Those monsters are really really cool! Great sculpting and ideas. When I was a kid I never had Transformers but I did have access to industrial garbage like metal and stuff so I got it and made bases for them that kinda looked cybertron-ish. Then the kids with transformers came to play with me lol.
When I was a kid the curse of the wererabbit movie came out, the claymation wallace and gromit one. Anyhoo, they did these cool little play sets of all the characters in diecast metal, but they were really expensive, and we were very poor, living in a dodgy part of east London. So what my mum got me instead was bakeable polymer clay, with which I made every single character from the movie and a bunch of the little rabbits. I essentially realised that through sculpture, I could have any toy I wanted.
I love this SO much. Claymation is so wild and I love that it unlocked this feeling of abundance in your creative play! Gosh, Wallace and Grommit… classic. Thank you for sharing this with me.
As a kid my parents couldn't afford warhammer (who can anyway lets be fair) we were on holiday and in the place we were staying I happened to find an unpainted orc arm on the floor. I imagined what it had come off and what battles and adventures they would have and played with it like this for hours. Yeh I can relate with the wanting straight hair thing, I've never really got my curls to work for me, yours look awesome tho!
Yesss isn’t it wild how little we need as a jumping off point for fantastical adventures and ideas?! I love this. Also, thank you, I have learned to embrace and love the mess that is curly hair 😅
Last week we had a big 40K brawl for my friends bachelor party. One friend needed a truck for his Orks. So I quickly kitbashed one from dollar store toys. Yesterday my daughter asked to go to the dollar store so she could make her own unicorn truck. 😊We plan to do it today. 🤞
@@wittlegoblin thanks! We just finished making Lopsy the Unicorn Rescue Vehicle! I did all the cutting and glueing. She designed and painted the whole thing. It was awesome!
When you also like creepy monster designs but memories and implications of the Toy Story movies have tormented you forever (but yeah, the idea of making monsters out of cheap toys sounds incredibly fun!)
This voiceover reflective dialogue is so choice. You did such a wonderful job with this. The carefree nature of carefree kitbashing combined with the wistful, maybe bittersweet nostalgia of reflection is perfect. This one is definitely one of my favorites of yours, but I know the best is yet to come from ya!! ❤❤❤
Welcome to the kitbashing/doll customizing/art toys hobby. Three quick tips I learned, Baking soda is NEEDED for a solid bond with superglue. Two, trash is shapes and free stuff to add to your sculptures. Three, every project is going to take longer then expected. But that said its always fun.
Yooo, i was poor too. No dad, food stamps, mattress on the floor poor. I like to say it builds character but really i just have a big chip on my shoulder. I resent people that coasted through their youth. Dang it. I need to vent to a therapist lol. Dope kitbash dude.
It was always a treat to pick up one of those mystery brown paper lunch bags from the dollar store as a kid! Such a fun video and got me thinking of the weird toys I was into as a child. Monsters in my pocket and dino-riders, mad-balls, food fighters oh and boglins of course ha
Is there a kitbashing award somewhere out in the hobby universe of ours? Having randomly made monsters sounds like fun for sculptures to put around the house. Cool video!
Been painting for years, and I gotta say painting dolls scratches a particularity different itch. Honestly thought about doing it as a full-time gig too 😅
Yes, Wicked City! That name is bringing back some memories. There was also a sequel to it called Demon City Shinjuku that had some messed up Monster Women in it as well. Looking back they probably had a bigger impact on me than I would have thought...
As I clean out this nightmare of a house I'm always running across old barbies. They immediately go to a friend of mine at the viscom lab who likes to mix and match and redo them and make dioramas. She can tell you what mold heads from what date to what date and all kinds of random barbie stuff like that. The dolls go into the creepy doll driveway collection (seems to cut down on random visitors...).
I remember that one of my favorite toys was a cheap plastic T-rex that was painted really poorly with outrageous orange paint, his eyes were uneven and he was missing one leg. I made prosthetic legs for him, built a horse-drawn carriage out of legos and basically took him everywhere. I've had a lot of fun playing with a toy that nowadays wouldn't have even made it off the conveyor belt.
Extremely relatable video! Grew up much the same and very much take value in seeing how I can utilize inspiration from childhood inspirations. Just found your content tonight and loving it! I recently converted a second hand Masters of the Universe Action figure into a mega giant for One Page Rules' Age of Fantasy with a Starbarians inspired fluorescent blue hair color haha. Was super fun. My Ma bought it at a local Goodwill for my youngest bro but he didn't want it, and before it changed hands to my nephew, I saw it and thought, "yeah he looks like a giant to me." Lmao. Anyway, thanks for reading my verbal vomit, thank you for your content and work, and have a good one!
