When I got back into customizing a year and a half-ish ago, the first thing I tackled was the Oktober Guard. Like George Lucas and the Prequels or James Cameron and Avatar, I felt like the technology had finally arrived at the point where I could realize my grand vision, the set I'd dreamed of since I first pulled Yearbook 2 off the spinner rack at Circle K.
While the technology (i.e., parts) had arrived, my skills still had a ways to go. Since beginning this set, I've finished a couple dozen other customs.
Daina and Schrage were finished first, but they're really just off-the-shelf kit-bashes. The rest have been in various states of completion for the past 18+ months. With the forums shutting down at the end of the year, I figured I better get them ready for posting. And so, over the next week, I'll be doing just that.
First up: Stormavik
Stormy here is all about the head. It's a cast of Dominic Purcell's character from Prison Break I ordered unpainted from Spartan118. I never actually watched the show and I'm not too familiar with the actor, but he's got a head like paint can, which seems about right for Stormavik. I painted/repainted that tiny triangle of striped shirt under his BDUs roughly 700 times. Never again, my friends. Never again.
Recipe after the pics.
Recipe
Body, upper arms, and upper legs: MTF WWII US Marine
Lower arms: MTF WWII Russian Soviet Soldier
Lower Legs & knee pads: GI Joe Para-Viper
Head: Spartan118MX "261 Lincoln Burrows" (painted by me)
Beret, web-gear, weapons: Marauder "Gun-Runners"