Showing posts with label HeadPlay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HeadPlay. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Mike and Mike

My two Michael Jordan playscale figures were purchased as heads only, now placed on action figure bodies.  HeadPlay and Cian are the makers.  Seen here on the blog before in other posts, they return today in celebration of Jordan's birthday.  He was born on February 17, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York.
 
The Cian figure (on the right) is not a portrait of the now retired professional basketball player.  The one by HeadPlay on the left  unmistakably represents MJ. 

Read more about the real MJ here.
 




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Friday, May 25, 2012

Black on Black in Black

A phrase I remember that was used by my car-enthusiast brothers during the sixties was "black on black in black."  In car lingo this meant the entire car was black from the top (which was often made of vinyl) to the interior and exterior.  The two older brothers were more enthused about cars but all three loved them and loved foreign cars in particular.  The middle brother's first car was a yellow and white with black convertible top 1961 or '62 Nash Metropolitan, a car with a combination American-made body and British-made engine.  This car cost him a whopping $200.  It was used, but still, $200 for a whole car that was still operational?

After placing HeadPlay's Will Smith on a TTL T2.0B body and dressing him in black shirt, tie, suit, socks, and shoes, and using my standard black velvet backdrop for his photographs, I remembered my brothers' phrase:  black on black in black.  In this instance it means black clothing on an African American or black playscale male photographed in a black background.

HeadPlay's Will Smith on a TTL T2.0B body dressed in all black



According to many of the 1/6 scale females here, he looks seriously good dressed or undressed in any color or background.

Of note, the real Will Smith is currently starring in the trilogy, Men in Black 3.  If I replace my playscale Will's black shirt with a white one and add sunglasses I could almost recreate the actor's MIB look. 

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