When I got back into customizing a year and a half-ish ago, the first thing I tackled was the Oktober Guard. Like George Lucas and the Prequels or James Cameron and Avatar, I felt like the technology had finally arrived at the point where I could realize my grand vision, the set I'd dreamed of since I first pulled Yearbook 2 off the spinner rack at Circle K.
While the technology (i.e., parts) had arrived, my skills still had a ways to go. Since beginning this set, I've finished a couple dozen other customs.
Daina and Schrage were finished first, but they're really just off-the-shelf kit-bashes. The rest have been in various states of completion for the past 18+ months. With the forums shutting down at the end of the year, I figured I better get them ready for posting. And so, over the next week, I'll be doing just that.

First up: Stormavik

Stormy here is all about the head. It's a cast of Dominic Purcell's character from Prison Break I ordered unpainted from Spartan118. I never actually watched the show and I'm not too familiar with the actor, but he's got a head like paint can, which seems about right for Stormavik. I painted/repainted that tiny triangle of striped shirt under his BDUs roughly 700 times. Never again, my friends. Never again.

Recipe after the pics.





Recipe
Body, upper arms, and upper legs: MTF WWII US Marine
Lower arms: MTF WWII Russian Soviet Soldier
Lower Legs & knee pads: GI Joe Para-Viper
Head: Spartan118MX "261 Lincoln Burrows" (painted by me)
Beret, web-gear, weapons: Marauder "Gun-Runners"

wow that is fantastic!

Your painting is outstanding, as always, and pulls all of the parts together.

What really makes this custom extra extra awesome is how you've combined Marauder body parts with Joe body parts. My observation is that aside from head swaps, most customizers who jump to Marauder bodies stick with them also exclusively. Working in mixed format here, you've found parts that really maximize each other.

That makes for a phenomenal custom.

When I saw your October Guard customs on Facebook, I loved all of them, but your Stormavik was the one that really leapt out at me. The use of the Para-Viper lower legs is brilliant: it adds something to an area of the figure that could have been bland. Everything about this guy works: the parts choices, the paint job, the head...it's all exactly how I pictured the character. And I don't know how you got the striped shirt to come out so well, but I do not doubt for a second that it took forever. Straight lines at that scale...not easy. Can't wait to get a closer look at the rest of the team!

Amazing work. Great work on the parts choices and blending it all together


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