JoeCanuck

the 5 pack Hawk's head screamed Mercer to me, so here's my Mercer:









I never liked the fact that Grand Slam was a clone of Flash.  Since Hasbro had a head sculpt from DTC for Grand Slam, I modded that head and used it for Grand Slam.  What do you think?






The crappy thing about the 25th Serpentor was his bald head and worried look.  It was disappointing that Hasbro didn't retool the head they had for him before in the Real American Hero line so I took it upon myself to do it for Hasbro.  The biggest surprise for me was that the DVD pack helmet fits this head so it worked out perfect for me.





I managed to get a VvV Barrel Roll cheap so here he is in 25th glory.

head: VvV Barrel Roll modded
parachute pack and jetpack: Resolute 5pack Duke
rest: Air Raid

Here are my different iterations of Wild Bill and Ace over the years:

When I got the SRO Wild Bill, I loved how he looked and the darker colors.  The only things I didn't like were his mangled hands (due to the elastic in the packaging), his oversized holsters and his pin sized head.  After finally getting the new Wild Bill, I have a Wild Bill I can be proud of. 

Wild Bill:
Helmet: 21st Century Huey pilot
Hands and head: ROC Wild Bill
Holsters: Removed the holsters and trimmed them down and then reglued them back on
rest of figure: SROII Wild Bill





The left over ROC Wild Bill parts and his vest screamed aviator to me and I was never happy with any of the Ace's released.  (the white comic pack one didn't have any flight gear cause of his space helmet and the SROII one didn't really do it for me as his upper half was just Wild Weasel).  Well, I finally have a nice pilot Ace that I'm happy with.

Parts:
head: SROII Ace
hands: 25th Wild Bill (single pack)
leg harness: Pilot Destro
helmet and mask: BBI F-18 pilot
rest of figure: ROC Wild Bill






Later, I managed to get a 25th Wild Bill for $4 so I jumped on it.  I hated how his head was so small and I hate how his holsters stick out too far and the gun doesn't go in far enough.  I had an extra Dragonhawk Wild Bill head so it solved the small head problem.  For the holsters, the one on other Wild Bill in this thread was what I wanted to do, but it took me 3 tries to get it and still it's not perfect.  This time I went the lazy route and just drilled holes in the bottom (from the inside) of his holsters so the guns go in deeper and also fit tighter so they don't fall out.  Very lazy tweak but I think it makes a world of a difference.  Let me know what you think.





Just so I had an Ace in his white uniform, I cut around the collar of his vest, his helmet and mask will fit much better with the realistic BBI helmet/mask combos.



I also repainted his eyes too.

Couldn't decide what color beard for Frostbite by decided to just go with this look in the end.  Since his V3 Hasbro figure had brown hair and this type of a hat, I decided to mix the two looks together.  I think this head fits on the body better than the original one I did above.

Parts:
head: POC Shipwreck
legs: Paris Pursuit Storm Shadow
rest: ROC Frostbite
holster: Chuckles

I'm just waiting to get a Wolfhound.  His skirt is soft and flexible so I'm hoping he'll fit perfectly in the Wolf Hound.

The remaining POC Shipwreck parts, I just gave him Tunnel Rat's gun and put on the desert Zartan alternate head on him and just called him Sub Zero.  The vintage one never revealed his hair color so this is nice cheap update for me.

Frostbite:



Sub Zero:




In 2000, Whiteout was released and to me it just looks like Snow Job with black goggles and boots.  Since the 25th Snow Job's hair is not as red as the ROC one, I put the ROC Snow Job's feet and goggles on the 25th Snow Job and he's Whiteout and the ROC Snow Job is my default Snow Job.




Blizzard:
This one is still a WIP.  Still need to mod some handlebars on the backpack.  The head is just the Sky Sweeper pilot's head.

Up here in Canada, I never saw the fixed wrist Clutch and Breaker up here.  I've fixed up my Clutch in the past but I've given up on getting a fixed wrist Breaker and fixed one up but because it was Duke arms, it had limited range of motion.  I wasn't too happy with it and now I finally put one together that I like.  When I saw Benchpress' head, I decided that's the head I wanted since the original Breaker had same head as Clutch and had brown hair.  I really didn't like the oversized head of the 25th Breaker.  So here's my Breaker with short sleeves:




Backpack is the vintage one with peg removed and a hole drilled into the backpack with a pen ink refill piece glued into place.

And for a tutorial on how to do the arms, see this link:
http://www.joecanuck.com/joe/board/inde ... pic=3864.0



To make the huge helmet fit, I just cut a piece of twist tie and put it on the front of the helmet so the front of his hair has something to catch onto.

Thanks for the comment.  I don't know what you mean by if I tried the Viper arms yet.  Are you talking about fixing them so the wrist isn't slanted downward?

So, when I first posted my RnR and Clutch short sleeve mods, I've had a couple of requests to post how it's done.  Here's pics of the RnR and Clutch I originally did:





I finally found suitable arms for Falcon and did it for him finally too.  Here's some WIP pics and steps.

First, remove his hands and lower arm.  Cut the cuff off the arm.  Then make a hole down the middle.


Then on the upper arm/bicep, you have to trim around the bottom as shown:

This is so the cuff can fit over it.

The cuff is stretchy so you can stretch it over it (just trim more if it doesn't fit) and that holds it in place.


After you are happy with the fit of the sleeve, then you just pop the arm you want in there onto the figure.


Here's the finished result for Falcon: