Most of the 90s X-Men gang.

Scott Summers / Cyclops, Mezco 1:12 Collectible

This will  be my current real iteration of Dreth.net. For the longest time it was an amalgan of things, from early beginnings of teen angst and misdirected cyber-hatred in hopes of pulling a funny every now and then, to my early attempts at Photoshop and photography. I've renounced a lot of my past and it felt like coming back to the blog was a continuation of that past behavior although the current aim was not aligned at all with previous entries.

 

This is the reason why Dreth.net will entirely be dedicated to efforts related to the hobby of collecting and creating action figures, while Dreth's blog will be an archive of sorts.

Hey. Picking up where I left off back in July 2020, I decided to work on some proton streams so that the whole crew could go blast-happy.

 

 

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AZRAEL Batman Armor from Batman: Curse of the White Knight #8

This is the second time in my life I've been interested in an Azrael action figure and it's a mighty fine example of Todd McFarlane's incredible trademark sculpting. While not much in the articulation department, as sort of expected, it's still very much fun to pose.

A couple of amazing things happened this year (otherwise filled to the brim with bullshit). 1) I finally have a decent camera to shoot with. And 2) J.G. An awesome friend and co-worker surprised me with two amazing gifts, this being only one of them.

Meet Cable from the 1:12 Collectible line by Mezco, this bad boy comes with a butt-load of accessories and exchangeable hands and that oh-so-sweet light up feature. This isn't a review cause I ain't any good at those so...

 

More than 10 years ago I found a lot of online resources with concept art, storyboards and cut scenes for Batman (1989) and Batman Returns. I was baffled by the fact a lot of AMAZING things were left on the cutting room floor, which brings me to the unused poster below. I have yet to see an official restoration so  having already dabbled in upscaling/restoring with the Nintendo Power NES Batman Video Game, I tried my hand at this.

I had no idea this thing even existed and a decent scan online is pretty non-existent. This amazing piece of art was a four-page poster found in the eight volume of the now defunct Nintendo Power magazine. Archive.org has a full magazine scan but unfortunately no poster is included. Found within a Michael Keaton / Batman 1989 Facebook fan page, and thanks to Devan Gladden I was able to upscale and fix several aspects of the poster, including but not limited to: 

 

• • Re-doing the logos for Batman, Nintendo Power and its copyright signature 
• • Colorization as close as possible to other pictures of the poster itself found online 
• • Removal of creases and distortions 
• • Smoothing (tried to keep the original details as intact as possible) 
• • Upscaling for printing

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