The Final Article: our Custom Lincoln Victim Carded Figure

 Finally I'm pleased to present our finished custom Lincoln Monsters Victim figure.

The dressed doll and the card have been ready for a while.

The delay was in finding the best blister for the card, a Lidl macaron box.

The superb card art was by Wotan Bill.

The brilliant tailoring was by Franzi E.

The sourcing of the doll, cloth and blister and final assembly by Woodsy

The Moonbase International Victim. Hope its been worth the wait.

SEARCHING FOR THE ONE

I'm positively clackered after searching for the perfect blister for my custom Victim figure.

The trick has been finding a 7 inch blister, a relatively small container when many blisters are quite big.

Well, it would appear I've found it quite by accident in my daughter's recycling!

A clear macaron box, half a dozen and it looks great. 

There are two in the middle of the bunch above.

I think one of these should do Wotan Bill's fabulous card art justice.

More Home-Made Lincoln Monsters: The Bride of Frankenstein and Dracula's Daughter

 Continuing with my custom Lincoln Victim project, I've had a crack at two more DIY figures.

The Bride of Frankenstein and Dracula's Daughter.

Not the same dolls as the Victim. I can't find my spare Mod Misses.

These are old Rexard Queens I had hanging round. No professional tailor this time though.

I may do a Mummy too.

What do you reckon readers? 

BRIAN'S NEW LINCOLN MONSTERS BY SPECTRA - X

Hi Woodsy.

Here's the special Limited Edition Lincoln Monsters Blood-A-Rama Shock Fest set.

Frankenstein's Monster and Count Dracula are faithfully restored with a few new wrinkles( I like Drac's ghastly green face!) and they are now stars of imaginary movies; " The Evil of Count Dracula" and " The Power of Frankenstein".

Included are some promotional pics and a "certificate of membership just like the fan clubs of yesteryear. The figures' box art shows both original artwork and new artwork .They even come packaged in a sleeve that looks like an old VHS rental box!

The figures are also very well built and clothed, making this set a solid value. A void in my monster collection has been filled, and my "monstrous " childhood past has been re-visited.

Enjoy the pics!

- Brian F 

Monster Base 

NJ USA

The Lincoln Monsters Re-Issue Promo Clips

Paul A kindly sent me this top clip a while back and it fits neatly into our current them. I think these are the same figures, from Spectra-X, that Brian at Monster Base has bought.

Intriguingly the girl Victim appears briefly in the film too!

I've since found a more recent clip from two months ago.

What do you think readers?

Victimised!: Re-creating a Lincoln International Monsters Victim Doll

 This is a story that goes back a good few years. Parts have been blogged, some parts not.

This is the whole story.

Always a monster nut I loved monster action figures as a kid. Figures like Lincoln International's classic monsters. 

So a while back I was amazed to see a strange girl doll on Plaid Stallion's Lincoln Monsters page (pictured).

What?

The rare 1970's doll was called The Girl Victim, a risky choice given that Aurora ran into a lot of trouble with the same named kit ten years earlier in the 60's.

Image: property of Lincoln Monsters.com

Just over two years ago I thought I'd actually found the doll in a Selby charity shop but this was a big red Sindy herring.

 https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2022/09/sometimes-great-motion.html

Then I saw that Plaidstallions had already ID'd the real doll, a mini vintage Barbie called Mod Miss.

https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/modmiss.jpg

Now I had a name to go on!

 I searched and searched and eventually got this bagged Mod Miss from Italian Ebay. 

I was chuffed!

The game was on. I could maybe make my own Lincoln Victim figure after all!

All I needed was the right material. I sampled one of the pictures online and sent this image to an online cloth printer. I kept it economic by simply ordering a napkin.

The result was excellent, although I worried it wasn't enough material.

I asked our good friend Franzi E, a trained tailor in Germany, to do a favour when we visited last month and have a go at making the doll's onesie.

I needn't have worried. Franzi made such a great job of the little outfit that there was material left over! 

Complete with lace trim here's Franzis fabulous work.

The next job was the backing card. The original never had one, a loose doll in a Spiegel catalogue box of monsters.

I asked Wotan Bill what he'd do and he kindly produced this first fabulous draft inspired by the poster for Dementia 13.

After some discussion and a few changes Bills final artwork was terrific.

With the doll, the suit and the artwork, I added one final touch - and inspired by Auroras Frightening Lightening kits - some Glow in the Dark paint on the doll's exposed parts. 

All that remained to do was put everything together.

Bill's artwork glued on card [my lack of proper post-glue smoothing let it down i think]

My doll with Franzi's suit on the card.

And finally, a blister I found.

Eh, voila! 

Our custom MoonBase International Victim Doll.

And so we've come full circle. Job done! It's been monstrous fun! 

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Final observations: 

The blister's temporary until a better one turns up. The Glow in the Dark paint worked - pictured below. I went on to find three more proper Mod Miss's in a Selby Charity shop! 

By way of comparison, here's BKC's, a professional German customiser's version of the Girl Victim, along with a few of his other many customs.

I don't think ours is too far off the mark after all. What do you think readers? 

IN SEARCH OF A MODERN MISS

 Back in September I found a £1 doll in a Selby Charity shop.

Immediately I thought it was this, the notorious Lincoln International Girl Victim so brilliantly described by the Plaid Stallions site, but alas, no.

Searching the net for a proper one I discovered it would be a very dear exercise indeed to own this exact toy with the correct clothes, costing well over £200 on Ebay for a loose one or over £100 for an example on a professionally produced custom backing card [for example BKC].

Could I do it myself? Make a Victim? Taking my cue from Plaid Stallions' identification of the doll as a cheapo Sixties 'Mod Miss' by Jaeger I began searching Ebay around the world for one of these and to my astonishment found this bagged example in Italy. 

£19 later, it arrived at Moonbase. Result!

I then began to get really excited, messing about printing some 'victim' fabric, with varying results, until I managed to produce a decent sample to make maybe one jumpsuit.

This sample has gone to the embroidery department of Moonbase [the Missus!] hopefully for some magic.

Watch this space!

But Lo!

Further news in this story.

Only this December whilst mooching among the Charities in Selby again I couldn't believe my eyes. There, languishing in a dusty basket among friends, were two, yes TWO more Mod Miss Victim dolls! Or at least I think they are.

Just £6 later and they too have returned to Moonbase for further analysis.

If only I'd known that Selby would indeed provide a real Victim after all just four months later!

It's been quite a journey!

Watch this blog for further developments.

DAWN OF THE DEAD: THE LINCOLN VICTIM

You may have heard about the controversy surrounding Aurora's The Victim model kit.

Do you think Aurora monsters would be popular with today's kids?

Just in case you haven't caught my earlier posts this Autumn, here's Lincoln International's own version of the Victim toy figure! 

https://ar.pinterest.com/pin/382313455850612172/?amp_client_id=CLIENT_ID(_)&mweb_unauth_id=&simplified=true

Looks like a small cheap Barbie to me but Plaid Stallions have ID'd the doll exactly as a Dawn knockoff called Mod Miss.

Check out this page and thread and see what you think readers.

http://www.plaidstallions.com/racktoys/lincolnvictim.html

http://megomuseum.com/community/showthread.php?76105-The-Victim-Mystery-Solved

Just who are Spiegel?

More to come on this story!

I'M A FASHION VICTIM

Well, my current Lincoln obsession, the Victim, as mentioned the other day, took one further step today, when I received a package in the post.

Last week I rang a local Charity Shop and explained that as I am currently off work ill with a severe sore throat and cough that I could not come by to pick up the green clothed fashion doll I had had put to one side for me, a doll I hoped would go some way towards creating my own Lincoln International Monsters Girl Victim. Maybe she had on the same green jumpsuit at least!

Costing just £1, said Charity doll arrived today and here she is, a Sindy clone with a flower power outfit.

Alas, Miss. Charity is nothing like the real thing, but I wuz chuffed anyway. Its old and flowery at least!

Now I admit that the idea of a girl victim as part of a toy monster line is very unsavoury nowadays and is certainly of its time, but the actual 1970's Lincoln Victim doll, like her earlier and controversial Aurora counterpart, is the stuff of legend among monster collectors like me.

As a kid I had many monster toys. They were my favourites, with space toys a close second. Among them were all manner of rubber body parts and plastic figures like AHI and Lincoln monsters.

As a collector and toy dealer I've bought in and sold quite a few over the years. I only found out about the victim much later and the toy's always intrigued me ever since.

Using my new Charity doll here's a cheapo mockup of a bagged version. A meagre effort I know but done just to keep me entertained this cold and windy Wednesday and one small step further in my quest.

With enough skill and talent some people can however recreate the toy completely and even give it the blister card it never had.

One such professional is BKC Toys, who have produced an amazing Lincoln Girl Victim, apparently using an original figure and jumpsuit. It just shows you what can be achieved by dedicated toy enthusiasts.

See what you think!

Sometimes a Great Motion

Sometimes ( often! ) I get a bee in my bonnet, especially when I'm off work with another rotten stinker of a school cold. I've got time for those bonnet bees.

This particular bee is called the Victim. 

This morning whilst sat on the throne I was looking at Mr. Rock on the Plaid Stallions Website and noticed the blonde Barbie knock-off they call the Victim.

I've mentioned her before on MC as she's an elusive Lincoln and part of the mystery of their monsters.

Seeing said Victim I thought, hmmm, I've seen something like her before. I plundered my brain and eventually dragged from my deepest ID where and what I'd seen.

A cheap blonde doll wearing a floral jump suit .......

To be continued!