MOTU Classics - Battle Armour Faker

By now a pattern may start to appear, revealing that I'm partial to He-Man and Skeletor variants when it comes to MOTU Classics. I have given up the likelihood of acquiring a Battle Armor Faker from the DC-MOTU 2-pack for a decent price and I had a spare Battle Armor Skeletor, so I figured I'd have a go at making one. I actually started this one before the Pitfighter Faker, but as I had a better feeling about the latter, it got finished first.

I largely inspired my BA Faker on the official one, but used steel accents instead of gold ones and used purple as the secondary colour in keeping with traditional Faker colours. In addition to the armour pieces and weapons, I also repainted the hair on my Faker.

The body is one of the China Fakers, which may be factory castoffs or bootlegs (the latter theory gaining more traction). I had to carve some material of the shoulders and sides of the torso as I found out the BA Skeletor torso is somewhat slimmer than the regular one and I couldn't close the armour otherwise. As indicated, I wasn't terribly excited about how this one was turning out and I'm still not now that it's finished, but I guess it does the job.

MOTU Classics - Pitfighter Faker

Skeletor's dark side of the hemisphere is home to many blackhearted individuals, humans and monsters alike and to keep them in check, he has to provide them with entertainment to match their twisted tendencies. Thus were born the bloody pitfights in the arena, over which Skeletor presides like a king or emperor of old. The undefeated champion of these gruesome fights is none other than the evil robot of Skeletor, Faker. Wearing custom armour partly scavenged from defeated Eternos guards, Pitfighter Faker instils fear in more than one unlucky opponent who is forced to face him.

Some posing with his accessories:

This one was inspired by a custom done by Benjamin Maillet that combined a palace guard body with a Faker head and some factory testcast weapons cast in orange. My version is slightly different and uses the body and weapons of a China Faker, the boots, leg and arm armour of a palace guard and then some paint to the weapons and armour to tie the colours together and simulate the wear of repeated use.