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Cobra 1983 by HissHissFangFang
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12-15-2020, 02:53 AM
HissHissFangFan
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Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: Kansas
Posts: 981
FANG Pilot [2020 Update]
2020-12-12_02-57-08
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HissHissFangFang
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Build:
• Head, Legs, Chest Armor: 2020 Retro Collection HISS Driver
• Upper Torso, Lower Arms: 2014 50th Night-Viper
• Belt: 2008 25th HISS Driver
• Webgear: 2008 DVD Battles Pack Cobra Commander (painted black)
• Mask: 2011 50th Blowtorch (modified), spliced with 2011 Renegades Ripcord
• Hands: MTF male hands, gloves with pads
Notes:
This is the final of three updates for the 1983 set, “upgrading” from the 2008 HISS Driver build to the 2020 Retro Build. The straps and back plate of the webgear were cut, so that the front chestplate would work with this webgear. I chose this simple webgear to maintain a stripped-down look compared to those used for my later year pilots (1984 Rattler pilot, 1986 Air Viper).
2020-12-12_02-54-12
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HissHissFangFang
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The mask was the most dicey part of this update. The mask on the Ripcord is a cooler sculpt but was too large on the head. However, I hated the hose on the Blowtorch mask, so I spliced the two sculpts together at the bottom of the mask—held to together with a cut steel pin and glue. Both the mask and the head face needed to be cut back to have the mask fit right.
2020-12-12_02-35-23
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HissHissFangFang
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If you haven’t been reading this thread since its 2017 origins, my FANG pilot was a concept to fill out a larger 1983 figure concept set of Cobras, explained in early posts. The FANG pilot is meant to be purposely derivative of the HISS Driver to tie it back to something visually familiar to all—plus FANG pilot abilities were specifically noted on the original HISS Driver file card. This is something that I always remembered as a kid since I had the FANG, but my Joe buddy had the HISS.
2020-12-12_02-50-02
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HissHissFangFang
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Above is my previous 2015-2017 FANG Pilot on the left, and a recreation of my “custom” in 2009. Back then I stole the helmet+mask idea from Hasbro’s 2008 Cobra Pilot, and used the 2008 HISS Driver (Silver Chest) for a similar but different look than the normal HISS Driver. Later I went back to the HISS Driver head in 2015 because I felt it needed more use/presence in my Cobra Collection.
GET IN DA CHOPPA!!!
I keep saying this guy is THE FANG pilot, and have explained the concept—but I realize the only way to “sell” this concept to myself and others is to throw him in the chopper and snap shots--especially in light of the upcoming Wal-Mart FANG pilot by Hasbro (which I guess I'll be ignoring). So I took apart my usual lightbox rig, and tried to do some decent shots of this:
2020-12-12_02-34-42
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HissHissFangFang
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Above was my first shot. He fits in a lot better than my 2017 figure because his legs are shorter and smaller. The nice thing about this new figure is that I don’t have to remove his feet to get him decently seated.
2020-12-12_02-33-36
by
HissHissFangFang
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Above is first shot of my 1983 vehicles and their corresponding figures together, to get a feeling of how they’d look together “in action”. The Pilot came out well in the shot, the FANG kind of gets lost in the overall. I cropped this photo for the teaser photo of the pilot from a few days ago.
2020-12-12_06-15-11
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HissHissFangFang
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Above is another shot of FANG and Pilot, to show how he fits. The explosion in the background was weirdly created in post, by combo of adding vignette effect to my usual shiny black/grey background, then using the using the RGB color tone curve adjustment to light up the various shades in red/orange/yellow. Adventures in Lightroom...
2020-12-12_02-09-14
by
HissHissFangFang
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Above is another shot of the three Retro HISS FANG figure rebuilds, to get a better shot of both HISS Driver and FANG Pilot, both in their respective vehicles. I like the idea of the vehicle drivers and pilots in red—very unique for Cobra in 1983 following 1982—and also why I can’t see the blue version as the HISS Commander. I tried to do my motor vehicle driver (proto Stinger Driver) in red well back in 2017, but I didn’t look and feel like a retcon figure/design--maybe too derivative off a an already derivative idea.
2020-12-12_02-34-28
by
HissHissFangFang
, on Flickr
Above is the final reshoot to get the FANG more readable to the eyes. My phone camera doesn't have bokeh effect, or do I have access to masking effects to blur elements, but I was able to find other ways to get push the FANG and pilot forward in the shot.
This completes my Walmart Retro Collection HISS Driver figure reuses for now, although I’ve loved to get two more to do a Black Jungle version and Grey Desert version for my 1984-1986 collections in the future. It was nice to go back to this 1983 set—my second set to be unveiled when I officially joined these forums back in 2017. It was also nice to complete the rebuilds of HISS Driver, HISS Gunner, and FANG Pilot to 30th figure construction as I had hoped to do back then.
2020-11-26_01-13-15
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2020-12-12_03-05-34
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2020-12-12_03-44-49
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2020-12-15_01-52-52
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2020-12-12_03-24-16
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