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Cobra 1984 by HissHissFangFang
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09-03-2017, 04:42 PM
HissHissFangFan
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30th Style Scrap Iron:
In my 84 Cobras pic, Scrap Iron doesn’t have his weapons gear because those 25th hands had for years been giving me fits. I had resisted upgrading him to 30th style because I thought the original release was still decent and true to the original figure, and wanted to keep a figure in these sets with that original Cobra body construction. Plus I knew I’d have to sacrifice one of my updated style Fireflys (50th 3-Pack vs Retaliation 3-Pack)—and hadn’t decided which one to sacrifice, as both had pros and cons.
The biggest cons of the 50th Firefly vs the Retaliation 3-Pack version for me had been the light grey being too light, and the eyebrows not looking as stern/angry as the Retaliation version. The biggest cons of the Retaliation version were that the dark grey wasn’t dark enough, and that the head lacked the camo pattern. In the end, the 50th version was more correctable and got to stay on the island. Pic below shows Scrap-Iron with his base body donor's brother:
Scrap-Iron’s blue base uniform was done with Vallejo Dark Blue. It's darker that the lighting portrays in the 1st pic, but much lighter than the Citadel Kastor Blue I typically use, to change things up. This would be the first time I tried to use Vallejo as a major base coat color for a figure, which is scary because Vallejo paint jobs tend to chip easily when not following a very careful and slow painting process.
Scrap-Iron’s vest is a tight fit, and torso’s lats needed to be shaved down to work. The bonus is that shoulder straps stay form-fitted on the body and the vest doesn’t bulk up the figure.
Firefly’s guns are from a Marvel Universe Crossbones fig. I tell myself they are reminiscent of Firefly’s original gun because of the perforated barrel and the ammo stock--and not just because they are green.
Two pics were taken with the same lighting, but with two different shades of grey for the background. I didn’t realize how much that made a difference as to how my camera phone processes light and shadows.
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