TrueGritt Customs - Copperhead and Monkeywrench

[DavAnthony]

As promised here are the customs of Copperhead and Monkeywrench.


Copperhead

http://www.loserville.us/~truegrittcustoms/copperheadnew.jpg

http://www.loserville.us/~truegrittcustoms/copperhead2new.jpg

http://www.loserville.us/~truegrittcustoms/copperhead3new.jpg

http://www.loserville.us/~truegrittcustoms/copperhead5.JPG

Parts:
Head-SW Dash Rendar head with added neck
chest-DTC Salvo
Arms,Waist,lower legs-Coil trooper
Upper Legs, Spy Troops Gung HO
Helmet-Spy Troops Duke helmet

Copperhead is cool. I dont' know why he just is. Maybe it's because he was very different looking from the Cobra's to date when he came out or maybe it was his ride. I also really liked his back story as I got older and felt he had an interesting background as a gambler and someone who really just lived on the wrong side of things. The one thing I liked about Dic's Operation Dragonfire was that they gave Copperhead a bit more respect then he had previoulsy, and he actually achieved some level of command. I also like the idea that DD had in making him the Cobra naval commander but he still comes across a bit too thuggish for that.

Anwyay with this custom I bascially took DD intial design for Copperhead and built off of that. I also went with Master Collectors idea of making him a red-head and added that to this figure. I used a Dash Rendar head, which I've had lying around since '98 since I took apart my "prequel" version of Anakin. The attitude and look seemed to fit what I was going for with Copperheads attittude perfect. This figure came togeather pretty easily. The only difficult part per se was trimming down his inner shoulder joints so the arms would fit into the chest piece and extending and sculpting his neck into a ball joint so it would fit.

[DavAnthony]

Monkeywrench

http://www.loserville.us/~truegrittcustoms/monkeywrench.jpg

http://www.loserville.us/~truegrittcustoms/monkeywrench2.jpg

http://www.loserville.us/~truegrittcustoms/monkeywrench3.jpg

http://www.loserville.us/~truegrittcustoms/monkeywrench4.JPG

Parts:
Head,chest (extended),Grenade strap, upper legs (modded)-DTC Monkeywrench
Upper Arms,waist (modded),boots(modded)-JvsC Ripper
Lower Arms-DTC Salvo
Lower legs-JvsC Wild Bill

I liked the DTC Monkeywrench but just wanted something that looked more like the original. I felt that the DTC version would make a really good Machete as time went on it just didn't work for me. None of Monkeywrench's trademark stuff was going on with that figure. I wanted him to have his red shirt and to be more bikerish. I also wanted to add a "sweaty" look to the guy. I remember during his introduction in "Arise Serpentor Arise" he definatly had a sleazy way about him as he waited for the other new Dreadnoks potentials to fight it out and then he just lobbed a grenade into them all. I wanted to get that "sleaze" feel across here and I figure none of the Dreadnoks are high on hygiene but I felt Monkeywrench really takes this to heart.
It took me forever to find a leg combination that worked for me. I ultimatley ended up chopping up Wild Bill's legs and adding Rippers lower legs to it then sculpting the entire bottom of the leg from his knee pad to the ripped up jeans part of the Ripper lower leg. It was alot more work then I had wanted to do but in the end I was really happy with the result.

[slg]

Wow, Those are cool! I really like the copperhead.

[WildWeasel]

They look awesome. Some really nice work.

[xhairs]

rock on my man.

[DavAnthony]

Thanks guys I'm glad you enjoyed them. More stuff coming soon.

Dave

[MHydra]

I think your Copperhead is beyond awesome, especially the head you chose. The insigna could be crisper, but it is admitely very hard to do by hand symetrically.