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10-20-2019, 01:44 AM
germ
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next up is my Ultimate Sgt. Slaughter and a handful of tweaks and outdated customs from the class of 86.
with the Sarge, I've seen other tankers use this recipe before but it never looked quite right to me as his thighs came out wider than his hips. plus his belly is too skinny. too me the Sarge should be built like a brick house. So anyways i used some green stuff to mold out his hips so they go with the thick legs better. I also padded up his stomach so he didn't look so skinny.
All my Sgt. Slaughter customs over the years
the rest really aren't anything special. just some minor tweaks and very old outdated customs. that's why I figured I'd just post them all in here together. LOWLIGHT- I just replaced his arms as I hated the ones he came with. I also gave him a simpler looking gun and pack. HAWK- no paint here, just replaced his hands and gave him better legs. wait... I did paint his crotch to match the new legs. DIAL TONE- while he is quite accurate to the original, this custom is made with really outdated parts. I made him back in 2010. there are many MANY better updated and great customs I've seen of him (and Mainframe) on the tank over the years. MAINFRAME- I just replaced his head and gave him a back pack. yeah he sucks. Dialtone and Mainframe just aren't important enough characters to me to give them the proper treatment with better updates. Time, money, I'm getting old, blah blah blah, the usual excuses. SERPENTOR- hes nothing special either. just a repaint to match the original figure.
Up next is my "retro" Roadblock custom and Scarlett tweaks.
with Scarlett, I painted the red band on her leg grey and gave her a silver knife like the original figure. I also wanted to give her a gun similar to the M16 she often had in the comics. This gun worked perfect cus it has a little knob on it and I dremmeled a little hole in her back pack so she can still carry it while using her crossbow.I also rigged her pack up to hold the crossbow when shes using the gun. I really love how she can carry the other weapon not in use on her pack.
Roadblock, I also made his back pack able to carry his heavy machine gun when hes not using it. I know its ridiculous for him carry that thing on his back, but they did have him do it a few times in the comics lol. I gave him additional (altered) 25th hands so he can actually hold his main machine gun.
I did my best to match him to the original fig with the green knife holster, black gun, and grenade on his web gear.
The grey machine gun is a homage to his gun from V.2 RB. I was never a fan of the 86 Roadblock so I wont be making him, but still wanted the option of the machine gun. OK so its not the gun the actual 86 figure came with, but how it was portrayed in the comics and 87 animated movie. I actually cut a piece out of the middle to shorten it so he could hold it better.
Here he is next to my original custom from around 2012. While I prefer the more muscular lower arms from the 50th leatherneck (as on my original here) its just not worth it to me with paint chipping at joints when posed and then you have white skin peeking through underneath and it just looks horrible. The "retro" torso and arms are good enough for me. its a good base to start with and I only had to paint the tank top. Then of coarse match the head to that skin tone.
Up next is Salvo and Dodger.
Salvo isn't really anything special as its pretty much the same formula everyone uses more or less. I often try to make my customs as accurate as possible to the original but sometimes if I feel parts of the original were too cheesy, I'll make a more realistic take on it. For example, the original Salvo had bullets wrapped up and down his legs. Just too ridiculous and unrealistic for me, so I gave him a bullet belt to throw over his shoulder to homage that part of the original figure. I gave him Bazookas back pack and painted it tan cus that's the closest thing I could think of to resemble and homage his original missile pack.I gave him that weird Bruce Willis gun to stand in for his goofy mine launcher gun.
With Dodger, the original figure was a bit too sci-fi for my taste but I still wanted to capture the basic essence of him. I also went with green camo instead of the "tetris" looking camo the original had. Then his back pack is sort of a nod to him becoming a "sonic fighter".
Up next is General Flagg
I always wanted a Flagg in his dress greens. To me that's just how he should look. The jacket mold doesn't really fit him all that well, but oh well - what ya gonna do.
Deep inside the Pit....
There suppose to be saluting here...lol
Anyone remember this scene from the comics? Uh-oh!
Next up is my take on Scoop and Low Light V.2. Not my best two customs and nether is all that accurate to the original. Especially Low Light V2. I was never a fan of Scoop. In fact the original figure I got used as a kid, I shot up with a BB gun. Anyways, when the 50th Duke came out I thought this would be a great base for a Scoop custom. But because I had no interest in Scoop (or that ugo Duke) I passed on him. A few years later I stumbled on that duke used at a toy shop for dirt cheap and couldn't resist. I didn't bother putting that much work into him just cus I don't care enough about the character. If I did, I would have at least given him yellow legs and a better vest to be more accurate looking.
I never had any use for Low Light V2. The reason this figure came together was cus I had a bunch of grey body parts from different figures sitting in my fodder bin and decided to put it all together to make a new figure with minimal painting. I had an extra marauders head with a blonde beard laying around and said "hey, why not make this LowLight V2..." Again I never had any interest in the original figure so I figured with all the grey and dark colors - hes close enough for me. I did homage the original figure with the gun, face paint, CORRECT BLONDE beard, and tracker sticking out of his back pack (even though the original had a light sticking out). Oh and he has the 50th Flint webgear just cus
I had no use for it and it looked good on him being grey with red highlights- really matching the figure.
"Talking Battle Commander" Stalker is the leader for my "night force".
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