Tapping into our childhood inspirations, ahh what a gift! Your blue-do'd giant sounds incredible haha, I love that! Isn't it so exciting to see something, feel a spark of an idea, and chase it down? Incredinle. Thank you for sharing with me!!!
I had a weird Mattel bendy alien toy, called Calisto. Purple and green color scheme. That bizarre figurine and his little habitat (read “doll house”) sparked my sci-fi lovin’ imagination for hours upon hours
This was a really fun video! Been checking out your videos all week and I really dig the positive waves you're putting out. I'll have to start catching your streams when I can!
As someone with long curly hair too, I can relate to wanting straight hair when I was a kid. I always wanted dark hair though, instead of being so blonde folks thought I was an albino. As a skinny kid, I could have roleplayed as an inverted and animated dirty mop. Hitting each other with sticks... no finer toys than that, to take out our aggression for not having better toys. XD
We always want what we don’t have- I feel like big crazy curls are just so “me” now though 😅 haha and yes, gotta love finding the perfect brother-beating stick
Watching this video was such a nostalgia trip for me. I grew up poor as well, never had many toys. Just some knock-off GI Joes and the likes as a kid. I never had much talent with drawing or sculpting but I'm pretty damn good with words, so I would write these ridiculously elaborate stories and adventures for them, riddled with twists and turns and emotional punches and would then enact it over the course of sometimes whole months. Once finished, I would then write sequels, etc. Maybe not a surprise that I ended up with a creative writing degree :D One of my professional dreams that I've not yet managed to accomplish is to write a sci-fi horror graphic novel--still looking for an artist, though. One day, one day! :) Thanks for the video, and keep up the good work (love what you created here with the different toys!). I can see your channel growing in no time.
My fiancée and I will pick out bundle bags of little plastic toys when we go thrifting for what we lovingly call "monster mash" where we do just what you're doing here! Some honorable mentions include Woody from toy story having his head glued onto a fat toddler body and Swiper from Dora with the body of a triceratops. It's such a fun way to be creative, thanks for showcasing it in a great video.
Thank you for this (discovered you channel by someone sharing it on insta). Especially the hairbursh-spikes reminded me of a trick, I seemed to have forgotten and you reminded me of. Now I just exactly know what to do on my current project!
I got Displacer Beast vibes from your tiger monster 😊 I don't know if you knew this already, but some of the original D&D monsters came from a packet of weird plastic creatures made in China that Gygax found. Rust monsters, owl bears and I think displacer beasts began as dollar store toys 😂
I forgot to say, I love this video and your creative process. I spend way more time kitbashing and sculpting than I do playing 40k. It's always been about the narrative and the possibilities for me.
I love this - it is so great to see you exploring your creativity, and the results look great! I really love the beast you made, he totally looks like something out of Kingdom Death. And Spider Barbie is wonderfully creepy
Woah!! this was super fun, I've never been brave enough to cut up my toys to be honest, but doing a Dollar store repaint of some of those action figures sounds cool!
As a person with long, straight, blond hair... yeah no actually it's pretty nice. I don't have to pay nearly as much attention to it. But also I think yours looks way cooler.
Oh yeah, horror anime and films really can make a great impact on young children. I remember watching Alien 4 as a kid and it really fucked up my brain (in a positive way) 🤣
I watched this horror movie series called Puppet Master (probably way too young as well) and was inspired to convert one of my sister's old barbie dolls into a facsimile of one of the creepy puppets - I wrapped her in electric tape to look like leather, and applied a corpse paint sort of scheme to her face 😂 it was fun!
Hell yeah Witty! Thanks for the nightmares!
Miscast I think this is your fault my guy looool
There’s more where that came from (also Malev is not wrong here)
Priming is ALWAYS such a magical moment when kit bashing; utterly transforms something by making it immediately cohesive.
Awesome creations!
I’m so hooked 😅
that sure is some freaky barbie, and in a good way! Very awesome build and creativity!!!
Thank you so much, Omni!!
I love this stuff,seeing what people make out of toys is always good.
Thank you so much, I’m hooked!
Those monsters are really really cool!
Great sculpting and ideas.
When I was a kid I never had Transformers but I did have access to industrial garbage like metal and stuff so I got it and made bases for them that kinda looked cybertron-ish.
Then the kids with transformers came to play with me lol.
Haha yesssss you had the one of a kind stuff 😎 thank you SO much!
