Armor-Tech Rock & Roll, Armor-Tech B.A.A.T., Star Brigade Cobra Commander

Like Cobra Commander is going to trust Destro to manage Cobra's Armor-Tech division all by himself! After doing the Armor-Tech Big Bear, I was feeling a little more ambitious. I wanted to try my hand at an Armor-Tech Cobra Commander, but for this one I needed a little help from a friend of mine at the time.

Since it was not possible to open the Armor-Tech body like a standard G.I.Joe figure, we still needed to do a head swap. So he took a Star Brigade Cobra Commander, drilled the neck joint off, then drilled the head from the Armor-Tech Rock & Roll, put a metal rod (part of a thick paper clip) inside for extra stabiliation, glued the new head to the remaining neck joint, and filled in the area with modeling putty. I then matched the color and painted it. I also made CC's mask a metallic red.

My friend also molded the Cobra plate that appears on the armor. I don't recall the source. And he added the little extra shoulder pads.

It WAS possible to remove the lower arms and legs from an Armor-Tech figure, so I swapped out Rock & Roll's originals for those of a B.A.A.T., which looked more Cobra-ish, anyway. The metallic purple was a color that wasn't used on any other Armor-Tech figures, and with the original metallic blue of the figure, I thought it was a good combo.

And so Cobra Commander is ready to enter the world of Star Brigade ARMOR-TECH!