Finished up the Boat Patrol with Stake-Out today.





Head: bBi
Torso and Upper Arms: 50th Flint
Lower Arms: Cobra Shock Trooper
Legs: RoC Paris Pursuit Snake-Eyes with RoC Snake-Eyes feet









Adventure Wheels boat with minor mods and added gun mount using Retaliation Ultimate Roadblock's .50 cal



S.A.S. Silent Attack with Beaver is complete!







Head: Star Wars Baron Fel
Torso and arms: RoC Duke
Legs: Retaliation Joe Colton
Life vest is a 30th Airtight vest with the rebreather removed, and the hat is dremeled out from RoC Shipwreck.



Silent Attack is an Adventure Wheels Kayak with a bunch of added bits and bobs.

Because I am insane, or maybe because Celebration always gets me working lately I'm going to try and do some more challenges (in addition to finishing a commission and putting together entries for the PHX contest and the NJC, or trying to anyway).

When I finished up the Black Major I thought I should try and do another figure, and maybe an Alpha vehicle too.

Hit Wal-Mart this morning looking for the exclusive Dark Knight Returns figures they're carrying (found the ones I needed too!) and saw these in the toy car aisle.



So, let's see if I can't finish up my own versions of these . . .

Started parting out the vehicles.

The flat boat has some nifty accessories. Dunno what I'll do with the giant duck or the O-ring guy, but it's pretty cool for ten bucks



The boat has storage in the seats, which I love, but they use living hinges, and those won't last forever. Have to do something about those.



Peeled off the stickers and immediately stuck them back onto a piece of the box insert I'd cut out.



Since I already know the sticker fits the area I'll need stripes on the finished product, I can use this to make a template with my tape.

lol - I picked up that same canoe/kayak set yesterday because of OB's Adventure People thread.

Now I regret sending my Chap Mei kayak to beav - I wouldn't mind building that AF set.

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Moved on to the Silent Assault. I was planning to go simple with this one, but that went out the window once I started.

Parting out all the greebles



Modding a Chap Mei handheld light for the bow mounted spotlight







Decided to mount everything an put all the holes I'd need in the kayak before I started painting anything. I'm only doing yellow on the bow to start, but I don't want to risk damaging it going at this thing with the Dremel. This is when I decided that the thing needed a working Ammo crate. So, I found a usable box, I think it's Playmobil.

Then I masked off the area I was going to cut out.



Rough cut



Near final cuts



It fits!



Little Apoxie to fill in the ugly bits



And it's ready to paint.



I have a coat down on each of the boats, the yellow I'm using coats pretty well, but I'll need 2 or three to really get the look I'm after.

Went a little heavy here, hoping it doesn't stand out once the black is on.

Ain't that always the way?

And OB's stuff absolutely got me thinking about what I could do for AF with the Adventure Wheels sets, I just wasn't expecting to be doing it so soon.

looking good!

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Looking GREAT!

Started working on the benches.

Cut the lids off and trimmed away the hinges



Cut some styrene



To create some bits to help hold the lids in place.

And boom, finished benches, ready for paint



Pieced out Beaver and Stakeout



and got some paint down



Started cutting the mask for the bow stripes on the kayak



But got overzealous and had to strip the paint and re-do it

Decided that the new paint on the Kayak was set enough to take the chance. Hopefully I'm right.

The circle in the center is for placement of the stripe edges. I have an SAS Force waterslide that'll go there.



Ready to paint



Sure hope that the mask works . . . .

This is looking great. Well done. Love what you "could" do with a simple repaint, but this is so much better.

Thanks Squashfest! Part of me thinks I could have gotten by with just a repaint, but I know I'm going to be a lot more satisfied with this. Case in point, I was tempted to just go with a solid stripe instead of the progressively thinning ones used on the original vehicles, buuuut . . . .



A bit of bleed, but nothing I can't fix. Now if I can just keep myself from messing with it long enough for the paint to cure . . .

this is a great set of customs.

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Fantastic. Love the process. Can't wait to see how these develop.


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That kayak, I thought I'd be happy with the club's kayaks, but with the kibble and stripes, yours is already 110% better.

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