This little beauty is the first custom I ever did as an adult. Sure as a kid I painted camo spots on a few vehicles or took out a back screw here and there and swapped parts, but this is the first thing I did after growing out of toys and then growing back into them. This was my childhood Skystriker. When I found this plane it was buried in my parents attic and was in terrible condition. Horrible yellowing, missing several pieces, and the wing and tail on the right side were curved from the heat of the attic and the weight of other things on top of it. I straightened the wings by heating them up and then found the missing parts on ebay. This was long before I ever discovered that a customizing community existed or about things like cobrastickers.com. I would say I did this 5 years before ever finding this website. Since I had no access to stickers at the time, I felt gray was the best option and then perhaps I could find some waterslide decals for it. Ended up just leaving it gray and having it sit on the dresser with my two childhood favorites in the cockpit. Once the new Skystrikers came out, I stickered it up and that is about the time I discovered this site and the rest is history.
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