Here's a couple of vehicles I'm working on.

The Stinger is a Stinger and will be a Cobra urban assault vehicle. The missile rack is from a Snow Cat. I tried to use the same camo patten as the Tiger Force Tiger Sting. I used a black Sharpie for the black stripes for now, but I will be painting them and then putting a sealer of some kind on there. I'm actually thinking of using a matte sealer instead of flat. The grey didn't blend quite as well as I'd have liked like the brown on the Tiger Force colour scheme, but it's not too bad. I'm planning on using a set of decals from CobraStickers that would normally be used for the Rattler 4x4 since they are a greyish/silver and will show up better on the colours that I used. I do have a front push bar on the way. I need to come up with a name for this thing though. I was going to call it the Tiger Sting, but apparently that name was already in use by Hasbro's vehicle before I could come up with it. Any ideas for a good name?



This vehicle is basically complete and finished, I'm just waiting on the windscreen wiper from the same guy from whom I bought the Stinger's push bar.
It is based on the Snow Cat (the donor vehicle for the missile rack on the above Stinger) and that's as much as I'm going to reveal about it until I can post an official custom gallery entry. I'd have submitted it already, but the lack of the windscreen wiper would drive me nuts in the pictures.
Yes, there is a bit of cracking in the paint. I painted it a shade of green but that was too dark and the black parts wouldn't contrast enough so I got a different shade of green. I didn't notice right away that it was actually primer and primer doesn't like to adhere to paint so well. Oh well, I think it gives the paint some character.
The only mod I think I may make to it after this is to cut out the forward foot rests inside the cab so it will accomodate 25th figures. Probably not though.


Freaky Goth Girl? Misfits fan? No, this will actually be a custom of a very dear friend of mine, I just need to find the right flesh coloured paint and figure out how to shave off that red patch on Scarlett's shoulder. I also need to shave the rest of the stuff and basically whittle it down to an almost nekkid body as she is going to be scantily clad. The hair needs to be fixed so it sit on her head better. The "skirt" is the top of PP Baroness's skirt/jacket thing. If I can't make that look right, I talked to ol' boy over at Urban Rev and he's going to hook me up with a skirt and a jacket for this figure.


Now this guy...
Seriously? Anybody know how to fix this sevear case of scholiosis? This is Sgt. Stone fro the RoC SRO pack and he looks OK wearing his vest, but without...YIKES! The hardest, meanest Drill Instructor on Parris Island couldn't get this guy to stand up straight.



Thank you Bcost for the next two:

Sea Duty Marine:


"Wheelhouse" the Flagg helmsman:

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The freaky goth girl looks cool, you should leave her as is, just paint her black like the rest of her outfit.

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I've carved down a few 25th Scarletts. To take down that shoulder padding, and get it to look right, you'll have a hole to patch up. I wanna see Freaky Goth Girl, when she's finished.

I've had a few figures with stuck mid torso joints, but usually not that bad. Basically, when the upper torso was welded together, the process also worked on the slot where the connecting piece rides. It displaced just enough plastic, to get it stuck in place. Usually, they can be freed up with just brute force. You might have to crack the torso, to get it loose, and clean up the slot it rides in.

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I like the vehicles best. Great idea, those stripes in Cobra colors. It looks very cool in blue + black.
I'm curious for the Snowcat custom.

Tim 121RVC

I'm digging the work you're doing here, boss. Any chance that we could get a couple more angles on the Snow Cat conversion?

Good stuff. Lots of detail in the ARAH figures that makes them really work well.

Dang - you're making me want to buy a friggin' Snow Cat now

Awesome stuff - the vehicles especially.

For the SGT Stone problem, I'd maybe soak the torso in some hot water and try to loosen it. Does he twist at all? I've had that problem with female 25A figs (Scarlett and LJ) and the hot water trick seems to fix it up without making it too loose or breaking the peg.

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I'm waiting on the wind screen wiper and I'll get more pictures posted and an entry into the Customs Gallery. I just wrote up the description for it last night. I'd take some more pictures, but to have it be incomplete and have posted pictures would drive me nuts.