When I was a kid the curse of the wererabbit movie came out, the claymation wallace and gromit one. Anyhoo, they did these cool little play sets of all the characters in diecast metal, but they were really expensive, and we were very poor, living in a dodgy part of east London. So what my mum got me instead was bakeable polymer clay, with which I made every single character from the movie and a bunch of the little rabbits. I essentially realised that through sculpture, I could have any toy I wanted.
I love this SO much. Claymation is so wild and I love that it unlocked this feeling of abundance in your creative play! Gosh, Wallace and Grommit… classic. Thank you for sharing this with me.
Been enjoying this channel as a nice alternative angle of some of my hobbies
Thank you so much! I’m feeling so creatively energized these days, I’ve just got to share it!
I would have liked to see some glamour shots of your cool creations at the end.
Otherwise no notes, keep making stuff!
Totally, I’ll have to take some nice photos of them! Thank you, I’m still learning and this is very helpful!
As a kid my parents couldn't afford warhammer (who can anyway lets be fair) we were on holiday and in the place we were staying I happened to find an unpainted orc arm on the floor. I imagined what it had come off and what battles and adventures they would have and played with it like this for hours.
Yeh I can relate with the wanting straight hair thing, I've never really got my curls to work for me, yours look awesome tho!
Yesss isn’t it wild how little we need as a jumping off point for fantastical adventures and ideas?! I love this. Also, thank you, I have learned to embrace and love the mess that is curly hair 😅
Last week we had a big 40K brawl for my friends bachelor party. One friend needed a truck for his Orks. So I quickly kitbashed one from dollar store toys.
Yesterday my daughter asked to go to the dollar store so she could make her own unicorn truck. 😊We plan to do it today. 🤞
Okay coolest bachelor party ever AND getting to make fun art with your daughter? This comment makes my heart so full!!!
@@wittlegoblin thanks! We just finished making Lopsy the Unicorn Rescue Vehicle! I did all the cutting and glueing. She designed and painted the whole thing. It was awesome!
When you also like creepy monster designs but memories and implications of the Toy Story movies have tormented you forever
(but yeah, the idea of making monsters out of cheap toys sounds incredibly fun!)
… I support Sid
😮😂
Yay new Witty vid! Lookin like some craaazy franken-minis! Those are sooo cool! Perfect project to get ready for the upcoming barbie movie!
just getting into the spirit!
This voiceover reflective dialogue is so choice. You did such a wonderful job with this. The carefree nature of carefree kitbashing combined with the wistful, maybe bittersweet nostalgia of reflection is perfect. This one is definitely one of my favorites of yours, but I know the best is yet to come from ya!! ❤❤❤
Jamie 😭♥️ thank you so much, this means so much to me
This video feels like what i used to watch 7 years ago
Great content!
Thank you!!! I’m having so much fun learning and sharing here.
Welcome to the kitbashing/doll customizing/art toys hobby. Three quick tips I learned, Baking soda is NEEDED for a solid bond with superglue. Two, trash is shapes and free stuff to add to your sculptures. Three, every project is going to take longer then expected. But that said its always fun.
Thank you so much for the wisdom, I appreciate that SO much!!!
OMG your scrumbles are amazing .
Thank you, they bring me so much joy
Yooo, i was poor too. No dad, food stamps, mattress on the floor poor. I like to say it builds character but really i just have a big chip on my shoulder. I resent people that coasted through their youth. Dang it. I need to vent to a therapist lol. Dope kitbash dude.
It takes a lot of work healing our inner children and letting go, an ongoing and worthy endeavor 💚🙏💚 you got this
It was always a treat to pick up one of those mystery brown paper lunch bags from the dollar store as a kid! Such a fun video and got me thinking of the weird toys I was into as a child. Monsters in my pocket and dino-riders, mad-balls, food fighters oh and boglins of course ha
Yesss those were the best! If I had seen one at the store I would’ve snagged it so fast. Also… boglins forever💚💚💚
Is there a kitbashing award somewhere out in the hobby universe of ours? Having randomly made monsters sounds like fun for sculptures to put around the house. Cool video!
Haha thank you, not that I know of!!
Spider Barbie is so cursed! I love her. sculpt more! your little guys are cute.
Thank yooou, I can’t stop!!
Been painting for years, and I gotta say painting dolls scratches a particularity different itch. Honestly thought about doing it as a full-time gig too 😅
UPON FINISHING THIS I TOO, WAS FAR TOO YOUNG TO SEE WICKED CITY AS ONE OF MY FIRST ANIME
It’s soooo fun. Also full-time monster maker would be my dream job. And I’m sorry/not sorry about our shared wicked city coming of age 😂
Bill making stuff has a great bunch of videos where he takes his sons toys and makes new things out of them. Highly recommend his channel.
