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 Post subject: Captain Scarlet Action Figures Wave 4 of 4
PostPosted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 10:35 am 
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Well, here we are. The set is finished. For now. I say 'for now because Mary has given me a few ideas for at least another 9 possible OCS figures., and yes, she was right about two of this wave.

Wave 4:

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Captain Brown:

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Captain Purple:

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Doctor Fawn (Labcoat Variant):

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Major Stone, Koala Base:

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World President:

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Director General, United Asian Republic:

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The World President figure was supposed to go up with The Angels in Wave 2 as the mail-in offer, but I missed it, so it either goes in as a single carded variant, or the mail-in.
Captain Brown was a must from the get-go, especially as I was doing a World President figure. Captain Purple came into the equation very late. I was looking at a couple of collector sites, and skimmimg through various figures. One trend that has come in in recent years, especially in the GI Joe and Star Wars lines are the 'Expanded Universe' figures. Usually from the books or the comics. Where are the other Shades, I hear you ask? Well, it is my custom set and I live in Area Purple, so that is the one I made. :-P :-P :-P I may get around to making the others, but it will be next year at teh earliest now.
I did the Director General of the United Asian Republic because it is such a distinctive uniform within the series. Nearly wore out that poor DVD pausing and rewinding while I was getting the details and sculpting.
Major Stone was done as something of an afterthought, as was Doctor Fawn in the labcoat. I was watching 'Traitor' and realised that I could make Major Stone with minimal effort. The same with Doctor Fawn. I was ordering some coats from Urban Rev Toys anyway, so I threw a standard labcoat into the mix. The other coats can be seen in all their glory below.

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 Post subject: Re: Captain Scarlet Action Figures Wave 4 of 4
PostPosted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 10:36 am 
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2069 Futura City Comic Con Exclusive:

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I have always liked the cold-weather coats that the Spectrum officers used. Unfortunately, my sewing skills are not up to creating coats for 1:18 scale figures, but I know a man who can!
Killuminati at Urban Rev Toys has been supplying the customising community with high quality soft-goods for 4 inch figures for several years now. He very kindly did these custom coats at no extra cost for me, and did a fantastic job on them. If you think they look good in the pics, you should see them in hand.

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 Post subject: Re: Captain Scarlet Action Figures Wave 4 of 4
PostPosted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 10:37 am 
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And finally! I put all of the figures together to get a group shot of the set of 31 customs:

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As promised, I have put together a list of parts and links to pictures and suppliers. Just a point of interest, I actually used a total of 19 of the Han Solo figures. I even bought what amounted to most of Play.com's entire stock of them. Thank goodness for Ebay!

All Spectrum Officers/Security/Captain Black/Major Stone/Cold Weather: Star Wars Legacy Collection Sandstorm Han Solo, or Endor Bunker Han Solo (same figure but with a waistcoat and gunbelt) with various heads
http://www.rebelscum.com/photo.asp?imag ... LC-476.jpg

All Angels: Star Wars Comic Pack Imperial Disguise Deena Shan
http://www.rebelscum.com/photo.asp?imag ... 4DSart.jpg

Spectrum Spacesuits: Star Wars Imperial Engineer/Death Star Gunner with helmet cast from Vivid Imaginations figure
http://www.rebelscum.com/photo.asp?imag ... C-1002.jpg

World President: Harry Potter body, Sirius Black coat and GI Joe vs. Cobra Zartan head

Director General Asian Republic: Harry Potter body, Indiana Jones: TLC Colonel Vogel head.

Judy Chapman: Head: Deena Shan cast, Torso/Arms: Indiana Jones Irina Spalko, Legs: Pirates of the
Caribbean 3 Elizabeth Swan, Skirt: Golden Compass Mrs Coulter

Linda Nolan: Indiana Jones: Last Crusade Elsa Schneider with Henry Jones’ glasses.

http://www.cooltoyreview.com/photo.asp? ... dy-221.jpg
http://www.cooltoyreview.com/photo.asp? ... G_0348.jpg

All Spectrum issue handguns: SOCOM Mk 23 from Marauder John @ Marauder Gun Runners:
http://www.marauderinc.com/servlet/Detail?no=77

Spectrum Security assault rifles: AUG77 from Marauder John @ Marauder Gun Runners:
http://www.marauderinc.com/servlet/Detail?no=45

Spectrum Cold Weather coats and Doctor Fawn’s lab coat by Killuminati @ Urban Rev Toys:
http://urbanrevtoys.googlepages.com/

Black’s sniper rifle: Dragunov sinper rifle with added laser sight from Marauder John @ Marauder Gun Runners:
http://www.marauderinc.com/servlet/Detail?no=13


If you want to know more about the series, there is really only one place to go:

http://www.spectrum-headquarters.com/index.html

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 Post subject: Re: Captain Scarlet Action Figures Wave 4 of 4
PostPosted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 11:37 am 
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Amazing and impressive project, the final picture really shows how much work you've put into this.

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 Post subject: Re: Captain Scarlet Action Figures Wave 4 of 4
PostPosted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 3:07 pm 
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Now that I have finished with Captain Scarlet (for now ;-) ), I am going to move on to Fireball XL5, Stingray and Thunderbirds, plus some other Gerry Anderson characters. I am doing the puppet figures in the later more realistic style to fit in with teh Scarlet set, rather than the 'large head' cartoony versions.

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 Post subject: Re: Captain Scarlet Action Figures Wave 4 of 4
PostPosted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:04 pm 

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Glad I could help Kambei!

great work!

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