November 22, 2001 CURRENT RUMBLE DABUL Vision Walter Harris 11.22.01 It has been almost a year since I completed my first custom JM, Garada-K7. I've been busy since them making duplicates for collectors and working on my own "fan-boy" custom creations - so Garada sat on my shelf surrounded by heroic robots, biding his time and longing for his tag team partner, Dabulas-M2 to arrive. His day has come. I've explained before that while I would love to get my hands on any one of Popy's JM villains, it would simply be for bragging rights. They're cool toys in their own right but in my opinion, the proportions are too far a departure from their heroic JM counterparts (not to mention the inaccuracies in color scheme). With my customs, I set out to right these personal qualms with villains that match the sleek and fierce design of the other JMs and come closer to their anime depictions. DM2 came together via a Raydeen torso equipped with arms and legs from a Dragun. The necks are flexible vacuum cleaner tubes and the leg spikes and other adornments are Sculpty. The heads themselves are a combination of thin folded plastic ("plasti-gami" if you will) and flexifoam. Eventually I'm going to have to give him a proper left fist and will try to work a couple of Raydeen torso firing mechanisms into the heads so he can fire missiles out of his mouth. Next up, I think I may like to tackle Kingdan X10 but a JM Big Guy has also been in the back of my mind for a while. As always, feel free to email me with any questions or comments: wharris_iv@hotmail.com  RUMBLE INDEX  |  CURRENT RUMBLE