I've been recently introduced to his work, what an inspiration! He's so funny too!
Yes, Wicked City! That name is bringing back some memories. There was also a sequel to it called Demon City Shinjuku that had some messed up Monster Women in it as well. Looking back they probably had a bigger impact on me than I would have thought...
consider it added to my watchlist!
As I clean out this nightmare of a house I'm always running across old barbies. They immediately go to a friend of mine at the viscom lab who likes to mix and match and redo them and make dioramas. She can tell you what mold heads from what date to what date and all kinds of random barbie stuff like that. The dolls go into the creepy doll driveway collection (seems to cut down on random visitors...).
okay your friend sounds awesome
I want to meet your friend.
I remember that one of my favorite toys was a cheap plastic T-rex that was painted really poorly with outrageous orange paint, his eyes were uneven and he was missing one leg. I made prosthetic legs for him, built a horse-drawn carriage out of legos and basically took him everywhere. I've had a lot of fun playing with a toy that nowadays wouldn't have even made it off the conveyor belt.
This is so wholesome, oh my goodness. That T-Rex was so lucky you found him 😭
Just letting go of expectations and crafting is so much fun. I don' play wargames either and am just in it for the painting. Loved this. #nicelyjob
Yaaay thank you so much Rey! I feel like it’s good for our brains to just be silly and follow the creative trail
I never became a huge anime nerd, but Wicked City and Ninja Scroll were the best.
Omg memory unlocked- Ninja Scroll!!!
@@wittlegoblin i wonder if there's any devils of kimon minis out there 🤔
i'm excited for the doll modding and mini kitbashing hobbies to merge
Yessss 👏
Dats a creepy spider lady, but her pet is cute!
I need to make him a friend I think!
I built a screwed up beast thing out of a toy moose not long ago and i heartily approve of this.
Ooooh I bet it looks so cool!
Extremely relatable video! Grew up much the same and very much take value in seeing how I can utilize inspiration from childhood inspirations. Just found your content tonight and loving it!
I recently converted a second hand Masters of the Universe Action figure into a mega giant for One Page Rules' Age of Fantasy with a Starbarians inspired fluorescent blue hair color haha. Was super fun. My Ma bought it at a local Goodwill for my youngest bro but he didn't want it, and before it changed hands to my nephew, I saw it and thought, "yeah he looks like a giant to me." Lmao.
Anyway, thanks for reading my verbal vomit, thank you for your content and work, and have a good one!
Tapping into our childhood inspirations, ahh what a gift! Your blue-do'd giant sounds incredible haha, I love that! Isn't it so exciting to see something, feel a spark of an idea, and chase it down? Incredinle. Thank you for sharing with me!!!
I had a weird Mattel bendy alien toy, called Calisto. Purple and green color scheme. That bizarre figurine and his little habitat (read “doll house”) sparked my sci-fi lovin’ imagination for hours upon hours
omg I just googled that, wow wow wow. SO fun!
Oh so creepy, and oh so out there. It was fodder for a young mind for sure
This was a really fun video! Been checking out your videos all week and I really dig the positive waves you're putting out. I'll have to start catching your streams when I can!
Eeee thank you so much! Looking forward to it 😌
I have been rading thrift stores and dollar stores to make scifi trucks and stuff for RPGs and infinity games. Its super fun.
That sounds soooo cool. Makes me think of gaslands, which I’ve never played but I really want to!
This is an awesome video, great job Witty! 🎉
Thank yoooou Wad!!!
As someone with long curly hair too, I can relate to wanting straight hair when I was a kid. I always wanted dark hair though, instead of being so blonde folks thought I was an albino. As a skinny kid, I could have roleplayed as an inverted and animated dirty mop.
Hitting each other with sticks... no finer toys than that, to take out our aggression for not having better toys. XD
We always want what we don’t have- I feel like big crazy curls are just so “me” now though 😅 haha and yes, gotta love finding the perfect brother-beating stick
Watching this video was such a nostalgia trip for me. I grew up poor as well, never had many toys. Just some knock-off GI Joes and the likes as a kid. I never had much talent with drawing or sculpting but I'm pretty damn good with words, so I would write these ridiculously elaborate stories and adventures for them, riddled with twists and turns and emotional punches and would then enact it over the course of sometimes whole months. Once finished, I would then write sequels, etc. Maybe not a surprise that I ended up with a creative writing degree :D
One of my professional dreams that I've not yet managed to accomplish is to write a sci-fi horror graphic novel--still looking for an artist, though. One day, one day! :)
Thanks for the video, and keep up the good work (love what you created here with the different toys!). I can see your channel growing in no time.
