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 Post subject: The Plague Worsens: Blackout
PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 2:28 am 
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Thomas from Missourri

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I've had a Blackout custom for a while and liked it just fine, but when I started my Plague project, I was pretty sure I'd be revisiting the character.

Here's how that turned out:
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Blackout was a rookie Joe on his first big mission with Low-Light behind enemy lines when he made the mistake of leaving the cap off his sight after taking out a sentry at 500 yards. The search light flashed on his lens, giving away his position, and a counter-sniper took him down with a bullet through the eye. Assuming his junior partner was dead, Low-Light barely escaped with his life. But Blackout was alive. Scalpel nursed him back to health in the infirmary of the Cobra prison, only to be tortured for information about the Joes once he'd regained his strength. The Interrogator was prepared to do his worst, but he hadn't even moved past blunt force to blades when Blackout started laughing uncontrollably. Unnerved, The Interrogator asked his prisoner what as so funny. "You think this is pain?" Blackout snorted, blood pluming from his nostrils. "I took a bullet in the eye and as left behind by a guy I trusted like a brother! Tell you what..you put me in a room with a Joe -- any Joe -- and I'll show you how to hurt somebody!" The Interrogator mentioned the encounter to the Commander, who was intrigued. After allowing Doctor Mindbender to replace the eye the prisoner had lost with a bionic imagaing device -- the Commander arranged for Blackout to be assigned to the Plague. Now he trades the lives of whomever he's asked to kill for fleeting moments of freedom...and what he hopes will be an opportunity to line up one of his former teammates in his built-in crosshairs.

So what do you guys think?


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 Post subject: Re: The Plague Worsens: Blackout
PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 2:35 am 
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Holy crap, that is fantastic!
What did you make it out of?

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 Post subject: Re: The Plague Worsens: Blackout
PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 9:18 am 
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Thomas from Missourri

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Thanks Jay.

He's made from odds and ends. The torso and upper arms from an ROC five pack excliusive Duke. Lower arms from five pack Commando Snake Eyes. Hands from ROC NinjaBattles Snake Eyes. Thighs from POC Jungle Viper. Lower Legs from TRU exclusive Swamp Viper. Chest piece from POC action attack Snake Eyes. Head from a Target knock-off line.

Glad you dig him.


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 Post subject: Re: The Plague Worsens: Blackout
PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 9:38 am 
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Yeah, I'd buy the hell out of this. I really wish Hasbro would make an updated version of him.

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 Post subject: Re: The Plague Worsens: Blackout
PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 4:09 pm 

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he's cool, I too wish hasbro would release a new version of him along with the other stalls of course


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 Post subject: Re: The Plague Worsens: Blackout
PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 4:30 pm 
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That's a nice looking figure. I like using that Fearless Forces head too. They have some decent fodder choices in those figs, for cheap.

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 Post subject: Re: The Plague Worsens: Blackout
PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 10:47 pm 
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I'm amazed at the originality of the parts choices.
And that head just makes the whole thing extra-fantastic.

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 Post subject: Re: The Plague Worsens: Blackout
PostPosted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 8:24 am 
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Why that head's original color and not the dirty blonde Blackout has? I think it would be rexognizable with the blonde hair.

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 Post subject: Re: The Plague Worsens: Blackout
PostPosted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 8:46 am 
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hate the boots, LOVE everything else about this!

the eye piece is better for Stall than the goggles which were always too Low-Light IMO. Great use of the head from that knock off Target toyline.


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 Post subject: Re: The Plague Worsens: Blackout
PostPosted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 6:56 pm 
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Thomas from Missourri

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Thanks, guys.

You know, pluv, I'd been considering the hair color. I feel like Blackout had a couple of shades between blonde and brown going on, but couldn't remember if orange was one of them.

I think I'll go back and make him a dirty blonde (instead of a dirty ginger).


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 Post subject: Re: The Plague Worsens: Blackout
PostPosted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 9:44 pm 

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the original figure in the new sculpt line he had a orangish hair color, and in the comics when DD used him they did the blonde


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 Post subject: Re: The Plague Worsens: Blackout
PostPosted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 4:42 pm 
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This is a really cool build for the character, Spin. I like that SE chest piece especially, it does a nice job capturing the look of Blackout's original bulky web gear. Looking forward to seeing the blonde version.


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