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Re: Ian aka Prince de Lu's customs
« Reply #72 on: November 06, 2014, 11:44:00 AM »

As an after thought, your sneek peak makes a lot more sense in todays world than his 80's counterpart and the old tech he had. I understand your colour scheme but would have liked it to be closer to his original colours, just to make the connection so when you look at him you know its sneek peak. The gear is perfect.
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Re: Ian aka Prince de Lu's customs
« Reply #73 on: November 06, 2014, 02:15:28 PM »

i like your do-over with Sneak-Peek as a drone operator.
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« Reply #74 on: November 17, 2014, 11:10:33 AM »


As a young Canadian born in the 70s, GI Joe was the only toy that I played with for many years. Funny thing, we had Canadian versions of the file cards "adapted" to have some characters born up North. For instance, on the Canadian file card, Grunt was born in Trois-Rivi?res, Quebec.


But, to my knowledge, Back-Stop is the only "official" Canadian born character.


Here's my version of that crazy canuck hockey player.











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Re: Ian aka Prince de Lu's customs
« Reply #75 on: November 17, 2014, 11:31:24 AM »

Looks good. What's the head from? I've been using the 2009 set back-stop, but i like this one better.
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Re: Ian aka Prince de Lu's customs
« Reply #76 on: November 17, 2014, 01:25:04 PM »

Thanks, it's Dusty POC
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Re: Ian aka Prince de Lu's customs
« Reply #77 on: November 17, 2014, 08:14:00 PM »

I think I'm gonna have to make me a back-stop. I don't have all the same parts but this sure has given me a lot of ideas. THX!
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« Reply #78 on: January 11, 2015, 08:44:01 AM »


I wanted to do a Metal-Head custom for a long time, but couldn't find a head that fitted the character. So I tried to give a shot at sculpting the hair on a random duke head from ROC, I have so many of these ;-)


I tried to go stay true to the vintage figure, last week I found the gear and things fell into place.


So here's Metal-Head.











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Re: Ian aka Prince de Lu's customs
« Reply #79 on: January 14, 2015, 08:21:06 PM »

So realistic!!

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« Reply #80 on: January 16, 2015, 07:38:01 AM »

looks great. I can only imagine that the whole get up must weigh like 200 lbs
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Re: Ian aka Prince de Lu's customs
« Reply #81 on: January 16, 2015, 02:16:07 PM »

it'd cripple him, I expect.
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Re: Ian aka Prince de Lu's customs
« Reply #82 on: January 26, 2015, 09:11:19 AM »


Back in 2012 when the Professor X came out, like many others I knew I wanted the body to make the suits version of Tomax and Xamot. So I had the bodies and the heads lying in my fodder bin for almost 3 years...


Finally here's the result. No big surprise. I know that a lot of people kept the body as is, all blue. The cartoon version had the grey pant with the yellow tie and a red flower and that's the way I did them


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Re: Ian aka Prince de Lu's customs
« Reply #83 on: January 28, 2015, 03:15:06 PM »


In 1988 I turned 15 and I was more interested in girls than Joes. Still, I pretty much bought everything from that year... and the next four years :P


Lightfoot was never part of my missions and I found that beside the helmet he was pretty lame... and "yellow"!


I tried to stay close to the vintage version keeping the cool helmet, but switching to a one-hand sensor.


let me know what you think.








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