Limited by financials maybe but not by that abundant imagination. This made me smile 💚 I can’t wait to read your graphic novel someday!!!! Thank you!
So many fun new shots and styles for this video. I can tell you had a vision for it! Also WICKED CITY, that ... that show isn't for kids at all
Hey I turned out just fine!! 👀
@@wittlegoblin fair
My fiancée and I will pick out bundle bags of little plastic toys when we go thrifting for what we lovingly call "monster mash" where we do just what you're doing here! Some honorable mentions include Woody from toy story having his head glued onto a fat toddler body and Swiper from Dora with the body of a triceratops. It's such a fun way to be creative, thanks for showcasing it in a great video.
Monster Mash! ahh, I love it so much. Incredible.
Thank you for this (discovered you channel by someone sharing it on insta). Especially the hairbursh-spikes reminded me of a trick, I seemed to have forgotten and you reminded me of. Now I just exactly know what to do on my current project!
Ahh, that makes me so happy! Thank you!
The barbie head is so horrifying! Love the variety of shots in the video, keep it up!
Thank yooou 🥰
This video was hella cool! Biker Mice from Mars had my imagination flowing as a kid.
omg YES with their little antenna woaaah
(also thank you haha)
@@wittlegoblin yes! Those crazy martian antenna. Haha
I used to take all of my toys apart and try to make new toys out of them. I kept doing it and used to steam punk nerf guns for friends
Whaaat I bet those were so cool!
@@wittlegoblin you can always try some it is fun
I got Displacer Beast vibes from your tiger monster 😊 I don't know if you knew this already, but some of the original D&D monsters came from a packet of weird plastic creatures made in China that Gygax found. Rust monsters, owl bears and I think displacer beasts began as dollar store toys 😂
I forgot to say, I love this video and your creative process. I spend way more time kitbashing and sculpting than I do playing 40k. It's always been about the narrative and the possibilities for me.
Whaaaat, I never knew that! That’s so cool!! And thank you, displacer beasts are very special to me 💚✨
@@wittlegoblin I know what you mean. I have an enduring love for classic monsters like displacer beasts, blink dogs and gelatinous cubes 😁
Yo, those turned out neat! I may just have to do some bashing m'self..!!
Dooooo it, it’s SO fun
I love this - it is so great to see you exploring your creativity, and the results look great! I really love the beast you made, he totally looks like something out of Kingdom Death. And Spider Barbie is wonderfully creepy
Ahhh thank you so much Ben!!!
Woah!! this was super fun, I've never been brave enough to cut up my toys to be honest, but doing a Dollar store repaint of some of those action figures sounds cool!
Here’s your sign to try 😎
Wicked City still holds up as pure nightmare fuel
I need to do a rewatch haha
@Wittle Goblin not sure how much you remember from it but ah, some parts are roooough and perv yoda is a punish 🤣
Gray Poupon!😂😂😂
couldn't resist
As a person with long, straight, blond hair... yeah no actually it's pretty nice. I don't have to pay nearly as much attention to it. But also I think yours looks way cooler.
Maybe we can trade for a day haha
Oh yeah, horror anime and films really can make a great impact on young children. I remember watching Alien 4 as a kid and it really fucked up my brain (in a positive way) 🤣
One person may call it trauma, I call it… destiny 😅
I watched this horror movie series called Puppet Master (probably way too young as well) and was inspired to convert one of my sister's old barbie dolls into a facsimile of one of the creepy puppets - I wrapped her in electric tape to look like leather, and applied a corpse paint sort of scheme to her face 😂 it was fun!
Hahaha omg I love this… what did she think?!
@Wittle Goblin I think she was kind of creeped out but thought it was pretty cool too haha
Love your work! Love seeing more women in the hobby.
'Critical roll, not gender rolls'
*finger guns out*
Ayyyyy 😎
Wicked city?? Omg 😂 what dark soul showed you that?
Our dad found a box of "cartoons" at a yard sale... oops!
@@wittlegoblin holy shit 🫣
the dollar store off brand He-Man toys were bad ass back in the day
hell yeah
After watching this I went on a internet deep dive trying to find if anyone had those early 90s generic barbarian toys, but no luck so far
monstrous women are SO cool
Yep. All of us Aussies are Awesome. Heh.
Women are generally a mystery to me. Period. Your mind though, is a true marvel. 😃😆👍
Come on Witty lets go Party
Nice work
Thank you!!
By God! Me me me me me me me! Do something!