TrueGritt Customs- 25th anniversary adjustments-Serpentor and Beachead

[DavAnthony]

I was able to pick up a Serpentor and Beachead the other day. I really like these, but Serpentors head paint was...horrible and Beachead was too tall for me.

Serpentor's prototype's head sculpt looked pretty nice but then the paint on it really made him look just bad. I also added very minor detail to the helmet. I painted the bottom fang on the side of his head and also the eyes on the helmet. Makes it look a bit more menacing I feel.

Beachead is a great figure but a bit too tall and his boots seemed to throw off his proportions a bit so they got cut right after the top strap and then glued back on.

Nothing too crazy here but I thought some people may enjoy looking at the pictures.

Serpentor

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

http://www.loserville.us/~truegrittcustoms/serpcu2.jpg

http://www.loserville.us/~truegrittcustoms/serpcu3.jpg


Beachead
(height adjustment)

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

[squeee666]

Wow! Not only does Serpentor's helmet look 100% better, but you did an awesome job on his face. The brows and hair give him the look of a real emperor. Why couldn't Hasbro do this?

[OUTBACK]

BEACHHEAD has always been an above average height guy.

[DavAnthony]

squeee666,
I don't know I was wondering why Hasbro didn't do this either. I always felt that Serpentor carried alot of his attitude from the Romans so I really liked the idea of giving him the "roman haircut"

Outback,
Depends on what you go by. If you go by the cartoon he is roughly avg height. if you go by the comic-it depends on the issue. For me Beachead is about 5'10. So since 5'8 is avg give or take he would still be above avg at 5'10. But if you like the character tall then you'll definately love the figure how he comes out of the package because he is a bit too tall proportionate wise as well. But to each their own.

Thanks again!
Dave

[jignacio_2k]

WOW! I love the changes you did on Serpentor! He looks alot better that way.

[Shogi]

OK, I have to know....how did you make Beachhead shorter? I personally like him the way he is, but to make one of these figures shorter sounds like it'd take a mad genius with a shrink ray

[xhairs]

dave as i said great job man and im glad you finaly found them.

[GI Flow]

Great job on the Serpentor, I gotta try that. Beach Head looks more in scale now. What kind of glue do you use, and does it hold well?

[DavAnthony]

jignacio 2K,
Thanks I'm alot happier with the figure now too. Last night I kept saying I was going to wait until today to do the changes but I ended up just doing it and been enjoying hte figure all day.

Shogi,
Here is a picture that I posted at a few of the other sites. Bascially I cut the boot off at the pant cuff and the top of the boot. Then I sliced the booth off right above the thrid strap and then glued it on. Here is thepicture
http://www.loserville.us/~truegrittcustoms/bhbootmod.jpg

Xhair
As always thanks for the comments and compliments buddy I'm glad you like the figures.

GI Flow
Thanks I'm glad you like them both. Actually when I looked at Beachhead I tried to figure out what made him out of scale. His head, arms and torso all looked pretty good and so did his legs all the way until I got to his boots and I realized they were a bit too tall. So once I eyeballed how he would look with the reduced height I felt he would look more to scale and figured out how much of the boot to slice away to get him to look how I wanted. AS far as the glue I use a glue called "Goop" the stuff is almost like rubber cement but seems more durable. It glues everything togeather and I've never been disapointed with it. REally good stuff.

[shakka85]

Great work, man! And nice tutorial on the 'how to' to shortening Beachhead.

Todd
Shakka85

[DavAnthony]

No problem Shakka I'm glad that you found it useful. It really just made the figure a 100% awesome figure for me after that mod. I liked it before but the proportions just seemed to flow a lot nicer once I did it.

[the_loud_master]

hey how tall is firefly? cause if i ever get him ic an do this beachhead thing if hes to tall.

[DavAnthony]

hey how tall is firefly? cause if i ever get him ic an do this beachhead thing if hes to tall.

I don't actually have Firefly yet :(

But he and Beachhead use the same mold and the Beachhead figure was about as tall as Gung Ho figure.