When I made my last two dog-men citizens of planet G'newt, it was mostly just to get some use out of otherwise unusable parts. My girlfriend's kid has an interest in my hobby, however, so when she took a gander at "Poopy" Rodriguez, she immediately let it be known that I should have made my doggy baseball player a Giant... she and her mom are big fans. So somehow I got manipulated into promising her own G'newtian dog-man action figure that's also a San Francisco Giant to her.

So I popped onto Ebay and found myself the cheapest Starting Lineup Giants figure I could find, which turned out to be Will Clark. I don't really recall where I got the dollhouse miniature dog. I could've sworn that I got it on Ebay around the same time to build this custom, but I can't find any record in my past purchase history on Ebay, so maybe I picked it up at Talbot's Toyland.

First I threw Will Clark into a pot of boiling water and separated his body. Once that was done, I popped Will Clark's head in a vice and cut off his baseball helmet with my trusty hacksaw. Then I turned the head around and chopped off Will Clark's neck as well. Will Clark has seen better days. I sanded both the top of the neck, and the bottom of the helmet, smooth, then I drilled and dremeled out the underside of the baseball helmet, so that it would better grip to the curvature of the dog's head. Once that was done, I filled in the cavity under the helmet with Gorilla Glue and placed it on the dog's head, then I clamped it while it dried. Once I had a helmet-wearing dog, I chopped off the dog's head, sanded the bottom smooth, and attached it to the Will Clark neck joint, holding it in place initially with nail through the center, and sealing again with Gorilla Glue.

At this point the basics of the body were done. Now it was just a matter of handling the details. I used Magic Sculpt to put the fur texture on the arms and the front of the neck, then I chopped a tail off of one of my many headless dog bodies, sanded it smooth, then built a joint for it with a nail and installed it on the back of the figure. When everything was dry, I painted up all the dog parts with a spotty pattern, and when that was dry, glued the body back together with my glue gun, then sealed in all the paint with acrylic sealant.

The figure has a good level of durability to it, and the paint is staying on just fine. The figure has five points of articulation, at the neck, waist, left and right shoulders, and gaining one at the base of the tail, although it should be pointed out that the articulation in the arms is limited by the fact that both hands are gripping the bat, however if one hand is removed from the bat, both arms move independently quite well. I also designed the figure to look like the kid's dog Moses, although I don't think she noticed, but that's the story with the spots. Anyway, the kid has it now, and she likes it.