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Germ's customs
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10-20-2019, 01:39 AM
germ
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: New Castle, Delaware
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So I haven't posted any of my recent customs from the past 3 years. Between filling up my photo allowance on Hisstank and my lack of computer knowledge, I just haven't gotten around to figuring out how to do it. Thanks to a few fellow Hisstankers and my girlfriend, I think I figured it out. I have a TON of customs from the past 3 years so I will keep updating this every time I get a chance to take photos and upload. I'm gonna try to aim for once a week, but we all know how busy life gets, so maybe it will get updated a little less often (I'm really gonna try though!) but there is A LOT to come so stay tuned!
Up first is ULTIMATE FALCON. I've made several Falcons over the past ten years and could never seem to get the main color right and it always urked me. It always came out too "minty" green. I eventually gave up and figured I'd just make one with just a simple/modern camo scheme. Thats what the other random falcon on here is as the other two are based off the original fig and the cartoon. He's also sort of LOOSELY based off of some of his comic appearances. Well ten years and several Falcons later, I gave it one more try for my ultimate falcon and I am very pleased with him. I finally got to mix the color close enough -for me anyways. Since he was my last I had to go all out and give him the flashlight and Knife on his web gear and make him as accurate as possible.
Heres all my old Falcon customs over the past ten years. I've changed some heads & scarfs out over the years.
I'm not good at small details like patches. My very first and very last falcon patches came out the best looking like the original figure. Also the only two customs where I went all out and gave him the flashlight on the cargo pocket and knife on his web gear. These are quite literally 10 years apart 2009-2019!
here he is for comparison next to the OG figure. I wish I noticed ahead of time that his head isn't facing forward. would have been nice to see the matching emblems on the berets as well. Oh well.
Next up SEA LOVERS AHOY MATES! Needed updated versions of Shipwreck and especially Cutter. Also a new Deep Six below. I need to learn how to use better lighting when taking pix so they come out better. Not so dark and also the shadow in the back of some of the pix kinda takes away from how awesome it looks.
the 5 pack shipwreck was a great update but I hated how his arms couldn't go all the way down and his lower arms were too skinny. Plus his belly and thighs seemed a little too thick. So I just combined parts from the original 25th and the 5 pack shipwreck to create my ultimate version. I was gonna replace his hands with more modern articulated ones but I decided I like the way he looks. He only needs to hold the pistol plus i like the fist on him. I think it goes with his attitude like hes always ready to throw down. Plus my other shipwreck is more battle ready and can hold a rifle with both hands (see below). I also like the 25th torso better cus his shirt is unbuttoned a little and in the cartoon it was always unbuttoned down almost too far.
you can sorta see the "B" on his hat in this photo
I only use the bag on him when I wanna use this version of polly
I gave him the tan belt he always had hanging off his hips in the cartoon.
I also gave him a hook to hang his "sailor hooks" on just like the original figure
Deep six out of his diving suit. I changed a few accessories on Shipwreck but the fig is the same
Next up ARCTIC ADVENTURES. I needed Blizzard and Sub Zero to complete my arctic ranks. I was not happy with how the FSS figures came out, so I made my own. With the club figures I mostly hate how their jackets are too bulky and they cant hold there guns with both hands.
I had to give 'em the fancy snow shoes the original and modern figures came with
The black parts on the original, I decided to make gray on my version just cus it seemed more in line with white winter camo than black, but otherwise seems fairly accurate to the original right down to the knife on the web gear.I wanted to paint brown all the way down the center of the chest like the original figure but I didn't want to mess around with sculpting something there to paint, so i just painted the small zipper at the top. close enough for me i guess. Also, I wanted to make him stubbly looking like he's been out in the arctic for a while.
I'm pretty happy with how Sub Zero came out. I feel he is very accurate to the original.
Commander and Destro in their arctic gear as seen in the cartoon
Definitely the worst diorama I've ever made. Mostly due to lack of time and supplies, I just threw this together really quick. I promise all my future dioramas will be better!
Sunday is here and time for an update! (don't hold it against me if its not literally every Sunday lol) Today we have my ULTIMATE SPIRIT as well as some updated mods on the 25th AIRBORNE and RECONDO
So I wanted to give Spirit an actual red cloth so he can sit in vehicles and be more posable in general. The new head with the old pig tails glued on is an idea I got from seeing several other tankers do it before me. I did my best to paint on the small red patches on his shoulders. I'm not the best at painting small detailed stuff. I also painted his boots darker but not as dark as the original. It's sort of a happy in between that I like a lot.
