New Year's Revolution

DesignerCon 2013 was like getting slugged in the gut by the collective creativity of the Internet. A lot of really cool bootlegs on display and getting to meet the resin- encrusted creators behind the pieces really brought out the competitive spirit in me. For 2014, I have my sights set on making the most hardcore bootlegs possible and won't rest until I'm choking on money and resin dust.

The first Hoodslam bootleg, Dark Sheik, had a great debut at "Hoodslam: Non Denominational Winter Season Celebrational Festivity…of Doom.....DOS!" last month. Anyone lucky enough to attend the spectacle known as Hoodslam knows that it's not exactly an environment conducive to selling non-alcoholic merch, so we were happy as hell to see them move as fast as they did. Not only are we working on more Sheik figures to help meet the demand, but we're already working on the next characters figure, scheduled to debut at February's show. While we're not going to reveal exactly who yet, let's just say you might want to lock up your goats.

When you're a main event bone-breaker like Ultimate Carlos or Mixtape, you get a dope theme song, finishing move and fleshed out backstory. But what about the opening match jobbers working for $20 and a torta? Who are these villainous journeymen wrestlers destined to wander the Mexican wrestling circuit as perennial losers? We'll be exploring this question with the next Battling Bastards series, From Parts Unknown.
On top of that, the Bastards have a rare distinction of being one of the few all-Mexican groups of anti-heroes, so taking a queue from the xenophobic world of real life lucha libre, I tried to make nearly all of the villains non-Mexicans to play up boos they would receive from Tijuana audience. Americans, Canadians, I was even able to sneak a Martian into the mix. And seeing as how these villains are basically being brought in to job to the Battling Bastards, I figure it's only appropriate they are made up of leftover scraps and unused casts laying around the Scraped Resin workshop. Sure they were built to lose, but at least they look great doing it!

What about the packaging? Oh...let me tell you about the packaging. Anyone who's ever explored a flea market or Dollar Store knows that no bootleg is complete without some amazingly bootlegged art. Since the start of Scraped Resin, we've been trying to get painter Casey Garcia to submit a piece for a special cardback and have finally bugged her enough to receive an awesome rendition of Ultimate Carlos, previewed above!

...Pagoda is coming.

DesignerCon is here

We'll be making the trip down to Pasadena this weekend, 11/9 - 11/10, for the always epic DesignerCon. In addition to stocking up on the latest resin bootlegs and finally getting to see the Suckathon in person, we'll be bringing along the latest offerings from Scraped Resin, along with some classic Battling Bastard goodness.

We had the chance to collaborate with The Mark Ultra on the first entry: Lord Demonico! Having produced some of our favorite resin bootlegs of the last couple years, it was a god-damned honor to get to work with Mark Ultra and we're extremely happy with the results.

Who is this mysterious master of the black arts? And what powers does his mystical time helmet possess? This 3.75" supernatural terrorist comes carded with a resealable bubble and features a removable resin helmet for $40. A collaboration bootleg between Scraped Resin and The Mark Ultra, this DesignerCon exclusive will be available at The Resin Syndicate booth (#512).

Viva La Parka! Lucha libre's toughest skeleton cast in two-tone resins for $15 each. This 3" tribute to the Chairman of WCW will make his bootleg debut this Saturday, also at The Resin Syndicate booth (#512).

We'll be throwing any unsold items into the Scraped Resin online store next week, so check back if you're not able to attend.

Breaking Bastards & the return of El Cabroncito

To commemorate the anxiously anticipated series finale of Breaking Bad, Scraped Resin is releasing a limited run of Battling Bastard resin bootleg figures. Breaking Bastards will feature Ultimate Carlos and Mixtape in both 96% pure blue crystal and cooking-suit yellow resins, and will go on sale this Friday at noon PST. Each handmade, magnetically-articulated figure will be fully carded with resealable plastic bubbles and will be sold blind-bag style for $50 each.

The highly requested El Cabroncito will also make his return to the Scraped Resin store, featuring a run of 8 blind-bagged figures in random colors and new header art. The first edition sold out in less than 24 hours, and priced at only $25 apiece, these won’t last long.

Head on over to the Scraped Resin store more details. Don't sleep!*


*meth joke

Battling Bastard Custom Showcase #1

While things have quieted down here since the Mixtape drop, the resin dust has been flying at Scraped Resin HQ. We have a few fun figures and projects planned for the next few months, but before we get too ahead of ourselves, we wanted to show off some customized Battling Bastards that have started to pile up in our image folder.
The first is a set of figures created as gifts for the recent wedding of my favorite cousin, Casey Garcia, to her awesome partner, Cindy Clark. If it wasn't for Casey, I doubt I would be as obsessed with action figures as I am today, as we both feverishly collected He-Man figures as children and spent countless hours pitting Eternia's finest against Skeletor's clan during our formative years. Case has been one of Scraped Resin's biggest supporters since we cast up our first bootleg, so I was determined to pump out the coolest figure's I'd ever made for my cuzzo.
The results are Mixtape, and the newest member of the Battling Bastards universe, Steve Buscemi (?!?) cast up in GID resin with black paint details, which I've dubbed "Glo-Force". Steve has been floating around the Battling Bastards universe for longer than you may think and we'll definitely be expanding on that in the near future. A big thanks to my girlfriend, Anna Morales, who has graciously lent her painting ability to the team. The detail work on display here looks great and we can look forward to much cleaner paint apps moving forward.

Both figures feature compatible magnetic articulation, allowing for wacky, mash-up fun.

This next custom is especially exciting for us, as it pays tribute to the coolest motherfuckin' wrestling show in the world right now: HOODSLAM
Hoodslam combines violence, pop culture and intoxication with a true love for professional wrestling in a way that I'd never seen before, and it's fair to say that I view having a few beers at a live Hoodslam show the way religious fanatics view going to church. After attending my first show earlier this year, I knew I wanted to approach them about making figures of their outlandish characters, and decided on customizing a Mixtape figure to show them I meant business. Using a MvC Zangief head and a new set of ripped arms I'd recently molded up, I turned the Tijuana Turntable Terrorist into the russian powerhouse, Zangiev, as portrayed by local grappler Alexis Darevko.

I'm proud to announce that Zangiev and the rest of the Hoodslam team were thrilled with the custom figure and they've given me their blessing to move forward with official Hoodslam bootlegs. I've since been amassing an army of action figure limbs, heads and torsos, assembling plastic versions of Hoodslam's depraved warriors. More info on this very soon.

Check back next week for more custom Bastards and info on this month's drop which will include some timely variations of Carlos and Mixtape, as well as the return of El Cabroncito!

Drop Day!: Secret Colorways and Bonus Swag

Only a few hours until Tijuana Turntable Terrorist, Mixtape, is released into the wild! Last update, we gave a preview of all of the Mixtape colorways, save for one, and since we're so close to the drop I figure I'd go ahead and let the cat out of the bag.

Bloody Bastard: Santo's Blood Mixtape stands guard at the bridge to hell... I mean, Sacramento.

Anyone who scored during the last Battling Bastard drop will instantly recognize the silver bullet and blood red resins dripping over each other which can mean only one thing: Santo's Blood Mixtape. This unique, supernatural variation will be go to a customer chosen at random during tonight's drop, so good luck and may Santo bless you.

Battling Bastards vs. G.I. Joe: A sign of things to come?

And as a bonus to everyone who places any order within 24 hours of tonight's drop, we're throwing in a limited edition Mixtape filecard done up in the classic GI Joe style. The figures will go up in the Scraped Resin store on tonight, at 5pm PST, so set those alarms!