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Cobra O13 by HissHissFangFang
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10-21-2021, 08:40 AM
jlw515
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Yes, the paint definitely helps (also helped with the Retro HISS Driver). The translucency of the colored plastic used degrades the quality look. Simply repainting the figure without part swapping/modding might be enough work of an upgrade for anyone interested, and paint rub is less of an issue since the color difference as the rubbed joints would only be a different shade of blue.
Keeping you in mind, I was going to tackle the garotte, but didn't have a spare Bazooka Trooper gear as I thought. For the bullets on the left arm, I'm not sure what size of ammo would be appropriate looking at photos of the original (they look really big and girthy), and the size of the webgear pistol (looks big on card art, small on all figures new and old). I need to get an original vintage figure or Black Major repro for better study if I do these bits.
If you have that book with the concept drawings, I don't think the pistol on the web gear was originally intended to be an actual, real pistol. I'd have to double check when I get home, but if memory serves correct, it was more like a dart gun (I said DART gun, not FART gun!) or something similar. The fact(?) that it's not a real pistol might help to trying to customize the web gear further. One of my ultimate goals is to have a Cobra trooper with some kind of removable pistol. When I was a kid, for some reason, those prototype photos in the small catalogues looked, to me, like the Cobra trooper had a removable pistol because the pistol like extended across the chest. I guess maybe they decided to tone down the pistol to make room for the Cobra chest emblem.
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