50th Anniversary Day 31: Adventure Team Headquarters

joemichaels70 · **Posted:** Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:34 pm

Another winner -- great photos!

question: why not try to customize up that white double-tank scuba set? possibly using some of those 1:18 fire extinguishers?

drbindy · **Posted:** Tue Jan 21, 2014 1:19 pm

joemichaels70 wrote:

Another winner -- great photos!

question: why not try to customize up that white double-tank scuba set? possibly using some of those 1:18 fire extinguishers?

That's a good point and good idea. Also, it may be just be the extent of the orange in use on the dive suit, but this was the first post where I felt that (beyond the necessary plain quality we discussed before) a couple extra details could be useful in pulling off the homage. The tanks being one, the lack of the AT logo on the suit (at least as compared to original box art) being a big one, and perhaps just a little bit of black details on the suit itself to break up the orange (again, going off box art).

Gaigaan-Dnok · **Posted:** Tue Jan 21, 2014 2:25 pm

I seriously hope Hasbro doesn't get any ideas from this thread.
If they started putting out stuff like this, I would be spending WAY more on Joe stuff than I really should be.

OreoBuilder · **Posted:** Wed Jan 22, 2014 8:35 am

Thanks guys. This Adventurer was one of the first figures that I did for this project. Now that I have access to wave 3.5 tooling, I may go back and swap the whole torso for an Ultimate Snake Eyes one. That will ''remove'' the shoulder details and give me a nice spot to put an AT logo. For the tanks, for some reason, it didn't even occur to me to modify them (duh), but it should be pretty simple to do. So i guess this one will have a part 2 ;-)

Day 22 is up with a not-so-pygmy pygmy gorilla.

OB

Shakka85 · **Posted:** Wed Jan 22, 2014 12:31 pm

The "Not So Pygmy Gorilla" set is fantastic! Where did the boat come from? Another brilliant set, OB! And by the way, I am another one of the huge fans of this thread, and look forward to each day's new custom.

-Todd
Shakka85

Troynos · **Posted:** Wed Jan 22, 2014 2:14 pm

Damn. Hasbro needs to do these for the 50th. I love 'em.

Makes me want G.I. Joe mission sets.

OreoBuilder · **Posted:** Wed Jan 22, 2014 6:52 pm

Thanks.

Shakka85 wrote:

The "Not So Pygmy Gorilla" set is fantastic! Where did the boat come from? Another brilliant set, OB! And by the way, I am another one of the huge fans of this thread, and look forward to each day's new custom.

-Todd
Shakka85

I'm not sure what the brand was, but the boat came from a discount store hunting set. Aside from the boat, the set included a pickup truck, a trailer, a figure (or two) and some hunting rifles.

Found it: http://www.amazon.com/Hunting-Playset-P ... B005001MHA

OB

OreoBuilder · **Posted:** Thu Jan 23, 2014 8:03 am

Day 23 is up.

OB

Redmao · **Posted:** Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:07 am

Fantastic Sea Wolf!
Your action shots remind me of some of the old catalog pictures.

Shakka85 · **Posted:** Thu Jan 23, 2014 10:34 am

Great, great, great! I feel like a broken record, telling you how much I like this thread and the customs you've put in it, but I can't stress it enough how much I enjoy seeing your 50th Tribute items! I'll be back tomorrow...

-Todd
Shakka85

Kilcarr · **Posted:** Thu Jan 23, 2014 11:18 am

That Sea Wolf is awesome. Do you have a pic of the Animal Planet mini-sub? I'm unfamiliar with it.

OreoBuilder · **Posted:** Thu Jan 23, 2014 11:39 am

Thanks guys.

Kilcarr wrote:

That Sea Wolf is awesome. Do you have a pic of the Animal Planet mini-sub? I'm unfamiliar with it.

Here you go: http://www.amazon.ca/Animal-Planet-Sper ... B00BGYOW4Y

Animal Planet is exclusive to TRU. I'm not sure if the Sperm Whale set is discontinued or just out of stock, but I couldn't find it on their website.

OB

Kilcarr · **Posted:** Thu Jan 23, 2014 11:41 am

OreoBuilder wrote:

Thanks guys.

Kilcarr wrote:

That Sea Wolf is awesome. Do you have a pic of the Animal Planet mini-sub? I'm unfamiliar with it.

Here: http://www.amazon.ca/Animal-Planet-Sper ... B00BGYOW4Y

OB

Thank you!

joemichaels70 · **Posted:** Thu Jan 23, 2014 12:22 pm

Wow -- seeing the before picture really underlines how awesome your custom is!

Well done, sir.

bucky · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am **Location:** IA

You are a master at painting white and yellows. They come out looking as though they were molded in that color.

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