visor doesn't normally glow like that, it's just something that plastic does in bright light.
Scorch: I initially tried to do the flaming hair by modifying a pirate's bandana piece, but that looked really stupid, so I just put him permanently on fire by adding putty to his head. The tunic piece I made from a thin sheet of styrene plastic, punching a hole for the neck with a standard paper holepunch. Sorry about the somewhat dark image, but the red and orange washed together when I tried to make it brighter.
Peregryn: This was the first one I used the styrene sheet on, actually. Unfortunately, I forgot about the belt he wears until after I had already painted things, so the tabard thing keeps rising up, since styrene doesn't want to stay very folded. I made his braid out of twisted copper wire painted brown.
Contact: I ran out of hair pieces, so I just molded him some out of putty and tried to make the blond hair look like it wasn't the same color as his skin. I decided to ditch the goggles from this design, while keeping the blue leggings added for the icon version.
Lightfoot: A simple design. I decided not to glue the visor to his head, so it tends to fall off and get lost. Oops.
Essay: In this case, I did glue the visor to her hair, so I could add the earpieces and extend the hair a bit. So taking off the visor also renders her bald. The gun is a flintlock pistol with some barrel mass added, and the chainsaw thing is straight from one of the old Ice Planet sets.
- Virtual Essay: Going to The Mini-Mizer, I made a virtual Lego Essay. Tried a few others, but they didn't work out so well. BTW, if you're over 18, you might try clicking on the word "Plastic" in the page logo.
Warden: More or less as he appeared in Warden #11-12. The leather jacket came from a policeman figure, I painted over the badge and then went over the white zippers with silver. The eyeless face was simple: I turned the head around and drew a mouth on the back of it. The regular face is hidden by the hair piece. The tonfa is a standard space set piece with the cup-end cut off, and I built the bundi (punch sword) from some more bits of styrene sheet and rod. I left on one of the cop's black hands and painted silver studs on it, but replaced the other hand with a bare one.
Ramjet: This was completely a mix-and-match project with repainting. The helmet and shoulder unit came from an Aquashark badguy I got from Tony, and the body was assembled from various bits, including my lone Magnetron figure's torso. The shiny thing over his left shoulder is a sword/knife. Not visible are silver conduits down the outsides of his arms.