Managed to find a Comic Pack Crossbones on ebay and decided that fit Gung-Ho better. That left me with the black-clad Crossbones body. The only spare head I had on hand, that fit this icebox of a body, was the original MU Punisher's head. I ended up reading Backstop's original filecard during the same timeframe, and I thought "you know, that filecard paints a much different picture from what the figure suggests about the character"... As a kid he was a hockey player so rough his parents had to move to the States to avoid angry parents. In high school he was a wrestling champion because no one dared step on the mat with him. In the army, a Golden Gloves champ. This dude is a big mean badass. This Crossbones body and Punisher head reflect that. And I had this extra helmet in strange colors from Raginspoon, that if I cut out the visor and part of the "face" of that helmet, could work as a modernized take on Backstop's helmet.
So here we are.
I'm not sure where to go from there, though.
Thinking about keeping the helmet this base color and just adding painted details to it, because I have to stretch it to fit the head, and painting the kneepads to match the helmet. And maybe add a tattoo of the Montreal Canadiens logo on one of his exposed forearms, given his hockey and Montrealer background.
Thoughts so far? I keep being plagued with second thoughts with this project....
(I think the biggest challenge will be finding a tank he can actually fit in, ultimately)
