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[nighthawk]

Metalhead is awesome!

[morgardee]

It's going to be a while before I can top Metal Head but I'll keep trying.

This is a very simple one that has grown on me. I have probably 30 of these Neo Viper commando figures and for a while I've been saying the body is highly underrated. Yes and no. The body itself makes a good blank slate to build off and new web gear goes a long way for him but the upper legs are a bit dull and the forearm pivot is a bit odd compared to swivel / bending wrists.

So it's a good foundation for customs. I'm a bit of an army builder, so when the 25th anniversary Vipers came out I thought they were awesome. Now compared to the 30th anniversary Vipers they are just not as cool. So that left me with lots parts to work with.

This is an easy custom.

Neo Viper body
25th Viper head and vest.

[nighthawk]

Simple and effective.

[morgardee]

Thanks Nighthawk. Some customs don't require 3 days to build to look good. The Neo Viper is a good example of that.

I'm sort of in limbo right now. I've done a few more customs but nothing has that "wow" factor. I finished an Iron Claw figure but he just doesn't blow me away. I'll have to take pics and post him some time.

Case in point, this is a total lazy custom. It looks fine but doesn't have an flair that says "I made this". It just lazy part swapping:



I've got a big bag of parts en route to me from the US. When that arrives hopefully it will have new web gear that will inspire me to take this guy in a new direction. 

[nighthawk]

LOL!  I have one almost exactly like the one you did above.  The difference is he's using 25th Snake Eyes grey body.  I just didn't know what to do with the Flint webgear.

[morgardee]

Iron Klaw. Good idea but not blown away by the end result:

[morgardee]

Finished Ambush. This is another really good one. It's up there with Metal Head. Only down side is i had o use paint and I try to avoid painting joints.

SDS Head
Rumbler body
Resolute Beachead arms and legs.

[nighthawk]

They look good.  I want to make an Iron Klaw too but just don't have the parts.  Looking for the SRO Destro that has purple trim and a Cobra CLAWS head before I can start.

Ambush is good too.  I don't like painting at all, so my Ambush was done using POC Dusty and no painting was required...however, I had to remove paint...haha.

[morgardee]

A few years back there was a few G.I. Joe sized females in bikinis. The were in fixed posses and I think Loop put them in the free table.

I grabbed a couple with plans to make something of them some day. This is the end result of decapitating one of them:







I didn't change the body much at all. My wife thought the yellow worked with the head, so I just added some urban camo stripes so it had some sort of custom paint on it.

I really don't have a name for her now, so I'm just calling her "Blondie". Yeah, not very creative.

I glue some Baroness glasses over her cartoonish eyes, painted her pink hair yellow, had to cut off her hair and re-glue it back on to work around the glasses and drill out the head to fit. She can look left to right but due to the depth of the hole in the head she can't really look up or down.

Still, minimal paint means she is fully playable.

If anyone knows what line of dolls these came from, please let me know. I'd like to get some more of these heads.

Thanks.

 

[Sundance]

call her 'bombshell' - as in the blonde bombshell.

[crazylegs]

Love Ambush!!! and how there is an anime style to helix!

[morgardee]

Flight suit Destro:





Captain Ace body, Resolute Ripcords helmet, Destro head (the one with the big gun and suit case full of money), a swim in a bath of black rit dye and red paint for the highlights. I'm loving this figure.