I'll give that a try. I put the Pit Commando's LBV on him and it's not as noticable, it just looks like he's standing with an attitude. After watching the Boil and Pop video and seeing that microwaved boiling water seems to work a lot better than stove top boiling water, I'm anxious to try this.



I got a female torso from Tri-Gate, so this particular character is going to get a different body and this body might become my custom Zarana.
I painted the head with some flesh coloured paint leaving the slightest bit of dark around her eyes and it looks pretty decent.
Much as I'd love to use that Baroness hair because it has the same colour and style as the real subject's, I'm going to end up using RoC cover Girl's simply because it fits fits a whole heckuva lot better. I cut a slot in the top of the head like a production head and it fits nicely. I also cut a bit away from the back of her neck socket so she can look up instead of checking out her boots.

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I'm waiting on the wind screen wiper and I'll get more pictures posted and an entry into the Customs Gallery. I just wrote up the description for it last night. I'd take some more pictures, but to have it be incomplete and have posted pictures would drive me nuts.



I'll give that a try. I put the Pit Commando's LBV on him and it's not as noticable, it just looks like he's standing with an attitude. After watching the Boil and Pop video and seeing that microwaved boiling water seems to work a lot better than stove top boiling water, I'm anxious to try this.



I got a female torso from Tri-Gate, so this particular character is going to get a different body and this body might become my custom Zarana.
I painted the head with some flesh coloured paint leaving the slightest bit of dark around her eyes and it looks pretty decent.
Much as I'd love to use that Baroness hair because it has the same colour and style as the real subject's, I'm going to end up using RoC cover Girl's simply because it fits fits a whole heckuva lot better. I cut a slot in the top of the head like a production head and it fits nicely. I also cut a bit away from the back of her neck socket so she can look up instead of checking out her boots.

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I really like the Goth Girl head.

At first I thought the hair was up too high on the head but after a few minutes of staring at it I think it is because she has no eyebrows that it looked like that to me when I first saw it.

Makes it eye catching and draws your attention.

Actually her hair is sitting a bit high, it doesn't sit on her head because the lower part is sitting on her shoulders, so there is a bit of space there. I'd cut that hair a bit to make it fit, but I've also got another hair pice that I may use becuase it fits better.

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So the "Freaky Goth Girl" got repurposed to a different custom and that character is waiting on a torso from Tri-Gate (or what ever their calling them selves these days), but I plan on using that same Freaky Goth Girl head on the new torso. Just so I won't have that head rolling around loose, I put it on Cover Girl's body and with some work, it doesn't actually look bad, especially with the Cover Girl hair.
The head, by the way, is Clone Wars Aurra Sing. And I never realized what the paint looked like until I took this picture. Got some serious touching up to do I'm thinking.


And here's my guy with scholiosis:



I tried what Chief suggested and boiled the torso, but that piece that connects the two torso halves wasn't moving for anything so I ended up cutting it and having to glue the two halves of the torso back together. I stuck a screw driver in there and couldn't get that piece to budge. Oh well, the figure will never do the Twist. He's a head banger anyway.
One down side to the boiling thing is that it really loosened his legs at the hips. I used some Green Stuff for the straps that hold his thigh holster and sheath in place and it adheared to the waist. Before it hardened I moved the torso a bit so that Green Stuff holds him in a good standing position.

I'm trying to figure out if there's anything else I need to do to him. Maybe touch up the paint on his face. He got a Slipstream-esque nose dot when he fell over the other day. And since this is a self custom, I might need to add the USMC tattoo to his left forearm.

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OK, the Snow Cat vehicle is in the customs gallery now under the heading H.A.I.S.V. if you guys want to see what the finished product looks like and it's description.

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Did you do any mods to the Aurra Sing head besides taking off the pony tail and the antenna ?

She looks like a good base head for new female customs. Good thinking using it.

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I cut a notch in the top of her head like the production female heads have to accomodate they post mounted to the inside of the longer hair.

And painted it.

That hair in the picture isn't mounted to the head yet, I just kinda put it there for the photo.

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