While I finish up a few newish projects, I thought I'd keep plowing through my older stuff. These guys were all made in late winter/spring '09.

Razorclaw - I didn't intend for him turn out so much like the original, but the paint ended up looking really similar so I finished him off with the helmet. When cracking the torso, I accidentally ripped off the neck ball, which was a real pain to get back on. I think his head still sits a touch crooked. Is it noticeable?

Ghost Bear - I liked the idea of this guy, but always thought his original head sculpt was a little goofy. Thankfully, Tri-gate came up with this one. I made this much more difficult than it needed to be by cutting those orange things on his forearms off of a DTC trooper one by one and then trying to glue them on. I didn't repeat the mistake with the legs. I believe I borrowed some ideas from iwbeta here.

Shiver - I really dig the Canadian exclusives. Hopefully the parts will come together and I can make a few more. This guy was especially tough to photograph. The flash made him way too bright and washed out all the detail, so I went without it.

Blackout - One of the coolest new sculpt characters. Just tried to update him a bit.

The Obligatory Ice Viper Custom - I think the ROC version is one of the best in the line thus far, but I still wanted an updated original to serve as an officer. I may go back and re-work his head before I submit this to the queue because it's really hard to get his helmet off. I'm also planning to add the sais to his belt in such a way that they'll be removable.

Nice work on all of them. Blackout is the stand-out to me. I hope to see him at retail one day,

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I've been trying to find a good parts recipe for Blackout and keep coming up empty. I like the Zartan legs you used. That might just be the inspiration I need to get mine started.

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I dig Blackout but you need to ditch that M-60 heavy machine gun and give him a sniper rifle.

Razorclaw is just about the best use of Barakapool parts I've seen.

Ghost Bear is nice but the way his chest strap hangs doesn't look too good. It looks like it's about to slip over his shoulder.

Shiver is pretty impressive, and nicely accurate to the original exclusive.

Ice-Viper is good too.

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They all look good, but I really like that Razorclaw.

Nice update to the character combined with a fantastic use of parts.

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They're all excellent, and really well painted. Ice Viper and Blackout would be my favorites if I had to pick.

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Blackout is awesome and I really like Shiver what's the recipe.

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A nice group of customs, all well painted and look like they are from retail.
My favs are razorclaw and ghost bear

All of these are nice. Blackout has a very unexpected look that works nicely.

Thanks for the comments, all.



His original rifle is actually sitting at his feet in the pic, but it's almost entirely cropped out. I left it out of his hand because it looked to big. I'll have to see if I can find something a little smaller.



Shiver is:
Head, arms - Snake Eyes
Torso, Upper Legs - Snow Job
Lower Legs - CG
Guns - Marauder

Those are nice you did a great job on all of them.

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I'll give your take on Ghostbear soe love. That figure is phenomenal. I like the changes you made to the design. I was just looking at it yesterday wishing Hasbro updated that character. You just gave them a recipe to follow.

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I hate to sound like a broken record, but the updates to Ghostbear and Blackout are very well executed, they look professional. I really need to learn a little bit more about these characters that were developed after the ARAH line.

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