Gray Ghost

By Tim

I wanted a fun and easy custom to make. I’ve seen a similar custom done out of a Wildcard Joker body, but I went a slightly different direction. I decided to use a new Ras Al Goul body for a couple reasons. It’s basically the same as a Joker body, since it has the same arms and legs. The torso is slightly slimmer across the shoulders, and his neck doesn’t slope like Joker’s. For the head, I used the old school Mr. Freeze head. The hat is a modified Machine Gun Joker’s hat. His cape was a mystery to me, though. A Detective Batman cape would be just too big, and the more flowy Batman capes just didn’t look right. I ended up modifying the Ras cloak since it was made to fit around Ras’ shoulders. I didn’t want to use brittle Sculpey to create a neck hole, so I fairly successfully managed to cut the neck hole out of a Detective Batman cape and glue it into the modified cloak. I had to add a little bit of Sculpey to even the whole thing out, but not enough to really matter. I sculpted his jacket breast and buttons, and evened out his collar.