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Re: Nighthawks Newest Customs
« Reply #12 on: September 07, 2011, 12:18:41 PM »

Modified a Night Spectre a few months ago.  Finally finished a pilot for him.  Since I used my Air Raid to make a Barrel Roll, I decided to just name this pilot Air Raid.





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Here's my modern style Crosshairs.  He's not an exact reproduction of the original one.  I just used what I had available to make him and continued with my non painting upgrades.  I've seen that lots of snipers use flight suits under their ghillie suits so that's where I got the idea to use my spare Ripcord body for this.  I'm still looking for the NF version of Crosshairs webgear belt and hat if anyone's got extra.

Later on, I may change out the gun as the Crosshairs one does look kinda small.  When I get an extra POC Snow Job one, I might end up using that instead.













Later, I decided to change his belt to one that has a gun cause a sniper needs a secondary firearm.

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Re: Nighthawks Newest Customs
« Reply #13 on: September 07, 2011, 01:07:35 PM »

Brilliant! You should be working with Hasbro man....sweet stuff!
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Re: Nighthawks Newest Customs
« Reply #14 on: September 09, 2011, 12:41:30 PM »

Thanks for the comments.  I actually just updated Crosshairs.  I put his belt on the outside.  I think it holds the ghillie suit down better.




New hat for Cutter




I like the new 5pack Shipwreck, I don't like his puny arms though.  I put the comic pack arms on him and made a connector (basically, one of my extra Duke hands that I don't need after doing the Rock N Roll and Clutch mods.  I cut off the hand and cut a connector piece so that there is a peg on both sides) to go between the arm and the hand so it can be connected.  The wrists still swivel as well.  I also had to trim the elbow peg as the comic pack one is larger than the 5 pack one.


The left over arms, I put on the comic pack Shipwreck.  I cut and drilled out the hands from a 21 Century figure.  I just did this just so the arms don't go to waste.


Deep Six is the comic pack Deep Six with head on a shark tattoo Shipwreck body.  The hands are from the SRO2 Deep Six.  I figured that the shark tattoo would be appropriate.




The other sailor is just a Endor Rebel trooper head on the Shipwreck body.

Leatherneck
Was sad Hasbro never released a decent Leatherneck and don't think they ever will cause the club released one, so here's my Leatherneck. 






Steel Brigade Commander made out of some extra parts after making my Duke:


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Re: Nighthawks Newest Customs
« Reply #15 on: September 14, 2011, 12:50:14 PM »

Here's Slice & Dice

I did this just cause I had the parts so I decided to just slap it together.

For the Dice gauntlets, I just scraped off the markings from Snake Eyes' armor.  Since he uses Rex's head which is scarred, the story is that he kept the scratches in the armor to remind him of why he's so bitter instead of keeping his armor clean.  The Red Fang Ninja gear has purple parts on it and that's the homage to the purple figure Hasbro gave us.

For Slice, it's just the black Storm Shadow head on a Red Ninja body.

Slice:





Dice:







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Re: Nighthawks Newest Customs
« Reply #16 on: September 22, 2011, 12:49:13 PM »

I had all the parts for this for about a year and since I have some time cause I'm waiting for some parts for another custom, decided to finally work on Mindbender.

All I did was modify his hands to put his vintage gauntlets on him and gave him his vintage gear.  The gun in his holster is held on by elastics (just like the way the guns are held on the CGs in the TRU 5 pack).  Doesn't need the elastic to stay in place, but I just don't want to lose the gun so I put it on.






Closeups of the gauntlets:



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Re: Nighthawks Newest Customs
« Reply #17 on: September 23, 2011, 07:56:22 AM »

Excellent work, great detail on slice and dice
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Re: Nighthawks Newest Customs
« Reply #18 on: October 13, 2011, 12:50:31 PM »

Here's my latest Valor vs Venom update.  This is Hard Drive and for those who don't know who he is, here's the Yojoe link: YOJOE.COM | Hard Drive










Close up of his wrist piece





Z-Force Jammer
Had an extra Stalker and Endor trooper head and never knew what to do with the red beret until today.





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Re: Nighthawks Newest Customs
« Reply #19 on: October 13, 2011, 01:20:02 PM »

That Hard Drive custom is GOLD! Thanks for paying a tribute to VvV.

Do you have a modern era Sgt. Savage update in the works if I may ask?
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Re: Nighthawks Newest Customs
« Reply #20 on: October 13, 2011, 01:31:08 PM »

I don't at the moment, but it's a good idea.  I have Hi-tech and Red Spot up next actually.  Just waiting on some parts.  I also want to do Med Alert.  I have everything I need except the actual original Med Alert. haha. 

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Re: Nighthawks Newest Customs
« Reply #21 on: October 13, 2011, 02:15:38 PM »

aside from you fluffing the Z, good work.
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Re: Nighthawks Newest Customs
« Reply #22 on: October 18, 2011, 08:26:42 PM »

Slice & Dice is awesome work man!
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« Reply #23 on: October 31, 2011, 12:19:07 PM »

I like Topside but can't afford the subscription. :(

Here's my Topside.





Just for fun, I just updated my Deep Six so he has the boonie hat that he had in the comics.




Here's some better pics of the Cutter with a Boston helmet



Shipwreck that I did a long time ago.  He has the comic pack Shipwreck arms



Group shot:


Here's my next Z-force:
Z-Force Gaucho to go with the Jammer I made







Close up of the hat logo.  It's not as nice as my Stalker but good enough for me.




With Jammer:


Blizzard
I started this last year and finally I can add him to my arctic forces.

I still need help though.  I'm looking for this head: http://yojoe.com/action/05/images/shortfuze5_large.shtml

You can't see it in the pictures, but the head cracked behind his ear.  The older head is too brittle.  I'm hoping to replace it with the one in the link above cause the plastic is softer as well.  If anyone can help, please PM me.  Now onto the custom itself:






My backpack was missing the handles so I modified Fang handles onto it.  It is facing down in storage mode and when he needs to use it in sled mode, the handles are turned the other way.  Just looked weird leaving them facing up on his backpack which is why I did this.



Blizzard riding:


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