A while back I commissioned a custom toy from the ever skilled and talented Christopher Milloy. I had seen photos of his fantastic Toxic Crusaders and WWE customs on Facebook toy groups, and decided to contact him and ask if he would mind doing a figure for me, based loosely around the IDW version of Slash from the TMNT.

Fortunately Chris agreed to do the custom.

I already had a base figure in mind. Once the whole project got going, Chris kept me posted with various pictures every stage of the way .

This action figure started out as a Ben 10 Four Arms toy. A pretty nice figure already – there are some really cool toys in the Ben 10 line.

After some nasty backyard surgery… Four Arms became a headless one of a kind Two Arms, he also grew a hard ridged spiky shell and a tail.

Posting pictures to me as he went, Four Arms slowly turned from a big red dude into a more familiar buff green Turtle from Dimension X (well his origin changes depending on which TMNT fiction you are enjoying).

Slash’s shell you can see below has been added to and you can see his whole torso transforming before your eyes.

Feet, hands and head get some work and detail. And by popular request is a giant freaking awesome claw for taking care of business.

After Chris added the various layers and changes – Slash goes through several stages of painting. Primer, colors and finish etc. Seeing the all black primer colored picture makes me want an all black shadow costume Raph from the Archie Comics.

I chose Four Arms for this custom as he has the big upper arms, shoulders and slightly hunched over look that I thought would work well for Slash.

When I saw the finished pictures from Christopher Milloy, I was just stunned – and great as Slash looks – photos on my ancient caveman era camera just don’t do him justice, in person the figure looks even better with a fantastic paint and finish to him that means he is all class and Attitude.

You can’t keep a good – or bad – turtle down, this mother is Bad to the Bone. Here he is on the old Playmates bike I’ve had since I was a kid.

While a different aesthetic, Slash fits in well with my Playmates turtles from various lines.

I’m super happy with how Slash turned out and very grateful that Christopher Milloy agreed to do the custom.

Wyrm tries to bite off more than he can chew….

Mikey adopts a new shell brother…

One final picture with my other Slash figures. Raph and Slash are my all time favorite turtles in pretty much any continuity from the toons or comics.

And we’re done.