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Kwinn_Lives [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 10:49 pm ]

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Kwinn_Lives 2018 customs - Claymore posted Dec 29 (pg 21)

To start the year off right, today I'll be posting a whole bunch of customs that were finished up late last year. First up is Freight.

Freight
Demolitions

G.I. Joe Extreme is, in some ways, an abomination. But with a little creativity, we can take the good stuff from the series while leaving the abominable parts behind, and new characters are always a welcome addition to o-ring Joes. Freight is one such character, and it was relatively easy to find parts that translate him into ARAH format quite well. I gave him some actual equipment instead of those silly glove and mace things the original had.

Head – Heavy Duty v2
Arms – Heavy Duty
Torso – Backblast
Waist, legs – Salvo

Machine gun – Snow Serpent v7
Satchel – Tunnel Rat
Case – unknown

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Kwinn_Lives [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 10:51 pm ]

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Iron Bear

Iron Bear
Oktober Guard General

Iron Bear was released as a convention exclusive figure in 2012, in a set which featured the Oktober Guard versus the Iron Grenadiers. Since the world needs more Oktober Guard, and the world needs more ARAH figures, I had to make this custom. The M. Bison head from Street Fighter was a no-brainer, and I'm always looking for ways to use those heads in Joe customs it worked out very nicely. The rest of the figure came together quite quickly, and I think does a good job in reflecting the original figure.

Head – M. Bison (Street Fighter)
Arms, legs – Shockwave v3
Torso - Frostbite
Waist - Iceberg

Pistol – Marauder Inc.
Baton – Sgt. Slaughter

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Kwinn_Lives [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 10:52 pm ]

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Sidewinder

Sidewinder
Cobra Strategist/Interrogator

This is a deep cut into Joe lore. Sidewinder is a custom Cobra officer I made based on a background character in a single panel in GI Joe #1, which I have included for reference. He's a bald officer who is present when CC and Baroness are interrogating Dr. Burkhardt. The appearance of his uniform is clearly modeled on Cobra Commander's action figure, so that plus the coloration made the choice of the base figure (Hooded CC) obvious. Even though we can't see the right side of his face in the comic, in my mind he's always had a monocle (much more evil that way), so that led to the Dr. Mindbender head, since it's already bald. After taking the moustache off of the Mindbender head, I found I had to trim down the mouth and chin area because it stuck out quite a bit. So I had to sculpt a new mouth as well.

Head – Dr. Mindbender
All other parts – Cobra Commander v2

Baton – Sgt. Slaughter

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Sidewinder 2.JPG [ 105.9 KiB | Viewed 2311 times ]

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Kwinn_Lives [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 10:54 pm ]

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Snake Eyes in Cobra Disguise

Snake Eyes
Commando in Disguise

This custom is part of my tribute to the classic Marvel comic issue #21, Silent Interlude, which featured the first appearances of Storm Shadow and the Red Ninjas (and the CLAW to boot). In order to shoot an homage pic to this issue (with Storm Shadow holding Scarlett hostage, Snake-Eyes adopting a Cobra trooper uniform as a disguise, and him being pursued by Red Ninjas) I needed custom versions of Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow, since I had previously done a custom Red Ninja. Snake Eyes is an LBC, he's just a head swap with the visor painted for a little extra colour.

Head – Snake Eyes
All other parts – Cobra Infantry Trooper

Rifle – Cobra Officer (accessory pack version)

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Snake Eyes disguise access.JPG [ 159.59 KiB | Viewed 2311 times ]

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Kwinn_Lives [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 10:56 pm ]

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Storm Shadow

Storm Shadow
Ninja Assassin

This custom is part of my tribute to the classic Marvel comic issue #21, Silent Interlude, which featured the first appearances of Storm Shadow and the Red Ninjas (and the CLAW to boot). In order to shoot an homage pic to this issue (with Storm Shadow holding Scarlett hostage, Snake-Eyes adopting a Cobra trooper uniform as a disguise, and him being pursued by Red Ninjas) I needed custom versions of Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow, since I had previously done a custom Red Ninja. In Storm Shadow's very first comic appearance, he is wearing an all-white outfit, presumably just for travelling since later in the issue he's seen in his action figure getup. I painted his sword blades with chrome ink to make them pop.

Head, legs – Storm Shadow
Arms – Rayden (Mortal Kombat)
Torso – Hardball
Waist – Ryu (Street Fighter)

Accessories – Storm Shadow

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Kwinn_Lives [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 10:57 pm ]

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Flint

Flint
Special Forces

In Flint's first comic appearance (in issue #37), his colouration was a bit different from the action figure. So this custom is based on that one single appearance – in subsequent comic appearance she matched the figure much more closely. I also decided to replace the original head with Night Force Falcon's head. Flint's original noggin is pretty goofy-looking, and Falcon makes an excellent replacement; I only needed to change the hair colour since the beret colours already match Flint's perfectly.

Head – Falcon v2
All other parts – Flint

Accessories – Flint

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Flint 1.JPG [ 134.23 KiB | Viewed 2309 times ]

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Kwinn_Lives [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 10:58 pm ]

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Destro

Destro
Weapons Supplier

I've been playing around lately with Molotow Liquid Chrome ink pens, which do an excellent job of giving a nice chrome finish to Joes and accessories. It's a bit fiddly to work with, and does require a clear coat over it (which does reduce the shine a bit, but without it the chrome is easily smudged by the slightest touch), but the effect is very nice. Destro is the original chrome-finished Joe figure, of course, and I thought it would be neat to have Destro version 2 with a silver mask instead of gold. And since I was doing that, additional painted details were called for as well.

All parts – Destro v2

Pistol - Destro
Sword – Destro v2

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Kwinn_Lives [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 11:00 pm ]

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Tiger Force Rip Cord

Rip Cord
Tiger Force HALO Jumper

Rip Cord was one of the pre-production Tiger Force figures who, along with Torpedo, Wild Bill and Sabre Tooth (a repainted Firefly) did not make it to the actual release. This custom is a largely-faithful reproduction of the original, but I did make some changes. Without the camo pattern he normally has, Rip Cord becomes pretty bland because he doesn't have a lot of detail sculpted into the figure. So I replaced his legs with Leatherneck's and his arms with Firefly's, which maintains the same general look of the figure but adds some interesting details into the figure.

Head, torso, waist – Rip Cord
Arms – Firefly v5
Legs – Leatherneck

Helmet, mask, parachute pack – Rip Cord
Rifle – Frostbite

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Kwinn_Lives [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 11:01 pm ]

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Sabre Tooth

Sabre Tooth
Tiger Force Demolitions

Sabre Tooth was one of the pre-production Tiger Force figures who, along with Rip Cord, Torpedo and Wild Bill did not make it to the actual release. This custom is a largely-faithful reproduction of the original, but I did make some changes. In order to prevent him from being just a repaint of Firefly (like the original was) I swapped out the arms from v3 Low-Light. This was also useful since I had used Firefly arms on my custom Tiger Force Rip Cord, so putting new arms on that Firefly gave me the base for the figure. I made sure to paint the eyebrows more slanted so that the expression doesn't look as passive as many early Joes did.

Arms – Low-Light v3
All other parts – Firefly

Rifle – Beach Head v4
Backpack – Beach Head
Satchel – Tunnel Rat

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Sabre Tooth 2.JPG [ 136.28 KiB | Viewed 2309 times ]

Sabre Tooth 1.JPG [ 149.93 KiB | Viewed 2309 times ]

Author:	2DARK2C [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:13 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Kwinn_Lives 2018 customs - a big bunch to start the new
WOW! too much awesome! never heard of sidewinder,now he's a character i'd like to make ! the tiger force guys are great and the all white yet custom ss is amazing. iron bear has to be the best use of a frostbite torso I've seen!

Author:	Kwinn_Lives [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:58 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Kwinn_Lives 2018 customs - a big bunch to start the new
2DARK2C wrote: never heard of sidewinder Can't say as I blame you, since he was a background character who appeared in a single panel of the comics. The name isn't canon.

Author:	wraith6.9 [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 1:49 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Kwinn_Lives 2018 customs - a big bunch to start the new
Great work on all of them and consider them borrowed to add a version in my custom collection. Can't wait to see more

Author:	drbindy [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 11:55 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Kwinn_Lives 2018 customs - a big bunch to start the new
Lot's of nostalgia in this thread, like finding an old Sears catalog with a year of figures I missed out on.

Author:	Mainframe [ Thu Jan 04, 2018 12:29 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Kwinn_Lives 2018 customs - a big bunch to start the new
Nice customs all around Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk

Author:	Kwinn_Lives [ Thu Jan 04, 2018 7:06 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Kwinn_Lives 2018 customs - a big bunch to start the new
drbindy wrote: Lot's of nostalgia in this thread, like finding an old Sears catalog with a year of figures I missed out on. Thanks, when I do customs I do tend to think of how they might have fit in the ARAH toy series. Glad you were able to pick up on it. More coming very soon!

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