I was gonna glue the red cloth to his original belt but then I realized the Kwinn belt was cooler. Plus the knife on the back matches his other two knifes he has on him and it just seemed fitting. I also gave the bird a brown and white wash.
I added a machete attached to his back pack. Just seemed like an extra accessory he should have. Also I decided not to glue his webgear to the belt (I was gonna originally) but then I realized I like the option of having it removable just to mix up his look occasionally.
With RECONDO I had to touch up his mustache and make it a little thicker. It just never looked right to me when he was released. I didn't really bother me that he had the slit wrists instead of short sleeves like the original BUT he couldn't hold his rifle with both hands so I had to fix that with updated arms(and also short sleeves so he was accurate to the original). Also the 25th version was just to light/white for a sweaty guy getting dirty in the jungle all day so I gave him a light wash plus it matched the Kwinn arms I gave him. While I was at it, I decided to make the boots a little more accurate anyways. I also painted on the two patches the original figure has on his right side (arm and chest).
With AIRBORNE I always hated the 25th gung-ho boots that he had so I replaced them with the 25th crankcase lower legs (but left airborne's knees). I was gonna paint the boots gray like the original and 25th but then I decided I liked how the brown boots matched his knee pads, elbow pads, and leg straps. I felt that his base color was also too light/white so I gave him a darker wash that matched the color on crankcases legs.
Sunday is here again and I'm trying to be consistent with a new post weekly. Next is PATH FINDER and METAL HEAD.
Usually I try to make em accurate to the original figure as possible but PATH FINDER's camo was just ridiculously horrible so I gave a little more realistic take on him. The back pack with the machine guns attached was a cool accessory but I always felt is was too much for him with all the other cool accessories he came with- specifically the weed-wacker thing. I like the idea of him being, well basically a "pathfinder" so I also gave him a a machete and a rifle and that's all he needs in my book.
METAL HEAD - I used a mold of the modern head but I didn't like the body parts or design they used, so here's my take on him. I did copy their take on his web gear. I thought about giving him the missile launching gear the original had - I've seen casters make and sell it for modern figures but I kinda feel like its too unrealistic for my universe. Shooting missiles off your back and the thighs of your legs... yeah , while it was cool in theory and looked cool on the original fig as a kid, its just too unrealistic for me nowadays. Plus the caster was always sold out of the missile attachment set anyways...lol. Since I wasn't using the machine gun set up with Pathfinder, I felt it was a natural fit for Metal Head because I still wanted him to have some heavy duty fire power like the character always had, so I am very happy with the turn out.
Sorry its been awhile. Up next is Rock and Roll V.2 and Stalker V.3. still have plenty more to come when I get to it!
Stalker V.3 based off of the talking battle commandos. I tried to keep him similar to the original but with a more realistic take on him. For example the grey instead of white camo pants and also couldn't do the yellow web gear. I still gave him the yellow dot on his beret though. Over all I like how he came out and like him a lot.
I also gave him a big back pack just to sorta match the big packs the talking commandos came with. His original pack was yellow, so again in keeping with a more realistic feel, I kept it black but made the straps yellow in homage to the original. I then gave the straps a black wash to dirty it up a bit so it wasn't so bright. I also added some random dark green camo spots on it just because/ thought it looked good.
Rock and Roll V.2 - I know I'm probably in the minority, but I hate those gatling guns. I would have gave him the 2 from my original fig if I wanted them but I decided to keep him as a basic machine gunner. I still wanted the gun to be grey like the original gatling guns though.
since I wasnt using the gatling guns, i didnt need the matching back pack. Instead I gave him a big pack sorta to homage the sonic fighter version of him that used the same body mold. I made it so the back pack can hold both guns.
I also decided to give him his classic bullet belts across the chest. I always loved that about him as a kid and I think it still looks cooler than the gatling gun bullets across the chest of the 89 figure. To me its just a staple accessory to the character. I did give him the bullet hat like the original.
I still think mine is better than the club version (just my opinion). I still have no idea what they were thinking with some of the part choices.
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