Custom: Red Hulk

[Custom Playskool Heroes Red Hulk + effect (We love effects!)]


The angrier I am, the hotter I am! Hulk or get hug by this big red monster!

Check out our Playskool Heroes Red Hulk Custom video here

This Playskool Heroes Red Hulk is another quick and easy customs which you wouldn't imagine. Thanks to the huge similarities of all the HulkssssS and since we already have a Bruce Banner Hulk with different shades of green around all the Playskool Heroes release on play set, 2 pack-figure, exclusive and other single figure with vehicle packs.

Custom Progress

So how do we start? With all the different styles of Red Hulk from so many artist out there, we started to search for our most eye pleasing "Red Guy". Then we start a quick sketch with a few outcomes to suggest if that is the handsome Red Hulk in our mind.


[A quick view of Red Hulk from the web. (left have a nice hair cut), (right shows face features) ]

After we grab some handsome faces and best hair cut we can find in the web, we do some mix and mash sketch of these features we capture and we are good to go to the next step.

At one point we don't know if adding muscle would be a good thing or consider to make it more a unique sculpt from the green Hulk. But later we decide to keep it simple, since the Hulk is also as bulk and as crazy body builded as the Red Hulk but according the Playskool Hulk is so much 'sleek' and friendlier, it should be that of Playskool Standard. =)



[Comparison: Left Hulk, Right Red Hulk]

First, we took up an extra Hulk and start removing the waist details which seems to be work like a belt with strips of clothes tied with a knot. Since Red Hulk is General Ross, "Thunderbolts" and should be wearing something like slacks or cargo pant of some sort, so we keep it plain. What comes next is important to identify if it is Red Hulk itself. We carefully shave the front and sides of his hair bits by bits, shown that the web picture from above Red Hulk have a tapering forehead.

After the "reduce", we are now moving to adding. We give the Hulk a triangle shaped style of hair cut as shown above left. There are a few key feature to make the hair cut look great. First for the army cut, we outline the "M" shaped that Thaddeus Ross have and start sculpting the spikes from the font to the back. As the spike reaches the back, it goes shorter and slightly bended outwards on both sides giving it a natural curl.



[Red Hulk view on front, left & right]

After the hairdressing, we get some brush, paint and palette ready. The picture tells the outcome of the painting and colour mixing. We put up layers and layers of acrylic paint since water colour or oil paint doesn't do the job. We also did some detail paint work, drawing the eyebrows and eyes on the right position, phew.

Lastly, the final touch would be adding a coat of paint protection. We used 2 coats of quick drying lacquer and Red Hulk is done! We control the coats on certain regions like the joint parts to have less and thinner coats to be able to move freely and thats it!

Quick and fun custom with so little changes and a decent amount of work, no Hulking yourself making it! So this is it and the progress making of the Red Hulk. Hope you guys like my concept of Playskool Heroes style of Red Hulk!

And... video is here!