Hello everyone.
I recently was turned onto your site via Seibertron.com. There were three toy lines in the eighties that I absolutely loved. Transformers, G.I.Joe and Masters of the Universe. The 25th anniversary figures got me back into G.I. Joe, with my first purchase being Zartan. I'm not a completist, but hope to have every major Cobra character.
Anyways, enough about me. Ever since pictures of the cast of G.I.J.O.E. started popping up online, I had decided to take my Photoshop skills and tweak the images. At first it started out with just adding color to the bland uniforms, and eventually creating "new" characters from scratch. I thought as my first post I'd share these with you. As I create more, I'll post them. Hope you'll enjoy them.
My first attempt at "fixing" Scarlett (Added color to the bland uniform):
It was the first picture I'd seen, so I didn't have a good idea of the various armor separations. It was good enough at the time.
I then tackled my favorite character, the Baroness:
I was glad they had dressed her in black leather, but from the test shots I thought they missed too many small character defining details. I lightened her skin, darkened and reddened her lips, blackened her hair, added back the fingers to her gloves, added her cobra belt buckle (from the toy), added her cobra chest emblem, and most importantly, gave her glasses! (Photos have since shown that they did eventually give her glasses.)
My next attempt was Duke:
Again, I didn't think black fit the character, so I made a version using his traditional tan & green and one featuring browns. Notice I also added his army paratrooper insignia that is normally on his figures.
I do have more to post, but I'm going to space them out a bit so you can get to comment on them if you wish.
